DITA Open Toolkit Version 1.5.1

Note: while the DITA Standard itself is owned and developed by OASIS, the DITA Open Toolkit is an independent, open source implementation of the standard. 

Version 1.5.1 of the DITA Open Toolkit will be a point release based on version 1.2 of the DITA Standard. At present, the release date for 1.5.1 is tentatively planned to coincide with final approval of the DITA 1.2 standard, but the date may be moved up if the standard is delayed.

Development of 1.5.1 will take place as a series of 3-week iterations. Each iteration will end with a milestone release available under the "test build" heading at the DITA-OT download page on SourceForge. The updates included with each milestone build are listed below.

The latest test build of DITA-OT 1.5.1 can be found under the "Test build" category at the DITA-OT download page.

Test build history and plan

• Milestone 1 was released January 26, 2010. This build includes several fixes, as well as a patch from Eliot Kimber that significantly improves processing speed and memory usage for large data sets.
• Milestone 2 was released February 11, 2010. This build includes an initial, very basic implementation of a DITA to ODF transform.
• Milestone 3 will be released in mid March, and will contain additional fixes and updates to the ODF transform. Currently planned for Milestone 3:
  • RFE 2703335 Reduce duplicated code in XHTML <note> processing
  • Bug 2952956 Imagemap processing drops outputclass from image
  • Bug 2930528 Need to parameterize maxmemory and VM args for forked JVMs
  • Bug 2953706 Minor improvements to "garage" samples

Fixes, patches, and enhancements in 1.5.1

The lists below contain a cumulative list of updates in the latest 1.5.1 test builds. In order to prevent this page from being flagged as spam, the individual items below do not link directly to SourceForge reports (this caused several problems with the 1.5 release page).

Major Enhancements from RFE tracker http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725076

• 2797337 Support for ODF output transform (first very early prototype available in Milestone 2)
  

Other Enhancements

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Patches http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725076

• 2914475 Use Xerces Grammar Pool to Improve Performance (Milestone 1)

Bug fixes http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132728&atid=725074

• 2916469 @locktitle not respected by preprocessor (Milestone 1)
• 2917809 need empty lib/saxon directory for minimum and standard pkg. (Milestone 1)
• 2925636 Build fails when excluded section contains a table (Milestone 1)
• 2926417 Absolute file: URLs are not resolved. (Milestone 1)
• 2930109 Move meta module pushes content into peer topic. (Milestone 1)
• 1852808 args.css requires dummy file. (Milestone 1)