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 "DITA-OT Latest 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 was released March 12, 2010, and contains several fixes and updates to the ODF transform.
• Milestone 4 was released on April 2. It contains two new enhancements to give greater control over output (more flexibility for links in PDF, and new Java parameters for existing Ant variables).
• Milestone 5 will be released on or about April 23. It will contain the following updates:
  • Update to the latest draft of the DITA 1.2 DTDs and Schemas
  • RFE 2979084 Obey the "args.draft" parameter in PDF
  • Bug 2981216 <tm> @tmclass requires IBM-specific values
    
• Milestone 6 will be released on or about May 14.
• Milestone 7 will be released on or about June 4.

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)
• 2703335 Reduce duplicated code in XHTML <note> processing (Milestone 3)
• 2976463 Provide finer grained control of links in PDF (include reltable and in-topic links, without parent/child links) (Milestone 4)
• 2971536 New Java options for existing Ant parameters (Milestone 4)

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)
• 2952956 Imagemap processing drops outputclass from image (Milestone 3)
• 2953706 Minor improvements to "garage" samples (Milestone 3)
• 2961909 /onlytopicinmap does not respect conref (Milestone 3)
• 2957456 conkeyref breaks when topic is in subdir (Milestone 3)
• 2962813 stepsection throws off numbering in links to steps (Milestone 3)
• 2959588 Template Processor Doesn't handle XSLT atts that require ' (Milestone 3)
• 2914574  plus-htmlhelp-alias-map: using same extension point twice (Milestone 3)
• 2957938 coderef not working everytime (Milestone 3)
• 2962781 html documentation out of date (Milestone 3)
• 2952956 refactored XSL code in ut-d.xsl (Milestone 3)
• 2954819 NullPointer while processing simple BookMap (Milestone 3)
• 2954154 Updated default version from 1.0 to 1.0.0 (Milestone 3)
• 2970471 XSLFO test for @compact wrong (Milestone 4)
  
• 2972043 Setting onlytopicinmap causes a blank imagelist (Milestone 4)
• 2974667 Integrator adds spaces into XML Catalog entries (Milestone 4)