DITA Open Toolkit Version 1.5.2

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 1.5.2 of the DITA Open Toolkit will be a point release based on version 1.2 of the DITA Standard. The release date for 1.5.2 is tentatively planned for late 2010, to coincide with the expected final approval of DITA 1.2 as a Public Standard.

Work on DITA-OT 1.5.2  is currently under way. Development of 1.5.2 will take place as a series of 3-week iterations. Each iteration will end with a milestone release available under the DITA-OT Latest Test Build heading at the DITA-OT download page on SourceForge.

Test build history and plan

• Milestone 1 will be released on or about July 9. It will contain several fixes and minor enhancements, including (but not limited to):
  • Updates to the prototype ODF output transform (transtype "odt")
  • RFE 3019853 Create new "textonly" output method for use by any transform
  • RFE 3012392 PDF transformation should allow args.xsl style override
  • RFE 3021544 Preserve DITA elements in XHTML class by default
  • Bug 3016739 Chunking mixes up <link> to topic in reltable
• Milestone 2 will bereleased on or about July 30.
• Milestone 3 will bereleased on or about August 20.
• Milestone 4 will bereleased on or about September 10.
• Milestone 5 will bereleased on or about October 1.
  • Release dates for Milestone 6 or later may be adjusted based on the status of the DITA 1.2 public review or approval at OASIS; the final build is expected to be released together with or just before approval of the standard.
• Milestone 6 will bereleased on or about October 22.
• Milestone 7 will bereleased on or about November 12.

Fixes, patches, and enhancements in 1.5.2

The sections below will contain a cumulative list of updates in the latest 1.5.2 test build. In order to prevent this page from being flagged as spam, the individual items below do not link directly to SourceForge reports.

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

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Other Enhancements

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

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

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