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 was released on July 12. It contained several fixes and minor enhancements listed in the notes below.
• Milestone 2 will be released on or about July 30. At this point we expect Milestone 2 to integrate an updated version of the Ant Quick Start Guide, created by Rob Justice to document all available Ant and Java parameters for the Open Toolkit.
• Milestone 3 will be released on or about August 20.
• Milestone 4 will be released on or about September 10.
• Milestone 5 will be released 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 be released on or about October 22.
• Milestone 7 will be released 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

• 3021544 Preserve DITA elements in XHTML class by default (Milestone 1)
• 3019853 Create new "textonly" output method for use by any transform (Milestone 1)
• 3012392 PDF transformation should allow args.xsl style override (Milestone 1)

Other Enhancements

•  Updates to the prototype ODF output transform (transtype "odt") (Updates included in every milestone)

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

• 2928582 commonTopicProcessing template prolog proessing out of order (Milestone 1)
• 2823221 version of Xalan-J inconsistent (Milestone 1)
• 3023642 Invalid @colname generated in nested table (Milestone 1)
• 3016739 Chunking mixes up <link> to topic in reltable (Milestone 1)
• 3020314 Chunk output includes index terms in navtitles (Milestone 1)
• 3020313 Chunk processor adds <topicref> before <topicmeta> (Milestone 1)