DITA Open Toolkit version 1.5

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.

The final DITA-OT 1.5 release is now available!

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1. Add links from topic in <relrow> to topic in <relheader> and vice versa.
We should update the maplinkImpl.xsl to support this requirement, add the new links to maplinks.unordered in the right format. We can assign the new generated links to the role of friend, but we may also don't. If we don't, we should think about a new role to name it.
Element <relcell> and <relcolspec> may contain more than one topics, and the topics can be nested and paralleled, the spec of this requirement is not clarity about this situation, we are not clear about this.

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Part of Plans for DITA Open Toolkit 1.5

Design for implementing "conref range" in the DITA Open Toolkit
What user need will be met by this feature?

Users can use @conref combined with @conrefend to refer to a range of sibling elements and pull them into the specified location.

What is the technical design for the change

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Part of Plans for DITA Open Toolkit 1.5

Design for allowing file names to include spaces in the DITA-OT 

What user need will be met by this feature?

The toolkit can support spaces in file names now. This means that users of DITA-OT can type spaces in file names and directories, while in the previous version, spaces in file names or directories will generate warning and error messages.

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Part of Plans for DITA Open Toolkit 1.5

 

Design for item

 

What user need will be met by this feature?

Users can easily reuse the text inside the newly created text element (<topicmeta><navtitle> and <reltable><title>) by conref or other methods, while in the previous version, there is no way to reuse the text inside the attribute.

What is the technical design for the change

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