Migrating to release 1.8

In DITA-OT 1.8, certain stylesheets were moved to plug-in specific folders and various deprecated Ant properties, XSLT stylesheets, parameters and modes were removed from the XHTML, PDF and ODT transformations.

Stylesheets for the following transformation types have moved to plug-in specific folders:

  • eclipsehelp
  • htmlhelp
  • javahelp
  • odt
  • xhtml

Pre-processing

The following deprecated Ant properties have been removed:

  • dita.script.dir, use ${dita.plugin.id.dir} instead
  • dita.resource.dir, use ${dita.plugin.org.dita.base.dir}/resource instead
  • dita.empty
  • args.message.file

XHTML

XSLT Java extension ImgUtils has been removed from stylesheets and been replaced with pre-processing module ImageMetadataModule. The old ImgUtils Java classes are still included in the build.

PDF

The following deprecated XSLT stylesheets have been removed:

  • artwork-preprocessor.xsl
  • otdita2fo_frontend.xsl

The following deprecated XSLT templates have been removed:

  • insertVariable.old

The following deprecated XSLT modes have been removed:

  • layout-masters-processing
  • toc-prefix-text, use tocPrefix mode instead
  • toc-topic-text, use tocText mode instead

Link generation has been simplified by removing deprecated arguments in favor of args.rellinks. The following deprecated Ant properties have been removed:

  • args.fo.include.rellinks

The following XSLT parameters have been removed:

  • antArgsIncludeRelatedLinks
  • disableRelatedLinks

A call to a named template pullPrologIndexTerms.end-range has been added to processTopic* templates to handle topic wide index ranges.

Legacy PDF

The following deprecated XSLT stylesheets have been removed:

  • dita2fo-shell_template.xsl
  • topic2fo-shell.xsl

ODT

Link generation has been simplified by removing deprecated arguments in favor of args.rellinks. The following deprecated Ant properties have been removed:

  • args.odt.include.rellinks

The following XSLT parameters have been added:

  • include.rellinks

The following XSLT parameters have been removed:

  • disableRelatedLinks