Migrating to release 1.6
In DITA-OT 1.6, various demo plug-ins were removed along with many deprecated properties, targets, templates and modes. The PDF2 transformation no longer supports the beta version of DITA from IBM, the "bkinfo" demo plug-in, or layout-masters.xml configuration.
Support for the old DITAVAL format (used before OASIS added DITAVAL to the standard in 2007) has been removed.
The demo folder has been deprecated and the following plug-ins have been moved to the plugins folder:
old path | new path |
---|---|
demo/dita11 | plugins/org.dita.specialization.dita11 |
demo/dita132 | plugins/org.dita.specialization.dita132 |
demo/eclipsemap | plugins/org.dita.specialization.eclipsemap |
demo/fo | plugins/org.dita.pdf2 |
demo/tocjs | plugins/com.sophos.tocjs |
demo/h2d | plugins/h2d |
demo/legacypdf | plugins/legacypdf |
The remaining plug-ins in the demo folder have been moved to a separate repository at github.com/dita-ot/ext-plugins.
The deprecated property dita.input.valfile
should be replaced with the new argument property
args.filter
.
The dita-preprocess
target has been removed and dependencies should be replaced with a target
sequence build-init, preprocess
.
Support for the args.message.file
argument has been removed as message configuration has
become static configuration.
The workdir
processing instruction has been deprecated in favor of
workdir-uri
. The only difference between the two processing instructions is that
workdir-uri
contains a URI instead of a system path.
Pre-processing
The following deprecated templates and modes have been removed in topic pull stylesheets:
- inherit
- get-stuff
- verify-type-attribute
- classval
- getshortdesc
- getlinktext
- blocktext
- figtext
- tabletext
- litext
- fntext
- dlentrytext
- firstclass
- invalid-list-item
- xref
PDF2
The following deprecated items are no longer supported in the PDF transform:
- Support for the beta version of DITA, available from IBM before the OASIS standard was created in 2005.
- Support for the "bkinfo" demo plug-in, used to support book metadata before OASIS created the BookMap format in 2007.
- Support for layout-masters.xml configuration. Plug-ins should use the
createDefaultLayoutMasters
template instead.
The following extension-points have been added:
dita.conductor.pdf2.param
to add XSLT parameters to XSL FO transformation.
Custom PDF2 shell stylesheets need to be revised to not include separate IBM and OASIS DITA stylesheets. The *_1.0.xsl stylesheets have been removed and their imports must be removed from shell stylesheets.
The following template modes have been deprecated:
- toc-prefix-text
- toc-topic-text
The following named templates have been removed:
- processTopic
- createMiniToc
- processTopicTitle
- createTopicAttrsName
- processConcept
- processReference
- getTitle
- placeNoteContent
- placeImage
- processUnknowType
- insertReferenceTitle
- buildRelationships
- processTask
The main FO generation process now relies on the merging process to rewrite duplicate IDs. The default merging process did this already in previous releases, but now also custom merging processes must fulfill the duplicate ID rewrite requirement.
XHTML
The following named templates have been deprecated:
- make-index-ref
The following deprecated templates have been removed:
- revblock-deprecated
- revstyle-deprecated
- start-revision-flag-deprecated
- end-revision-flag-deprecated
- concept-links
- task-links
- reference-links
- relinfo-links
- sort-links-by-role
- create-links
- add-linking-attributes
- add-link-target-attribute
- add-user-link-attributes
The removed templates have been replaced by other templates in earlier releases and plug-ins should be changed to use the new templates.
ODT
The following deprecated templates have been removed:
- revblock-deprecated
- revstyle-deprecated
- start-revision-flag-deprecated
- end-revision-flag-deprecated
The removed templates have been replaced by other templates in earlier releases and plug-ins should be changed to use the new templates.