Migrating to release 1.8To 1.8In 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:
Preprocessing
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
preprocessing 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: