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.
Preprocessing
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:
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.