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- <reference id="ID" rev="1.7">
- <title>Migrating to release 1.7</title>
- <titlealts>
- <navtitle>To 1.7</navtitle>
- </titlealts>
- <shortdesc>In DITA-OT 1.7, a new preprocessing step implements flagging for HTML-based output formats. PDF processing
- was corrected with regard to <codeph>shortdesc</codeph> handling, and a new XSLT template mode was introduced for
- HTML TOC processing. Several stylesheets were moved to plug-in specific folders and deprecated properties and XSLT
- variables were removed. </shortdesc>
-
- <prolog>
- <metadata>
- <keywords>
- <indexterm>deprecated features<indexterm><codeph>dita.input</codeph></indexterm></indexterm>
- <indexterm>deprecated features<indexterm><codeph>dita.input.dirname</codeph></indexterm></indexterm>
- <indexterm>deprecated features<indexterm><codeph>dita.extname</codeph></indexterm></indexterm>
- <indexterm>deprecated features<indexterm>XHTML, flagging-related templates</indexterm></indexterm>
- <indexterm>deprecated features<indexterm><codeph>page-margin-left</codeph></indexterm></indexterm>
- <indexterm>deprecated features<indexterm><codeph>page-margin-right</codeph></indexterm></indexterm>
- </keywords>
- </metadata>
- </prolog>
- <refbody>
- <section>
- <p>A new job status file <filepath>.job.xml</filepath> has been introduced and replaces
- <filepath>dita.list</filepath> and <filepath>dita.xml.properties</filepath> as the normative source for job
- status. If you have custom processing which modifies the job properties, you should change your code to modify
- <filepath>.job.xml</filepath> instead.</p>
- <p>Support for the following deprecated properties has been removed:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><codeph>dita.input</codeph></li>
- <li><codeph>dita.input.dirname</codeph></li>
- <li><codeph>dita.extname</codeph></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Stylesheets for the following transformation types have moved to plug-in specific folders:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><option>docbook</option></li>
- <li><option>eclipsecontent</option></li>
- <li><option>troff</option></li>
- <li><option>wordrtf</option></li>
- </ul>
- <p>If custom plug-ins have hard coded paths to these stylesheets, update references to use either
- <codeph>plugin</codeph> URIs in <codeph>xsl:import</codeph> instructions or use <codeph>dita.plugin.*</codeph>
- Ant properties.</p>
- <p>The integration process has been changed to use strict mode by default. For old plug-ins which are not valid,
- <keyword>lax</keyword> processing mode can still be used.</p>
- <p>Plug-ins that use the <codeph>MessageUtils</codeph> Java class must use <codeph>getInstance</codeph> method to
- access the <codeph>MessageUtils</codeph> instance, as <codeph>getMessage</codeph> methods have been changed to
- instance methods.</p>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Preprocessing</title>
- <p>The preprocessing Ant dependency chain has been cleaned up. Tasks no longer depend on the previous task in the
- default chain, but rather the whole preprocess dependency chain is defined by the <codeph>preprocess</codeph>
- task.</p>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>HTML</title>
- <p>Core TOC generation has been moved to a separate XSLT stylesheet
- <filepath>xsl/map2htmtoc/map2htmlImpl.xsl</filepath> and the new templates use the mode <codeph>toc</codeph>.
- Plug-ins which override HTML TOC processing should change the map processing templates to <codeph>toc</codeph>
- mode.</p>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>HTML and extended transformation types</title>
- <p>Flagging logic has been pulled out of the core X/HTML code and moved to a preprocess step. This significantly
- simplifies and optimizes the X/HTML code, while making flagging logic available to any other transformation
- type. The new preprocess step implements all flagging logic; for each active flag, it adds a DITA-OT specific
- hint into the intermediate topics (implemented as a specialization of the DITA <foreign> element). As part
- of this change, all flagging-related templates in the XHTML code (such as start-flagit and gen-style) are
- deprecated.</p>
- <p>If you override the X/HTML transforms, you may need to update your overrides to use the new flagging logic. In
- most cases this just means deleting calls to the deprecated templates; in some cases, the calls can be replaced
- with 2 lines to process flags in new places. You should compare your override to the updated XHTML code and
- update as needed. See <xref keyref="flagging-migration"/> for details.</p>
- <p>Plug-ins that provide support for new transforms need to ensure that they properly support the DITA
- <foreign> element, which should be ignored by default; if so, this change will have no immediate impact.
- Support for flagging new transformation types may be more easily added based on this update, because there is no
- need to re-implement flagging logic, but this is not required. See <xref keyref="preprocess-flagging"/> for
- details on how to add flagging support.</p>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>PDF</title>
- <p>The following deprecated XSLT variables have been removed:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><codeph>page-margin-left</codeph></li>
- <li><codeph>page-margin-right</codeph></li>
- </ul>
- <p>XSLT stylesheets have been split to separate specialization topic code and new <codeph>xsl:import</codeph>
- instructions have been added to <filepath>topic2fo.xsl</filepath>. Plug-ins which define their own shell
- stylesheet should be revised to import all the required stylesheet modules.</p>
- <p>PDF processing used to replace topic <codeph>shortdesc</codeph> with map <codeph>shortdesc</codeph>, but this
- behavior was incorrect and was removed to comply with the DITA specification.</p>
- <p>A new <codeph>#note-separator</codeph> variable string was added to facilitate customization.</p>
- </section>
- </refbody>
- </reference>
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