Migrating to release 2.1

In DITA-OT 2.1, the insertVariable template was deprecated for PDF transformations and should be replaced with the getVariable template. Various dita.out.map.* targets have been deprecated in favor of updated dita.map.* equivalents.

Note: This topic provides a summary of changes in DITA-OT 2.1 that may require modifications to custom stylesheets or plug-ins. For more information on changes in this release, see the DITA-OT 2.1 Release Notes.

The customFileUtils code used to handle input and output in earlier versions of DITA-OT has been replaced with the Apache Commons IO utilities library.

Deprecated targets

The following build targets have been deprecated and will be removed in an upcoming release:

  • The help target that includes a reference to the current DITA-OT version during the build process.

Preprocessing

The following Ant properties and generated list files have been deprecated:

  • imagefile property and image.list file
  • htmlfile property and html.list file

The following pre-processing targets and extension points have been deprecated:

  • The copy-subsidiary target used to copy subsidiary files
  • The copy-subsidiary-check target used to check for subsidiary files
  • The depend.preprocess.copy-subsidiary.pre extension point used to insert an Ant target before the copy-subsidiary step in the pre-processing stage.

A newdita.parser extension point has been added to allow plug-ins to contribute a custom parser for DITA files. If a custom DITA parser is defined, the preprocessing routines will use it during the gen-list and debug-filter stages to output DITA XML.

PDF

The following template has been deprecated:

  • insertVariable, use getVariable instead

Calls to that template will result in warnings in the build log.

To update your plug-in, make the following changes:

<xsl:call-template name="insertVariablegetVariable">
  <xsl:with-param name="theVariableIDid" select="var-id"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="theParametersparams">
    params
  </xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>

HTML-based output formats

The keydefs variable and the following XSL parameters have been deprecated:
  • KEYREF-FILE
  • displaytext
  • keys
  • target
The following template modes have been deprecated:
  • pull-in-title
  • common-processing-phrase-within-link

XHTML

The dita.out.map.xhtml.toc target has been deprecated and should be replaced with the updated dita.map.xhtml.toc equivalent.

Keydef processing has been removed from the XHTML rendering code. Keys are now resolved in one preprocessing step, whereas in earlier versions of DITA-OT, the XHTML code returned to the keydef.xml file to look up targets for phrase elements and pull in text when needed. This change affects non-linking elements that can't take @href attributes, such as <ph>, <keyword>, <cite>, <dt>, <term>, and <indexterm> (when $INDEXSHOW is active).

HTMLHelp

The dita.out.map.htmlhelp.* targets have been deprecated and should be replaced with the updated dita.map.htmlhelp.* equivalents:

  • dita.out.map.htmlhelp.hhp, use dita.map.htmlhelp.hhp instead
  • dita.out.map.htmlhelp.hhc, use dita.map.htmlhelp.hhc instead
  • dita.out.map.htmlhelp.hhk, use dita.map.htmlhelp.hhk instead

JavaHelp

The dita.out.map.javahelp.* targets have been deprecated and should be replaced with the updated dita.map.javahelp.* equivalents:

  • dita.out.map.javahelp.toc, use dita.map.javahelp.toc instead
  • dita.out.map.javahelp.map, use dita.map.javahelp.map instead
  • dita.out.map.javahelp.set, use dita.map.javahelp.set instead
  • dita.out.map.javahelp.index, use dita.map.javahelp.index instead

OpenDocument Text

Support for the args.odt.img.embed parameter has been removed from OpenDocument Text transformations. The previous default behavior was to embed images as Base64-encoded text, but editors do not use this as a default. Instead, office packages such as LibreOffice will convert embedded images into linked images on opening and saving an ODT file.