Migrating to release 1.8

In 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:

eclipsehelp
htmlhelp
javahelp
odt
xhtml

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.

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