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| 11 | <meta name="abstract" content="DITA Open Toolkit 1.8.5 supports the DITA 1.2 specification. Initial support for this specification was added in version 1.5 of the toolkit; versions 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 contain minor modifications to keep up with the latest drafts. The specification itself was approved at approximately the same time as DITA-OT 1.5.2, which contained the final versions of the DTD and Schemas. DITA-OT 1.6 updated the DITA 1.2 XSDs to address minor errata in the standard; the DTDs remain up to date."/>
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| 30 | <h1 class="title topictitle1">DITA 1.2 Specification Support</h1>
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| 33 | <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">DITA Open Toolkit <span class="keyword">1.8.5</span> supports the
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| 34 | DITA 1.2 specification. Initial support for this specification was
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| 35 | added in version 1.5 of the toolkit; versions 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 contain
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| 36 | minor modifications to keep up with the latest drafts. The specification
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| 37 | itself was approved at approximately the same time as DITA-OT 1.5.2,
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| 38 | which contained the final versions of the DTD and Schemas. DITA-OT 1.6
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| 39 | updated the DITA 1.2 XSDs to address minor errata in the standard;
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| 40 | the DTDs remain up to date.</p>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <p class="p">Earlier versions of the DITA Open Toolkit contained a subset of
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| 43 | the specification material, including descriptions of each DITA element.
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| 44 | This material was shipped in source, CHM and PDF format. This was
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| 45 | possible in part because versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the DITA Specification
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| 46 | contained two separate specification documents: one for the architectural
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| 47 | specification, and one for the language specification.</p>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <p class="p">In DITA 1.2, each of these has been considerably expanded, and
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| 50 | the two have been combined into a single document. The overall document
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| 51 | is much larger, and including the same set of material would double
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| 52 | the size of the DITA-OT package. Rather than include that material
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| 53 | in the package, we’ve provided the links below to the latest specification
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| 54 | material.</p>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <div class="p">Highlights of DITA 1.2 support in the toolkit include:<ul class="ul">
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| 57 | <li class="li">Processing support for all new elements and attributes</li>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <li class="li">Link redirection and text replacement using keyref</li>
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| 61 | <li class="li">New processing-role attribute in maps to allow references to topics
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| 62 | that will not produce output artifacts</li>
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| 64 | <li class="li">New conref extensions, including the ability to reference a range
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| 65 | of elements, to push content into another topic, and to use keys for
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| 66 | resolving a conref attribute.</li>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <li class="li">The ability to filter content with controlled values and taxonomies,
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| 69 | using the new Subject Scheme Map</li>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <li class="li">Processing support for both default versions of task (original,
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| 72 | limited task, and the general task with fewer constraints on element
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| 73 | order)</li>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <li class="li">Acronym and abbreviation support with the new <abbreviated-form>
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| 76 | element</li>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <li class="li">New link grouping abilities available with headers in relationship
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| 79 | tables</li>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <li class="li">OASIS Subcommittee specializations from the learning and machine
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| 82 | industry domains (note that the core toolkit contains only basic processing
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| 83 | support for these, but can be extended to produce related artifacts
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| 84 | such as SCORM modules)</li>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | </ul>
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| 87 | </div>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <p class="p">To find detailed information about any of these features, see the
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| 90 | specification documents at OASIS. The DITA Adoption Technical Committee
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| 91 | has also produced several papers to describe individual new features.
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| 92 | In general, the white papers are geared more towards DITA users and
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| 93 | authors, while the specification is geared more towards tool implementors,
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| 94 | though both may be useful for either audience. The DITA Adoption papers
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| 95 | can be found from that TC’s main web page.</p>
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| 100 | <div class="familylinks">
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| 101 | <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../readme/overview-of-dita-ot.html" title="The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) is an open-source implementation of the OASIS DITA specification, which is developed by the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. The DITA-OT is a set of Java-based, open-source tools and Ant scripts that transform DITA content (maps and topics) into deliverable formats, including Eclipse Help, HTML Help, JavaHelp, PDF, and XHTML.">Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit</a></div>
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| 102 | </div>
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| 103 | <div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br/>
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| 104 | <div><a class="link" href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/spec/DITA1.2-spec.html" target="_blank">DITA 1.2 Specification (XHTML)</a></div>
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| 105 | <div><a class="link" href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/spec/DITA1.2-spec.pdf" target="_blank">DITA 1.2 Specification (PDF)</a></div>
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| 106 | <div><a class="link" href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/spec/DITA1.2-spec.zip" target="_blank">DITA 1.2 Specification (zip of the DITA
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| 107 | source)</a></div>
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| 108 | <div><a class="link" href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/spec/DITA1.2-spec-chm.zip" target="_blank">DITA 1.2 Specification (zip of the HTML
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| 109 | Help)</a></div>
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| 110 | <div><a class="link" href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita-adoption" target="_blank" title="Contains links to many white papers about using new DITA 1.2 features.">DITA Adoption Technical Committee</a></div>
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| 111 | <div><a class="link" href="http://dita.xml.org/wiki/dita-12-specification-building-specification-subsets" target="_blank" title="Information about how to build subsets of the specification using the DITA Open Toolkit.">Building subsets of the specification</a></div>
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