XMLmind DITA Converter Changelog

What's new in XMLmind DITA Converter 2.5.3

Sep 17, 2014
  • Enhancements:
  • New, modern, “flat design”, admonition icons. Moreover all XSL-FO based output formats (PDF, RTF, etc) now use SVG icons rather than PNG icons like the XHTML-based output formats.
  • Upgraded XMLmind Web Help Compiler (whc for short) to version 1.4.
  • The result of a full-text search is now sorted by the number of hits, that is, a page containing many occurrences of the searched word is listed before the pages containing fewer occurrences of this word.
  • Added new parameter wh-index-numbers which allows to index words looking like numbers. Note that, by default, number-like words are not indexed.
  • Parameter wh-user-resources now accepts the absolute "file:" URI of a directory, as well as an absolute or relative filename.
  • Upgraded jQuery to v1.11.1, jQuery UI to v1.11.1.
  • Upgraded Saxon to version 9.5.1.7.
  • Bug fixes:
  • In something like:
  • Parent Task
  • ...
  • the nested topic was empty (instead of having the same contents as conrefTask.dita) in the files generated by ditac.
  • XSLT extension function Date:format was not thread-safe.

New in XMLmind DITA Converter 2.5.2 (Jul 3, 2014)

  • Enhancements:
  • Documented the {{document-date}} variable which may be referenced in the page headers and footers of the generated PDF, RTF, etc, files.
  • Upgraded Saxon to version 9.5.1.5.
  • Changed license from Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 to Mozilla Public License Version 2.0.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Specifying in a .ditaval file caused ditac to raise a NullPointerException.
  • Incompatibilities:
  • Now requires Java 1.6+ in order to compile and run.

New in XMLmind DITA Converter 1.1.0_02 (Feb 16, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • XMLmind DITA Converter now detects the following suspicious case and reports a warning: a topic is referenced in the map but does not appear in the output document. This is generally caused by a missing or erroneous chunk specification.