History of changes

Info elements copied from the assembly to the realized document were not given proper xml:base and xml:lang attributes.

In practice, due to this bug, it was not possible to successfully convert to other formats an assembly where some info elements contained imagedata.

Element relationships is now processed. The linking attribute of element instance is supported with the following values: sourceonly, targetonly, normal, none, with the same semantics as the corresponding linking attribute of DITA. Attribute type of elements relationships and relationship is still ignored.

The revhistory child of the structure element was ignored.

Attribute omittitles now discards title, titleabbrev, subtitle from the included resource. Previously, setting this attribute to true discarded all the metadata just like contentonly="true".

In structure and in module, info and merge are used in the same way. These elements may be used to add or replace metadata in the realized structure or module.

The implementation of filterin and filterout is completely different from what it was in previous versions. More information in Section 5.2.1, “About filtering”.

XMLmind Assembly Processor can now check the realized document for cross-reference errors, missing image resources, etc. This is done by passing new -check option to the assembly command-line.

Note that if your document requires conditional processing (that is, profiling), then this check step may report false errors. These false errors are caused by the fact that the conditional processing step has not been applied to the realized document prior to the check step.

New option -profile allows to specify a profiling attribute. Therefore passing one or more -profile options to the assembly command-line allows to apply a profile to the realized document prior to checking it.

Example: two of the chapters referenced by assembly book.xml have xml:id="install". First chapter has also os="windows". Second chapter has also os="mac".

If you run assembly -check book.xml -, you'll get a duplicate ID warning caused by xml:id="install".

On the other hand, if you run assembly -check -profile os windows book.xml -, you'll not have this duplicate ID error. Why that? Because by applying profile os="windows", second chapter (having os="mac") is excluded from the realized document prior to checking it.

DocBook 5 Transclusion Processor: removed targetptr from the IDREF-list.

Now uses a built-in XInclude 1.1 processor rather than the XInclude 1.0 implementation provided by the XML parser (that is, Xerces). Note that for now, this built-in XInclude 1.1 processor only supports the XPointer element() scheme.

Now uses a built-in DocBook 5 Transclusion Processor to process trans:idfixup, trans:suffix and trans:linkscope attributes possibly set on xi:include elements.