$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.xml,v 1.5 2002/07/07 23:10:06 nwalsh Exp $
02 Jun 2002
These are the release notes for the DocBook XSL Stylesheets. This file documents (mostly) changes to the public APIs. What, exactly, counts as a public API is still somewhat in question, but it includes at least the global parameters.
Release 1.52.0
The 1.52.0 release contains a lot of significant changes. Make sure you read the ChangeLog as well.
Created a complete and consistent set of chunking parameters: chunker.output.cdata-section-elements chunker.output.doctype-public chunker.output.doctype-system chunker.output.encoding chunker.output.indent chunker.output.media-type chunker.output.method chunker.output.omit-xml-declaration chunker.output.standalone. Removed default.encoding (use chunker.output.encoding instead); removed output.method (use chunker.output.method instead).
Added a large number of HTML Help parameters: htmlhelp.button.back, htmlhelp.button.forward, htmlhelp.button.hideshow, htmlhelp.button.home.url, htmlhelp.button.home, htmlhelp.button.jump1.title, htmlhelp.button.jump1.url, htmlhelp.button.jump1, htmlhelp.button.jump2.title, htmlhelp.button.jump2.url, htmlhelp.button.jump2, htmlhelp.button.locate, htmlhelp.button.next, htmlhelp.button.options, htmlhelp.button.prev, htmlhelp.button.print, htmlhelp.button.refresh, htmlhelp.button.stop, htmlhelp.button.zoom, htmlhelp.hhc.binary, htmlhelp.hhk, htmlhelp.hhp.window, htmlhelp.show.advanced.search, htmlhelp.show.favorities, htmlhelp.show.menu.xml, and htmlhelp.only.
Support for new style OLinks. Added target.database.document, use.local.olink.style, current.docid, and olink.doctitle.
Added experimental support for xref styles. Added use.role.as.xrefstyle.
Completely reworked page master/page sequence configuration.
Support cross-references to paragraphs by using the nearest containing section title as the cross-reference text. Is this a good idea?
Removed unused chunk.datafile.
Added header/footer parameters: footer.rule, footers.on.blank.pages, header.rule, and headers.on.blank.pages.
Added column parameters: column.count.back, column.count.body, column.count.front, column.count.index, column.count.lot, column.count.of.index, column.count.titlepage, and column.count.
Added draft.mode.
Added glossary.as.blocks, glosslist.as.blocks, glossterm.separation, glossterm.width.
Added suppress.footer.navigation and suppress.header.navigation.
Added make.graphic.viewport, nominal.image.depth, nominal.image.width, and use.embed.for.svg
Added refentry.title.properties and section.title.properties
Added use.embed.for.svg
Added generate.meta.abstract.xml
Release 1.51.0
Added an extension function to determine the intrinsic size of an image. Works for the image formats supported by the Java Image class and or PostScript-derived formats.
Added callout bullets 11-15.
Removed obsolete using.chunker parameter.
Added points.per.em parameter.
Added generate.manifest parameter.
Added manifest parameter.
Added compact.list.item.spacing parameter.
Added html.extra.head.links parameter.
Added use.svg parameter; support SVG in HTML.
Convert the library code to a literate programming style with xweb.
Support xref to any element that has a title (at least when it has a title).
Pass MathML through unchanged.
Completely reworked support for graphic attributes in HTML.
Add additional LINK elements to the HTML HEAD (for site navigation as in Mozilla---note, however, that Mozilla has disabled this recently for the 1.0 release).
Support shade.verbatim parameter in FO.
Support compact list spacing in FO.
Release 1.50.0
This release introduces a new version numbering scheme. Version numbers are now three part: major.middle.minor. Changes to the middle version number indicate a change in the public API. Changes in only the minor number indicate simply a new release.
The generate.*.toc and generate.*.lot parameters have been replaced by a single structured parameter, generate.toc.
It's likely that the HTML and FO stylesheets do not handle ToC generation in exactly the same way, but they should.
Added strip-attributes.xsl to the profiling stylesheets. This allows one to strip off, for example, profiling attributes after a document has been profiled.
Improved numeration of footnotes and table footnotes. Made table footnotes render “properly” in FOs.
Added a formal.title.placement parameter, allowing users to select placement of formal object titles either above or below the object.
Improved control over delimiters for TeX equations.
Support classsynopsis and friends in FOs.
Changed HTML stylesheets to use em instead of i for emphasis.
Added chunk.quietly parameter.
Improved profiling code to support the full range of profiling attributes and to support one-pass profiling (if your XSLT processor understands the EXSLT node-set function.