Starting with version 17.1, Oxygen includes support for some DITA 1.3 features.
To enable DITA 1.3 support in Oxygen and use the DITA Open Toolkit 2.1 for publishing, open the Preferences dialog box, go to DITA, and select the Built-in DITA OT 2.x radio button.
| Feature | Editing | Publishing [Latest DITA Open Toolkit 2.x is used.] |
|---|---|---|
| DITA 1.3 DTD, XML Schema, and Relax NG-based maps/topics/tasks/references, etc. |
New DITA 1.3 file templates. By default DITA topics and maps which do not specify version in the DOCTYPE declaration are also considered to be DITA 1.3. Specific annotations presented in the content completion window and documentation tooltips for all new DITA 1.3 elements. |
N/A |
| Learning Object and Group maps | New file templates | No specific support implemented |
| Troubleshooting specialization | Create and edit new troubleshooting topics | No specific support implemented |
| XML markup domain | Validation and Content Completion | Special rendering in PDF and XHTML-based outputs. |
| Equation and MathML domain |
Validation and content completion Display and Insert equations |
Special rendering in PDF and XHTML-based outputs. |
| SVG domain |
Validation and content completion Display referenced SVG content |
Special rendering in PDF and XHTML-based outputs. |
| Other new DITA 1.3 elements (div, strike-through, overline, etc) |
Validation and Content Completion. |
Special rendering in PDF and XHTML-based outputs. |
| Release management domain | Validation and Content Completion | No specific support implemented. |
| Scoped keys |
Define key scopes Validate and check for completeness Resolve keyrefs and conkeyrefs taking key scopes into account. |
Partially implemented. Various issues may still be encountered. |
| Branch filtering |
Display, create and edit ditavalref elements. |
Partially implemented. Various issues may still be encountered. |
| Shorthand to address syntax that identifies elements in the same topic | Properly resolved for validation, links, and conrefs. | Implemented. |
| Various table attributes (orientation, rotation, scope, and headers on cells) | Not implemented in the Table Properties action support. But attributes can be changed from the Attributes view. | Not implemented. |
| New Map topicref attributes (cascade, deliveryTarget) | Allow setting new attributes, propose proper values for them. | Implemented |