The DITA 1.3 specification converted to various formats using XMLmind DITA Converter

The DITA 1.3 Version Part 2: Technical Content Edition is a 980-page, very complex, DITA 1.3 document comprising 56 map files and 788 topic files.

Format	File generated by ditac	Command used to generate this file	Official OASIS specification
XHTML	dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.html	ditac \ -filter DITA1.3-spec-technicalContent.ditaval \ -p number all \ -p prepend-chapter-to-section-number yes \ -p use-note-icon yes \ -p extended-toc both \ -p xref-auto-text text \ -images images \ -p xsl-resources-directory resources \ -p default-table-width "100%" \ -p mark-external-links yes \ -p add-copiable-links all \ -p chain-pages both \ -p ignore-navigation-links yes \ -p chain-topics yes \ out/_.html \ src/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap	dita-v1.3-os-part2-tech-content.html
Web Help	webhelp/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.html	ditac -f webhelp \ -filter DITA1.3-spec-technicalContent.ditaval \ -p number all \ -p prepend-chapter-to-section-number yes \ -p extended-toc both \ -p use-note-icon yes \ -p xref-auto-text text \ -images images \ -p xsl-resources-directory resources \ -p default-table-width "100%" \ -p mark-external-links yes \ -p add-copiable-links all \ -p wh-favicon dita_bird.png \ -p wh-user-header mkwebhelp/header.html \ -p wh-user-footer mkwebhelp/footer.html \ -p wh-user-css mkwebhelp/header_footer.css \ -p wh-user-resources mkwebhelp/header_footer_files \ out/webhelp/_.html \ src/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap	N/A
HTML Help	dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.chm (1.5M)	ditac \ -hhc "C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop\hhc.exe" \ -filter DITA1.3-spec-technicalContent.ditaval \ -p number all \ -p prepend-chapter-to-section-number yes \ -p extended-toc both \ -p use-note-icon yes \ -p xref-auto-text text \ -images images \ -p xsl-resources-directory resources \ -p default-table-width "100%" \ -p mark-external-links yes \ out/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.chm \ src/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap	dita-v1.3-os-part2-tech-content-chm.zip
EPUB	dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.epub (1.7M)	ditac \ -filter DITA1.3-spec-technicalContent.ditaval \ -p number all \ -p prepend-chapter-to-section-number yes \ -p extended-toc both \ -p use-note-icon no \ -p cover-image cover.png \ -p xref-auto-text text \ -images images \ -p xsl-resources-directory resources \ -p default-table-width "100%" \ -p mark-external-links yes \ out/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.epub \ src/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap	N/A
PDF (double-sided, justified, hyphenated)	dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.pdf ( 10M)	ditac -xep /opt/xep/xep \ -filter DITA1.3-spec-technicalContent.ditaval \ -p number all \ -p prepend-chapter-to-section-number yes \ -p extended-toc both \ -p use-note-icon yes \ -p title-color "rgb(58,0,111)" \ -p xref-auto-text text \ -p show-xref-page no \ -p show-link-page yes \ -p page-ref-before " on page " \ -p page-ref-after "" \ -p pdf-outline yes \ -p two-sided yes \ -p justified yes \ -p hyphenate yes \ out/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.pdf \ src/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap	dita-v1.3-os-part2-tech-content.pdf
PDF (single-sided, justified, hyphenated)	dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent_fop.pdf ( 12M)	ditac -fop /opt/fop/fop \ -filter DITA1.3-spec-technicalContent.ditaval \ -p number all \ -p prepend-chapter-to-section-number yes \ -p extended-toc both \ -p use-note-icon yes \ -p title-color "rgb(58,0,111)" \ -p xref-auto-text text \ -p show-xref-page no \ -p show-link-page yes \ -p page-ref-before " on page " \ -p page-ref-after "" \ -p pdf-outline yes \ -p two-sided no \ -p justified yes \ -p hyphenate yes \ out/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent_fop.pdf \ src/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap	dita-v1.3-os-part2-tech-content.pdf
Office Open Document (MS-Word 2007+)	dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.docx (1.5M)	ditac -xfc /opt/xfc/bin/fo2rtf \ -filter DITA1.3-spec-technicalContent.ditaval \ -p number all \ -p prepend-chapter-to-section-number yes \ -p extended-toc both \ -p use-note-icon yes \ -p title-color "rgb(58,0,111)" \ -p xref-auto-text text \ -p two-sided no \ -p justified no \ -p hyphenate no \ out/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.odt \ src/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap	N/A
OpenDocument (OpenOffice/LibreOffice 2+)	dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.odt (1.1M)	ditac -xfc /opt/xfc/bin/fo2rtf \ -filter DITA1.3-spec-technicalContent.ditaval \ -p number all \ -p prepend-chapter-to-section-number yes \ -p extended-toc both \ -p use-note-icon yes \ -p title-color "rgb(58,0,111)" \ -p xref-auto-text text \ -p two-sided no \ -p justified no \ -p hyphenate no \ out/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.docx \ src/dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap	N/A

Notes:

The DITA 1.3 source files of the specification come from OASIS and have not been modified by us, except for a few, very minor changes in dita-1.3-specification-technicalContent.ditamap, the root map (excluded some useless booktitlealt when platform="external-publishing-engine", un-commented out indexlist, etc).
RenderX XEP requires adding -Xmx2048m (which means: set the maximum size of the heap to 2Gb) to its Java™ command-line in order to be able to convert the spec to PDF. Apache FOP also requires adding -Xmx2048m to its Java™ command-line in order to be able to convert the spec to PDF. There is nothing special to do for XMLmind XSL-FO Converter, for which the default memory setting of the Java™ runtime (the maximum size of the heap is 64Mb) is fine.
As of Java™ version 24, the standard Java XML processing limits (JAXP limits) are very restrictive and no longer allow to load very large XML documents. In the case of Apache FOP and XMLmind XSL-FO Converter, we had to increase these limits using -Djava.xml.config.file=jaxp.properties.

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