[oXygen-user] oXygen 9.2 beta

Fri Apr 11 11:21:50 CDT 2008

Hi Barton,

oXygen 9.2 includes the latest developments on the Syncro SVN Client. 
The Syncro SVN Client is part of oXygen and it is just a build script 
that packs it as a separate application.

Best Regards,
George
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Barton Wright wrote:
> George,
> 
> My Oxygen 9.1 license inlcudes Syncro SVN Client 2.6. But SVN Client 3.1 is available on your web site. I was wondering if Oxygen 9.2 would include the latest Syncro SVN Client.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  [mailto:] On Behalf Of George Cristian Bina
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:10 AM
> To: oXygenXML user list
> Subject: [oXygen-user] oXygen 9.2 beta
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are getting close to a new oXygen release. This will be a version 9 
> maintenance release, oXygen 9.2.
> We made available a beta build from the links below:
> 
> Windows
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Oxygen/Windows/VM/oxygen.exe
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Oxygen/Windows/NoVM/oxygen.exe
> 
> Linux
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Oxygen/Linux/VM/oxygen.sh
> 
> MacOS X
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Oxygen/MacOSX/oxygen.tar.gz
> 
> Eclipse 3.3 update site
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Oxygen/Eclipse/site.xml
> 
> What is new in 9.2... There are more than 450 issues that were recorded 
> as fixed in 9.2 already and probably the number will grow near 500 when 
> it will become generally available. I will try to enumerate a few from 
> the most important additions below.
> 
> * oXygen Author
> ===============
> There are people that are not developers or there are times when you are 
> not interested in the development features of oXygen and you want just 
> to do XML editing. The oXygen Author removes the development features 
> offering a more simple interface for XML editing.
> To start the oXygen Author you can use the author executable or the 
> author batch script from your oXygen installation.
> The oXygen Author is available also as a separate product, both as a 
> standalone application and as an Eclipse plugin. The separate oXygen 
> Author installation kits are below. The license key for oXygen works 
> also with the oXygen Author:
> 
> Windows
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Author/Windows/VM/author.exe
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Author/Windows/NoVM/author.exe
> 
> Linux
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Author/Linux/VM/author.sh
> 
> MacOS X
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Author/MacOSX/author.tar.gz
> 
> All
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Author/All/author.tar.gz
> 
> Eclipse 3.3 update site
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/9.2/Author/EclipseAuthor/site.xml
> 
> * Navigation support
> ====================
> The visual editing (Author mode) supports now links. The links are 
> specified in the associated CSS using a link property. oXygen will 
> render them and will open the referred document when you click on a 
> link. We updated the DITA, TEI and DocBook CSS stylesheets to add link 
> support for the specific linking elements in each framework. The link 
> support works also with DITA conrefs and XInclude.
> 
> * In place view of the included/referenced content
> ==================================================
> The included content (with XInclude for instance) or the referred 
> content is presented in place as a read only block that can be 
> collapsed/expanded. This gives the view of the result document with the 
> inclusions and references resolved.
> 
> * Inline tags - new visual rendering in Author
> ==============================================
> In this rendering mode the block tags are hidden and the inline tags are 
> presented. This is available from the Author toolbar and from the Author 
> menu and gives a compact visual view while showing the inline elements' 
> tags.
> 
> * DITA maps manager
> ===================
> This allows viewing and editing DITA map files. It acts also similar 
> with a project manager allowing to easily open different topics/concepts 
> for editing.
> You should get the DITA maps manager visible automatically if you open a 
> .ditamap file in oXygen. It will appear as a tab in the same stack with 
> the Project. The toolbar, the contextual menu and drag and drop actions 
> will allow to easily edit the map content. Double click to open a 
> referenced file for editing.
> 
> * Closely integration of the DITA Open Toolkit for transformations
> ==================================================================
> This allows to easily configure and execute specific DITA 
> transformations from the DITA Maps manager to different formats (XHTML, 
> PDF, HTML, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help, DocBook, etc.). These are DITA 
> specific using the DITA Open Toolkit and providing more options than the 
> standard XSLT transformation scenarios, see the Filters and Advanced 
> tabs when editing a scenario.
> 
> * DITA conref support
> =====================
> You can easily insert conrefs using the "Insert a DITA Content 
> Reference" action from the DITA toolbar or from the contextual menu 
> Insert->Insert Content Reference.
> 
> * Synchronize the end tag with the start tag changes
> ====================================================
> If the start tag is changed oXygen will automatically change also the 
> end tag, thus keeping the document well formed and saving you a few 
> keystrokes.
> 
> * ISO Schematron improvements
> =============================
> Allowing foreign elements in ISO Schematron schemas is controllable from 
> the oXygen Schematron options. These are useful for instance when you 
> want to access an XSLT 2.0 function from a Schematron rule. Also it is 
> possible to specify that Schematron should be executed with Saxon SA 
> (schema aware) and thus be able to use schema aware checks inside the 
> Schematron rules.
> 
> Internationalization improvements
> =================================
> The wrapping of CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) text takes into account 
> punctuation marks.
> The Author and XML Source pages display on-the-spot the composed text 
> (for instance when editing CJK text). The composed text is shown in the 
> context of the document that it will eventually belong to, in a style 
> that indicates that the text still needs to be converted or confirmed by 
> the input method.
> 
> Latest Saxon 9
> ==============
> oXygen 9.2 supports the latest version of Saxon 9.0.0.4.
> 
> Latest DocBook 5 schemas and stylesheets
> ========================================
> The DocBook 5 final release schemas are included.
> The stylesheets were updated to docbook-xsl-ns-1.73.2.
> 
> Latest XQDoc
> ============
> XQDoc version 1.6 was integrated for generating XQuery documentation 
> from within oXygen.
> 
> 
> We have also 2 DITA video demonstrations showing the DITA Maps manager 
> and the DITA editing:
> 
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/ditamapsmanager/ditaMapsManager.html
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/ditaediting/ditaEditing.html
> 
> Best Regards,
> George
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> George Cristian Bina - http://aboutxml.blogspot.com/
> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
> http://www.oxygenxml.com
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