[oXygen-user] [Ann] Oxygen XML Editor version 21 released

[Radu Coravu]

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the release of Oxygen XML Editor version 21.0.

See the complete list of new features here:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/#new-version

New in Oxygen XML Editor 21.0
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The release of version 21 of Oxygen XML Editor adds numerous new 
features, updates, and improvements to the already robust, 
industry-leading XML editing application. The primary focus for this 
major release was to evaluate user requests for improvements and 
additions, implement as many of them as possible, while preserving the 
reliability, stability, and performance requirements that the XML 
community has come to expect from the Oxygen suite of products.

Some of the highlights of the additions and improvements in version 21 
include numerous new features and enhancements for DITA authors. For 
example, the DITA Reusable Components view was further enhanced with a 
new tiles layout and new filtering/sorting options, you now have the 
ability to preview images before inserting them, support for profiling 
attribute groups was added to make it possible to filter and flag 
content using values organized with hierarchical subcategories, DITA 
maps are now automatically re-indexed when opening them, submaps can now 
be validated while keys are gathered in the context of the root map, the 
application now comes bundled with the latest version of DITA-OT 
(3.2.1), and many other DITA improvements. Collaboration for your XML 
documentation review process is now readily available since the Oxygen 
Content Fusion connector add-on is already installed in Oxygen XML Editor.

The CSS-based PDF Publishing support and the Oxygen PDF Chemistry engine 
also received numerous improvements and new features. For example, you 
now have the ability to add an Edit link in the PDF output and clicking 
the link will open the particular topic in Oxygen XML Web Author, 
comments and tracked changes can be displayed in the PDF output, both 
directly in the document and in the Comments or Annotations panel in PDF 
readers, support was added for various CSS properties, various 
transformation parameters were added or fixed, and many other feature 
requests were implemented. You also now have access to a new 
transformation scenario type to transform any XML document to PDF using 
CSS styling.

A major effort was put into making the JSON support as robust as other 
document types. The Outline view was redesigned. It is automatically 
synchronized with the main editor, it presents validation errors, and 
the internal model was enhanced so that the document structure is 
displayed even if the JSON content is not well formed. Another major 
improvement was the addition of an intelligent Content Completion 
Assistant that is driven by an associated JSON Schema. You can define 
your own code templates that will appear in the content completion list, 
XPath expressions can be executed over multiple JSON files, you can 
transform or query JSON documents using XSLT or XQuery, various actions 
were added, and many other JSON features were implemented.

The support for XSLT 3.0 and XQuery 3.0 was improved. For example, the 
content completion now offers more proposals for parameter values in 
functions, new XPath 3.1 functions are now proposed in the content 
completion, including documentation in a side window. The Compile XSL 
Stylesheet for Saxon tool also was improved to provide the option to use 
a Saxon configuration file to control the compiling operation.

This major version includes numerous other new features and 
improvements, new API entry points or extensions, updates to various 
add-ons, component updates, and performance improvements.


Download
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The new kits can be found at
http://www.oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor.html

Please note that the new version 21.0 can upgrade a previous Oxygen XML 
Editor installation or can be installed side-by-side.

Upcoming Events
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   Join us for the following upcoming events:
   February, 28 – March, 1, 2019, Bangalore, India - tcworld India 2019 
[https://tcworld-india.com]
   April 15-19, 2019, Durham, North Carolina, USA - DITA North America 
2019 [https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2019/cmsdita_north_america.html]
   May 5-8, 2019, Washington DC, USA - STC Summit 2019 
[https://summit.stc.org/]
   June 7-9, 2019, London, United Kingdom - Markup UK [http://markupuk.org/]
   July 30 - August 2, 2019, Rockville, Maryland, USA - Balisage 2019 - 
The Markup Conference [http://www.balisage.net/]
   October 27-30, 2019, Portland, Oregon, USA - LavaCon 2019 
[https://lavacon.org/2019/]

Support Channels
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Just a reminder, we have an online discussion forum and a mailing list 
for Oxygen XML Editor users where you can request new features, post bug 
reports or discuss ways in which Oxygen XML Editor can solve your problems
http://www.oxygenxml.com/support.html

As always, your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Best regards,
Oxygen XML Editor Development Team
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Syncro Soft SRL
www.oxygenxml.com
support at oxygenxml.com
+1 650-352-1250