[oXygen-user] [ANN] Version 24 of the Oxygen XML suite of products is now available!

Mon Oct 18 04:47:52 CDT 2021

Hello everyone,

Today, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of*version 
24* of the industry-leading XML suite of products, *Oxygen XML Editor, 
Author, Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine, WebHelp, PDF 
Chemistry, *and *Oxygen XML Scripting.*

This new release brings enhancements to the validation support with the 
DITA validate and check for completeness action being available as a 
validation unit that can be added to validation scenarios, dynamic 
publishing for DITA by converting various types of non-DITA resources to 
DITA, including MS Word, MS Excel, HTML, and Markdown, furthermore, the 
Enterprise Edition users may now upload and publish DITA to the Zendesk 
Help Center. The DITA to WebHelp transformation features improved 
navigation and the PDF Chemistry engine allows controlling the generated 
PDF security permissions and metadata.

The JSON support is improved constantly to match the support Oxygen 
offers for XML and version 24 brings a visual diagram editor for JSON 
helpful for increasing productivity when working with simple JSON 
Schemas and for visualizing, understanding, and editing complex JSON 
Schemas.

With a focus on authoring experience and collaboration, the Oxygen XML 
Web Author now boasts a re-designed interface, a new visual merge tool 
that enables you to easily resolve conflicts, and the ever popular 
Concurrent Editing feature has progressed through the BETA testing 
stages and now comes bundled with Web Author.

More functionality is exposed as part of Oxygen Scripting to enable 
automation/continuous integration and delivery workflows, including 
generating diff reports, as well as formatting and indenting XML documents.

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*Version 24 *of*Oxygen XML Editor*, the XML community's most advanced 
bundle of tools, introduces lots of exciting new features, updates, 
productivity enhancements, new customization options, and various 
performance optimizations.

As the Oxygen team perpetually strives to make the DITA authoring 
experience more and more efficient and dynamic, DITA users can now 
configure and run validation scenarios directly from the DITA Maps 
Manager, or configure validation scenarios that process validation and 
completeness checks for DITA maps or DITA Open Toolkit projects. With 
the introduction of new refactoring actions for DITA, it is easier than 
ever to convert between DITA bookmaps and normal maps, to change or 
remove profiling attribute values, and to convert direct links to 
indirect key-based references. To help you get started with your own 
customizations, a new sample DITA project is available with examples for 
various framework customizations and best-practices techniques. We also 
continued to update Oxygen to support the latest DITA 2.0 standard.

On the DITA publishing side, a new transformation scenario (available in 
the Oxygen Enterprise edition) can be used to upload and publish content 
to the Zendesk Help Center. Also, it is now possible to dynamically 
convert various types of non-DITA resources (MS Word, MS Excel, HTML, 
and Markdown) to DITA during the publishing process. For PDF publishing, 
the output can be generated in compliance with the PDF/Universal 
Accessibility standard, copyright information is now automatically 
processed, and you can restrict the permissions for people using your 
PDF files, for instance to prevent printing or copying of the PDF 
content, or even to control the access to the PDF document by requiring 
a password.

Oxygen's expanding JSON community will be pleased to learn that a visual 
diagram editor was integrated in a new specialized editor for JSON 
Schema documents. It offers validation support, content completion, an 
outline view, and JSON-specific syntax highlighting. The JSON Schema 
editor's new intuitive, expressive visual schema design mode provides a 
simple diagram editor that is helpful for visualizing and understanding 
both simple and complex JSON Schemas. It also offers various editing 
features to help you modify JSON Schemas directly within the visual 
design mode.

Some of the general editing productivity improvements include a new 
Block Tags without Element Names display mode that shows block element 
tags in a more compact look, the ability to save remote images locally 
while choosing to update any existing references, and a new XML 
refactoring operation that can be used to batch accept tracked changes 
or remove comments and highlights.

When using the Compare Files or Compare Directories command-line scripts 
(or the similar comparison tools within Oxygen), you now have the 
ability to save the results of a comparison as an HTML report file that 
can be viewed in your browser or other application. A new tool was also 
added in Oxygen for generating an HTML report that contains the results 
of a directory comparison (for either 2-way or 3-way comparisons).
Add-ons continue to gain popularity and this latest release gives you 
the possibility to extend Oxygen's functionality even further by 
introducing numerous updates and improvements to the Git Client, DITA 
Prolog Updater, and Batch Converter add-ons. A new entry to the Oxygen 
add-ons library comes in the form of the Writer Helper. It is designed 
to help technical writers by offering them tips, finding possible 
similar content that could be reused, and even has an option for reading 
content out loud using the operating system's narrator.

Some of the other exciting highlights for this version include startup 
speed performance improvements, some new ways to use editor variables, 
various API additions, bug fixes, component updates, and much more.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html

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*Oxygen XML Scripting version 24* offers updates and improvements for 
some of the scripts that are available to provide a variety of functions 
that can be scheduled or triggered using a command-line tool on Windows, 
Linux, or macOS. This release brings the possibility of generating 
various types of comparison reports, a new merge option, several 
improvements for the file and directory comparison scripts, a brand new 
script that can be used to batch format and indent multiple files at 
once, as well as other updates and bug fixes.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html

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*Oxygen Publishing Engine version 24* encompasses all of the 
improvements and new customization possibilities implemented in Oxygen 
XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry.

As an Oxygen XML WebHelp publisher, now you have access to new 
transformation parameters to help style the WebHelp output to suit your 
specific needs, new expand/collapse buttons for choosing whether or not 
to display both the topic and publication table of contents, and various 
other small updates and bug fixes.

Some examples of the improvements and updates that were added to Oxygen 
PDF Chemistry include the possibility of controlling the security 
policies for the Chemistry processing, protecting your PDF files using 
security permissions, for instance to prevent printing or copying of the 
PDF content, or even to control the access to the PDF document by 
requiring a password. Some new properties can also be used to control 
various components in the PDF output (such as the initial settings for 
how the document is presented, copyright information, or custom metadata).

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html

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*Version 24.0.0 *of*Oxygen XML Web Author* is the latest release for the 
innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release introduces a 
visual merge tool for resolving conflicts when committing to a shared 
Git repository, a re-design of the interface to offer a more modern and 
visually appealing look and better blending when Web Author is embedded 
in another application (such as a CMS), additional protection against 
XXE vulnerabilities and other security-related improvements, as well as 
more customization possibilities, performance optimizations, and 
accessibility enhancements.

Also, the ever popular Concurrent Editing feature has progressed through 
the BETA testing stages and is now bundled with the Oxygen XML Web 
Author installers.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html

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We hope you will enjoy the latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of 
products!
As always, your feedback on it is welcomed.

Best regards,
Alin

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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor
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