[oXygen-user] [ANN] Oxygen XML Editor version 25 has just been released!
Alin Belu
alin_belu at oxygenxml.com
Thu Oct 13 05:56:15 CDT 2022
Hello everyone,
We are incredibly proud to announce the immediate availability of
*version 25* 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 release provides a platform to work both with XML and XML-related
resources by further extending its support to other languages such as
*JSON and YAML*, and being able to treat some file types (*Word*,
*Excel*, *OpenAPI*, *HTML*, *Markdown*, and others) as *DITA-compatible
resources* and thus reference and use them from DITA maps, similar to
how DITA XML topics are referenced and used. Furthermore, users now have
the ability to generate *Google Structured Data* in *WebHelp* output,
and for PDF publishers this version includes support for a variety of
useful *new CSS properties* to *customize the **CSS-based PDF output*.
The *JSON feature* was improved by adding support for editing and
validating using the latest JSON Schema version. The visual *JSON Schema
diagram* was also updated and comes with new search and refactoring actions.
For this release, we also focused our efforts to bring lots of
improvements to some of the popular *add-ons*, such as the *Git Client*,
*Batch Documents Converter*, and *Terminology Checker*. A new
command-line script can be used to *validate files or directories*, and
as usual, version 25 includes new *API* entry points, various bug fixes,
and component updates.
*Oxygen XML Web Author*, the cutting-edge web-based XML authoring tool,
now features even more improvements and updates. This major release
offers enhancements to the general *user interface*, new *DITA*
authoring features, more customization possibilities, refinements to
*concurrent editing* sessions, and *performance* tweaks.
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*Oxygen XML Editor version 25.0* provides numerous new features,
updates, and improvements that focus on productivity, performance,
efficiency, advanced customization, and simplicity.
This major release introduces a lot of productivity enhancements for
*DITA* authors and publishers. *DITA maps* are now automatically saved
whenever a modification is made in the DITA Maps Manager, various
improvements were added to make referenced *DITA-compatible resources
(Word, Excel, OpenAPI, HTML, Markdown)* be treated similar to DITA
resources when inserting references, validating DITA maps, or publishing
content. *Referenced content* (topic or map references within DITA maps
or content references in topics) can be *expanded on demand* in the
Author visual editing mode, thus increasing the performance when opening
files with many references, a new toolbar button in the DITA Maps
Manager generates a *DITA Metrics report* with useful information about
the current map, *profiling attribute groups* can now be defined in a
subject scheme map, and new *inline actions* are available for
*inserting topic references* in DITA maps, *setting the note type*, and
*setting the language for code blocks* in DITA topics. A button was
added for each deliverable in *DITA-OT Project* files to make it easy to
*publish that deliverable individually*, while a publish button was also
added at the top of the document to *publish all deliverables* specified
in the DITA-OT project file. You now have the ability to generate
*Google Structured Data* in *WebHelp* output, there is also a new
*Questions and Answers topic type* that can be used during the
publishing phase for creating the Google Structured Data in the output,
and a new action makes it possible to insert an intent question within a
DITA topic.
Many of the *JSON* features and tools were updated to support the latest
*JSON schema version (2020-12)*. This includes *validating JSON schemas*
according to the 2020-12 specification, *validating JSON or YAML
documents* against a 2020-12 schema, *content completion* proposals were
updated, new components were added in the *Palette view*, and you can
*convert older JSON schemas to the latest version*. The*JSON Schema
Documentation Generator*, *JSON Instance Generator*, and *JSON Schema
Generator* tools were also updated to support the 2022-12 schema
version. New *search and refactoring actions* were also integrated into
the JSON Schema Design mode, and containers are now automatically
created when dragging components from the Palette view to the JSON
Schema Design editor.
The *OpenAPI* standard is becoming more and more popular and our
developers implemented various features and tools to support these types
of documents. New *document templates* are available, you can *edit
OpenAPI documents in Text or Author mode* taking advantage of *automatic
validation* and *content completion* proposals, while the *OpenAPI
Documentation Generator* and *OpenAPI Tester* tools were also improved.
Additionally, support was also included for editing *AsyncAPI*,
*JSON-LD*, and *OpenAPI test scenario* documents.
The built-in *Saxon XSLT/XQuery processor* was updated to the latest
version, *11.4*. It brings new functionality and support for new
extension functions, as well as other features for *XSLT and XQuery
transformations and debugging*. Other improvements include validation
and transformation support for *XSLT 4.0 documents*, and content
completion for XSLT 4.0 elements, attributes, and XPath 4.0 functions.
*Add-ons* were another focus of this release, with some of the most
popular ones receiving lots of updates. *Validation features* were added
in the *Git Client*, enabling automatic validation of files before
performing the commit or push actions. The *Batch Documents Converter*
now has an option for *converting OpenAPI specification* files encoded
in JSON or YAML formats into *DITA* documents and many of the other
types of conversions received various improvements. The *Terminology
Checker* add-on now has the ability to control on which elements a rule
is applied using simple XPath expressions, the users can now specify the
phase (editing/validation/always) in which incorrect terms are detected,
and it is possible for Oxygen add-on to contribute terminology files to
be used by the Terminology Checker.
Other features and improvements include editing support and syntax
highlighting for *PowerShell* files, performance was improved for the
*XPath in Files* feature, shortcuts were added for *controlling
indentation in code blocks*, and as usual, this release includes new
*API entry points*, various *bug fixes*, and *component updates*.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html
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*Oxygen XML Scripting version 25.0* 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 added a new *Validate Command Line Script* that can be used
for validating files or directories and generating reports in several
formats (text, XML, JSON, or an HTML visual format). Also, the *Batch
Converter* script now includes the option to *convert multiple documents
from OpenAPI to DITA*.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html
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*Oxygen Publishing Engine version 25.0* encompasses the improvements and
additions implemented in *Oxygen XML WebHelp* and *Oxygen PDF
Chemistry*. This latest release offers a variety of new customization
possibilities, transformation parameters, properties, component updates,
and bug fixes for both WebHelp and PDF publishers.
For *Oxygen XML WebHelp* publishers, this release added the ability to
*generate Google Structured Data* in the output and to *control the
search support*. New transformation parameters were included to specify
a custom search engine, to change the default search engine, or to
replace the main page with a custom page. Customization possibilities
were added for displaying a custom title in the search results page or
for implementing custom search filters.
Some of the most interesting improvements offered with the latest
version of *Oxygen PDF Chemistry* include support for a variety of *new
CSS properties* to help users *control how page, column, or region
breaks behave*, to force or avoid *line breaks at hyphens*, to omit the
header or footer from tables when a page break occurs, or to *display
watermark images* in the foreground. Also, new transformation parameters
can be used to make documents archive-able (*PDF/A compliant*) or to
*filter the glossary*, and it is now possible to define exception
elements for hyphenation dictionaries.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html
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*Version 25.0.0* of *Oxygen XML Web Author* continues to bolster the
innovative web-based XML authoring tool with more enhancements and
additions. This major release offers improvements to the general user
interface, new DITA authoring features, more customization
possibilities, refinements to concurrent editing sessions, performance
tweaks, as well as various bug fixes and component updates.
For awhile now, the DITA support has benefited from an image map editor
and that was also extended to define and edit*image maps for XHTML*
documents, and in general, the image map support can now be easily added
for any other XML vocabulary.
When editing online, it is possible to lose the connection to the
server. Once the connection is restored, the *concurrent editing*
support now resumes seamlessly.
Inserting DITA new topics and topic references in DITA maps is made
easier by a new CSS style that provides *inline actions to insert topic
references* when editing DITA map documents in the visual editor.
Other interesting enhancements added in this version of Web Author
include actions to *select an element, its content, or its parent*,
actions to insert links were added to the floating toolbar, easier
methods for controlling indentation and setting the *syntax highlight
language in code blocks*, and the *Outline pane* is now also available
for *DITA maps*.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html
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*DITA-OT Day 2022*
On the *13th of November, 2022,* Oxygen XML Editor organizes the 7th
edition of the *DITA-OT Day conference in Rotterdam*, Netherlands, a
full day in-person event dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project,
which is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all
DITA-based publishing solutions, Oxygen included.
Find out more details and registration information at
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2022/dita-ot_day.html
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We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of
products!
As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is
welcome!
Best regards,
Alin
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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor
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