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<p>Hello everyone,<br>
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<p>Today, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of<b>
version 24</b> of the industry-leading XML suite of products, <b>Oxygen
XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine,
WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, </b>and <b>Oxygen XML Scripting.</b><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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<b>Version 24 </b>of<b> Oxygen XML Editor</b>, 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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For more information, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html</a><br>
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<b>Oxygen XML Scripting version 24</b> 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.<br>
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For more information, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html</a><br>
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<b>Oxygen Publishing Engine version 24</b> encompasses all of the
improvements and new customization possibilities implemented in
Oxygen XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry.<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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For more information, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html</a><br>
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<b>Version 24.0.0 </b>of<b> Oxygen XML Web Author</b> 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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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For more information, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html">https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html</a><br>
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We hope you will enjoy the latest release of the Oxygen XML suite
of products!
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As always, your feedback on it is welcomed.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Alin<br>
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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor</pre>
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