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