Integrating Web Author with a DITA-aware CMS

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Oxygen XML Web Author supports the use of some API extensions and a method from Oxygen XML Editor that can be used to customize nodes within the DITA Map view. The following are supported:

• ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.standalone.ditamap.TopicRefTargetInfoProvider - API extension can be used to provide titles for topic references. This should be implemented as an optimization by a CMS that already has the titles of the topics cached in the database. By default, Web Author fetches each topic from the CMS, parses it, and extracts the title.
• ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.editor.page.ditamap.DITAMapNodeRendererCustomizer - API extension allows you to customize the rendering of information in the DITA Map view (for example, titles for topic references). This method is called after Web Author computes the title for topic references.
• ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.webapp.access.WebappPluginWorkspace.setDITAKeyDefinitionManagerProvider - This method sets an object that provides a DITA keys manager for each opened document. This will override the Web Author's default behavior that will fetch the main DITA map and all the nested sub-maps from the CMS, parse them, and determine the keys.