Other Supported Document Types
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Along with the fully supported built-in frameworks (document types), Oxygen XML Web Author also provides limited support (including document templates) for editing some other document types.

Markdown Documents

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a simple Markdown editor for documents with a file extension of .md, .markdown, .mdown, or markdn. The simple editor supports the most commonly used Markdown syntax rules. This Markdown support is available for Web Author integrations with the following types of file repositories:
  • Git
  • IBM Content Navigator
    Note: For FileNet, a MIME type must be set to text/markdown or application/markdown.
  • WebDAV
    Note: Markdown documents do not support the autosave or auto-lock features for WebDAV repository integrations.

A Markdown template file is also available in the Create File dialog box when creating a new file.

Knowledge Base Articles

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a Knowledge Base Article template available in the Create File dialog box when creating a new file. It is a DITA-based document and simply provides a starting point for a typical structure for a knowledge base article.

Image Files

You can open various types of image files in Oxygen XML Web Author. They cannot be edited but a preview of the image is shown and you can perform normal file operations such as committing/saving to your type of repository, or copying the image to the system clipboard.