Oxygen Events

TEI 2022

September 12-16, 2022
Newcastle, United Kingdom

Oxygen XML Editor will serve as a sponsor for the Text Encoding Initiative 2022 conference at Newcastle University, United Kingdom, from September 12 through September 16, 2022.

This year's subject is "Text as Data." With this in mind, the participants will examine a variety of contributions that deal with text-related tasks at all stages of the research process, including discovery, analysis, representation, visualization, prediction, causal inference, etc.

tcworld Conference 2022

November 8-10, 2022
Stuttgart, Germany

Between the 8th and the 10th of November, Oxygen XML Editor will take part in the tcworld Conference 2022, the event that brings together participants, speakers, students, and exhibitors in "technical communication" from all over the world to the largest industry meeting place - finally in the ICS of Messe Stuttgart again!

Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with the Oxygen team and discover all the interactive program items and events that we have prepared for you! Also, make sure to visit the Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor stand (Hall C2, Stand 2D65) in the exhibition area where we will demonstrate the Oxygen XML software product suite (including the latest developments) and happily answer your questions.

DITA-OT Day 2022

November 13, 2022
Rotterdam, Netherlands

We are happy to host the DITA-OT Day conference once again, the full day conference dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, which is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions!

After the success of its previous editions, this event is returning for its 7th iteration, taking place this time in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on November 13, 2022.

ConVEx Europe

November 14-15, 2022
Rotterdam, Netherlands

After a two-year hiatus, DITA Europe is back in-person under its new name ConVEx Europe! Between the 14th and the 15th of November, the event is returning to Rotterdam to offer its participants a wealth of ideas and information to support their efforts in defining and executing their content strategy

The Oxygen XML Editor team of experts will also be present at the event to deliver you engaging workshops designed to give you knowledge, best practices, and useful solutions. Don't pass up this opportunity to interact with us!

Balisage 2022 - The Markup Conference

August 1-5, 2022

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Between the 1st and 5th of August, Oxygen XML will be once again a sponsor for the annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information - Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022.

For 2022, Balisage will be going virtual! All sessions, conversations, social events, and other conference-related activities will be online. This means that it’s easier than ever to take part in the conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.

XML Prague 2022

June 9-11, 2022
Prague, Czech Republic

Oxygen Users Meetup @ XML Prague 2022

June 9, 2022
Prague, Czech Republic

ConVEx Tempe

May 2-4, 2022

Tempe, Arizona, USA

Between the 2nd and the 4th of May, 2022, join Oxygen XML Editor for ConVEx Tempe, the immersive experience for content developers, brought to you by CIDM!

The Oxygen XML Editor team of experts is excited to take part in the event that offers three days of career-empowering knowledge, practices, networking, and practical solutions. Whether you are a Novice or a Master of your craft, we promise that we will be bringing you interactive sessions that provide you with a wealth of ideas and information to support your efforts in defining and executing a comprehensive content strategy.

Transforming DITA documents to PDF using CSS, Part 3 – Advanced Fonts Usage - presented by Julien Lacour

Wed, April 13, 2022
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

We all know that the road to becoming advanced in a specific subject is a long and tedious one. But with our help, it doesn’t need to be that difficult anymore!

Your journey into defining the look and format of your PDF documents with the use of CSS continues with another extensive tutorial, this time dedicated to adding custom fonts in your CSS.

After this webinar, you will have all the tools needed to:

• Use System Fonts and WebFonts
• Import and use font files
• Declare fallback fonts
• Set fonts for page-margin boxes.
• Use Oxygen Styles Basket to define fonts
• Create an accessible PDF (PDF/UA)
• Use different fonts based on the language used

OpenAPI Editing, Testing, and Documenting - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, April 6, 2022
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

OpenAPI is a community-driven open specification that defines a language-agnostic interface used to describe, produce, consume, and visualize RESTful APIs and web services. OpenAPI documents describe the API (or its elements) and are represented in either YAML or JSON formats.

During this live webinar, you will discover the support offered in Oxygen for OpenAPI documents as well as how to create, edit, test, and generate documentation for OpenAPI documents. By joining this live event, you will get the chance to learn the following:

• How to edit OpenAPI documents in the Oxygen Text mode.
• How to use OpenAPI documents in Author mode - you have access to some form controls, collapsible sections, and other features that help you visualize and edit these types of documents.
• How to test an OpenAPI, execute API requests, and validate responses on the fly to ensure that they work as expected.
• How to generate documentation for OpenAPI components in HTML format, including comprehensive annotations and cross-references.

Techniques for Customizing the WebHelp Responsive Output - presented by Alin Balasa

Wed, March 30, 2022
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

The need to customize the appearance of published documentation is something that is being addressed constantly by our users. As a solution, Oxygen WebHelp offers a predefined set of layouts and styles, resulting in several different customization methods or combination of methods.

To get you accustomed to these options, this webinar will walk you through several techniques available for customizing the WebHelp Responsive output.

By joining this live event, you will get the chance to learn the following:

• What are the page types available and their components
• What is the Publishing Template – its purpose, structure, and resources
• Using CSS to change the layout and styles of your output
• Inserting additional HTML content
• How to insert dynamic content using WebHelp Macros
• Adding new functionalities using JavaScript
• How to copy additional resources in the output folder
• Modifying the page structure using XSLT
• Various customization examples

Create JSON Schema in Design Mode - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, March 23, 2022
9 AM US Pacific time / 12 PM US Eastern time / 5 PM Central Europe time

Oxygen XML Editor provides a powerful and expressive visual schema diagram editor (Design mode) for editing JSON Schemas. The structure of the diagram editor is designed to be intuitive and easy to use.

By joining this live webinar, you will get to see how the Design mode can help both content authors who want to visualize or understand a schema and schema designers who develop complex schemas. You will also get the chance to learn:

• How to create JSON schemas from scratch
• How to use the new Pallet view to add new components
• How to use the drag-and-drop support to design your JSON Schema
• How to use refactoring actions
• How to visualize and edit complex JSON Schemas

Transforming DITA documents to PDF using CSS, Part 2 – Book design, Pagination, Page Layout and Bookmarks - presented by Julien Lacour

Wed, March 2, 2022
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

You have now started your journey through DITA to PDF customization, but there is still a long way to go.

In Part 1 – Page Definitions, Cover Page and PDF Metadata, you got to learn how to customize your PDF publications using CSS and make them compliant with all your company documents.

Now, it’s time to move on and learn some great new tips and tricks about the PDF page layout. Join us and, at the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Create a personalized front and back-matter
• Use a Table of Contents and a list of Tables/Figures
• Define custom page-breaks
• Change the page layout
• Use custom PDF bookmarks

Using Oxygen Styles Basket to Create CSS Customization from Scratch - presented by Julien Lacour

Wed, February 2, 2022
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

If you are planning to generate nice-looking documents for your company or just as personal projects but the simple mention of CSS makes you uneasy, don’t worry! The Oxygen Styles Basket is here to help you!

In this webinar, you will get to see what exactly is the Oxygen Styles Basket, how it works, and how you can use it to create a customization that works for both your PDF and WebHelp outputs.

After this course you will be able to:

• Define your project/company branding
• Set different styles for your publication content
• Define a PDF cover, global numbering scheme, etc.
• Customize a WebHelp layout

Documentation Review Workflow Using Oxygen Feedback - presented by Alin Balasa

Wed, January 19, 2022
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

With the release of Oxygen Feedback version 2.0, we created this immersive live event where you will get the chance to take a deeper look at the latest features implemented in our web-based commenting platform. Also, we will showcase the use of Feedback in conjunction with Oxygen XML Editor so you can learn how to continuously improve your online documentation based on your subject matter experts (SMEs) and community feedback.

This webinar will cover the following topics:

• Integrating Oxygen Feedback in your online documentation
• Receiving feedback from your SMEs and end-users
• Feedback moderation
• User roles and user management (promote/demote users)
• Usage statistics
• Oxygen integration - Easily update your content by accessing the comments stream directly in Oxygen

Add-ons You Can Use for Technical Writing - presented by Alex Jitianu

Wed, December 8, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

The already extensive support Oxygen offers for technical authoring can be further expanded with a variety of easy to install add-ons!

This webinar aims to take a deeper look at some of the most popular add-ons that are available and at the types of benefits they provide, how easy it is to install them, as well as offering some ideas for how they can be integrated into your particular authoring workflow.

The add-ons that will be featured in this webinar include:

• The Git Client add-on that contributes a Git client directly in the Oxygen interface.
• The DITA Outgoing References add-on that contributes a side view where you can see all the outgoing references for the current topic.
• The Terminology Checker add-on that highlights matched terms in the Author visual editing mode.
• The Translator Helper add-on that translates content using Google Translate or DeepL Translator to various languages.
• The Writer Helper add-on that helps with the review process, finding similar content, reads content with an operating system specific narrator, and provides Oxygen productivity tips.

Working with DITA in Oxygen - Migrating to DITA and Refactoring - presented by Cosmin Duna

Wed, November 24, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

From experience, most companies do not start new DITA-based projects from scratch. They already have the content written in various other formats and they need that content converted to DITA. But once the content is converted, there is still work to be done. It also needs to be refactored to respect various DITA best practices.

To show you how this process can be made as simple as possible, in this webinar, we will cover the following topics:

• How to use the batch documents converter and smart paste for converting content
• How to use the Main Files Support for refactoring across the entire project

tcworld Conference 2021

November 8-19, 2021

• Get ready for one of the biggest events of the year! And we mean it.

  Between 8 and 19 of November, Oxygen XML Editor will take part in the tcworld Conference 2021, the digital event that brings together participants, speakers, students and exhibitors of Technical Communication from all over the world to the largest online meeting place.

  And for the first time ever, the event will run over a two-week period! So, rest assured that you will get the time that you need to connect with the Oxygen team and discover all the interactive program items and events that we have prepared for you.

  Also, make sure to pass by our digital showroom where you can find the latest insights about our products or to make an appointment with our representatives via video conferencing.

The New Oxygen Compare and Merge Scripts - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, November 17, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

With the latest release of the Oxygen suite of products, additional support was developed for Oxygen XML Scripting in order to compare and merge files or directories.

In this webinar we will cover in detail this newly implemented scripting support, as well as showing you examples on how to use it efficiently. We won’t be stopping here, as we will also be taking a look at how you can integrate it with Oxygen XML Editor.

During this 1-hour live event, we will focus on showing you the following:

• The Compare and Merge Files Command-Line Script - used to compare and merge files and get the comparison results in various formats (YAML, JSON, XML, HTML).
• The Compare and Merge Directories Command-Line Script - with many options to choose from, such as the comparison mode (content, binary, timestamp), the algorithm to be used for the comparison, the "strength" of the comparison algorithm, various "include/exclude" type file filters, various "ignore" type options to refine the comparison results.
• Generating File or Directory Comparison HTML Reports - the support to save the comparison made with Oxygen XML Editor in HTML format.

Working with DITA in Oxygen - Quick start with the DITA Startup Project - presented by Alex Jitianu

Wed, November 10, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Oxygen XML Editor provides the ability to organize your DITA resources in projects. The DITA Sample Project is a best practice example that shows how DITA content can be organized to provide a scalable and flexible project structure.

With this in mind, during the course of this extensive online event, we will go over:

• the DITA Project structure
• using the Main files support to rename or move DITA resources
• creating a unified editing experience through project level settings
• spell check and terminology check project settings
• sharing a framework customization in the project
• sharing a publishing template in the project

Comparing and Merging Documents in a Browser Using Oxygen Web Author - presented by Mihai Coanda

Wed, November 3, 2021
9 AM US Pacific time / 12 PM US Eastern time / 5 PM Central Europe time

Comparing documents and merging them is one of the most common parts of documentation workflows, for any set of evolving documents, whether it is for a newer version of a product or a simple document that goes through an improvement process.

The possibility to compare and merge documents in a browser allows reviewers or other stakeholders to see what was changed without the headache of needing to install a separate tool. Their productivity can further be improved by sharing a link that opens the file comparison tool with the changes already being highlighted.

With this in mind, this live webinar will get you accustomed to this more efficient method by showing you:

• Where does it fit in Oxygen’s internal workflow and how it is being used by our team.
• What is the 3-way merge and in what cases you can benefit from it.
• How to resolve the conflicts encountered when multiple users edit the same file.
• How to integrate the file comparison tool in a CMS to create a history view.

The New JSON Schema Diagram Editor - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, October 27, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

To celebrate the release of version 24.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products, a brand-new series of webinars have been created to shed light on the interesting new features and updates implemented in this latest version! Every Wednesday, Oxygen XML will host weekly live events where you can learn great insights from some of the most experienced people in the Tech Comm industry.

The series will start with a webinar in which we will show you how Oxygen now offers even more powerful tools that allow you to design, develop, and edit JSON Schemas. We will be focusing on presenting features ranging from the new intuitive and expressive visual schema Design mode, all the way up to the JSON Schema documentation generator that includes diagram images for each component.

During this live webinar, you will get the chance to take an in-depth look at all of these features, as well as learn:

• How to create JSON Schemas from scratch
• How to visualize and edit complex JSON Schemas
• How to generate JSON Schema documentation

Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS, Part 4 – Advanced functionalities - presented by
Julien Lacour

Wed, September 15, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

With this fourth episode of our Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS webinar series, the journey is coming to an end.

Now you're ready to tackle PDF publishing on your own. Here comes the last tutorial explaining how CSS can be your best asset for PDF publishing. And this time, we will explore some advanced features, such as:

• Hyphenation
• PDF Bookmarks (Level, Text)
• Metadata (Title, Author)
• Text extraction: the oxy_xpath function

Balisage 2021 - The Markup Conference

August 2-6, 2021

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Between 2 and 6 of August, the Oxygen XML team can be found in the one place where serious markup practitioners and theoreticians meet every summer – Balisage: The Markup Conference 2021.

This year, Balisage will go Virtual! All sessions, conversations, social events, and other conference-related activities will be online. This means that it’s easier than ever to take part in the conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.

Evolution of TC - Evolution of Technical Communication

June 9-11, 2021

Connect with the Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor team at this year’s Evolution of TC online gathering event. Between the 9th and 11th of June, 2021, all the professionals in the industry will come together (technical writers, information developers, technical editors, and translators) to take part in presentations and workshops presented by international expert speakers covering topics such as information modeling, API documentation and continuous delivery, UX writing, metadata/taxonomy, and more.

Don’t miss this chance to interact with our passionate team of experts as they are ready to share with you the latest tips and tricks regarding software documentation.

Markup UK

May 21-22, 2021
London, United Kingdom

A Conference about XML and Other Markup Technologies

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

ConVEx

April 26-28, 2021

Join Oxygen XML Editor for the second edition of ConVEx Virtual Experience - an online event offered by CIDM as a replacement to DITA NA, DITA Europe, and Journeys for 2021. ConVEx will be aired live across 8 time zones, including EDT and CEST, between the 26th and 28th of April, 2021.

The team of experts behind Oxygen XML Editor are excited to take part again in this event that offers three days of career-empowering knowledge, practices, networking, and practical solutions in your time zone! Whether you are a Novice or a Master, we promise that Oxygen will bring you interactive sessions that provide inspiration and practical skills.

Creating Frameworks Using an Extension Script - presented by Alex Jitianu

Wed, April 21, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

A framework refers to a package that contains resources and configuration information to provide ready-to-use support for an XML vocabulary or document type.

Starting recently, a framework can be created using a special XML descriptor file, either from scratch or by extending an existing built-in framework (such as DITA or DocBook) and then making modifications to it. During this event, we will take an extensive look at this specific method by covering topics, such as:

• What benefits this new approach brings when compared with creating a framework in GUI.
• Exploring various use cases and implement them though the script.
• How to extend existing built-in or custom frameworks.
• What deployment options are available

Working with DITA in Oxygen - Customizing the Editing Experience - presented by Sorin Carbunaru

Wed, April 14, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

We all like custom products and most of the time we invest extra time and energy into customizing our tools to better fit our specific needs and preferences.

In this fourth episode of our Working with DITA in Oxygen series, we will explore several ways of customizing the DITA editing experience according to your desires. This webinar will cover the customization of:

• Author actions - edit existing actions, remove actions or add new ones. Add actions to the main toolbar, the contextual menu, or the content completion window.
• The Author-mode rendering - tailor the visuals of the editing experience using CSS and add in-place actions directly in the Author page.
• Document validation - create new validation rules and provide quick fixes using Schematron.
• The content-completion assistant - automatically insert or reject elements, attributes, and values.
• New document templates - add prefixes or suffixes to the names of your new documents, customize the template icons, mark templates as popular

Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS, Part 3 - Global Page Layout - presented by
Julien Lacour

Wed, April 7, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

We all know that the road to becoming advanced in a specific subject is a long one. But it doesn’t need to be difficult!

Your journey into defining the look and format of your documents with the use of CSS continues with another extensive tutorial, this time dedicated to the global page layout. This means that during this event, you will learn how to create and control PDF pages directly from CSS. To achieve this ability, we will focus on the following subjects:

• @page CSS at-rule
• Page-margin boxes
• Page-selectors (default, front-page, etc.)
• Page orientation
• Column-count
• Page-breaks
• Odd and even pages

What’s New in Oxygen 23.1 - Overview and Panel Discussion

Wed, March 17, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Spring arrived with a fresh new version for the Oxygen XML suite of products!

Version 23.1 of the industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen Publishing Engine was released along with version 1.4 of the Oxygen Feedback comment management platform, and version 4.0 of the Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform.

To see how this release builds upon the always expanding suite of our products, we invite you to join us for an overview and discussion that will allow you to engage with the creative people behind Oxygen. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from features like:

• Concurrent editing and reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's collaboration process.
• The ability to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings wherever they are presented.
• The new Block-Level Comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page.
• Oxygen Styles Basket, the free web-based visual tool that helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or WebHelp output by picking and mixing aspects from galleries.

The panel will bring together George Bina, Alexandru Jitianu, Octavian Nadolu, Cristi Talau, Alin Balasa, and Julien Lacour.

Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS, Part 2 – Lists, Tables and Images - presented by Julien Lacour

Wed, February 10, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

If you watched our previous webinar on CSS customization and you want to continue your journey into defining the look and format of your documents, here is the second part!

In this webinar, you will learn some more advanced CSS properties and you will apply them on more complex elements:

• CSS combinators
• ::before and ::after pseudo elements
• Lists (ordered and unordered)
• Tables with their caption, header, and footer
• Images (resolution, size, url)

Working with DITA in Oxygen - Advanced Profiling and Reuse Strategies - presented by Sorin Carbunaru

Wed, February 3, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

If becoming advanced in profiling and reusing DITA content is one of your new year's resolutions, then you're in luck! In this third webinar about working with DITA in Oxygen, we will help you achieve just that.

This webinar will cover more advanced DITA concepts, such as:

• Conref ranges - easily create content references to ranges of adjacent (sibling) elements.
• Conref push - an alternate way of creating content references, by injecting element values from the source element into a topic where it is to be re-used.
• Subject scheme maps - create custom controlled values and manage metadata attribute values for an organization or a project without having to write a DITA specialization.
• Profiling attribute groups - used to support situations where an attribute applies to multiple specialized subcategories.
• Key scopes - specify different sets of key definitions for different map branches.
• Branch filtering - set filtering conditions for specific branches of a map.

Engage everyone in the technical documentation process - presented by Bogdan Dumitru

Wed, January 27, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Anyone can contribute to the technical documentation with the proper collaboration tools!

Content Fusion is a platform for all, not just for technical writers. You will see how it can positively impact each person involved in the technical documentation process:

• technical writers have full control over the content, they are the gate keepers of the documentation source.
• subject matter experts can create and push documentation drafts to technical writers
• users can propose changes just by following a link in the published output

Along with the presented use-cases, this session will highlight also DITA-specific features as well as some of the new additions to Content Fusion 4, in particular the concurrent editing support, allowing unrestricted access to edited files.

Transforming DITA documents to PDF using CSS, Part 1 – Page Definitions, Cover Page and PDF Metadata - presented by Julien Lacour

Wed, January 20, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

You want to publish your DITA books and maps in PDF but you are struggling with the process? Be assured that we understand how hard it is to be a novice.

In this webinar, we will teach you how to customize your PDF publications using CSS and make them compliant with all your company documents.

At the end of this crash-course, you will be able to:

• Define specific pages (frontmatter/backmatter, chapters, indexes, etc.)
• Set page sizes and page margins
• Fix content in headers/footers
• Create a cover page with little to no effort
• Add metadata into the final PDF

DITA Publishing and Feedback with Oxygen Tools - presented by Alin Balasa

Wed, January 13, 2021
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

DITA content can be published to modern WebHelp Responsive online help format based on HTML5 featuring indexing and search, breadcrumb navigation, table of contents, responsive adaptive layout, and accessible content.

In this webinar, we will take an in-depth look at the WebHelp Responsive output and at the process that allows you to update content continuously by embedding a commenting component to collect your customers’ feedback.

Some of the topics covered in this webinar will include:

• How to publish DITA content to WebHelp Responsive output (pages and layout components, search engine, and publishing template).
• Customizing the output using a Publishing Templates package.
• How to embed the Oxygen Feedback Comments Component to collect customers’ feedback.
• Updating DITA topics integrating community feedback using the Oxygen Feedback Plugin.

Custom Business Rules for DITA Projects - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, December 16, 2020
9:00 AM US Pacific time / 12:00 AM US Eastern time / 6:00 PM Central Europe time

Schematron and Schematron QuickFix (SQF) languages can be used to improve efficiency and quality when editing DITA documents. With their use, you can define actions that will add complex structures in your documents (missing table cells, list conversions, IDs and more) and state integrity requirements in order to help you add content more easily and without making mistakes.

This indispensable webinar will be your step-by-step guide to get started as soon as possible with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. Go over topics, such as:

• Creating business rules with Schematron to avoid the common issues when editing documents.
• Defining SQF actions to correct the Schematron imposed rules.
• Configuring and applying specific Schematron rules on DITA projects.

What's New in Oxygen 23.0 - Overview and Panel Discussion

Wed, December 9, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Version 23.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products was recently released, boasting the most substantial and comprehensive set of new features, productivity enhancements, and customization possibilities in the history of the most powerful XML authoring and development tool available on the market.

To introduce you to the newly implemented and game-changing features of Oxygen 23, we invite you to join us for an overview and discussion that will allow you to engage with the amazing people that envisioned and developed our latest release. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from features like:

• Concurrent editing in Web Author for unrestricted collaboration.
• Opening DITA maps in the Author visual editing mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable.
• The possibility to define or customize how Oxygen supports an XML language using a framework script.
• Updates to JSON schema support and editing JSON documents visually in Author mode.
• The benefits of integrating the Oxygen WebHelp with the Oxygen Feedback platform.
• And so much more.

The panel will bring together George Bina, Radu Coravu, Octavian Nadolu, and Cristi Talau.

Automate XML processing with Oxygen XML Scripting - presented by Alex Jitianu

Wed, December 2, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

As you might know, continuous integration (CI) can be efficiently used to run automated scripts to validate changes as soon as they are saved to a remote repository.

To make things easier for you, we will introduce you to Oxygen XML Scripting, a bundle of command line tools that can be executed inside these continuous integration and deployment pipelines. This way, you can make sure that your project is valid and ready to be deployed at any time!

During this event, we will go over topics, such as:

• DITA validation and checking for completeness - a tool that checks DITA maps and topics to see if they are valid and if all of the relationships between them are working.
• Translation Package Builder - a tool for detecting changes, sending them to translation, and applying the translated files.
• Examples on how to integrate these command line tools into integration servers, like Github Actions or Netlify.

tcworld Conference 2020

November 2-6, 2020

• Oxygen XML Editor will take part in this year’s edition of the tcworld Conference 2020 - the largest industry meeting place that digitally brings together participants, speakers, students and exhibitors of technical communication from all over the world.

  During this online experience, on November 5 (15:30 CET), Oxygen XML Editor will be represented by our colleague Radu Coravu, project manager at Syncro Soft. He will bring you a tutorial on technical authoring called: XML Based Docs As Code – Combining DITA XML With GitHub and Continuous Delivery.

  In this tutorial, you will be guided into building a functional technical documentation project using DITA XML as content, GitHub for storage and collaboration, and Netlify for continuous delivery.

  You will get to learn how to use GitHub to collaborate on an XML-based technical documentation project and how to use continuous delivery to automate publishing to various output formats like HTML, PDF or EPUB.

Introducing the Oxygen Publishing Engine for DITA - presented by Julien Lacour

Wed, November 4, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Have you been looking for a solution that offers support for transforming your DITA content into PDF and WebHelp output?

Look no further! In this webinar, you will be introduced to the Oxygen Publishing Engine – a bundle that contains a DITA Open Toolkit distribution with Oxygen publishing plugins already integrated.

This event will represent a crash-course for you to learn what the Oxygen Publishing Engine is by showing you how to install it, configure it in a Continuous Integration system, and then customize the output.

We will also show its components, various workflows, and you will also get the chance to see how to transform a DITA map document by learning how to:

• Use the “DITA Map PDF – based on HTML5 & CSS” transformation on an integration server using a publishing template for customizing the output.
• Create a custom CSS stylesheet and use it in your transformation to get that extra level of customization for your specific needs.
• Debug the CSS inside both a web browser and Oxygen to see how to choose the correct selectors and properties used for further styling your content.

Explore Web Author beyond technical documentation - presented by Bogdan Dumitru

Wed, October 28, 2020
9:00 AM US Pacific time / 12:00 PM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

As a company grows, so does the need for standardized procedures, and when new people enter the company, they often need to be trained to follow existing procedures.

Web Author comes in handy here, allowing you to build guided procedures where new employees don't require additional training or validation.

During this webinar, you will learn various ways that Web Author can be used to enhance your productivity:

• Guiding new writers has never been this easy. With the help of Schematron Quick Fixes or easy-to-configure contextual actions, users can just follow the on-screen instructions.
• Creating forms and sharing them with other users, with the possibility of automated processing.
• Using Web Author to keep track of a standardized procedures (e.g. release notes) with the possibility of filtering out the completed tasks and only focusing on the ongoing ones.
• Document collaboration with real-time co-authoring. Instead of having read-only access to a document, now you can work alongside other users.

Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF, Part 1 - Basic CSS Layout - presented by Julien Lacour

Wed, October 21, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

If you are a technical writer who wants to be able to define the look and format of your document but struggling to grasp the basics of CSS, then this webinar is for you!

In this webinar, we aim to teach you a basic understanding of the CSS layout to help you to have a better understanding of PDF publishing. Be assured that there is no need for you to have any CSS background to learn the concepts explained during this webinar, but we promise to help get you up to speed by teaching you:

• The basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML5.
• How to customize your document with the help of fonts, text, and background colors, and by adjusting the position of elements on your page.
• How to debug your CSS document fast and easy with the help of Oxygen.
• How to put your CSS to good use and obtain a deliverable PDF output.

Introduction to XSLT using Oxygen XML Editor - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, October 14, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Learn how to process XML documents with a combination of XSLT, the most powerful language designed to process XML documents, and Oxygen, the tool that is most suited for this job!

Whether you are a novice or you have been using Oxygen for years, this webinar will introduce you to a great easy-to-use workflow, as well as many hidden features that you may not have been aware of.

During this webinar, we will also show you how to resolve a variety of problems and how Oxygen can help you accomplish those tasks by introducing you to:

• XSLT editing features, such as the Content Completion Assistant that makes XSLT editing easy and intuitive.
• XSLT validation and how to use Oxygen’s validation abilities with the support of multiple XSLT processors and automatic validation to keep your XSLT document valid at all times.
• XSLT transformations and how to create a simple XSLT transformation scenario and apply it to XML documents.
• XPath Content Completion Assistant that shows the proposed list of XPath functions in the current context, documented with information from the W3C specifications.

Working with DITA in Oxygen - Basic Profiling and Reuse Strategies - presented by Sorin Carbunaru

Wed, October 7, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Want to make your DITA authoring experience even better?

This is the second of a series of webinars geared towards helping you to get the most out of your overall DITA experience with the help of Oxygen. This particular webinar will cover some of the most important concepts of DITA: profiling and content references. Learn the benefits of knowing how to reuse and profile content in your documents, and how easy it is to do this in Oxygen.

In this webinar, you will learn the following:

• How to filter content in the published output using profiling attributes. This allows you to obtain various outputs from the same documentation source
• How to combine more profiling attributes in condition sets.
• How to apply DITAVAL filters in Oxygen.
• Various strategies and best practices for reusing DITA content in Oxygen.

Improving the Oxygen Authoring Experience Through Custom Actions - presented by Alex Jitianu

Wed, September 30, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Do you want to have an improved editing experience? A great way to do this is by learning how to create your own custom Author mode actions.

Custom actions are very easy to create, as they are based on nothing more than a configuration file and ready-to-use built-in operations. Throughout this webinar, you will learn how to implement them and you will see various use cases where they can be used.

At the end, we hope that you will be full of great ideas on how to improve your overall editing experience by learning how to:

• Embed author actions inside a document. This will allow you to present only the relevant actions in a specific context, thus improving the editing experience for novice users.
• Write actions that make use of XLST, XQuery, or JavaScript to edit a document.
• Store the actions to external files so that they can be easily shared between frameworks.

ConVEx

September 21-23, 2020

Join Oxygen XML Editor for the first edition of ConVEx Virtual Experience - an online event created by CIDM as a temporary replacement to DITA NA, DITA Europe, and Journeys. ConVEx will be aired live across 8 time zones, including EDT and CEST, between the 21st and 23rd of September, 2020.

For this immersive online experience, the team of experts behind Oxygen XML Editor prepared a series of interactive sessions that include 3 Test Kitchens, 3 Candid Conversations, and 2 Panel Discussions that will allow content professionals to engage with some of the most experienced people in the Tech Comm industry.

Docs as Code: Documentation Management Inspired by Software Development - presented by Alex Jitianu

Wed, September 16, 2020
9:00 AM US Pacific time / 12:00 PM US Eastern time / 6:00 PM Central Europe time

Tools and techniques used in software development can also be applied for documentation management:

• Storage and issue management using GitHub
• Automated quality checks and continuous publishing using Netlify
• Editing and collaboration support
• Release strategies

During this webinar, Alex Jitianu, lead developer at Syncro Soft, will analyze a working Docs as Code setup that will be freely available on GitHub afterward so attendees will be able to fork it, work with it, gain a deeper understanding and apply these concepts into their own documentation projects. Although any text-based document format works, for the purpose of this webinar, a mixed DITA and Markdown project will be used in the demo setup.

Fine Tune Your DITA PDF Output Using CSS - presented by Julien Lacour

Wed, July 15, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Due to the increasing popularity of using CSS as the customization layer for the DITA to PDF transformation, Oxygen provides a DITA-OT plugin and an engine that generates PDF using CSS called Oxygen PDF Chemistry, making the DITA PDF customization a lot easier, and immediately available to all Oxygen XML Editor/Author users.

As the publishing is triggered by scripts or on integration servers, we also provide the possibility to run the same transformation pipeline that you trigger in Oxygen from a script. This is made available by the new product called Oxygen Publishing Engine, which is the DITA publishing part from Oxygen. 

This webinar will dive into all of these capabilities so you can better customize the PDF output of your DITA project by addressing topics such as: 

• Customizing tables
• Customizing preserved elements (such as code blocks)
• Content marking and flagging
• Publishing a single topic
• Properly debugging the CSS

Collaboration Made Simple with Oxygen Content Fusion - presented by Mihaela Calotescu

Wed, July 8, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

The latest Oxygen Content Fusion features empower technical authors to have the ability to restrict task access only to specific collaborators and to track documents revisions. Also, the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are involved earlier in the content-related workflows. They can now be proactive and provide content drafts in a structured format or fill in templates designed by technical authors.

For technical authors, sharing XML content is now easier, from complex DITA projects with keys and profiling to DocBook or any other XML vocabulary.

In this webinar, you will learn how you can use Oxygen Content Fusion to:

• Share or reassign ownership of tasks
• Assign tasks only to specific collaborators
• Share complex DITA files that contain key definitions and profiled content
• Share interlinked files in any XML format
• Share templates with SMEs that will be filled in with technical data
• Receive content drafts from SMEs in a structured format
• Track the documents revisions

Tailored Authoring Experience with Oxygen Web Author - presented by Bogdan Dumitru

Wed, July 1, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

Web Author comes with out-of-the-box solutions for authoring, but its main strength comes from the vast amount of customization possibilities, providing you with various solutions to address your needs. This webinar aims to inspire you with some of the most exciting ways to improve the authoring experience. You will learn various ways Web Author can be customized and about new framework customizations.

Some of the subjects include:

• Validation for Markdown documents
• Text-to-markup corrections
• How to easily navigate through large documents with the Outline view
• In-place actions
• Diff as a service

Getting Started with DITA Using Oxygen XML Editor - presented by Sorin Carbunaru

Wed, June 24, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM US Eastern time / 5:00 PM Central Europe time

This webinar focuses on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen XML Editor, covering everything from creating DITA maps and topics from scratch to basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. You will also learn how to edit maps and topics, create references, insert media objects, tables, and other elements, as well as how to benefit from intelligent features such as validation and completeness check for DITA maps.

Covered topics:

• The DITA UI perspective
• Creating and editing maps and topics
• Using the DITA Maps Manager
• Validate and Check for Completeness
• Basic publishing using predefined scenarios

Oxygen Markdown Support - presented by Alex Jitianu

Wed, June 17, 2020

Markdown is a lightweight, plain text markup language and many subject matter experts (such as developers, or engineers) prefer to use it. In this webinar, you will see how Oxygen supports them with features such as:

• Editing support
• Conversion to other formats, like HTML or DITA
• Using Schematron rules to validate and check for completeness a Markdown file
• MDITA, the authoring format of LwDITA that uses Markdown to structure information

JSON and JSON Schema Support in Oxygen XML Editor - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, June 10, 2020

Oxygen provides a specialized JSON and JSON Schema editor with a variety of editing features, helper views, and useful tools. In this presentation, you will see an overview of the JSON and JSON Schema support, as well as the new additions, such as:

• An instance generator from a JSON Schema
• XSD to JSON schema converter
• Generate JSON Schema from JSON instance
• JSON Schema annotations
• Schematron validation for JSON

HTML5 Support in Oxygen XML Editor - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, June 3, 2020

Oxygen provides support for generating HTML5 and XHTML5 documents, and support for editing and validating XHTML5 files. Now Oxygen Editor introduces full HTML5 support, providing features such as:

• Specialized text-based and visual-based editing
• Syntax highlights based on the HTML5 specification
• Content completion based on the HTML5 schema
• Outline view that displays the document structure
• Validation against the W3C validator, including batch validation
• Emmet plugin for high-speed coding and editing

Join us to discover the HTML support in Oxygen!

Evolution of TC - Evolution of Technical Communication - Cancelled

May 27-28, 2020
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Introducing the New Oxygen Feedback Commenting Platform - presented by Alin Balasa

Wed, May 27, 2020

This webinar will present the features of the new Oxygen Feedback comment management platform and showcase its use in conjunction with Oxygen XML Editor to continuously improve your online documentation based on your community feedback.

Some of the topics covered in this webinar include:

• Integrating Oxygen Feedback in your online documentation
• Receiving feedback from your end users (posting comments)
• Comments moderation
• Site users roles
• Site community members management (promote / demote users)
• Site statistics
• Subscriptions model
• Oxygen integration - accessing the comments stream directly in Oxygen

Extending the Functionality of Oxygen Using Add-ons - presented by Sorin Carbunaru

Wed, May 6, 2020

A variety of add-ons are available that can be easily installed to enhance the functionality of Oxygen XML Editor. This webinar aims to take a deeper look at some of the most popular add-ons that are available. You will see how easy it is to install them, the types benefits they provide, and some ideas for how they can be integrated into your particular authoring workflow. Some of the add-ons that will be featured include:

• The Git Client add-on that contributes a Git client directly in the Oxygen interface.
• The Batch Converter add-on that can be used to convert multiple files from one type to another.
• The DITA Outgoing References add-on that contributes a side view where you can see all the outgoing references for the current topic.

What's New in Oxygen 22.0 - presented by Steven Higgs

Wed, April 29, 2020

Version 22.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products was released recently and it features the most robust list of additions and improvements in recent years. This webinar will provide a detailed look at some of the most requested and significant features that were added in version 22.0. The primary areas of focus will be:

• New features and improvements for DITA authors.
• New possibilities for DITA Publishing, particular for CSS-based PDF output.
• The benefits of the newly added support for the DITA-OT Project configuration file.
• The most significant improvements added in Web Author and Content Fusion.
• A glimpse of various updates for JSON, HTML, and Markdown users.

Using DITA for Small Technical Documentation Teams - presented by Radu Coravu

Wed, April 1, 2020

Implementing DITA with a small team of technical writers does not have to be expensive or difficult to set up. We'll go through the steps of implementing a DITA solution using GitHub for storage and workflow and Oxygen XML Editor for editing. We’ll also look into how you can automate publishing and receive feedback from your end users. As a practical example we’ll look into how editing, collaboration and publishing on the Oxygen XML Blog works.

Collaboration Scenarios for Technical Documentation - presented by George Bina

Wed, March 4, 2020

Technical documentation is rarely created by lone writers, so there is a constant need for collaboration. Collaboration can be with other writers or with people with other roles, usually referred to as subject matter experts, who may be part of your organization or external experts.

In order to be successful, the collaboration needs to be enabled by integrating it as part of the usual processes or workflows each user performs.

In this presentation, we will explore a few collaboration scenarios that show how to implement continuous improvement loops for published documentation, how to integrate documentation as part of the product development workflow, and how immediate collaboration can take place.

XML Prague 2020

February 14-15, 2020
Prague, Czech Republic

Oxygen Users Meetup @ XML Prague 2020

February 13, 2020
Prague, Czech Republic

LearningDITA Live 2020 sessions

February 10-12, 2020

Presentation:

• Custom business rules for DITA projects
  February 11, 2020 11:00-12:00 ET
  Octavian Nadolu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

tcworld conference 2019

November 12-14, 2019
Stuttgart, Germany

Visit the Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor stand (Hall C2, Stand 2/F03) in the exhibition area.

Presentations:

• Hands on JSON: Edit, Validate, Query, and Convert
  November 12, 09:15 - 10:00, Room C5.1
  Octavian Nadolu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• DITA and Markdown
  November 12, 11:45 - 12:30, Room C7.1
  Alex Jitianu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Introduction to ISO Schematron
  November 12, 16:15 - 18:00, Room C5.1
  Octavian Nadolu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Collaboration Scenarios for Technical Communication
  November 12, 16:15 - 17:00, Room C10.5
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Customizing the PDF Output Using CSS
  November 12, 17:15 - 18:00, Room C10.5
  Cristian Talau, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Oxygen Feedback - Improve Your Online Content by Getting Feedback from Your Audience
  November 13, 12:15 - 13:00, Room C10.5
  Radu Pisoi, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Introduction to DITA for Word Users
  November 13, 16:30 - 17:15, Room C10.5
  Cristian Talau, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• A Healthy DITA-based Technical Documentation Project
  November 13, 17:30 - 18:15, Room C10.5
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Quality Assurance for Documentation with ISO Schematron
  November 14, 10:00 - 10:45, Room C10.5
  Octavian Nadolu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Documenting APIs
  November 14, 11:15 - 12:00, Room C10.5
  Cristian Talau, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Docs as Code - Documentation Management Inspired by Software Development
  November 14, 12:15 - 13:00, Room C10.5
  Alex Jitianu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference 2019

November 7-8, 2019
Brussels, Belgium

Presentations:

• Customizing the DITA editing experience in Oxygen XML Editor
  November 7th, 16:30 - 17:10, Technology Test Kitchen Track
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor
• Inclusive DITA
  November 8th, 10:10 - 10:50, Track 1
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Playing with the Context
  November 8th, 14:00 - 14:40, Track 2
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

DITA-OT Day 2019

November 9, 2019
Brussels, Belgium

This is a full day conference dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, DITA-OT which is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions. This year we host the 6th edition of DITA-OT Day after the huge success of DITA-OT Day 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

LavaCon 2019

October 27-30, 2019
Portland, Oregon, USA

Presentations:

• Workshop: When DITA Meets Markdown
  October 27, 2019, 1:00-5:00PM
  Alex Jitianu, Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor
• Context and Reuse in DITA Projects
  October 29, 2019, 2:00-3:00PM
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

XML Summer School

September 15-20, 2019
Oxford, United Kingdom

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Technical Communication UK Conference 2019

September 10-12, 2019
Northallerton, United Kingdom

Presentation:

• DITA and Markdown
  September 11, 2019, 11:40 - 12:20
  Alex Jitianu, Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor
• Docs as Code and DITA
  September 11, 2019, 14:50 - 15:30
  George Bina, Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor
• Interactive Intelligent Style Guide
  September 12, 2019, 10:00 - 10:40
  George Bina, Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor

Balisage 2019 - The Markup Conference

July 30 - August 2, 2019
Rockville, Maryland, USA

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Markup UK

June 7 - 9, 2019
London, United Kingdom

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Presentation:

• Taking Schematron QuickFix to the Next Level
  9 June, 09:30 - 10:15
  Octavian Nadolu, Syncro Soft
• XMLPaper: XML-based Conference Paper Workflow
  9 June, 12:30 - 13:00
  Cristian Talau, Syncro Soft

Evolution of TC - Evolution of Technical Communication

June 4-5, 2019
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Presentation:

• Workshop: Automate Style Guide Rules Using a Chatbot
  June 5, 13:55 - 15:30
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Getting Started with Oxygen - presented by Steven Higgs

Wed, May 22, 2019 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EEST

To address comments and requests by the XML community, this webinar will provide an exploration of Oxygen XML Editor/Author from the perspective of a new user. It is meant to be a guide to help users get started accomplishing tasks in Oxygen as quickly as possible.

Some of the things you will learn include:

• An overview of the interface
• Shortcuts and useful actions
• How to configure the toolbars and helper views
• How to migrate non-XML documents to DITA or other XML standards
• How to create a project
• How to create new documents
• Validating documents
• Creating output
• Configuring options
• Search operations
• Inserting tables, images, links, etc.
• Helpful tools

DITA and Markdown - presented by Alex Jitianu

Wed, May 15, 2019 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EEST

DITA is a great choice for writing technical documentation. Ideally, all contributors to a project should use it to provide content. But sometimes, subject matter experts (such as developers, or engineers) prefer to contribute content in another format. We will explore what possibilities arise when this other format is Markdown, a good match for structured authoring cases in which a minimal markup is sufficient.

Some of the topics covered by this webinar include:

• Structured authoring
• Content and markup
• What are DITA's strengths
• What are Markdown's strengths
• Getting DITA format directly from the SMEs
• Getting another format (Markdown, HTML) from the SMEs and integrating it into the DITA pipelines
• Benefits of each solution
• Challenges that arise when choosing one solution over another

Oxygen Content Fusion - XML Document Collaboration - presented by Steven Higgs

Wed, May 8, 2019 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EEST

Starting with version 21, the Oxygen Content Fusion connector plugin comes bundled with Oxygen XML Editor/Author. This webinar will provide a detailed look at how to use Content Fusion to collaborate with colleagues during the XML document creation or review process. We will also present details about using your own On-Premise Enterprise Server and various possibilities for customizing Content Fusion to suit your organization's specific needs.

Some of the things you will see include:

• How easy it is to share documents with reviewers
• How to use Content Fusion from a reviewer's perspective
• How to share a template and guide collaborators to provide initial content
• How to communicate with colleagues within the Content Fusion interface
• How to merge suggested changes back into the original content
• How to get the most out of Content Fusion using your own on-premise Enterprise Server
• Numerous possibilities for customizing Content Fusion
• Future plans

STC Summit 2019

May 5-8, 2019
Denver CO, USA

Please visit us at booth 212!

Presentations:

• Docs as Code and DITA
  May 6, 2019 10:00-11:00 AM
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Maintaining a Healthy DITA Project
  May 7, 2019 10:00-11:00 AM
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Collaboration Scenarios for Technical Documentation
  May 7, 2:00-2:45 PM
  George Bina , Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

JSON Support in Oxygen - presented by Octavian Nadolu

Wed, Apr 17, 2019 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EEST

Within the past year, the Oxygen developers devoted a lot of time and effort into making the JSON support as robust as other document types. This webinar will explore the Oxygen JSON support and the new features that were added in Oxygen 21.

Some of the features and improvements that you will see include:

• Editing JSON documents
• Validating JSON documents
• Querying and transforming JSON documents
• Converting JSON documents
• Future plans

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2019

April 15-17, 2019
Durham, North Carolina, USA

Presentations:

• Oxygen XML Editor Productivity Tips and Tricks
  April 15, 2019 10:50-11:30 AM
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Restructuring DITA
  April 16, 2019 10:00-10:40 AM
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Automate Style Guide Rules Using a Chatbot
  April 16, 2019 2:00-2:40 PM
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

TCWorld India

28 February – 1 March, 2019
Bangalore, India

Presentations:

• Keynote: Automation trends in technical communication
  February 28, 2019 9:30-10:15 AM
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• DITA and Markdown
  March 1, 2019 8:30-9:20 AM
  Alexandru Jitianu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Collaboration Scenarios for Technical Documentation
  March 1, 2019 14:30-15:15 PM
  George Bina, Alexandru Jitianu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

XML Prague 2019

February 8-10, 2019
Prague, Czech Republic

Presentations:

• Discover the Power of SQF
  February 9, 2019 14:30-15:00
  Octavian Nadolu (Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML) and Nico Kutscherauer (data2type)

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Oxygen Users Meetup @ XML Prague 2019

February 7, 2019
Prague, Czech Republic

Oxygen XML Editor Productivity Tips and Tricks - presented by Radu Coravu

December 12, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET

An exploration of Oxygen's less commonly known, but helpful features. Oxygen comes with a lot of functionality specifically designed to enhance your overall productivity. We will explore many of these features, useful shortcuts, side views, specialized toolbars, drag and drop behavior, and editing quirks that will make working with Oxygen more enjoyable.

You will discover a lot of useful features in Oxygen XML Editor, related to:

• Find/replace functionality
• Using your Project view for batch operations
• Shortcuts to navigate between opened documents
• Various Text-editing mode actions and behaviors
• Various visual Author-editing mode actions and behaviors
• Specialized toolbars
• Useful Side views
• Useful tools
• Import functionality
• Various useful global settings

Simple DITA Project Setup - presented by Steven Higgs

December 5, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET

An introduction to setting up and organizing a new DITA project. This webinar is meant to provide guidance and best practice techniques for creating a DITA project from scratch. Some of the things that will be covered include:

• Organizing your project
• Integrating Oxygen with a Git repository
• Migrating other document types to DITA
• Creating document templates with authoring hints
• Organizing your reusable content
• Various helpful refactoring actions
• Saving and sharing project-level options

Getting Started with Creating Schematron Rules and Schematron Quick Fixes - presented by Octavian Nadolu

November 28, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET

A step by step guide to getting started with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. When you work on a project, there are a number of constraints or rules that you need to enforce that are specific to that project and cannot be easily expressed in the XML Schema or DTD that describes the document structure. Schematron provides a validation layer that can express and enforce these project-specific rules and Schematron Quick Fixes allows you to specify automatic fixes that can be applied to the documents. Join us to see

• How to create business rules with Schematron
• How Schematron rules are applied in the Oxygen editing environment
• How to enforce specific Schematron rules on all your XML files in a project
• How to develop Schematron Quick Fixes to make it very easy to solve the reported problems

tcworld conference 2018

November 13-15, 2018
Stuttgart, Germany

Visit the Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor stand (Hall C2, Stand 2/F03) in the exhibition area.

Presentations:

• Interactive Intelligent Style Guide
  November 13, 13:45 - 14:30, Room C6.1
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Getting Started with DITA and Oxygen
  November 13, 13:45 - 14:30, Room C10.4
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• DITA Reuse Best Practices
  November 13, 16:15 - 17:00, Room C10.4
  Alex Jitianu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Generating modern online help and quality print-ready PDF from DITA
  November 14, 11:15 - 12:00, Room C10.4
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Oxygen Frameworks - Adding Support in Oxygen for XML Vocabularies
  November 14, 14:45 - 15:30, Room C10.4
  Alex Jitianu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Collaboration Tools to Help Improve Documentation Processes
  November 14, 17:15 - 18:00, Room C10.4
  Octavian Nadolu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Technical Documentation Productivity Tips and Tricks
  November 15, 11:15 - 12:00, Room C10.4
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Step-By-Step Guide to Developing Schematron Rules
  November 15, 11:15 - 13:00, Room C7.1
  Octavian Nadolu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Creating Oxygen Frameworks - presented by Alex Jitianu

November 7, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET

An introduction to Oxygen framework customization. Oxygen offers extensive built-in support for a number of XML languages, such as DITA or DocBook, but the same level of support can be configured for any XML vocabulary. In this webinar, we will take a commonly-used XML model, PI-Mod, and we will create an Oxygen framework that will provide ready-to-use support for PI-Mod XML documents. We will cover:

• Creating the PI-Mod framework configuration
• Setting up validation and publishing
• Creating the CSS styling required to visually edit a PI-Mod document in the Author mode
• Developing various actions to help the writer while working with PI-Mod documents

Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference 2018

November 5-6, 2018
Rotterdam, Netherlands

DITA-OT Day 2018

November 4, 2018
Rotterdam, Netherlands

This is a full day conference dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, DITA-OT which is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions. This year we host the 5th edition of DITA-OT Day after the huge success of DITA-OT Day 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Creating Custom Publishing Templates for WebHelp and PDF Output - presented by Steven Higgs

October 24, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET

An in-depth look at Oxygen's Publishing Templates feature. Oxygen XML Editor/Author includes some predefined publishing templates that can be selected when configuring a DITA to WebHelp or PDF transformation scenario, but you can also create your own custom templates to define numerous aspects of the layout and style of the output. This webinar is meant to be a tutorial for creating and customizing a publishing template. I will show you how to create a custom template for WebHelp Responsive output, some specific examples of customizing various aspects of the output, and then how to use and customize the same template for PDF output.

LavaCon 2018

October 21-24, 2018
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Presentation:

• Interactive Intelligent Style Guides
  October 23, 2018 - 1:30-2:30
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

XSpec Unit Testing for XSLT and Schematron - presented by Alex Jitianu

October 10, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET

An overview and tutorial for creating and executing unit tests for XSLT and Schematron. A key requirement for any project is the ability to write unit tests that will ensure that you don't alter existing functionality while the project evolves. The XSpec framework is a great tool for writing such tests for XSLT and Schematron, which is why Oxygen offers built-in support for writing these tests. In this presentation, you will see:

• A short presentation of the Test Driven Development concept and an overview of the XSpec framework
• How to create and execute XSpec test scenarios in Oxygen for XSLT and Schematron
• An Oxygen plugin designed to improve the default XSpec support and speed up XSpec test scenario development

Exploring Oxygen Content Fusion - presented by Steven Higgs

September 26, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET

A detailed exploration of Oxygen Content Fusion, the new collaboration platform designed to make documentation review processes as efficient and productive as possible. You will see how easy it is for a content author to install Content Fusion, share documents, and merge the suggested changes back into their original content. You will also see how simple and intuitive it is for the reviewers to access the documents, suggest changes, and communicate with the content author directly from the Content Fusion interface. Finally, you will see details about using your own Enterprise Server and various possibilities for customizing Content Fusion to suit your organization's specific needs.

The intended audience is content authors, subject matter experts, managers, and anyone involved in the documentation collaboration process.

XML Summer School

September 9-14, 2018
Oxford, United Kingdom

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Balisage 2018 - The Markup Conference

July 31 - August 3, 2018
Rockville, Maryland, USA

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Markup UK

June 9 - 10, 2018
London, United Kingdom

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Evolution of TC 2018

May 31 - June 1, 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Presentation:

• Automatic Style Guide Rules for Technical Writing
  May 31, 2018 16:45-17:30
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2018

April 23-25, 2018
Denver, Colorado

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Exploring the new features in Oxygen XML Editor 20 - presented by George Bina

Wed, Apr 4, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET

In this webinar, we will explore some of the new features and improvements that were added in Oxygen XML Editor 20. The subjects that we will discuss include:

• Customizing WebHelp Responsive publishing templates
• New refactoring actions and validation options for DITA users
• New features in Oxygen XML Web Author
• Productivity enhancements for XSLT developers
• Schematron Quick Fix improvements
• Some exciting new Add-ons that extend Oxygen's functionality
• Improvements in writing unit tests for XSLT and Schematron using the XSpec framework

LearningDITA Live 2018 sessions

February 26 - March 1, 2018

Webinar:

• Improving the quality of your DITA documentation
  February 27, 2018 - 10:00-11:00
  Steven Higgs, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

XML Prague 2018

February 8-10, 2018
Prague, Czech Republic

Oxygen-Users Meetup Prague 2018

February 8, 2018
Prague, Czech Republic

TEI 2017

November 11-15, 2017
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

LavaCon 2017

November 5-8, 2017
Portland, Oregon

Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference 2017

October 30-31, 2017
Berlin, Germany

DITA-OT Day 2017

October 29, 2017
Berlin, Germany

This is a full day conference dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, DITA-OT which is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions. This year we host the 4th edition of DITA-OT Day after the huge success of DITA-OT Day 2014, 2015 and 2016.

tcworld conference 2017

October 24-26, 2017
Stuttgart, Germany

XML Summer School

September 17-22, 2017
Oxford, United Kingdom

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Collaboration Tools to Help Improve Documentation Processes - presented by Steven Higgs

Wed, Sep 6, 2017 11 AM - Noon ET

In this Webinar we will present an in-depth view of our documentation workflow to show real world use-cases of how you can use Oxygen products to efficiently and thoroughly collaborate with everyone involved in the documentation process. Some of the details that will be discussed include:

• An overview of the Oxygen team's documentation workflow
• Using an issue tracking application (such as JIRA) for collaboration between all departments
• Using Oxygen Content Fusion for collaboration between the documentation team and developers
• Using Oxygen XML Web Author for collaboration between the support team and documentation team
• Using a combination of tools (JIRA, GitHub, Web Author) for collaboration between the quality assurance team and documentation team
• Using Oxygen XML Editor and a version control system (such as Git) for collaboration between developers and the documentation team
• Using the Oxygen WebHelp system for collaboration between end users and the documentation team

Exploring the new DITA features in Oxygen 19 - presented by Steven Higgs

June 21, 2017 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST

In this webinar, we will explore some of the new DITA-related features that were added in Oxygen 19. The features that we will discuss include:

• Using the "Fast Create Topics" feature to quickly create multiple DITA topics at once
• Easily converting between DITA topic types
• Automatically updating references to DITA resources using "Master Files" support
• Using the "DITA Reusable Components" view to quickly find keys and insert references
• Checking for references to resources that reside outside the DITA map folder
• Using the Content Completion Assistant to select ID values when inserting key references
• Customizing the output using Oxygen PDF Chemistry

LavaCon 2017

May 22-24, 2017
Dublin, Ireland

Presentations:

• Workshop: The Anatomy of a Real DITA Documentation Project

  May 22, 2017 - 8:15-11:30
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

• Session: XaaS: XML Authoring as a Service

  May 24, 2017 - 9:30-10:30
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

STC Summit 2017

May 7-10, 2017
Washington DC, USA

Oxygen-Users Meetup Washington 2017

May 5, 2017
Washington DC, USA

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2017

April 24-26, 2017
San Diego, California

Presentations:

• Introducing the new Oxygen Collaboration Platform
  April 24, 2017, 10:00 - 10:40, Technology Test Kitchen
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Markdown for DITA
  April 24, 2017, 11:40 - 12:20, Track 1
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• DITA linking strategies: Overview and best practices
  April 25, 2017, 16:20 - 17:00, Track 4
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

A technical writer's perspective on using DITA - presented by Steven Higgs

March 21, 2017 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

As a technical writer for Syncro Soft who came from a background of writing in "unstructured" authoring applications (such as MS Word), I have a unique perspective for using Oxygen to write and publish DITA documentation. In this webinar, I will discuss:

• My experience of coming from an "unstructured writing" background to learning "structured authoring" with DITA.
• Our company's documentation workflow and various ways we collaborate as a team.
• Various features in Oxygen that I use as a technical writer to get the most out of DITA authoring.

Multimedia support in Oxygen - presented by Sorin Carbunaru

March 7, 2017 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

Multimedia content is essential for present-day systems and Oxygen provides support for rendering video and playing audio files directly in its user interface. Additionally, Oxygen can render animated and interactive SVG drawings, and you can interact with the SVG objects directly in the Author mode. Oxygen also offers a graphical editor for creating interactive image maps for DITA, DocBook, TEI ,and XHTML documents. Join us to find out just how easy it is to create modern content with Oxygen and offer it to the world in HTML5-based output formats, such as WebHelp!

Unit testing XSLT with XSpec and Oxygen - presented by Alex Jitianu

February 28, 2017 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

A key requirement for an XSLT project is the ability to write unit tests since these tests ensure that you don't alter existing functionality during the project's lifespan. The XSpec framework is a great tool for writing these tests, which is why we integrated it into Oxygen a few years ago. Recently, a new XSpec version was released (0.5.0) and we have also integrated that into Oxygen. In this presentation, I will cover:

• A short presentation of the XSpec framework
• How to create and execute XSpec test scenarios in Oxygen
• An Oxygen plugin designed to speedup scenario development

XML Prague 2017

February 9–11, 2017
Prague, Czech Republic

Presentation:

• CSS for Print via XSL-FO
  February 10th, 2017
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Oxygen-Users Meetup Prague 2017

February 9, 2017
Prague, Czech Republic

Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference 2016

November 14-15, 2016
Munich, Germany

Presentation:

• DITA Linking Strategies
  November 15, 13:10 – 13:50
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

DITA-OT Day 2016

November 13, 2016
Munich, Germany

tcworld conference 2016

November 8-10, 2016
Stuttgart, Germany

Presentations:

• DITA Interoperability
  November 8, 11:15 - 13:00, Room C6.1 OG
  Panelist: George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• DITA Publishing - Overview
  November 9, 08:45 - 09:30, Room C6.1 OG
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Discover Oxygen‘s New Collaboration and Review Platform
  November 9, 09:45 - 10:30, Room C10.3 OG
  Cristian Talau / Alex Jitianu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Top Reasons for Choosing Oxygen XML Editor
  November 9, 14:45 - 15:30, Room C10.3 OG
  Radu Coravu / Octavian Nadolu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

LavaCon 2016

October 25-28, 2016
Las Vegas, Nevada

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

TEI Conference and Members' Meeting 2016

September 26-30, 2016
Vienna, Austria

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Working with Oxygen projects - presented by George Bina

September 22, 2016 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

Oxygen XML Editor provides support for working with projects, allowing you to organize your files so you can easily access resources relevant to a project. More than this, Oxygen projects give you batch operations that can be performed on all or selected resources and most of the options can be set at the project level, thus facilitating sharing them with your team.

XML Summer School

September 11-16, 2016
Oxford, United Kingdom

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

As an Oxygen user you can benefit of 10% discount, register here or use the discount code oXygen2016 on the registration page.

Ready for DITA 1.3 - presented by Alex Jitianu

Thu, September 8, 2016 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

In this webinar we explore DITA 1.3 functionality and how Oxygen XML Editor supports you to take advantage of the new DITA 1.3 features.

Balisage 2016 - The Markup Conference

August 2-5, 2016
North Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

DITA publishing with Oxygen XML Editor - presented by Alex Jitianu

Jul 28, 2016 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

In this webinar we explore DITA publishing options from Oxygen XML Editor including different HTML formats, PDF, EPUB, etc. and how these can be customized.

Understanding and developing Schematron Quick Fixes - presented by Octavian Nadolu

July 14, 2016 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

Schematron solves certain limitations that other types of schema have when validating XML documents since it allows the schema developer to define the errors and control the messages that are presented to the user. Therefore, Schematron makes the validation errors more accessible to users and helps to ensures that they understand the problem. These messages may also include hints to help the user to fix the problem, but this doesn't complete the solution since the user still needs to manually correct the issue. This may cause users to waste valuable time and also creates the possibility of making additional errors while trying to manually fix the reported problem. Schematron Quick Fixes provide automatic actions to fix validation errors, thus offering a complete solution, while saving time and avoiding the potential for causing other issues.

Managing DITA reuse with Oxygen XML Editor - presented by Alex Jitianu

June 30, 2016 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

This webinar focuses on advanced features that justify the return of investment you get from using DITA. REUSE is the key word and it can be implemented either directly through content references or indirectly through profiling/conditional content.

Guided authoring - enforcing editing rules

June 16, 2016 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

When editing documents there are various rules that you want your content authors to follow, such as grammar rules, document structure guidelines, business requirements, style preferences, or rules for the generated output. To enforce these rules, companies often use grammar checking apps, custom schemas or best practice guides. For content authors, there are usually too many rules to remember them all when writing content. The best approach for this challenge is to signal the user when a rule violation is detected and offer suggestions to help them solve possible rule problems and maintain integrity in their documentation.

UA Europe 2016

June 9-10, 2016
Budapest, Hungary

LocWorld31 Dublin - FEISGILTT

June 7-8, 2016
Dublin, Ireland

LavaCon 2016

June 5-7, 2016
Dublin, Ireland

Presentations:

• Create an Intelligent Style Guide Using DITA
  June 5 @ Sun 13:30-17:30
  Room 3
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• All You Need Is Structure
  June 6 @ Mon 14:40-15:40
  Room 3
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

ETC 2016

June 2-3, 2016
Sofia, Bulgaria

Presentations:

• Single-Source Publishing Using Multiple Formats
  June 2 @ Thu 10:15 - 11:00
  Hall Vitosha 1
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Using DITA for Developing a Software Application User Guide
  June 2 @ Thu 11:30 - 12:15
  Hall Vitosha 2
  Alex Jitianu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Workshop:

• Oxygen XML Editor - The Modern Technical Authoring Tool
  June 3 @ Fri 9:00 - 10:45
  Hall Balkan
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Getting started with DITA using Oxygen XML Editor

May 26, 2016 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

This webinar focuses on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen XML Editor, covering everything from creating DITA maps and topics from scratch to basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. You will also learn how to edit simple topics, create cross references, insert images and tables and how to benefit from intelligent features such as smart paste and validate, and check for completeness.

Watch the Recorded Webinar

Minimizing DITA implementation using Oxygen XML

May 25, 2016

Watch the Recorded Webinar

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2016

April 4-6, 2016
Reston, Virginia, USA

XML Prague 2016

February 11–13, 2016
Prague, Czech Republic

Oxygen-Users Meetup Prague 2016

February 11, 2016
Prague, Czech Republic

Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference 2015

November 16-17, 2015
Munich, Germany

DITA-OT Day 2015

November 15, 2015
Munich, Germany

Tekom/TCWorld

November 10-12, 2015
Stuttgart, Germany

Visit the Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor stand (2/F03) in the exhibition area!

Attend one of the 3 conference presentations hosted by Oxygen XML Editor members, the Oxygen XML Editor session or join us for a technology panel.

TEI Conference and Members' Meeting 2015

October 28-31, 2015
Lyon, France

Workshop:

• Extending the TEI support and new features in Oxygen 17.0
  1 half day
  Alexandru Jitianu, George Bina

Information Development World

September 30 - October 2, 2015
San Jose, California

Visit the Oxygen XML Editor stand in the exhibition area!

Presentation:

• Single-Source Publishing Across Multiple Formats
  Friday, October 2nd, 2:00PM - 2:45PM
  Oak Room (2nd floor)
  George Cristian Bina, Managing Director, Syncro Soft

Practical DITA Publishing with Oxygen and TopLeaf

September 23, 2015 (10:00 AM CST)

Publishing DITA documents is often an afterthought to the content creation process, and usually relies on complex programming to achieve the required document format. Styling and layout requirements may be highly complex, especially where both print and electronic formats are required to be delivered.

This webinar looks at how document formatting costs can be controlled, and the process simplified, by using Oxygen XML Editor and TopLeaf XML Composition Software.

TopLeaf, from Turn-Key Systems, provides a low cost, high capability DITA publishing option that solves document formatting complexity with an intuitive graphical interface. TopLeaf is equally suited to single-seat document development groups, and large-scale automated document production environments. It is distributed and supported in North America by Metaformix Information Systems, and is available from Dakota Systems.

DITA Glass: Perceive everything as DITA

September 16, 2015 - 8:00 AM PDT (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EEST)

Hosted by CIDM
Presented by George Bina and Radu Coravu, Oxygen XML Editor

Watch the Recorded Webinar

XML Summer School

September 13-18, 2015
Oxford, United Kingdom

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

As an Oxygen user you can benefit of 10% discount, register here or use the discount code oXygen2015 on the registration page.

Balisage 2015 - The Markup Conference

August 11-14, 2015
Washington, DC, USA

Sponsored by Syncro Soft

Guiding Authors Toward the Creation of Intelligent Content

June 30, 2015 - 11 AM PDT

Hosted by: Scott Abel, The Content Wranger
Presented by George Bina, Oxygen XML Editor

Oxygen XML Editor 17 - XML Authoring on the Web

Jun 17, 2015 at 8:00 AM PDT

Oxygen XML Editor 17 updates the Web SDK to offer a full featured web editor with a HTML5+Javascript user interface, adaptive to every device to work both on desktop and mobile devices.

Oxygen XML Editor 17 - DITA Support

Jun 10, 2015 at 8:00 AM PDT

Oxygen XML Editor 17 comes with many new additions to the DITA support.

Topics and maps offer a choice of main rendering styles, as well as the option to add or subtract style layers. Guided DITA authoring was implemented as two optional style layers that allow you to see inline hints and actions. The CSS-based PDF transformation automatically uses the CSS styles you select for authoring, so that you can reuse the same CSS files when publishing DITA to PDF. Both DITA-OT 1.8 and 2.0 are supported and integrating a new transformation is greatly simplified for annotated transformation types, as Oxygen will automatically discover their parameters.

The DITA to WebHelp transformation optimizes the page loading time and provides context-sensitive help support, SEO resources, and LDAP authentication. The WebHelp output that now supports both RTL scripts and Japanese content can be easily embedded in a page.

XML London 2015

June 6-7, 2015
London, United Kingdom

Oxygen-Users Meetup London 2015

June 5, 2015
London, United Kingdom

Oxygen XML Editor 17 - Refactoring XML Documents

Jun 3, 2015 at 8:00 AM PDT

The XML Refactoring tool helps you change the structure of your XML documents.

It offers a wide variety of operations, such as renaming, deleting, and inserting elements and attributes. If the provided operations are not enough, you can create custom refactoring operations and share them with other team members. All of them are available through a friendly user inteface and can be applied across a set of files.

Oxygen XML Editor 17 - XML Quick Fixes

May 27, 2015 at 8:00 AM PDT

It is important to have documents without errors, but not all users know how to fix the errors from the documents. And even if they do know, ideally they should use a quick and automated solution.

Oxygen does not only report errors, it also helps you correct them automatically through the Quick Fix support, which provides automatic fixes for XML documents validated against XSD, Relax NG, and Schematron schemas. In the case of Schematron, the schema developer takes full control over the Quick Fix actions, being able to offer custom solutions to any detected issue using the Schematron Quick Fix language.

Oxygen XML Editor 17 - UI Improvements

May 20, 2015 at 8:00 AM PDT

Oxygen XML Editor version 17 focuses on design to make your work not only productive, but also enjoyable.

The new user interface features Retina/HiDPI icons to make everything look crisp and beautiful, and an optional graphite color theme. Also the toolbars are configurable down to action level, giving you full control of your work environment.

Overview of Oxygen XML Editor 17

May 13, 2015 at 8:00 AM PDT

Oxygen XML Editor version 17 sets the highest standard for XML development and XML authoring. It comes with important functionality updates and focuses on design to make your work not only productive, but also enjoyable.

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2015

April 20-22, 2015
Chicago, Illinois, US

Training Course - DITA Authoring with Oxygen XML Author

Course developer: Dr. Tony Self
Presenter: Rachel Johnston
March 11-13, 2015

XML Prague 2015

February 13-15, 2015
Prague, Czech Republic

Oxygen-Users Meetup Prague 2015

February 13, 2015
Prague, Czech Republic

Structure and Collaboration

December 12, 2014, 18:00 - 19:00 PM GMT

Is there a way to make it easier for casual contributors and collaborators to produce structured content? With the right combination of techniques and tools, we cannot only bring structured authoring within the ability of all contributors; we can make it easier for them to contribute using structured rather than unstructured methods.

Join Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, for a free one-hour web presentation with special guest, Mark Baker, author of "Every Page is Page One" (2013 XML Press).

Mark will highlight some of the techniques you can use to simplify structured authoring and involve more contributors including:

• Treating content capture as a separate function and optimize for ease of use
• Hiding application semantics
• Fitting content semantics to the author
• Collecting the minimal necessary structure
• Fitting the interface to the task
• Hiding the tags; showing the structure

Deep Dive: XML Structured Authoring

December 4, 2014, 17:00 - 18:00 PM GMT

George Bina will explore the world of XML authoring for technical documentation. He will share tips and tricks designed to help technical communicators understand the advanced information management capabilities structured XML authoring provides over traditional authoring approaches. He will use Oxygen XML Editor to demonstrate the techniques.

Cost: Free

Recording available to those who register.

Specifically, George will address the following questions:

• How do I know what content to create?
• What XML markup should I choose and why?
• How do I leverage markup to engineer better authoring experiences?
• How to we enforce content rules in XML documents?
• Why correcting content problems during the authoring process can help you reduce costs?

DITA-OT Day 2014

November 20, 2014
Munich, Germany

Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference 2014

November 18-19, 2014
Munich, Germany

tcworld conference 2014

November 11-13, 2014
Stuttgart, Germany

Presentations:

• ISO Schematron – Enforce Your Business Rules on Your XML Content
  11 Nov @ Tue 08:45 - 09:30, Presentation for Entry level, Technical Authoring
  Room C7.1 OG
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Oxygen ‐ XML Authoring Across Devices: Mobile, Web and Desktop
  11 Nov @ 13:45 – 14:30
  Room C10.3
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Information Development World

October 22-24, 2014
San Jose, USA

Meet the Oxygen team at our stand in the exhibition area.
Interested in MathML? On October 23rd you can meet Autumn Cuellar from Design Science at the Oxygen stand and you can discover how MathFlow integrates with Oxygen to provide an integrated solution for XML and MathML editing.

Presentation:

• Oxygen XML Demo
  23 Oct, 11:45 am - 12:30 pm
  Room: San Jose (1st floor by Pool)
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Oxygen-Users Meetup San Francisco 2014

October 21, 2014
San Francisco, USA

Meeting organized by the STC Silicon Valley Chapter

October 20, 2014
Santa Clara, USA

The LavaCon Conference on Content Strategy and User Experience 2014

October 13-15, 2014
Portland, Oregon, USA

Webcast: Understanding the need for XML and structured content

October 6, 2014

Watch the Recorded Webinar

IXIASOFT User Conference 2014

October 1-3, 2014
Montreal, Canada

Tekom Europe Roadshow 2014

September 24, 2014
Bucharest, Romania

Presentation:

• Using DITA for Software Documentation
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Panel:

• Managing the Software Documentation Process

Technical Communication UK Conference

September 16-18, 2014
Brighton, United Kingdom

Balisage 2014 - The Markup Conference

August 5-8, 2014
Washington, DC, USA

New in Oxygen XML Editor 16 - Profiling Styles

June 25, 2014, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Discover the major additions in Oxygen XML Editor version 16 for XML authoring and publishing!

We present the new Profiling Styles functionality in detail and then go through some of the other important new features in Oxygen version 16, including:

• Setting table properties
• WebHelp skin builder
• Extending frameworks

Watch the Recorded Webinar

Download Webinar Sample Files

Congility 2014

To register for this event and receive 20% discount from the admission price please use the following link and enter the discount code: SYS2014

Workshops - June 18, 2014
Conference - June 19-20, 2014
Gatwick, UK

Presentation:

• XML Authoring on Mobile Devices
  Sarah Draper, Syncro Soft LTD/Oxygen XML Editor

New in Oxygen XML Editor 16 - XSLT Quick Fixes

June 18, 2014, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Discover the major additions in Oxygen XML Editor version 16 for XML development!

We present the XSLT Quick Fixes functionality in detail and then go through some of the other important new features in Oxygen version 16, including:

• New XSLT refactoring actions
• Support for developing XSLT stylesheets for Saxon CE
• XPath execution over multiple files
• The new Ant editor

Watch the Recorded Webinar

Download Webinar Sample Files

XML London 2014

June 7-8, 2014
London, UK

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2014

April 28-30, 2014
Seattle WA, USA

Presentations:

• Schematron: Keeping authors on the DITA road
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• DITA vs XHTML
  Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Vasont Users' Group Meeting

March 24-27, 2014
Hershey, PA

Writers UA West

Use the 'oxygenxml' promotional code during online registration to get $50 discount off the conference price.

March 3-6, 2014
Palm Springs CA, USA

Presentation:

• The New Generation of DITA: DITA-NG
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Intelligent Content 2014

February 26-28, 2014
San Jose CA, USA

Presentation:

• XML Authoring on Mobile Devices
  February 28, 2014, 15:00 - 15:45
  Silicon Valley Room
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

XML Prague 2014

February 14-16, 2014
Prague, Czech Republic

Oxygen Users Meetup Prague 2014

February 14, 2014
Prague, Czech Republic

Content Management Strategies/DITA Europe Conference

November 18-19, 2013
Munich, Germany

Presentation:

• DITA for Mobile Devices
  November 18, 2013, 09:30 - 10:10
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor

Oxygen Users Meetup Munich 2013

November 17, 2013
Munich, Germany

TCWorld Conference and Tekom Fair

Visit the Oxygen Booth 305!
November 6-8, 2013
Wiesbaden, Germany

Presentations:

• Who’s Afraid of XML?
  November 6, 2013 (Room 4A) 14:30-15:00
  George Bina, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
• Mobile-friendly outputs from XML
  November 8, 2013 (Room 2C) 11:15–12:00
  Instinctools GmbH, Componize, Syncro Soft

How Merck Advanced Their Global Content Collaboration

October 29, 2013

Since 1899, Merck & Co. has been publishing medical information for physicians, pharmacists, veterinarians, and people interested in medical care who did not have a medical degree. Today, these publications, known as The Merck Manuals, require hundreds of writers from around the world to contribute and revise content on an ongoing basis. With such a large and dispersed team, Merck experienced many challenges in the technologies needed to coordinate and maintain publishing schedules as well as in the varied technical skill levels of team members. Join this webinar, hosted by Vasont Systems and Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor, to hear how Merck has advanced their content management and collaboration processes with this global team to overcome these challenges.

Oxygen XML Author Presentation - at DITA Festa 2013 Autumn

Presenter: Tetsuya Sekine
October 24, 2013, 14:55-15:35 GMT+09:00
Tokyo, Japan

TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013

October 2-5, 2013
Rome, Italy

Tutorial: Oxygen XML Editor for TEI (sponsored by Syncro Soft)
Instructor: George Bina
October 2, 2013, 9-13

Technical Communication UK Conference

September 24-26, 2013
Bristol, United Kingdom

XML Summer School

September 15-20, 2013
Oxford, United Kingdom

Balisage 2013 - The Markup Conference

August 6-9, 2013
Montréal, Canada

Balisage 2013 - Pre-conference Symposium: Native XML User Interfaces

August 5, 2013
Montréal, Canada

XSLT Development with Oxygen (Part 3) - Debugging, Profiling and Unit-testing

July 3, 2013

XSLT is the best supported technology in Oxygen. This is the 3rd webinar in a series of 3 that cover the XSLT development with Oxygen.

The topics covered by the webinar include:

• XSLT debugger
• XSLT profiler
• Integrated unit testing

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Congility - Content Agility 2013

June 26-27, 2013
Gatwick (London), UK

DITA Support in Oxygen - Profiling and Re-use with DITA 1.2

June 26, 2013

This webinar focuses on advanced features that justify the return of investment you get from using DITA. RE-USE is the key word and can be implemented either directly through content references or indirectly through profiling/conditional content. We will also explore publishing by showing how you can change transformation parameters and how you can obtain multiple output formats from DITA.

Topics covered:

• Re-using content
• Keys: defining keys, making key references and content key references
• Validate and check for completeness using profiling conditions and DITAVAL filters
• Advanced profiling using Subject Schemes maps
• Customizing a transformation scenario, changing parameters
• Publishing using multiple scenarios, each having a profiling condition set applied
• Using a different DITA-OT

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The Business Case for Forms-based Authoring

June 19, 2013

Structured content is considered fundamental to content strategy and an organization's ability to deliver content where it is needed across a wide variety of devices and media. Yet authoring structured content has always been a difficult problem. Coding raw XML and WYSIWYG authoring do not work for most authors.

Starting with version 14, Oxygen introduced the form controls as a new approach to authoring, one that hides the complexity of XML without obscuring the structure we are trying to capture, or creating hard-to-understand errors.

Oxygen invited Mark Baker, owner of Analecta Communications and consultant in structured authoring and topic-based writing, to explore the business case for forms-based structured authoring. Topics covered by this webinar include:

• Why structured authoring is critical to the modern enterprise
• The limitations of current structured authoring methods
• How forms-based authoring addressed these limitations
• How forms-based authoring hides XML syntax better than WYSIWYG
• How forms-based authoring at last delivers the ideal of separating content form formatting
• A demonstration of forms-based authoring in Oxygen XML
• The benefits to the organization from adopting forms-based authoring

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XML London 2013

June 15-16, 2013
London, UK

UA Europe 2013

June 13-14, 2013
Manchester, UK

NLDITA Information Energy 2013

June 13-14, 2013
Utrecht Netherlands

XSLT Development with Oxygen (Part 2) - Master Files, Modules and Refactoring

June 5, 2013

XSLT is the best supported technology in Oxygen. This is the 2nd webinar in a series of 3 that cover the XSLT development with Oxygen

The topics covered by the webinar include:

• Organize your stylesheet in multiple modules
• Re-use modules from multiple stylesheets
• Edit modules in context with the help of master files
• Intelligent search and refactoring actions

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DITA Support in Oxygen - Getting Started with DITA

May 29, 2013

This webinar focuses on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen XML Author/Editor, covering everything from creating DITA maps and topics from scratch to basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. You will also learn how to edit simple topics, create cross references, insert images and tables and how to benefit from intelligent features such as smart paste and validate, and check for completeness.

Topics covered:

• Creating maps and topics
• Using the DITA Maps Manager
• Simple topic editing, cross references, working with tables and images
• Drag-and-drop and smart paste
• Validate and Check for Completeness
• Basic publishing using predefined scenarios

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Learn How to Create Content with Great Structure & Great Language

May 22, 2013

Presenters:
George Bina, Sales and Marketing Director, Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor
Thomas Aldous, Senior Vice President of Global Operations, Acrolinx

Users of Oxygen’s XML-editing software already know that XML makes your content flexible. XML lets you assemble your content for different types of customers and publish it to all the devices they use.

And users of the content optimization software of Acrolinx already know that by guiding your authors to use simple, clear language, you can create content that your customers will like better.

In this webinar, you’ll see how you can do both through one consistent, powerful, productive user experience. You will learn:

• Five key factors to creating XML structured content with ease
• Six dimensions of content optimization for maximum customer satisfaction
• How Oxygen and Acrolinx work together – and their special support for DITA

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XSLT Development with Oxygen (Part 1) - Editing, Validation and Transformation

May 8, 2013

XSLT is the best supported technology in Oxygen. This is the 1st webinar in a series of 3 that cover the XSLT development with Oxygen.

The topics covered by the webinar include:

• XSLT editing
• Validation
• Transformations
• XSLT documentation
• XPath content completion assistance

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Componize and Oxygen Present "Componize Author" - An Integrated Web-Based DITA Solution

April 30, 2013

Facilitate collaboration and DITA adoption with Componize DITA CMS and Oxygen XML Author Component.

Is Oxygen your favorite tool for authoring your content today?

Would you like more people in your company to use its capacities? Do you believe that SMEs could author DITA-compliant information?

Would you like to add powerful collaboration and content management features to your system? And provide an hassle-free access to all engineers, SMEs, and experts to collaborate on a Web-based platform?

"Componize Author" brings together best-of-breed Componize DITA CMS and Oxygen into an end-to-end Web-based collaborative solution.

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2013

April 15-17, 2013
Providence, Rhode Island

XML Authoring for Everyone

April 10, 2013

People are usually afraid of authoring XML because they perceive this as a lot more complicated than using a word processing application. The authoring support for XML however was improved continuously in the last years and Oxygen can provide user interfaces allowing normal users to work with XML. These interfaces are a lot easier to use than word processors. In this webinar we will show a few examples of how Oxygen can make XML editing accessible to everyone, and how you can provide similar user interfaces to edit your own XML formats.

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XML Schema 1.1 Support in Oxygen

March 20, 2013

The XML Schema version 1.1 adds a number of features that improve the usability of XML Schema standard. These feature include assertions, conditional type assignment, open content, override, default attributes, negative wildcards, substitution for multiple elements, and more. This webinar presents an overview of these XML Schema features, how they work on simple examples, and how you can use them from Oxygen. This is a great opportunity to discover what is possible with XML Schema 1.1, as well as how easy it is to develop schemas with Oxygen.

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Reviewing Support in Oxygen

February 27, 2013

When collaboratively working on documents, support for reviewing is a must-have. Oxygen provides advanced reviewing capabilities, including change tracking, annotations/comments, and highlights that work automatically with any XML vocabulary. Along with these, there are visual tools to allow you to see and manage changes and comments more easily, in order to achieve a final reviewed document. This webinar will present the reviewing functionality and how you can take advantage of this for your XML documents.

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Oxygen Users Meetup Prague 2013

February 8, 2013
Prague, Czech Republic

XML Prague 2013

February 8-10, 2013
Prague, Czech Republic

Oxygen Users Meetup Frankfurt 2012

November 11, 2012
Frankfurt, Germany

DITA Europe 2012

November 12-13, 2012
Frankfurt, Germany

TCWorld 2012

Visit the Oxygen Booth 306, Hall 3!
October 23–25, 2012
Wiesbaden, Germany

The LavaCon Conference 2012

Platinum Sponsor
October 7–9, 2012
Portland, Oregon, USA

Oracle OpenWorld 2012

Visit the Oxygen Booth 3244, Moscone West!
September 30-October 4, 2012
San Francisco, CA, US

Balisage 2012

August 7-10, 2012
Montréal, Canada

UA Europe 2012

June 14-15, 2012
Dublin, Ireland

Oxygen Users Meetup Paris 2012

June 11, 2012
Paris, France

NLDITA Information Energy 2012

June 8, 2012
Utrecht Netherlands

An overview of authoring DITA with Oxygen

May 14, 2012

Presented by George Bina from Syncro Soft / Oxygen.

MarkLogic World 2012

May 1-3, 2012
Washington D.C., United States

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2012

April 23-25, 2012
La Jolla, California, United States

Taking the Pain out of SME Review

March 27, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Presented by Nenad Furtula from Bluestream, George Bina from Syncro Soft / Oxygen and Frank Miller from Comtech Services.

Oxygen Users Meetup

February 10, 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

XML Prague 2012

February 11-12, 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

DITA Europe 2011

November 7-8, 2011
Prague, Czech Republic

TEI Members Meeting 2011

October 10-16, 2011
Würzburg, Germany

Congility 2011 Conference

May 24-26, 2011
Crawley, United Kingdom

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2011

April 4-6, 2011
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

XML Prague 2011

March 26-27, 2011
Prague, Czech Republic

Online Information 2010

November 30-December 2, 2010
London, United Kingdom

TEI Members Meeting 2010

November 11-14, 2010
Zadar, Croatia

DITA Europe 2010 Conference

November 15-16, 2010
Vienna, Austria

Balisage 2010

August 3-6, 2010
Montréal, Canada

XML Prague 2010

March 13-14, 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

TOC Conference 2010

February 22-24, 2010
New York, USA

CMS/DITA North America 2009

April 27-29, 2009
St. Petersburg, USA

XML Prague 2009

March 21-22, 2009
Prague, Czech Republic

TOC Conference 2009

February 9-11, 2009
New York, USA

DITA Europe 2008

November 17-18, 2008
Munich, Germany

TEI Members Meeting 2008

November 6-8, 2008
London, UK

XML 2007 Conference

December 3-5, 2007
Boston, USA

XML 2006 Conference

December 5-7, 2006
Boston, USA

XML Prague 2006

June 17-18, 2006
Prague, Czech Republic

TEI Members Meeting 2005

October 28-29, 2005
Sofia, Bulgaria

XTech 2005

May 25-27, 2005
Amsterdam, Netherlands