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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.

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.

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.

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.

Transforming 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.

Explore Web Author beyond technical documentation - presented by Bogdan Dumitru

Wed, October 28, 2020
8:00 AM US Pacific time / 11:00 AM 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.

tcworld conference 2020

November 2-6, 2020
Online

Presentation:

XML Based Docs As Code – Combining DITA XML With GitHub and Continous Delivery
Radu Coravu, Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor
We'll look into building a functional technical documentation project using DITA XML as content, GitHub for storage and collaboration and Netlify for continuous delivery.
As an overview we'll 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.

Past Events

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:

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)
Watch the video presentation

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 Digital Media and Content Strategies 2014

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

and more.

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

and more.

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

Watch the Recorded Webinar

Download Webinar Sample Files

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

Watch the Recorded Webinar

Download Webinar Sample Files

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

In this session we will try to introduce you to these features indirectly, focusing on resolving a number of problems and see how Oxygen can help us accomplish those tasks.

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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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