Hi Radu,
Well, what I meant was "written in java, then inserted into the authoring interface with CSS". I'm used to writing addons for XMLmind and I"m still very much coming up to speed with modifying Oxygen.
I don't really want to add yet another interface for my authors to deal with; frankly SDL has too much interface already scattered over too many applications; it's like their interface/UX person is one of those spiders NASA fed Benzedrine
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6818187/n ... marijuana/. Our recommended workflow is to have Publication Manager and Oxygen Author open at the same time and use them in concert. Unfortunately the interface between Oxygen and Publication manager is very clumsy and click-heavy and involves lots repeated, click-driven navigation through a very large repository.
What SDL Publication Manager
does have that is very interesting from a UX perspective is the ability to drag-and-drop a package of XML about the content out of the Publication Manager interface. For example, when I grab an image in Publication Manager and drop it into this text box, this is what I get:
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The part that matters to us is right at the beginning here:
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<ishobject ishtype="ISHIllustration" ishref="[b]GUID-3909B47F-FF84-4808-A08A-18803D45C907[/b]"
So if dragging and dropping that onto an image element in the Authoring interface triggered a process which runs an xpath query against it and uses the ishobjects/ishobject[1]/@ishref value to populate the href element of the image element, I've got drag and drop between Publication Manager and Oxygen and my authors can likely dump 90% of their click-driven navigation. If the process was configurable to allow me to define both the attribute value and the xpath value then I've also got a way of dragging-and-dropping xrefs, topicrefs, etc.
I'm not expecting this to be easy, but I learn things best when I have a distinct goal, so that's my current goal for SDL/Oxygen. I should note that I'm also the admin for a Bluestream XDocs deployment and we're cutting it over from using XMLmind as the primary authoring tool to using a combination of Web Author and Desktop Oxygen, so I'll have other Framework/addon questions in the forum about that.