Will Oxygen replace Arbortext for 40051 TM development

[MSOMERS]

Note: My question comes from my uninformed management perspective.

We've historically developed many technical manuals but in this case we need to develop a small TM IAW US MIL-STD 400051 in XML format utilizing prescribed DTDs and FOSI. This is a small, quick reaction effort so I have no interest in taking on Arbortext. Is there a workable Oxygen solution??

Thanks for indulging the general question.

[Radu]

Hi,

Oxygen does not have out of the box support for this standard. Being a generic XML editing tool, if you provide Oxygen with a DTD to use for validation and content completion and a CSS for editing the XML in the Author visual editing mode, then Oxygen will have some support for your vocabulary:

http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2014/08/the-o ... works.html

But you would need to invest some time in customizing Oxygen to work with your XML vocabulary.

Regards,
Radu

[davidcoe]

I use Oxygen for 40051 TM development but the LOGSA stylesheets have to be modified/rewritten to produce good PDFs for page-based TMs. I haven't successfully rewritten those stylesheets due to time constraints. I usually author in Oxygen and publish with Arbortext print composer.

[kwuser]

Just wondering if this is still the case. I am looking to purchase an XML Editing/Authoring tool for Mac OS and wondering if this is a compliment to Arbortext for Mac OS.

[Radu]

Hi,

Oxygen XML Editor still does not have out of the box support for this particular XML vocabulary. If you provide the DTD Oxygen will give you editing and validation support for the XML documents. If you provide a CSS you will also be able to visually edit the XML documents. Also there is no publishing support included.

Regards,
Radu