[oXygen-user] [Ann] oXygen XML Editor version 11.2 Release Candidate

Fri Mar 12 11:18:10 CST 2010

Dear Oxygen user,

We would like to announce the availability of Oxygen XML Editor version 
11.2 Release Candidate. There are improvements in XML Author, XML 
development tools, support for large documents and SVN Client. (See the 
What's New section below for more information.)

We welcome any suggestions you might have after testing the application.

Download
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http://www.oxygenxml.com/RC11.2/Windows/VM/oxygen.exe
http://www.oxygenxml.com/RC11.2/Linux/VM/oxygen.sh
http://www.oxygenxml.com/RC11.2/MacOSX/oxygen.tar.gz
http://www.oxygenxml.com/RC11.2/All/oxygen.tar.gz
http://www.oxygenxml.com/RC11.2/Eclipse/com.oxygenxml.editor_11.2.0.v2010031218.zip 

Please note that the new version 11.2 can upgrade a previous Oxygen 
installation or can be installed side-by-side.

License
=======

If you already have a version 11 license key then you can use it with 
the new release. If you don't, please use this temporary license key:

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Registration_Name=Release Candidate 11.2

Company=-

Category=Enterprise

Component=XML-Editor, XSLT-Debugger, Saxon-SA

Version=11

Number_of_Licenses=1

Date=03-11-2010

Trial=15

SGN=MC0CFDU1OiF13f0pYAd4x8P+17mbHPtPAhUAj0OeAgLw7a65qQcRR9gRupxVeoA\=

-------END-LICENSE-KEY-------

What's New in Oxygen 11.2
============================

Version 11.2 of Oxygen XML Editor improves the XML Author, the XML 
development tools, the support for large documents and the SVN Client.

Author Component:
  * Author Component Integration

Author for DITA:
  * Reusable component
  * Add/remove content reference attribute to/from existing elements
  * Speed improvements when opening large DITA maps

Author (Visual Editing) Mode:
  * Improvement in Outline view
  * Workspace access plugin
  * Format and indent only the modified content

Author API:
  * Update the Outline view
  * Customize the Outline view
  * Customize the Breadcrumb
  * Update the status bar

Text Editing Mode:
  * Improved handling of large documents
  * Improved the opening of documents with very long lines
  * Support for XQuery 1.1 transformations
  * Hexa viewer
  * New spell checker
  * Customizable font styles for syntax highlighting

XSLT Debugger:
  * Debug XPath expressions

Plugins API:
  * Mark resource read-only
  * Open Redirect plugin

SVN Client:
  * Faster working copy load time
  * Automatic refresh of the working copy
  * More responsive repository browsing
  * Better handling for obstructed resources
  * Print or save as image a revision graph

Component Updates:
  * Update DITA Open Toolkit
  * Update Saxon 9 Processor
  * Update the Libxml and Libxslt Libraries
  * Update TEI P5 framework
  * Update CSS Validator

Details...

   Author Component
------------------------------------

  * Author Component Integration
An Author page component can be integrated in your Java application or 
applet. All features available for editing in the Oxygen XML Editor 
Author page are also available in the Author component. See 
demonstration and more details here:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/AuthorDemoApplet/author-component-dita.html

   Author for DITA
-----------------------------------

  * Reusable component
A fragment of a topic can be extracted in a separate file for reuse in 
different topics. The component can be reused by inserting an element 
with a conref attribute where the content of the component is needed.

  * Add/remove content reference attribute to/from existing elements
The DITA framework includes actions for adding, editing and removing a 
content reference (conref, conkeyref, conrefend attributes) to/from an 
existing element.

  * Speed improvements when opening large DITA maps
When a map contains a large number of topic references now the map is 
opened three times faster in the DITA Maps Manager view.

   Author (Visual Editing) Mode
------------------------------------------------

  * Improvement in Outline view
The start of the content of an inline child element is displayed both in 
that element and in the parent element in the Outline view. The parent 
element may remain collapsed in the Outline view which makes the 
document navigation faster.

  * Workspace access plugin
A new type of plugin was added. This plugin provides support for 
customizing the menus, toolbars and views of the application and for 
opening and closing documents. It is active in both Text mode and Author 
mode of all opened documents.

  * Format and indent only the modified content
When saving files in the Author page only the modified XML elements are 
formatted. In this way you have fewer differences between the original 
file content and the saved one.

   Author API
------------------------------

    New classes in Author API

  * Update the Outline view
The current selection can be accessed and set in the Outline view from 
custom extensions of an Author framework.

  * Customize the Outline view
The popup menu and the displaying and filtering of the tree nodes can be 
customized in the Outline view with an extension of an Author framework.

  * Customize the breadcrumb
The text displayed in the node list of the Breadcrumb and the popup menu 
of the Breadcrumb can be customized with an extension of an Author 
framework.

  * Update the status bar
The user can be notified about the status or the success of operations 
by updating the Oxygen status bar. This is usually preferable to 
displaying a dialog box.

   Text Editing Mode
-------------------------------------

  * Improved handling of large documents
The support for large documents has been improved. Now the opening and 
editing of large documents is faster with or without line wrap enabled.

  * Improved the opening of documents with very long lines
oXygen can now open documents with very long lines by using automatic 
line wrapping. However, only the basic editing features are available, 
while others are disabled: automatic spell checking and automatic 
validation, XPath from Find/Replace, etc.

  * Support for XQuery 1.1 transformations
Saxon 9 EE which is bundled with Oxygen can run transformations with 
XQuery 1.1 files.

  * Hexa viewer
This version of Oxygen includes a hexa viewer for viewing the bytes of 
each character of a document.

  * New spell checker
Hunspell is now used for spell checking of edited documents in both 
Author editor and Text editor. The old spell checking engine AZ Check is 
also an available alternative.

  * Customizable font styles for syntax highlighting
A font style(bold/italic) and a background color can be set for any 
token(tag, text, etc) that is displayed in an editor in Text mode.

   XSLT Debugger
---------------------------------

  * Debug XPath expressions
Now the XSLT Debugger is capable to step into XSLT functions called from 
XPath 2.0 expressions when using the bundled Saxon-HE/PE/EE XSLT processor.

   Plugins API
-------------------------------

  * Mark resource read-only
A resource opened with a custom protocol plugin can be marked as 
read-only. It can be used when opening resources from a CMS (content 
management system).

  * Open Redirect plugin
This type of plugin is useful for opening more than one file with only 
one open action. For example when a zip archive or an ODF file or an 
OOXML file is opened in the Archive Browser view the plugin can decide 
to open also a file from the archive in a new XML editor panel, like the 
document.xml main file from an OOXML file archive.

   SVN Client
------------------------------

  * Faster working copy load time
A working copy is cached, so when it is loaded next time in the Working 
Copy view, the operation will be much faster than in the previous 
versions of Syncro SVN Client.

  * Automatic refresh of the working copy
The working copy is automatically refreshed every time Syncro SVN Client 
gains focus, if changes are detected in the file system. This is done in 
order to update the state of the resources modified by external 
applications.

  * More responsive repository browsing
You can configure the repository connections timeout and stop 
non-responsive repository browsing operations.

  * Better handling for obstructed resources
Operations correctly take into account obstructed resources.

  * Print or save as image a revision graph
Generated revision graphs can be printed or saved as images.

   Component Updates
-------------------------------------

  * Update DITA Open Toolkit
DITA Open Toolkit was updated to version 1.5.1 M1. It includes a speed 
improvement implemented by caching the grammar pool used for 
transforming DITA files.

  * Update Saxon 9 Processor
The Saxon 9 XSLT/XQuery processor was updated to version 9.2.0.6.

  * Update the Libxml and Libxslt Libraries
The Libxml library was updated to version 2.7.6. The Libxslt library was 
updated to version 1.1.26.

  * Update TEI P5 framework
The TEI P5 schemas were updated to version 1.6.0. The TEI XSL 
stylesheets were updated to version 5.20.

  * Update CSS Validator
The W3C CSS Validator was updated to version 2.0.

As always, your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Best regards,
Oxygen Development Team