[oXygen-user] [ann] oXygen version 13 *beta*

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi,

A new version of oXygen is almost ready. A beta version is now available 
for tests from
http://oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor_beta.html

If you have a valid maintenance pack then the beta version will work 
with your existing license key, otherwise please use the test license 
key included below [1].

Version 13 introduces of a new product called oXygen XML Developer that 
gathers the development features of oXygen (similar with how the oXygen 
XML Author gathers the authoring features).
oXygen XML Editor represents the union of oXygen XML Author and oXygen 
XML Developer.

Some of the new features in oXygen 13 are highlighted below:

*Eclipse 3.7*
  - The latest version of Eclipse is supported

*Results*
  - Validation results, search results, etc. all benefit from a new 
tree-table viewer that allows grouping and sorting
  - Validation results contain additional information related with the 
performed operation that is very useful when multiple or batch actions 
are performed to correctly relate a message with the operation that 
generated it

*XInclude*
  - Specialized action that allows to browse and select the content to 
be included, generating automatically the corresponding XInclude instruction

*XML Databases*
  - Copy resources with drag and drop operations from the Datasource 
Explorer, even between different databases

*CSS*
  - oXygen specific CSS profile for creating and validating CSS files 
for oXygen XML Author
  - CSS profiles covering the browser extensions
  - The content completion support offers the browser extensions and the 
oXygen extensions and functions
  - Many new CSS oXygen functions were added, especially for supporting 
mathematical operations

*JSON*
  - A JSON editor
  - Conversion between JSON and XML

*Editor variables*
  - New editor variables are available
  - Editor variables can be used also in defining code templates and 
author actions

*Author*
  - An "Edit reference" action allows to quickly edit referred content, 
rendered as read-only in Author, by opening the
  - Folding management actions allowing to collapse child folds or all 
other folds and to expand all folds or child folds
  - Some of the Author actions, like the highlighting actions, bold, 
italic and underline, were implemented as toggle actions, if the 
selected content is already highlighted then the highlight element are 
removed
  - A "Count Words" action allows to get the number of words from a 
document or from the current selection

*DITA*
  - oXygen includes the DITA OT 1.5.3 final release
  - Search references action automatically finds references in all the 
topics from a DITA Map
  - The DITA check for completeness action allows to specify multiple 
filter (ditaval) files and performs the validation against each of them
  - The content completion presents values specified in a subject scheme 
map

*TEI*
  - Built in transformations from TEI to EPUB, DOCX and ODT
  - Built in transformations from OOXML and ODF to TEI
  - Updated stylesheets and schemas

*EPUB*
  - CSS files to present NCX, OCF and OPF files in Author (visual 
editing) mode
  - Default validation scenarios for NCX, OCF and OPF files

[1] Test license key for version 13 beta

------START-LICENSE-KEY------

Registration_Name=oXygen beta tests

Company=

Category=Enterprise

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

Version=13

Number_of_Licenses=1

Date=08-18-2011

Trial=31

SGN=MCwCFAr9oT0uZsUreXQEMgyenXBiE0OPAhRy+Kn9jg5eiRfxNGmplROVaqalnQ\=\=

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

Best Regards,
George
-- 
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com