[oXygen-user] [Ann] Oxygen XML Suite Version 23 Release

[Alin Belu]

Hello everyone,

2020 has certainly been a unique and challenging year for us all, but 
the Oxygen team persevered and is proud to announce the immediate 
availability of version 23 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of 
products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF 
Chemistry, and the Oxygen Publishing Engine. In addition, Oxygen 
Feedback Enterprise, the self-managed edition of the commenting 
platform, was introduced in the recently released version 1.3 of Oxygen 
Feedback.

This new release adds game-changing features like concurrent editing in 
Web Author for unrestricted collaboration, opening DITA maps in Author 
mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable, 
the possibility to define or customize how Oxygen supports an XML 
language using a framework script, and support for editing JSON 
documents visually in Author mode.

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Version 23 of Oxygen XML Editor boasts the most substantial and 
comprehensive set of new features, productivity enhancements, and 
customization possibilities in the history of the most powerful XML 
authoring and development tool available on the market.

As always, a lot of attention was focused on the DITA community, to make 
the authoring experience even more efficient and dynamic. You can expect 
to discover a new dynamic floating toolbar that provides quicker access 
to common editing actions, it is now possible to edit submaps directly 
in the DITA Maps Manager view without needing to open them in their own 
tab, you can open DITA maps in Author mode with the content from all 
referenced topics expanded and editable directly in the editor, two new 
DITA-specific sample project templates are available to help you get 
more familiar with how to use projects in DITA, and if you want to 
experiment with the upcoming version of DITA, DITA 2.0 maps and topics 
can now be created from new document templates.

On the DITA publishing side, you now have the ability to run multiple 
DITA-OT or Ant transformation scenarios simultaneously to shorten the 
time it takes to finish transforming large projects, image map numbers 
and shapes are now visible and clickable in CSS-based PDF output, and a 
lot of work was done on improving the Oxygen PDF Chemistry processor 
with various CSS property enhancements.

Some of the general editing productivity enhancements include a new Find 
Action feature that provides a very quick way to find and trigger 
actions, it is now possible to copy selected XML content from Author 
mode to the system clipboard with the XML structure preserved, and you 
can now easily create a new project from an existing project template.

The already robust JSON support was further enhanced. You can now edit 
JSON documents in Author mode with access to the various features 
available for XML documents, a handy tool was added for generating 
documentation for a JSON Schema file, and numerous improvements were 
made to the JSON to XML, XML to JSON, and JSON Schema Generator tools.

Add-ons continue to be great for extending the functionality of Oxygen 
XML Editor since updates and additions can be implemented and made 
available in-between major Oxygen XML Editor versions. Major updates 
have been made to the Git Client and Batch Converter add-ons, while some 
of the new add-ons that have been released include a Terminology 
Checker, a Translator Helper, and a Vale Validation add-on.

Some of the other exciting highlights for this version include the 
possibility of creating or customizing a framework through a script file 
rather than using the GUI, the capability of inserting and editing 
tables in JATS documents, the diff and merge support in the Eclipse 
plugin now incorporates the text-based mode that Oxygen users are 
familiar with, the content completion for XSLT 3.0 stylesheets now 
automatically inserts required attributes, speed optimization for 
documents that contain Hebrew characters, various new CSS properties, an 
option to batch convert HTML to well-formed XML structure, and some of 
the most popular command line scripts that are used for automating and 
running various utilities were enhanced, while other new scripts were added.

As always, this release also includes various API additions, bug fixes, 
and component updates.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html

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Version 23 of the Oxygen XML Web Author continues to bolster the 
innovative web-based authoring tool. This release brings a lot of 
exciting new features, productivity enhancements, and customization 
possibilities to the online XML authoring community.

One of the most requested features that Web Author users have asked for 
in recent years is concurrent editing. You now have the possibility of 
sharing your editing session by sending its URL to other collaborators 
and then you and your colleagues can edit and review the same document 
simultaneously.

DITA users now have the ability to open a DITA map with all referenced 
topics expanded and editable in one single document. his allows you to 
perform rapid changes both at topic and map level, thus speeding-up the 
edit and review process in the context provided by the entire document. 
With the review process in mind, you can also download and print a PDF 
snapshot of the current document.

You can also look forward to a new dynamic floating toolbar that 
provides quicker access to common editing actions, copy content from Web 
Author and paste it into an external application with the HTML structure 
preserved, Bitbucket server is now supported, and enhancements to the 
Git commit workflow were implemented.

New customization possibilities and features for integrators include an 
option to implement Single Sign On for a CMIS server by using a service 
account and some new loading options and URL parameters, for example, to 
enable in-place editing of the content of referenced topics within a 
DITA map, to have topic titles resolved and displayed when opening a 
DITA map, or to enable multiple children of a folded element to remain 
visible.

As usual, this release also includes various API additions, bug fixes, 
and component updates.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html

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Version 23 of the Oxygen Publishing Engine benefits from all the 
improvements and new features implemented in Oxygen XML WebHelp and 
Oxygen PDF Chemistry.

Oxygen XML WebHelp offers the option to link the WebHelp output to your 
own installation of Oxygen Feedback Enterprise, a self-managed edition 
specially designed for organizations that prefer to install the software 
on their own server for better data control. Several new transformation 
parameters were also added for this release.

Oxygen PDF Chemistry provides more improvements and new possibilities 
for the CSS Paged Media processor used for obtaining PDF output from 
HTML or XML documents simply by styling them with CSS.

For more information, see: 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html

We hope you will enjoy Oxygen 23!
As always, any feedback on it is welcomed.

Best regards!

-- 
Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor