Videos

This video presents some ways that Oxygen XML Web Author can be used in various stages of a documentation review workflow to help make your processes easier and more efficient. This video demonstrates how Web Author can be integrated with WebHelp output to provide a quick, easy way to view a document in editing mode and how Web Author can be integrated with the JIRA issue/project tracking application to provide links for reviewers to see a comparison of document changes or the source document.
User Guide topic: Embedding an Edit Link that will Launch Web Author
For more details about Web Author's file comparison tool, see our video: Using Oxygen XML Web Author's Diff Functionality

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video presents several examples for using the diff functionality in Oxygen XML Web Author.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

The purpose of this video is to demonstrate how to use Search and Refactoring type actions in Oxygen's JSON Schema Design mode.

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• Editor
• Web
• Author

The purpose of this video is to demonstrate how you can integrate REST-API content that is documented using the OpenAPI standard into your DITA documentation using some Oxygen tools and features.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

The purpose of this video is to present the features that are available in Oxygen for JSON schema documents that are set to version 2020-12.

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• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video presents highlights of some of the most important and interesting new features implemented in Oxygen 25.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video presents highlights of some of the most interesting new features implemented in Oxygen XML Web Author 25.

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• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video shows some of the editing features that are available in Oxygen when working with OpenAPI documents.

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• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video shows how to use scripts from a command-line tool to validate documents.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video shows how to use scripts from a command-line tool to validate documents.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video presents some of the new features implemented in Oxygen XML Web Author 24.1

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• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video offers a quick look at how the Smart Autocomplete add-on can be used in Oxygen XML Editor to help writers by offering text completion proposals. It also contributes various configurable actions that can be used to transform selected text in the editor.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video demonstrates some of the useful features that are available in Oxygen's JSON Schema Design mode when using it in conjunction with the Palette view to create a JSON schema.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This short video shows you how easy it is to convert Confluence content to DITA documents using Oxygen's Batch Documents Converter.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video presents some of the most important and interesting new features and updates implemented in Oxygen 24. For a complete list of the additions, updates and implementations go to our What's New page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew24.1.html

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video presents some of the new features implemented in Oxygen XML Web Author 24.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video offers a brief tutorial for how to publish content originating from Oxygen to the Zendesk Help Center.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video offers a brief demonstration of Oxygen XML Web Author's merge tool.

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• XML
• Editor
• Web
• Author

This video offers a demonstration of using tools within Oxygen XML Editor to generate file or directory comparison reports in various formats.

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• XML
• Editor
• Compare

This video offers a demonstration of using scripts from a command-line tool to compare files and generating comparison reports in various formats.

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• XML
• Editor
• Compare

This video offers a demonstration of using scripts from a command-line tool to compare directories and generating comparison reports in various formats.

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• XML
• Editor
• Compare

This video provides an introduction to Oxygen's JSON Schema Design mode, demonstrating some of this mode's useful features and possibilities.

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• XML
• Editor

This video shows how to install the Oxygen Feedback v2.0 commenting component in published WebHelp output using a transformation scenario in Oxygen XML Editor or Oxygen XML Author.

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• version 2.0
• Feedback

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• version 23

This video shows how to install the Oxygen Feedback commenting component in published WebHelp output using a transformation scenario in Oxygen XML Editor or Oxygen XML Author.

Read more about integrating Oxygen Feedback with Oxygen XML Editor/Author here:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/1.0/ug-feedback/topics/ofb-feedback-comments-manager.html

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• version 1.2
• Feedback

This video provides a brief overview of the block-level comments feature that allows your users to add and manage comments contextually.

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• version 1.4
• Feedback

This video presents an overview of the benefits of the Oxygen Feedback commenting platform that provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback.

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• version 1.2
• Feedback

• FeedBack

This video provides a brief overview of the Oxygen Styles Basket, a web-based visual tool that helps you customize the look and style of your PDF or WebHelp output.

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• Styles
• Basket

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• version 23

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• version 23

• Oxygen
• version 22

• Oxygen
• version 22

• Oxygen
• version 22

• Oxygen
• version 21

• Oxygen
• version 20

• XML Web Author

• Oxygen
• version 19

• Oxygen
• Content Fusion

• what's new 21.1.1
• File Comparison Tool
• Drag and Drop Functionality
• DITA Map View

• Oxygen
• web author
• review
• manage changes
• track changes

• oxygen
• web author
• advanced editing
• form controls
• image map

• DITA Maps Manager
• Profiling Condition Sets
• Content Reference (conref) ranges

• oxygen
• DITA
• DITA Reusable Components
• keys

• DITA
• fast create
• convert DITA

• Markdown
• Convert Markdown to DITA
• Convert Markdown to HTML
• DitaMap

• Media objects
• embed video

• DITA 1_3
• Visual XML Authoring
• PDF
• Publish
• Key scopes
• Branch filtering

• CSS
• Visual XML Authoring
• CSS Inspect
• Inspect Styles

• Colors and Styles
• Profiled Content
• Share Profiling Settings
• Show Excluded Content

• Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
• Directional Formatting Codes
• Right-to-Left editing
• Arabic
• Hebrew

• Sort tables
• Sort lists

• Providing context to work with DITA 1.2 keys
• Defining key spaces
• Setting the scope for map wide operations

• Control attribute values
• Hierarchical profiling values

• Searching in file path
• Search in content
• XML-aware search
• Boolean operators

• Review
• Change Tracking
• Comments

• Highlight text
• Review panel
• Predefined colors

• Form Controls
• Visual editing of attributes and elements
• Author page customization through CSS

• Callouts
• Collaboration
• Reply to comments
• Mark as done
• Manage comments

• Copy Content from Browsers
• Copy Content from Microsoft Word
• Copy Content from Microsoft Excel

• DITA Maps Manager
• Validate & Check for Completness
• Content Reference (conref) ranges

• DITA Maps Manager
• Profiling Condition Sets
• Content Reference (conref) ranges

• Profiling
• Condition Sets
• Profiling Attributes
• Transformation scenario

• Transformation scenario
• DITA to EPUB
• DocBook to EPUB
• Validate the EPUB file

• DITA Maps Manager
• Content Reference (conref) ranges
• Linking with keyref
• Image reference with keyref
• Content key references
• Find/Replace in Files
• Check Spelling in Files

• Change tracking
• DITA
• Visual editing

• Visual editing of a Docbook document
• Insert tables and images
• Text formatting
• Transform to PDF

• Visual DITA editing
• Predefined DITA templates
• DITA conref
• Insert a table
• PDF publishing

• DITA Maps Manager
• Organizing Maps
• Edit Properties Dialog Box
• Insert References
• Publish DITA Maps

• Visual editing
• Customizable Author actions
• Transformation scenario
• DITA
• DocBook
• TEI
• Styles
• Associate CSS

• Rectangular Selection
• Selection
• Formatted Text

• Rename Element
• Unwrap Element
• XML Refactoring

• Manage highlighted content
• Modify all
• Remove all
• Surround all

• Dockable views
• Floating views
• Hideable views
• Configurable layout
• Theme

• XML Master Files
• XML Module Editing & Validation
• Search/Refactor Support for ID/IDREFs
• Module Connection Overview
• Rename or Move an XML Module

• Publishing with a transformation scenario
• Customization layers

• Validation scenario
• XSLT transformation
• Multiple validation engines
• DocBook

• Grid editing
• Format and Indent

• Folding support
• Persistent folds

• ID/IDREF support for DTD / RelaxNG Schema / RelaxNG Schema compact syntax and XML Schema

• Controlling the text formatting
• Indent size
• Line width
• Autodetect formatting options

• Generate XML documents from schema or DTD
• Enabling optional content generation

• Reuse document fragments (code templates)
• Code templates management

• Framework Configuration
• Document Type Association
• Document Templates
• NISO JATS

• Master Files

• XSLT Refactoring
• Reusable code snippets
• Refactoring actions

This video presents an overview of the visual editing support for JSON documents in Oxygen.

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• xml
• author

• JSON Tools
• JSON Validation
• JSON Schema
• JSON

• JSON Validation
• JSON Schema
• JSON

• JSON
• JSON Schema
• JSON Content Completion
• JSON Outline

• JSON
• JSON Transform
• JSON Query
• XSLT
• XPath

• Ant support

• XSLT/XQuery Profiler
• XSLT/XQuery Debugger
• Invocation tree
• Hotspots
• Export to XML & HTML

• XSLT Debugger
• Conditional Breakpoints
• XWatch View
• Output Mapping Stack View

• XSLT Debugger
• Debugging scenario
• Transformer engines

• Schematron
• Quick Fix
• SQF

• Content Completion Assistant
• Predefined Code Templates
• Progressive Validation

• Schematron Master Files Support
• Content Completion Assistant
• Search and Refactoring Actions

• XML Schema 1.1
• Assertion
• Open content
• Type alternative
• XML Schema documentation
• Generate XML instance

• Visual XML Schema editing
• Import schema modules
• Configure validation rule
• Search and refactoring actions
• Generate schema documentation

• Schema Palette
• XML Schema editing
• XML validation

• XML Schema editing
• Quick Assist
• Resource Hierarchy

• Schematron support
• Relax NG schema
• ISO Schematron

• Remote debugging and XQuery editing
• XQuery validation
• A new XQuery builder

• XQuery debugger
• Saxon
• Profiling

• Create new WSDL from scratch
• Validate WSDL file
• Content Completion
• WSDL Outline View

• Master Files
• Search and Refactoring Actions
• Quick Assist

• SharePoint
• Open URL dialog
• Filter/Sort resources

• SharePoint
• Data Source Explorer
• Opening remote files
• Creating data source connections

• WebDAV
• Data Source Explorer
• Opening remote files
• Creating data source connections

• eXist database
• XQuery
• Transformation scenario

• Generate MS Excel report (OOXML format)
• Extract data from database

This video presents the file comparison support that is integrated in the Eclipse distribution of Oxygen XML Editor.

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• xml
• author
• Compare

• HTML5

• Publishing Templates
• WebHelp Responsive
• Template
• opt
• PDF

• Comparing and Merging Files
• Visual Diff
• Visual Mode

• Merge
• Compare dirs
• Three way diff
• Compare

• WebHelp Responsive
• Skin
• Templates

• Three way diff
• SVN
• SourceTree
• Git
• Compare

• Customize Webhelp Output
• Skin Builder
• Customize Theme

• Subversion
• Collaboration
• XML Authoring

• Webhelp Mobile
• Online Documentation
• Single Source Publishing

• Add-on
• framework
• plugin

• WebHelp
• Feedback-enabled
• DITA
• DocBook

• XML Diff & Merge
• Compare directories
• Compare files
• Compare

• SVN repository
• Check Out
• Working Copy
• Automatic Refresh
• Synchronize with repository
• Mark as Merged
• Update
• Compare revisions

With the release of the Beta version of Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0, we aimed to enhance the DITA documentation review and publishing processes for the advanced online collaboration platform.

As we approach the full release, planned for October, we highly value your feedback and invite you to actively participate in shaping the final version of Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0. Your insights will play a crucial role in refining this cutting-edge collaboration platform. Thus, we invite you to join us for an exclusive webinar where we will showcase the significant improvements and features of Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0 Beta.

The topics of this webinar will focus on the following features and improvements of Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0 Beta:

• Projects: Seamlessly integrate with Git repositories to track reviewers feedback on dedicated branches for each review task.
• Enhanced Publishing Capabilities: Effortlessly generate WebHelp or PDF outputs with new publishing features. Customize the output via the integrated Oxygen Styles Basket visual customization tool, providing easy and flexible customization options.
• Improved Review Workflow: Review task owners now have the ability to close a review, allowing time to address feedback effectively.
• Optimized User Experience: Alongside the introduction of numerous new features, Oxygen Content Fusion's user interface has undergone enhancements, now offering an improved and refreshed look and feel.

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The latest release of Oxygen Feedback version 3.0 brought some exciting new enhancements for the modern comment management platform, including the implementation of content indexing and search functionality. This webinar aims to provide details about the various features that were implemented for those who want to enable content indexing and search functionality, as well as information about other new features that were implemented in version 3.0.

Some of the things that you can expect to be covered in this webinar include:

• Information about the new Content Indexing feature.
• Details about the automatic re-indexing functionality.
• Ability to choose from various different languages for the indexing process.
• Searching the WebHelp Responsive output.
• An overview of various other new features that were added in version 3.0.

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The journey into the world of AI continues by exploring its application in conjunction with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fix (SQF) for content verification and correction. In this webinar, we aim to offer a comprehensive overview of AI, highlight the potential advantages it brings, and shed light on the challenges we encounter when utilizing AI for these purposes.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into the intersection of AI and content validation by exploring topics such as:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• OpenAI/Generative Pre-trained Transformer
• Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes (SQF)
• Implementing AI in Schematron and SQF
• Examples of AI-driven Schematron and SQF Solutions
• Benefits of Using AI in Schematron and SQF

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In recent months, AI technology has advanced to the point where it is now applicable in a wide range of real-world situations. However, the AI-generated content is not always accurate, making it challenging to introduce this technology to end users. On the other hand, this is precisely why technical writers are an excellent fit for AI since they can serve as a mediator between the AI and the end users, using it to boost their productivity while ensuring the content that they deliver is accurate.

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant is a new plugin for the Oxygen XML tools that connects to the Open AI Chat GPT engine to introduce AI technology to support technical writing operations. To keep authors in control, the workflows are optimized to include preview of proposed AI changes and the possibility to refine the results. Custom AI interactions are also possible and you can reuse them easily with the save as favorites support.

During this 1-hour live webinar, we will:

• Showcase the use cases that the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant enables.
• Explore the available actions and see how they can be invoked, refined, and preview their results in the visual diff to understand the document changes.
• See how you can define your own AI processing and mark them as favorites.
• Highlight the tasks best suited for AI technology use.

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A traditional tutorial implies a set of written instructions that the users must follow. Oxygen takes the concept one step further. With our Live Tutorials add-on, the tutorial is embedded within the application itself. The samples for each step are opened automatically, hints are available on request and the mission success is detected automatically.

During this live webinar, we will explore:

• The built-in DITA interactive tutorials.
• How to create new tutorials and journeys.

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Docs as code is a philosophy according to which you should write documentation using the same tools and workflows that software developers use to write code. But it's not so much about the tools, as it is about the workflows and practices involved, such as continuous integration or version control. 

During this event, we will have a look at such a setup using open-source tools and standards that include:

• DITA, as the plain text format we'll use, because it fits the profile and brings additional benefits to the mix: semantics, content reuse, publishing options. 
• Storage and version control using Git (trunk-based development). 
• Project validation in continuous integration pipelines.
• Translation workflows based on Fluenta:
  • Creating and sharing a Fluenta configuration.
  • Sending the DITA project to the translation service provider as XLIFF.
  • Generating the translated version of the DITA project once the XLIFF returns from translation.

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During this webinar, you will discover the new features included in the latest release of the Oxygen XML Web Author related to DITA Map files editing, as well as other general enhancements that will improve your editing experience, regardless of the edited document type.

You'll also witness firsthand a Git workflow demonstration that allows Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to contribute content in a Git repository without having to solve conflicts and without them having to learn and remember DITA details or a specific topics structure. SMEs will seamlessly concurrently edit all the DITA topics by opening just the DITA Map that shows all topics expanded, also having the possibility to easily get around, sort topics, and add new ones.

Here are some features that will be presented during this event:

• Conflict-free Git workflow with concurrent editing for SMEs with no DITA knowledge required
• How to insert new DITA topics with inline actions
• How to navigate and edit a DITA Map with Outline pane
• The Smart Paste improvements
• The new actions from the Floating Toolbar

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The PDF customization journey isn't finished just yet! Have you ever thought about controlling the change bars display, modifying your PDF viewer behavior or centering and rotating your tables?

You're in luck because we created for you a webinar in which the following topics will be covered in great detail:

• Advanced images display
• Advanced tables display
• Change bars customization
• PDF Viewer control

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With the latest release of the Oxygen suite of products, additional support was developed for validating XML and JSON files via Oxygen XML Scripting.

This webinar will cover details about this newly implemented validation scripting support, as well as showing examples of how to use it efficiently. You will learn how to validate files or directories from a command line interface. You can check that your documents are valid from an integration server and you can generate reports in several formats (text, XML, JSON, or an HTML visual format). We won’t be stopping there, as we will also be looking at how you can use transformation or comparison scripts.

During this 1-hour live event, we will focus on showing you the following:

• How to use the Validation command-line script
• How to validate against a specific schema file
• How to validate using the default Oxygen validation scenarios
• How to use validation scenario from either a scenarios file or a project file
• How to generate the validation results in various formats (YAML, JSON, XML, HTML)
• How to run validation on an continuous integration server CI/CD
• How to use the Transformation command-line script
• How to use the Comparison/Merge command-line script

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OpenAPI is a community-driven open specification that defines a language-agnostic interface used to describe, produce, consume, and visualize RESTful APIs and web services.

AsyncAPI started as an adaptation of the OpenAPI specification, used for describing asynchronous messaging APIs.

OpenAPI/AsyncAPI documents describe the API (or its elements) and are represented in either YAML or JSON formats.

During this live webinar, you will discover the support offered in Oxygen to create, edit, and validate OpenAPI/AsyncAPI documents as well as how to test, and generate documentation for OpenAPI documents. By joining this live event, you will get the chance to learn the following:

• How to create OpenAPI/AsyncAPI documents
• How to edit and validate OpenAPI/AsyncAPI documents
• How edit OpenAPI/AsyncAPI documentation in Author mode
• How to generate documentation for OpenAPI components in HTML format
• How to test an OpenAPI, execute API requests, and validate responses
• How to create and run test scenarios

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This webinar will present various powerful tools that are provided in Oxygen that allow you to design, develop, and edit JSON Schemas. We will focus on presenting features ranging from the new intuitive and expressive visual schema Design mode to the JSON Schema documentation generator that includes diagram images for each component.

During this live webinar, you will get the chance to learn and experience an in-depth look at all of these features:

• How to create JSON schemas
• How to use the JSON Schema Design mode
• What changes the JSON Schema version 2020-12 brings to Oxygen
• How to edit and validate JSON Schema version 2020-12
• How to use the new refactoring actions
• How to visualize and edit complex JSON Schemas
• How to generate documentation for JSON Schema
• How to use OpenAPI with JSON Schema

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Some documentation projects require a mix of document formats (e.g. DITA for content, Markdown for release notes, JSON for API documentation). In this webinar, we will demonstrate how you can integrate OpenAPI, Word, Markdown, HTML, and Excel content into your DITA documentation using Oxygen tools and features.

We will cover the following subjects:

• Referencing content from various types of non-DITA resources directly in DITA documents
• Dynamically converting various types of non-DITA resources to DITA while publishing
• Converting various formats into DITA and integrating them into the project

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We all know that the road to becoming advanced in a specific subject is a long and tedious one. But with our help, it doesn’t need to be that difficult anymore!

Your journey into defining the look and format of your PDF documents with the use of CSS continues with another extensive tutorial, this time dedicated to adding custom fonts in your CSS.

After this webinar, you will have all the tools needed to:

• Use System Fonts and WebFonts
• Import and use font files
• Declare fallback fonts
• Set fonts for page-margin boxes.
• Use Oxygen Styles Basket to define fonts
• Create an accessible PDF (PDF/UA)
• Use different fonts based on the language used

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OpenAPI is a community-driven open specification that defines a language-agnostic interface used to describe, produce, consume, and visualize RESTful APIs and web services. OpenAPI documents describe the API (or its elements) and are represented in either YAML or JSON formats.

During this live webinar, you will discover the support offered in Oxygen for OpenAPI documents as well as how to create, edit, test, and generate documentation for OpenAPI documents. By joining this live event, you will get the chance to learn the following:

• How to edit OpenAPI documents in the Oxygen Text mode.
• How to use OpenAPI documents in Author mode - you have access to some form controls, collapsible sections, and other features that help you visualize and edit these types of documents.
• How to test an OpenAPI, execute API requests, and validate responses on the fly to ensure that they work as expected.
• How to generate documentation for OpenAPI components in HTML format, including comprehensive annotations and cross-references.

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The need to customize the appearance of published documentation is something that is being addressed constantly by our users. As a solution, Oxygen WebHelp offers a predefined set of layouts and styles, resulting in several different customization methods or combination of methods.

To get you accustomed to these options, this webinar will walk you through several techniques available for customizing the WebHelp Responsive output.

By joining this live event, you will get the chance to learn the following:

• What are the page types available and their components
• What is the Publishing Template – its purpose, structure, and resources
• Using CSS to change the layout and styles of your output
• Inserting additional HTML content
• How to insert dynamic content using WebHelp Macros
• Adding new functionalities using JavaScript
• How to copy additional resources in the output folder
• Modifying the page structure using XSLT
• Various customization examples

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Oxygen XML Editor provides a powerful and expressive visual schema diagram editor (Design mode) for editing JSON Schemas. The structure of the diagram editor is designed to be intuitive and easy to use.

By joining this live webinar, you will get to see how the Design mode can help both content authors who want to visualize or understand a schema and schema designers who develop complex schemas. You will also get the chance to learn:

• How to create JSON schemas from scratch
• How to use the new Pallet view to add new components
• How to use the drag-and-drop support to design your JSON Schema
• How to use refactoring actions
• How to visualize and edit complex JSON Schemas

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You have now started your journey through DITA to PDF customization, but there is still a long way to go.

In Part 1 – Page Definitions, Cover Page and PDF Metadata, you got to learn how to customize your PDF publications using CSS and make them compliant with all your company documents.

Now, it’s time to move on and learn some great new tips and tricks about the PDF page layout. Join us and, at the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Create a personalized front and back-matter
• Use a Table of Contents and a list of Tables/Figures
• Define custom page-breaks
• Change the page layout
• Use custom PDF bookmarks

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If you are planning to generate nice-looking documents for your company or just as personal projects but the simple mention of CSS makes you uneasy, don’t worry! The Oxygen Styles Basket is here to help you!

In this webinar, you will get to see what exactly is the Oxygen Styles Basket, how it works, and how you can use it to create a customization that works for both your PDF and WebHelp outputs.

After this course you will be able to:

• Define your project/company branding
• Set different styles for your publication content
• Define a PDF cover, global numbering scheme, etc.
• Customize a WebHelp layout

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The already extensive support Oxygen offers for technical authoring can be further expanded with a variety of easy to install add-ons!

This webinar aims to take a deeper look at some of the most popular add-ons that are available and at the types of benefits they provide, how easy it is to install them, as well as offering some ideas for how they can be integrated into your particular authoring workflow.

The add-ons that will be featured in this webinar include:

• The Git Client add-on that contributes a Git client directly in the Oxygen interface.
• The DITA Outgoing References add-on that contributes a side view where you can see all the outgoing references for the current topic.
• The Terminology Checker add-on that highlights matched terms in the Author visual editing mode.
• The Translator Helper add-on that translates content using Google Translate or DeepL Translator to various languages.
• The Writer Helper add-on that helps with the review process, finding similar content, reads content with an operating system specific narrator, and provides Oxygen productivity tips.

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From experience, most companies do not start new DITA-based projects from scratch. They already have the content written in various other formats and they need that content converted to DITA. But once the content is converted, there is still work to be done. It also needs to be refactored to respect various DITA best practices.

To show you how this process can be made as simple as possible, in this webinar, we will cover the following topics:

• How to use the batch documents converter and smart paste for converting content
• How to use the Main Files Support for refactoring across the entire project

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With the latest release of the Oxygen suite of products, additional support was developed for Oxygen XML Scripting in order to compare and merge files or directories.

In this webinar we will cover in detail this newly implemented scripting support, as well as showing you examples on how to use it efficiently. We won’t be stopping here, as we will also be taking a look at how you can integrate it with Oxygen XML Editor.

During this 1-hour live event, we will focus on showing you the following:

• The Compare and Merge Files Command-Line Script - used to compare and merge files and get the comparison results in various formats (YAML, JSON, XML, HTML).
• The Compare and Merge Directories Command-Line Script - with many options to choose from, such as the comparison mode (content, binary, timestamp), the algorithm to be used for the comparison, the "strength" of the comparison algorithm, various "include/exclude" type file filters, various "ignore" type options to refine the comparison results.
• Generating File or Directory Comparison HTML Reports - the support to save the comparison made with Oxygen XML Editor in HTML format.

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Oxygen XML Editor provides the ability to organize your DITA resources in projects. The DITA Sample Project is a best practice example that shows how DITA content can be organized to provide a scalable and flexible project structure.

With this in mind, during the course of this extensive online event, we will go over:

• the DITA Project structure
• using the Main files support to rename or move DITA resources
• creating a unified editing experience through project level settings
• spell check and terminology check project settings
• sharing a framework customization in the project
• sharing a publishing template in the project

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Comparing documents and merging them is one of the most common parts of documentation workflows, for any set of evolving documents, whether it is for a newer version of a product or a simple document that goes through an improvement process.

The possibility to compare and merge documents in a browser allows reviewers or other stakeholders to see what was changed without the headache of needing to install a separate tool. Their productivity can further be improved by sharing a link that opens the file comparison tool with the changes already being highlighted.

With this in mind, this live webinar will get you accustomed to this more efficient method by showing you:

• Where does it fit in Oxygen’s internal workflow and how it is being used by our team.
• What is the 3-way merge and in what cases you can benefit from it.
• How to resolve the conflicts encountered when multiple users edit the same file.
• How to integrate the file comparison tool in a CMS to create a history view.

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To celebrate the release of version 24.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products, a brand-new series of webinars have been created to shed light on the interesting new features and updates implemented in this latest version! Every Wednesday, Oxygen XML will host weekly live events where you can learn great insights from some of the most experienced people in the Tech Comm industry.

The series will start with a webinar in which we will show you how Oxygen now offers even more powerful tools that allow you to design, develop, and edit JSON Schemas. We will be focusing on presenting features ranging from the new intuitive and expressive visual schema Design mode, all the way up to the JSON Schema documentation generator that includes diagram images for each component.

During this live webinar, you will get the chance to take an in-depth look at all of these features, as well as learn:

• How to create JSON Schemas from scratch
• How to visualize and edit complex JSON Schemas
• How to generate JSON Schema documentation

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With the release of Oxygen Feedback version 2.0, we created this immersive live event where you will get the chance to take a deeper look at the latest features implemented in our web-based commenting platform. Also, we will showcase the use of Feedback in conjunction with Oxygen XML Editor so you can learn how to continuously improve your online documentation based on your subject matter experts (SMEs) and community feedback.

This webinar will cover the following topics:

• Integrating Oxygen Feedback in your online documentation
• Receiving feedback from your SMEs and end-users
• Feedback moderation
• User roles and user management (promote/demote users)
• Usage statistics
• Oxygen integration - Easily update your content by accessing the comments stream directly in Oxygen

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With this fourth episode of our Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS webinar series, the journey is coming to an end.

Now you're ready to tackle PDF publishing on your own. Here comes the last tutorial explaining how CSS can be your best asset for PDF publishing. And this time, we will explore some advanced features, such as:

• Hyphenation
• PDF Bookmarks (Level, Text)
• Metadata (Title, Author)
• Text extraction: the oxy_xpath function

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A framework refers to a package that contains resources and configuration information to provide ready-to-use support for an XML vocabulary or document type.

Starting recently, a framework can be created using a special XML descriptor file, either from scratch or by extending an existing built-in framework (such as DITA or DocBook) and then making modifications to it. During this event, we will take an extensive look at this specific method by covering topics, such as:

• What benefits this new approach brings when compared with creating a framework in GUI.
• Exploring various use cases and implement them though the script.
• How to extend existing built-in or custom frameworks.
• What deployment options are available

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We all like custom products and most of the time we invest extra time and energy into customizing our tools to better fit our specific needs and preferences.

In this fourth episode of our Working with DITA in Oxygen series, we will explore several ways of customizing the DITA editing experience according to your desires. This webinar will cover the customization of:

• Author actions - edit existing actions, remove actions or add new ones. Add actions to the main toolbar, the contextual menu, or the content completion window.
• The Author-mode rendering - tailor the visuals of the editing experience using CSS and add in-place actions directly in the Author page.
• Document validation - create new validation rules and provide quick fixes using Schematron.
• The content-completion assistant - automatically insert or reject elements, attributes, and values.
• New document templates - add prefixes or suffixes to the names of your new documents, customize the template icons, mark templates as popular

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We all know that the road to becoming advanced in a specific subject is a long one. But it doesn’t need to be difficult!

Your journey into defining the look and format of your documents with the use of CSS continues with another extensive tutorial, this time dedicated to the global page layout. This means that during this event, you will learn how to create and control PDF pages directly from CSS. To achieve this ability, we will focus on the following subjects:

• @page CSS at-rule
• Page-margin boxes
• Page-selectors (default, front-page, etc.)
• Page orientation
• Column-count
• Page-breaks
• Odd and even pages

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Spring arrived with a fresh new version for the Oxygen XML suite of products!

Version 23.1 of the industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen Publishing Engine was released along with version 1.4 of the Oxygen Feedback comment management platform, and version 4.0 of the Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform.

To see how this release builds upon the always expanding suite of our products, we invite you to join us for an overview and discussion that will allow you to engage with the creative people behind Oxygen. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from features like:

• Concurrent editing and reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's collaboration process.
• The ability to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings wherever they are presented.
• The new Block-Level Comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page.
• Oxygen Styles Basket, the free web-based visual tool that helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or WebHelp output by picking and mixing aspects from galleries.

The panel will bring together George Bina, Alexandru Jitianu, Octavian Nadolu, Cristi Talau, Alin Balasa, and Julien Lacour.

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If you watched our previous webinar on CSS customization and you want to continue your journey into defining the look and format of your documents, here is the second part!

In this webinar, you will learn some more advanced CSS properties and you will apply them on more complex elements:

• CSS combinators
• ::before and ::after pseudo elements
• Lists (ordered and unordered)
• Tables with their caption, header, and footer
• Images (resolution, size, url)

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If becoming advanced in profiling and reusing DITA content is one of your new year's resolutions, then you're in luck! In this third webinar about working with DITA in Oxygen, we will help you achieve just that.

This webinar will cover more advanced DITA concepts, such as:

• Conref ranges - easily create content references to ranges of adjacent (sibling) elements.
• Conref push - an alternate way of creating content references, by injecting element values from the source element into a topic where it is to be re-used.
• Subject scheme maps - create custom controlled values and manage metadata attribute values for an organization or a project without having to write a DITA specialization.
• Profiling attribute groups - used to support situations where an attribute applies to multiple specialized subcategories.
• Key scopes - specify different sets of key definitions for different map branches.
• Branch filtering - set filtering conditions for specific branches of a map.

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Anyone can contribute to the technical documentation with the proper collaboration tools!

Content Fusion is a platform for all, not just for technical writers. You will see how it can positively impact each person involved in the technical documentation process:

• technical writers have full control over the content, they are the gate keepers of the documentation source.
• subject matter experts can create and push documentation drafts to technical writers
• users can propose changes just by following a link in the published output

Along with the presented use-cases, this session will highlight also DITA-specific features as well as some of the new additions to Content Fusion 4, in particular the concurrent editing support, allowing unrestricted access to edited files.

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You want to publish your DITA books and maps in PDF but you are struggling with the process? Be assured that we understand how hard it is to be a novice.

In this webinar, we will teach you how to customize your PDF publications using CSS and make them compliant with all your company documents.

At the end of this crash-course, you will be able to:

• Define specific pages (frontmatter/backmatter, chapters, indexes, etc.)
• Set page sizes and page margins
• Fix content in headers/footers
• Create a cover page with little to no effort
• Add metadata into the final PDF

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DITA content can be published to modern WebHelp Responsive online help format based on HTML5 featuring indexing and search, breadcrumb navigation, table of contents, responsive adaptive layout, and accessible content.

In this webinar, we will take an in-depth look at the WebHelp Responsive output and at the process that allows you to update content continuously by embedding a commenting component to collect your customers’ feedback.

Some of the topics covered in this webinar will include:

• How to publish DITA content to WebHelp Responsive output (pages and layout components, search engine, and publishing template).
• Customizing the output using a Publishing Templates package.
• How to embed the Oxygen Feedback Comments Component to collect customers’ feedback.
• Updating DITA topics integrating community feedback using the Oxygen Feedback Plugin.

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Schematron and Schematron QuickFix (SQF) languages can be used to improve efficiency and quality when editing DITA documents. With their use, you can define actions that will add complex structures in your documents (missing table cells, list conversions, IDs and more) and state integrity requirements in order to help you add content more easily and without making mistakes.

This indispensable webinar will be your step-by-step guide to get started as soon as possible with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. Go over topics, such as:

• Creating business rules with Schematron to avoid the common issues when editing documents.
• Defining SQF actions to correct the Schematron imposed rules.
• Configuring and applying specific Schematron rules on DITA projects.

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Version 23.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products was recently released, boasting 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.

To introduce you to the newly implemented and game-changing features of Oxygen 23, we invite you to join us for an overview and discussion that will allow you to engage with the amazing people that envisioned and developed our latest release. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from features like:

• Concurrent editing in Web Author for unrestricted collaboration.
• Opening DITA maps in the Author visual editing 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.
• Updates to JSON schema support and editing JSON documents visually in Author mode.
• The benefits of integrating the Oxygen WebHelp with the Oxygen Feedback platform.
• And so much more.

The panel will bring together George Bina, Radu Coravu, Octavian Nadolu, and Cristi Talau.

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As you might know, continuous integration (CI) can be efficiently used to run automated scripts to validate changes as soon as they are saved to a remote repository.

To make things easier for you, we will introduce you to Oxygen XML Scripting, a bundle of command line tools that can be executed inside these continuous integration and deployment pipelines. This way, you can make sure that your project is valid and ready to be deployed at any time!

During this event, we will go over topics, such as:

• DITA validation and checking for completeness - a tool that checks DITA maps and topics to see if they are valid and if all of the relationships between them are working.
• Translation Package Builder - a tool for detecting changes, sending them to translation, and applying the translated files.
• Examples on how to integrate these command line tools into integration servers, like Github Actions or Netlify.

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This webinar will present the features of the new Oxygen Feedback comment management platform and showcase its use in conjunction with Oxygen XML Editor to continuously improve your online documentation based on your community feedback.

Some of the topics covered in this webinar include:

• Integrating Oxygen Feedback in your online documentation
• Receiving feedback from your end users (posting comments)
• Comments moderation
• Site users roles
• Site community members management (promote / demote users)
• Site statistics
• Subscriptions model
• Oxygen integration - accessing the comments stream directly in Oxygen

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Have you been looking for a solution that offers support for transforming your DITA content into PDF and WebHelp output?

Look no further! In this webinar, you will be introduced to the Oxygen Publishing Engine – a bundle that contains a DITA Open Toolkit distribution with Oxygen publishing plugins already integrated.

This event will represent a crash-course for you to learn what the Oxygen Publishing Engine is by showing you how to install it, configure it in a Continuous Integration system, and then customize the output.

We will also show its components, various workflows, and you will also get the chance to see how to transform a DITA map document by learning how to:

• Use the “DITA Map PDF – based on HTML5 & CSS” transformation on an integration server using a publishing template for customizing the output.
• Create a custom CSS stylesheet and use it in your transformation to get that extra level of customization for your specific needs.
• Debug the CSS inside both a web browser and Oxygen to see how to choose the correct selectors and properties used for further styling your content.

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As a company grows, so does the need for standardized procedures, and when new people enter the company, they often need to be trained to follow existing procedures.

Web Author comes in handy here, allowing you to build guided procedures where new employees don't require additional training or validation.

During this webinar, you will learn various ways that Web Author can be used to enhance your productivity:

• Guiding new writers has never been this easy. With the help of Schematron Quick Fixes or easy-to-configure contextual actions, users can just follow the on-screen instructions.
• Creating forms and sharing them with other users, with the possibility of automated processing.
• Using Web Author to keep track of a standardized procedures (e.g. release notes) with the possibility of filtering out the completed tasks and only focusing on the ongoing ones.
• Document collaboration with real-time co-authoring. Instead of having read-only access to a document, now you can work alongside other users.

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If you are a technical writer who wants to be able to define the look and format of your document but struggling to grasp the basics of CSS, then this webinar is for you!

In this webinar, we aim to teach you a basic understanding of the CSS layout to help you to have a better understanding of PDF publishing. Be assured that there is no need for you to have any CSS background to learn the concepts explained during this webinar, but we promise to help get you up to speed by teaching you:

• The basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML5.
• How to customize your document with the help of fonts, text, and background colors, and by adjusting the position of elements on your page.
• How to debug your CSS document fast and easy with the help of Oxygen.
• How to put your CSS to good use and obtain a deliverable PDF output.

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Learn how to process XML documents with a combination of XSLT, the most powerful language designed to process XML documents, and Oxygen, the tool that is most suited for this job!

Whether you are a novice or you have been using Oxygen for years, this webinar will introduce you to a great easy-to-use workflow, as well as many hidden features that you may not have been aware of.

During this webinar, we will also show you how to resolve a variety of problems and how Oxygen can help you accomplish those tasks by introducing you to:

• XSLT editing features, such as the Content Completion Assistant that makes XSLT editing easy and intuitive.
• XSLT validation and how to use Oxygen’s validation abilities with the support of multiple XSLT processors and automatic validation to keep your XSLT document valid at all times.
• XSLT transformations and how to create a simple XSLT transformation scenario and apply it to XML documents.
• XPath Content Completion Assistant that shows the proposed list of XPath functions in the current context, documented with information from the W3C specifications.

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Want to make your DITA authoring experience even better?

This is the second of a series of webinars geared towards helping you to get the most out of your overall DITA experience with the help of Oxygen. This particular webinar will cover some of the most important concepts of DITA: profiling and content references. Learn the benefits of knowing how to reuse and profile content in your documents, and how easy it is to do this in Oxygen.

In this webinar, you will learn the following:

• How to filter content in the published output using profiling attributes. This allows you to obtain various outputs from the same documentation source
• How to combine more profiling attributes in condition sets.
• How to apply DITAVAL filters in Oxygen.
• Various strategies and best practices for reusing DITA content in Oxygen.

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Do you want to have an improved editing experience? A great way to do this is by learning how to create your own custom Author mode actions.

Custom actions are very easy to create, as they are based on nothing more than a configuration file and ready-to-use built-in operations. Throughout this webinar, you will learn how to implement them and you will see various use cases where they can be used.

At the end, we hope that you will be full of great ideas on how to improve your overall editing experience by learning how to:

• Embed author actions inside a document. This will allow you to present only the relevant actions in a specific context, thus improving the editing experience for novice users.
• Write actions that make use of XLST, XQuery, or JavaScript to edit a document.
• Store the actions to external files so that they can be easily shared between frameworks.

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Due to the increasing popularity of using CSS as the customization layer for the DITA to PDF transformation, Oxygen provides a DITA-OT plugin and an engine that generates PDF using CSS called Oxygen PDF Chemistry, making the DITA PDF customization a lot easier, and immediately available to all Oxygen XML Editor/Author users.

As the publishing is triggered by scripts or on integration servers, we also provide the possibility to run the same transformation pipeline that you trigger in Oxygen from a script. This is made available by the new product called Oxygen Publishing Engine, which is the DITA publishing part from Oxygen. 

This webinar will dive into all of these capabilities so you can better customize the PDF output of your DITA project by addressing topics such as: 

• Customizing tables
• Customizing preserved elements (such as code blocks)
• Content marking and flagging
• Publishing a single topic
• Properly debugging the CSS

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The latest Oxygen Content Fusion features empower technical authors to have the ability to restrict task access only to specific collaborators and to track documents revisions. Also, the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are involved earlier in the content-related workflows. They can now be proactive and provide content drafts in a structured format or fill in templates designed by technical authors.

For technical authors, sharing XML content is now easier, from complex DITA projects with keys and profiling to DocBook or any other XML vocabulary.

In this webinar, you will learn how you can use Oxygen Content Fusion to:

• Share or reassign ownership of tasks
• Assign tasks only to specific collaborators
• Share complex DITA files that contain key definitions and profiled content
• Share interlinked files in any XML format
• Share templates with SMEs that will be filled in with technical data
• Receive content drafts from SMEs in a structured format
• Track the documents revisions

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Web Author comes with out-of-the-box solutions for authoring, but its main strength comes from the vast amount of customization possibilities, providing you with various solutions to address your needs. This webinar aims to inspire you with some of the most exciting ways to improve the authoring experience. You will learn various ways Web Author can be customized and about new framework customizations.

Some of the subjects include:

• Validation for Markdown documents
• Text-to-markup corrections
• How to easily navigate through large documents with the Outline view
• In-place actions
• Diff as a service

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This webinar focuses on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen XML Editor, covering everything from creating DITA maps and topics from scratch to basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. You will also learn how to edit maps and topics, create references, insert media objects, tables, and other elements, as well as how to benefit from intelligent features such as validation and completeness check for DITA maps.

Covered topics:

• The DITA UI perspective
• Creating and editing maps and topics
• Using the DITA Maps Manager
• Validate and Check for Completeness
• Basic publishing using predefined scenarios

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Markdown is a lightweight, plain text markup language and many subject matter experts (such as developers, or engineers) prefer to use it. In this webinar, you will see how Oxygen supports them with features such as:

• Editing support
• Conversion to other formats, like HTML or DITA
• Using Schematron rules to validate and check for completeness a Markdown file
• MDITA, the authoring format of LwDITA that uses Markdown to structure information

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Oxygen provides a specialized JSON and JSON Schema editor with a variety of editing features, helper views, and useful tools. In this presentation, you will see an overview of the JSON and JSON Schema support, as well as the new additions, such as:

• An instance generator from a JSON Schema
• XSD to JSON schema converter
• Generate JSON Schema from JSON instance
• JSON Schema annotations
• Schematron validation for JSON

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Oxygen provides support for generating HTML5 and XHTML5 documents, and support for editing and validating XHTML5 files. Now Oxygen Editor introduces full HTML5 support, providing features such as:

• Specialized text-based and visual-based editing
• Syntax highlights based on the HTML5 specification
• Content completion based on the HTML5 schema
• Outline view that displays the document structure
• Validation against the W3C validator, including batch validation
• Emmet plugin for high-speed coding and editing

Join us to discover the HTML support in Oxygen!

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A variety of add-ons are available that can be easily installed to enhance the functionality of Oxygen XML Editor. This webinar aims to take a deeper look at some of the most popular add-ons that are available. You will see how easy it is to install them, the types benefits they provide, and some ideas for how they can be integrated into your particular authoring workflow. Some of the add-ons that will be featured include:

• The Git Client add-on that contributes a Git client directly in the Oxygen interface.
• The Batch Converter add-on that can be used to convert multiple files from one type to another.
• The DITA Outgoing References add-on that contributes a side view where you can see all the outgoing references for the current topic.

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Version 22.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products was released recently and it features the most robust list of additions and improvements in recent years. This webinar will provide a detailed look at some of the most requested and significant features that were added in version 22.0. The primary areas of focus will be:

• New features and improvements for DITA authors.
• New possibilities for DITA Publishing, particular for CSS-based PDF output.
• The benefits of the newly added support for the DITA-OT Project configuration file.
• The most significant improvements added in Web Author and Content Fusion.
• A glimpse of various updates for JSON, HTML, and Markdown users.

Implementing DITA with a small team of technical writers does not have to be expensive or difficult to set up. We'll go through the steps of implementing a DITA solution using GitHub for storage and workflow and Oxygen XML Editor for editing. We’ll also look into how you can automate publishing and receive feedback from your end users. As a practical example we’ll look into how editing, collaboration and publishing on the Oxygen XML Blog works.

Technical documentation is rarely created by lone writers, so there is a constant need for collaboration. Collaboration can be with other writers or with people with other roles, usually referred to as subject matter experts, who may be part of your organization or external experts.

In order to be successful, the collaboration needs to be enabled by integrating it as part of the usual processes or workflows each user performs.

In this presentation, we will explore a few collaboration scenarios that show how to implement continuous improvement loops for published documentation, how to integrate documentation as part of the product development workflow, and how immediate collaboration can take place.

Within the past year, the Oxygen developers devoted a lot of time and effort into making the JSON support as robust as other document types. This webinar will explore the Oxygen JSON support and the new features that were added in Oxygen 21.

Some of the features and improvements that you will see include:

• Editing JSON documents
• Validating JSON documents
• Querying and transforming JSON documents
• Converting JSON documents
• Future plans

To address comments and requests by the XML community, this webinar will provide an exploration of Oxygen XML Editor/Author from the perspective of a new user. It is meant to be a guide to help users get started accomplishing tasks in Oxygen as quickly as possible.

Some of the things you will learn include:

• An overview of the interface
• Shortcuts and useful actions
• How to configure the toolbars and helper views
• How to migrate non-XML documents to DITA or other XML standards
• How to create a project
• How to create new documents
• Validating documents
• Creating output
• Configuring options
• Search operations
• Inserting tables, images, links, etc.
• Helpful tools

DITA is a great choice for writing technical documentation. Ideally, all contributors to a project should use it to provide content. But sometimes, subject matter experts (such as developers, or engineers) prefer to contribute content in another format. We will explore what possibilities arise when this other format is Markdown, a good match for structured authoring cases in which a minimal markup is sufficient.

Some of the topics covered by this webinar include:

• Structured authoring
• Content and markup
• What are DITA's strengths
• What are Markdown's strengths
• Getting DITA format directly from the SMEs
• Getting another format (Markdown, HTML) from the SMEs and integrating it into the DITA pipelines
• Benefits of each solution
• Challenges that arise when choosing one solution over another

Starting with version 21, the Oxygen Content Fusion connector plugin comes bundled with Oxygen XML Editor/Author. This webinar will provide a detailed look at how to use Content Fusion to collaborate with colleagues during the XML document creation or review process. We will also present details about using your own On-Premise Enterprise Server and various possibilities for customizing Content Fusion to suit your organization's specific needs.

Some of the things you will see include:

• How easy it is to share documents with reviewers
• How to use Content Fusion from a reviewer's perspective
• How to share a template and guide collaborators to provide initial content
• How to communicate with colleagues within the Content Fusion interface
• How to merge suggested changes back into the original content
• How to get the most out of Content Fusion using your own on-premise Enterprise Server
• Numerous possibilities for customizing Content Fusion
• Future plans

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A detailed exploration of Oxygen Content Fusion, the new collaboration platform designed to make documentation review processes as efficient and productive as possible. You will see how easy it is for a content author to install Content Fusion, share documents, and merge the suggested changes back into their original content. You will also see how simple and intuitive it is for the reviewers to access the documents, suggest changes, and communicate with the content author directly from the Content Fusion interface. Finally, you will see details about using your own Enterprise Server and various possibilities for customizing Content Fusion to suit your organization's specific needs.

The intended audience is content authors, subject matter experts, managers, and anyone involved in the documentation collaboration process.

• Content Fusion
• Collaboration
• Documentation
• Review
• Content author
• Subject matter expert share documents
• Merge documents

An exploration of Oxygen's less commonly known, but helpful features. Oxygen comes with a lot of functionality specifically designed to enhance your overall productivity. We will explore many of these features, useful shortcuts, side views, specialized toolbars, drag and drop behavior, and editing quirks that will make working with Oxygen more enjoyable.

You will discover a lot of useful features in Oxygen XML Editor, related to:

• Find/replace functionality
• Using your Project view for batch operations
• Shortcuts to navigate between opened documents
• Various Text-editing mode actions and behaviors
• Various visual Author-editing mode actions and behaviors
• Specialized toolbars
• Useful Side views
• Useful tools
• Import functionality
• Various useful global settings

An introduction to setting up and organizing a new DITA project. This webinar is meant to provide guidance and best practice techniques for creating a DITA project from scratch. Some of the things that will be covered include:

• Organizing your project
• Integrating Oxygen with a Git repository
• Migrating other document types to DITA
• Creating document templates with authoring hints
• Organizing your reusable content
• Various helpful refactoring actions
• Saving and sharing project-level options

A step by step guide to getting started with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. When you work on a project, there are a number of constraints or rules that you need to enforce that are specific to that project and cannot be easily expressed in the XML Schema or DTD that describes the document structure. Schematron provides a validation layer that can express and enforce these project-specific rules and Schematron Quick Fixes allows you to specify automatic fixes that can be applied to the documents. Join us to see

• How to create business rules with Schematron
• How Schematron rules are applied in the Oxygen editing environment
• How to enforce specific Schematron rules on all your XML files in a project
• How to develop Schematron Quick Fixes to make it very easy to solve the reported problems

• Schematron Rules
• Quick Fixes

An introduction to Oxygen framework customization. Oxygen offers extensive built-in support for a number of XML languages, such as DITA or DocBook, but the same level of support can be configured for any XML vocabulary. In this webinar, we will take a commonly-used XML model, PI-Mod, and we will create an Oxygen framework that will provide ready-to-use support for PI-Mod XML documents. We will cover:

• Creating the PI-Mod framework configuration
• Setting up validation and publishing
• Creating the CSS styling required to visually edit a PI-Mod document in the Author mode
• Developing various actions to help the writer while working with PI-Mod documents

• Framework
• Create Oxygen Framework

An in-depth look at Oxygen's Publishing Templates feature. Oxygen XML Editor/Author includes some predefined publishing templates that can be selected when configuring a DITA to WebHelp or PDF transformation scenario, but you can also create your own custom templates to define numerous aspects of the layout and style of the output. This webinar is meant to be a tutorial for creating and customizing a publishing template. I will show you how to create a custom template for WebHelp Responsive output, some specific examples of customizing various aspects of the output, and then how to use and customize the same template for PDF output.

• Publishing Templates
• Dita
• WebHelp
• WebHelp Responsive
• PDF
• Custom Templates

An overview and tutorial for creating and executing unit tests for XSLT and Schematron. A key requirement for any project is the ability to write unit tests that will ensure that you don't alter existing functionality while the project evolves. The XSpec framework is a great tool for writing such tests for XSLT and Schematron, which is why Oxygen offers built-in support for writing these tests. In this presentation, you will see:

• A short presentation of the Test Driven Development concept and an overview of the XSpec framework
• How to create and execute XSpec test scenarios in Oxygen for XSLT and Schematron
• An Oxygen plugin designed to improve the default XSpec support and speed up XSpec test scenario development

• Oxygen
• XSpec
• XSLT
• Schematron
• Unit Testing

In this webinar, we will explore some of the new features and improvements that were added in Oxygen XML Editor 20. The subjects that we will discuss include:

• Customizing WebHelp Responsive publishing templates
• New refactoring actions and validation options for DITA users
• New features in Oxygen XML Web Author
• Productivity enhancements for XSLT developers
• Schematron Quick Fix improvements
• Some exciting new Add-ons that extend Oxygen's functionality
• Improvements in writing unit tests for XSLT and Schematron using the XSpec framework

• Oxygen
• DITA
• Collaboration
• Documentation

In this Webinar we will present an in-depth view of our documentation workflow to show real world use-cases of how you can use Oxygen products to efficiently and thoroughly collaborate with everyone involved in the documentation process. Some of the details that will be discussed include:

• An overview of the Oxygen team's documentation workflow
• Using an issue tracking application (such as JIRA) for collaboration between all departments
• Using Oxygen Content Fusion for collaboration between the documentation team and developers
• Using Oxygen XML Web Author for collaboration between the support team and documentation team
• Using a combination of tools (JIRA, GitHub, Web Author) for collaboration between the quality assurance team and documentation team
• Using Oxygen XML Editor and a version control system (such as Git) for collaboration between developers and the documentation team
• Using the Oxygen WebHelp system for collaboration between end users and the documentation team

• Oxygen
• DITA
• Collaboration
• Documentation
• Content Fusion
• Web Author

In this webinar, we will explore some of the new DITA-related features that were added in Oxygen 19. The features that we will discuss include:

• Using the "Fast Create Topics" feature to quickly create multiple DITA topics at once
• Easily converting between DITA topic types
• Automatically updating references to DITA resources using "Master Files" support
• Using the "DITA Reusable Components" view to quickly find keys and insert references
• Checking for references to resources that reside outside the DITA map folder
• Using the Content Completion Assistant to select ID values when inserting key references
• Customizing the output using Oxygen PDF Chemistry

• oxygen
• DITA
• Fast Create Topics
• DITA Reusable Components
• Oxygen PDF Chemistry
• Content Completion Assistant

As a technical writer for Syncro Soft who came from a background of writing in "unstructured" authoring applications (such as MS Word), I have a unique perspective for using Oxygen to write and publish DITA documentation. In this webinar, I will discuss:

• My experience of coming from an "unstructured writing" background to learning "structured authoring" with DITA.
• Our company's documentation workflow and various ways we collaborate as a team.
• Various features in Oxygen that I use as a technical writer to get the most out of DITA authoring.

Multimedia content is essential for present-day systems and Oxygen provides support for rendering video and playing audio files directly in its user interface. Additionally, Oxygen can render animated and interactive SVG drawings, and you can interact with the SVG objects directly in the Author mode. Oxygen also offers a graphical editor for creating interactive image maps for DITA, DocBook, TEI ,and XHTML documents. Join us to find out just how easy it is to create modern content with Oxygen and offer it to the world in HTML5-based output formats, such as WebHelp!

A key requirement for an XSLT project is the ability to write unit tests since these tests ensure that you don't alter existing functionality during the project's lifespan. The XSpec framework is a great tool for writing these tests, which is why we integrated it into Oxygen a few years ago. Recently, a new XSpec version was released (0.5.0) and we have also integrated that into Oxygen. In this presentation, I will cover:

Covered topics:

• A short presentation of the XSpec framework
• How to create and execute XSpec test scenarios in Oxygen
• An Oxygen plugin designed to speedup scenario development

Oxygen XML Editor provides support for working with projects, allowing you to organize your files so you can easily access resources relevant to a project. More than this, Oxygen projects give you batch operations that can be performed on all or selected resources and most of the options can be set at the project level, thus facilitating sharing them with your team.

Covered topics:

• Project structure and the Oxygen Project view
• How Oxygen keeps track of the editing context for each project
• Storing options at the project level
• Use cases for using projects including project specific layouts and customizing the authoring experience for a project
• Project specific transformation scenarios
• Performing actions on multiple files
• Master files support
• Refactoring actions

In this webinar we explore DITA 1.3 functionality and how Oxygen XML Editor supports you to take advantage of the new DITA 1.3 features.

Covered topics:

• New domain modules and information types
• Ready-to-use MathML and SVG
• Key scopes
• Branch filtering
• Relax NG constraints and specializations and more

In this webinar we explore DITA publishing options from Oxygen XML Editor including different HTML formats, PDF, EPUB, etc. and how these can be customized.

Covered topics:

• Customizing a transformation scenario, changing parameters
• Publishing using multiple scenarios
• WebHelp customization using the skin builder
• Responsive WebHelp templates
• The WebHelp feedback system
• CSS-based PDF output
• Propagate change tracking and comments to published formats
• Using a different DITA-OT versions

This webinar focuses on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen XML Editor, covering everything from creating DITA maps and topics from scratch to basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. You will also learn how to edit simple topics, create cross references, insert images and tables and how to benefit from intelligent features such as smart paste and validate, and check for completeness.

Covered topics:

• Creating maps and topics
• Using the DITA Maps Manager
• Simple topic editing, cross references, working with tables and images
• Drag-and-drop and smart paste
• Validate and Check for Completeness
• Basic publishing using predefined scenarios

When editing documents there are various rules that you want your content authors to follow, such as grammar rules, document structure guidelines, business requirements, style preferences, or rules for the generated output. To enforce these rules, companies often use grammar checking apps, custom schemas or best practice guides. For content authors, there are usually too many rules to remember them all when writing content. The best approach for this challenge is to signal the user when a rule violation is detected and offer suggestions to help them solve possible rule problems and maintain integrity in their documentation.

Covered topics:

• Guiding users to choose the correct markup in certain situations
• Imposing a set of business rules
• Identifying potential problems in generated output
• Solutions for fixing the signaled rule violations

This webinar focuses on advanced features that justify the return of investment you get from using DITA. REUSE is the key word and it can be implemented either directly through content references or indirectly through profiling/conditional content.

Covered topics:

• Reuse though content references
• Indirect reuse through keys: defining keys, making key references and content key references
• DITA Filtering also known as profiling or conditional content
• Validate and check for completeness in the context of reuse
• Advanced use of profiling using DITA subject schemes

Schematron solves certain limitations that other types of schema have when validating XML documents since it allows the schema developer to define the errors and control the messages that are presented to the user. Therefore, Schematron makes the validation errors more accessible to users and helps to ensures that they understand the problem. These messages may also include hints to help the user to fix the problem, but this doesn't complete the solution since the user still needs to manually correct the issue. This may cause users to waste valuable time and also creates the possibility of making additional errors while trying to manually fix the reported problem. Schematron Quick Fixes provide automatic actions to fix validation errors, thus offering a complete solution, while saving time and avoiding the potential for causing other issues.

Covered topics:

• How SQF integrates with Schematron
• Introduction to SQF by examples
• Schematron Quick Fix language
• Using SQF and XSLT to develop complex fixes
• SQF use case (error correction, refactoring, automatic tagging, etc.)

Oxygen XML Editor 17 updates the Web SDK to offer a fully featured web editor with a HTML5 + JavaScript user interface, adaptive to every device to work both on desktop and mobile devices.

Oxygen XML Editor version 17 sets the highest standard for XML development and XML authoring. It comes with important functionality updates and focuses on design to make your work not only productive, but also enjoyable.

Oxygen XML Editor version 17 focuses on design to make your work not only productive, but also enjoyable.

The new user interface features Retina/HiDPI icons to make everything look crisp and beautiful, and an optional graphite color theme. Also, the toolbars are configurable down to action level, giving you full control of your work environment.

It is important to have documents without errors, but not all users know how to fix the errors from the documents. Even if they do know, ideally they should use a quick and automated solution.

Oxygen does not only report errors, it also helps you correct them automatically through the Quick Fix support, which provides automatic fixes for XML documents validated against XSD, Relax NG, and Schematron schemas. In the case of Schematron, the schema developer takes full control over the Quick Fix actions, being able to offer custom solutions to any detected issue using the Schematron Quick Fix language.

The webinar includes:

• Generic Quick Fix support in Oxygen
• Quick fix support for XML validated against XSD
• Quick fix support for XML validated against Relax NG
• Schematron Quick Fix language
• Developing custom quick fixes in Schematron

The XML Refactoring tool helps you change the structure of your XML documents.

It offers a wide variety of operations, such as renaming, deleting, and inserting elements and attributes. If the provided operations are not enough, you can create custom refactoring operations and share them with other team members. All of them are available through a friendly user interface and can be applied across a set of multiple files.

This presentation is structured in two parts:

• The user perspective. In this part we will use the predefined operations to solve some common use cases.
• The developer perspective. In this part we will present how to create a complex custom operation and how to share it with your team.

Oxygen XML Editor 17 comes with many new additions to the DITA support.

Topics and maps offer a choice of main rendering styles, as well as the option to add or subtract style layers. Guided DITA authoring was implemented as two optional style layers that allow you to see inline hints and actions. The CSS-based PDF transformation automatically uses the CSS styles you select for authoring, so that you can reuse the same CSS files when publishing DITA to PDF. Both DITA-OT 1.8 and 2.0 are supported and integrating a new transformation is greatly simplified for annotated transformation types, as Oxygen will automatically discover their parameters.

The DITA to WebHelp transformation optimizes the page loading time and provides context-sensitive help support, SEO resources, and LDAP authentication. The WebHelp output that now supports both RTL scripts and Japanese content can be easily embedded in a page.

This webinar presents the XSLT Quick Fixes functionality in detail and then describes some of the other important features in Oxygen.

Topics covered:

• XSLT refactoring actions
• Support for developing XSLT stylesheets for Saxon CE
• XPath execution over multiple files
• The Ant editor

Oxygen excels in offering support for XSLT technology. This webinar covers XSLT development in Oxygen.

Topics covered:

• XSLT editing
• Validation
• Transformations
• XSLT documentation
• XPath content completion

Oxygen excels in offering support for XSLT technology. This webinar covers XSLT development in Oxygen.

Topics covered:

• Organize your stylesheet in multiple modules
• Re-use modules from multiple stylesheets
• Edit modules in context with the help of master files
• Intelligent search and refactoring actions

Oxygen excels in offering support for XSLT technology. This webinar covers XSLT development in Oxygen.

Topics covered:

• XSLT debugger
• XSLT profiler
• Integrated unit testing

In an ideal world, all documentation content would come in one format (and that format should be DITA). But let's face it, content produced in most companies is diverse and comes in many forms and sizes.

So, how can we single source everything? Can we integrate contributors who use formats such as language-specific API documentation, HTML, Markdown, or even Excel spreadsheets or database tables in a DITA-based workflow? Could we convert everything to DITA on the fly? Could we use a magic glass to perceive various data sources as DITA?

We may try to convince everybody to produce DITA content but this may not be always possible. Instead, we can accept these diverse data formats but look at them as different ways of encoding DITA. So, if we put the right decoder in place we will obtain our DITA content.

This webinar focuses on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen, covering subjects such as creating DITA maps and topics from scratch, as well as basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. You will also learn how to edit simple topics, create cross references, insert images and tables, and how to benefit from intelligent features such as smart paste, validate, and check for completeness.

Topics covered:

• Creating maps and topics
• Using the DITA Maps Manager
• Simple topic editing, cross references, and working with tables and images
• Drag-and-drop and smart paste
• Validate and Check for Completeness
• Basic publishing using predefined scenarios

This webinar focuses on advanced features that justify the return on investment you get from using DITA. RE-USE is the key word and can be implemented either directly through content references or indirectly through profiling/conditional content. We will also explore publishing by showing how you can change transformation parameters and how you can obtain multiple output formats from DITA.

Topics covered:

• Re-using content
• Keys: defining keys, making key references and content key references
• Validate and check for completeness using profiling conditions and DITAVAL filters
• Advanced profiling using Subject Schemes maps
• Customizing a transformation scenario, changing parameters
• Publishing using multiple scenarios, each having a profiling condition set applied
• Using a different DITA-OT

In this webinar, we present the Profiling Styles functionality in detail and then go through some of the other important features in Oxygen.

Topics include:

• Setting table properties
• WebHelp Skin Builder
• Extending frameworks

People are usually afraid of using XML authoring because they perceive this to be a lot more complicated than using non-structured documentation, such as a word processing application. The authoring support for XML has been continuously improved in Oxygen and provides user-friendly interfaces, allowing less experienced users to work with XML. These interfaces are a lot easier to use than word processors. In this webinar, we will show a few examples of how Oxygen can make XML editing accessible to everyone, and how you can provide similar user interfaces to edit your own XML formats.

Structured content is considered fundamental to content strategy and an organization's ability to deliver content where it is needed across a wide variety of devices and media. However, in the past, authoring structured content has been quite challenging. Coding raw XML and WYSIWYG authoring is not feasible for most authors. Starting with version 14, Oxygen introduced form controls as a new approach to authoring, hiding the complexity of XML without obscuring the structure we are trying to capture or creating hard-to-understand errors.

For this webinar, Oxygen invited Mark Baker, owner of Analecta Communications and consultant in structured authoring and topic-based writing, to explore a business case for forms-based structured authoring.

Topics covered:

• Why structured authoring is critical to the modern enterprise
• The limitations of current structured authoring methods
• How forms-based authoring addressed these limitations
• How forms-based authoring hides XML syntax better than WYSIWYG
• How forms-based authoring at last delivers the ideal of separating content from formatting
• A demonstration of forms-based authoring in Oxygen
• The benefits to the organization from adopting forms-based authoring

When collaboratively working on documents, support for reviewing is a must have. Oxygen provides advanced reviewing capabilities, including change tracking, annotations/comments, and highlights that work automatically with any XML vocabulary. There are also visual tools to allow you easily see and manage changes and comments in order to get the final reviewed document. This webinar will present the reviewing functionality and how you can take advantage of it in your XML documents.

The XML Schema version 1.1 adds numerous features that improve the usability of the XML Schema standard. These features include assertions, conditional type assignments, open content, override support, default attributes, negative wildcards, substitution for multiple elements, and more. This webinar presents an overview of these XML Schema features, how they work on simple examples, and how you can use them in Oxygen. This is a great opportunity to discover what XML Schema 1.1 makes possible, as well as how easy it is to develop schemas with Oxygen.

"Componize Author" brings together best-of-breed Componize DITA CMS and Oxygen into an end-to-end web-based collaborative solution.

With “Componize Author”, you can enforce processes, information models, and content control with:

• Smart re-use, with easy find-and-insert content, cross-reference, and images
• Automated reviewing and commenting workflows
• Customizable and reusable templates and metadata
• Automated versioning, comparing, and audit trails
• How to author online, quickly re-use information and media, complete a collaborative review workflow, and control your content.

Oxygen users already know that XML makes your content flexible. XML allows you to assemble your content for different types of customers and publish it to all the devices they use. Also, users of the content optimization software of Acrolinx already know that by guiding your authors to use simple and clear language, you can create content that your customers will appreciate. In this webinar, you will see how you can do both through a consistent, powerful, and productive user experience.

Topics covered:

• Five key factors to creating XML structured content with ease
• Six dimensions of content optimization for maximum customer satisfaction
• How Oxygen and Acrolinx work together, along with their special support for DITA

• Oxygen
• version 24.1

• Oxygen
• version 24.1

• Oxygen
• version 24.1

• Oxygen
• version 24.1

• What advantages does this new method have over designing a framework in GUI
• Exploring various use cases and implementing them though the script
• Extending the existing built-in or custom frameworks

• Oxygen
• version 24

• Concurrent Editing
• Tracking Changes and Comments
• Full Revision History
• Messaging
• Effortless Editing
• Searching

• Oxygen
• version 23

• Oxygen
• version 23

• Retrieving text content and displaying it in a specific area
• Conditioning the content display based on a document structure
• Calling advanced functions to process your text

• Oxygen
• version 24

• Smart editing of JSON documents based on the JSON Schema
• Specialized JSON tools
• Editing JSON Schema in design mode
• The OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON-LD support

• Oxygen
• version 23

• The Git Client add-on that contributes a Git client directly in the Oxygen interface.
• The Terminology Checker add-on that highlights matched terms in the Author visual editing mode.

• Oxygen
• version 23

• Oxygen
• version 23

• Oxygen
• version 23

• Oxygen
• version 23

• Oxygen
• version 23

• Oxygen
• version 23

A variety of new features and improvements that focus on productivity, performance, and efficiency for XSLT development.

The update for the ISO Schematron standard 2nd edition (ISO/IEC 19757-3:2016). Features an improvements in Oxygen XML Editor related to the new standard. The Schematron QuickFix specification has been updated. Now the quick fix messages can be translated in multiple languages, you can generate fixes dynamically, and you can set flags for the sqf:stringReplace regular expression.

When defining an XML structure in a document, you should also provide some sample code. Depending on the way you are creating this sample code, you may get little or no authoring assistance and the consistency of the sample and the description must be maintained manually. In this presentation, I will show an approach to use the full authoring assistance from Oxygen when writing xml sample code and to automatically validate the consistency of your samples with the description.

During the past few years, the Syncro Soft team has worked on providing solutions for collaboration challenges. These consist of creating a browser-based XML editor (the Oxygen XML Web Author), and a collaboration platform called Oxygen Content Fusion. In this session, we will present the latest updates for these products and some use-cases to show how you can use them to engage your entire team in efficient collaboration when working with XML documents.

More and more users are using the visual Author mode to edit documents. Comparing and merging documents directly in the visual Author mode is more appropriate for them. This makes it easier to see how the compared changes will look in the final output once the changes are merged. There are multiple ways to present the differences in a visual Author mode: using Oxygen built-in actions, from an external tool, or from a plugin.

Using the Oxygen PDF Chemistry processor, you can publish XML to PDF using the CSS pagination specification to style the output. In this presentation, we'll look at how Chemistry can be installed and then go over the CSS pagination standard, work with some small examples, and see how various tweaks can be made (change fonts, page orientation, headers and footers, page counters, and so on).

Plugins are a great way to extend Oxygen's functionality through the many built-in extension points. The plugins are also a way for us to offer useful functionality that can be installed on demand. In this presentation, we will present a number of such plugins that we've developed ourselves and we consider them to be quite useful for various audiences. We will also discuss a few other useful plugins that were developed by Oxygen users.

In this session, we'll go off the 'beaten path', try to find some hidden Oxygen functionality, come up with tips to enhance your editing experience or automate your work, and try to have some fun.

Get a preview of the new functionality that will be available in Oxygen version 20 and let's discuss what else you need and what other things are on the roadmap for Oxygen in the future.

A quick announcement about the DITA-OT project.

Overview of preprocess2, the replacement module for the original preprocessing routines. This session explains the new approach, why we developed it, and why should you care.

Not only is accessible content often mandatory, it's also just a good idea -- assuming you want your content available to as many readers as possible. This session provides an overview of the accessibility features in output generated by the DITA-OT. While many features are automated thanks to the semantic nature of DITA elements, others rely on you to make sure your content includes everything it needs to. While going over these features, we will explain how DITA-OT handles your content, while also giving tips for how to ensure your content reaches users on all sorts of devices.

Jason will discuss and demonstrate how HERE Technologies extends DITA-OT using open-sourced plugins to continuously validate and build technical documentation. See: https://github.com/heremaps/dita-ot-plugins for more details.

The discussion will cover the design and evolution of the plugins, interaction with end users and how you can integrate the plugins in your own workflows, as well as expected future developments.

DITA includes a lot of markup for syntax diagrams, but it's not particularly useful without a way to render the diagrams. Many years ago Deborah Pickett wrote a group of plugins to render those diagrams as SVG, but they were tied to the "html+" transform type and required an obsolete version of DITA-OT. Last year IBM extracted the SVG diagram feature from those plugins, brought it up to date, and made it usable by other formats (including PDF and EPUB). This session will give an overview of Deborah's original plugins, and explain how anybody can use the updated versions with the latest DITA-OT.

Tips and tricks, mistakes made, and lessons learned: how IBM manages a single build environment for hundreds of authors with 50+ plugins -- including new doctypes, new transform types, and externally contributed plugins -- while keeping up with the latest DITA-OT releases.

This talk provides an overview of DITA-OT documentation usage metrics and highlights recent changes to the docs and ideas for future improvements. We’ll close with room for suggestions from the community and a call for contributions with information on the browser-based workflow for suggesting changes.

Description of how Markdown support was added to DITA-OT to make Markdown a first-class file format for DITA content. Focus is on the implementation details and goals instead of Markdown author perspective.