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Oxygen XML Author 15.2
January 22, 2014
Editing XML documents visually is a lot easier in Oxygen XML Author version
15.2 with the intelligent content completion assistance and paste functionality
while additional CSS 3 and CSS 4 features allow for creating more interactive and
user-friendly interfaces. This version features updated components and debuts the
DITA 1.3 support by introducing the troubleshooting specialization.
There are changes in:
XML Visual Editing
Support for the CALS colsep and rowsep
Attributes
The defined row and column separators are rendered in Oxygen for
the cells in CALS tables (a table model used by DocBook, DITA and other XML
frameworks) so you can see immediately how the table will be rendered when the
document is published. You can also easily edit the values for columns using two
checkboxes that appear in the column specification
area.
Text Area Form Control
To be able to create user-friendly interfaces for editing XML,
Oxygen provides support for binding text or attribute values to form
controls such as drop-down lists, checkboxes, lists, etc. A text area form
control is available starting with version 15.2. This is useful for editing
larger attribute or element values and you can also benefit from syntax
highlight capabilities.
Intelligent Schema-Aware Paste
When you paste content Oxygen checks if that is valid at the cursor
position and if that fails then recovery strategies are proposed in order to
keep the document valid. Version 15.2 includes a strategy that automatically
analyzes nearby positions to determine a valid location for that
content.
Content Completion Assistant Flexible Insert Location
You can choose to insert an element that is not valid at the current
position and Oxygen will trigger automatically recovery strategies to place
that element in a valid location. This removes the requirement to position the
cursor in the exact location where an element is accepted, you can insert it
also if the cursor is positioned in a near-by location.
PDF Images Support
The
Author editing mode in Oxygen offers support
for rendering PDF images by installing a third-party library.
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The
Author editing mode in Oxygen can properly
render JPEG images that have an embedded CMYK profile.
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moreTIFF Images Support
The
Author editing mode in Oxygen offers support
for rendering TIFF images.
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moreCSS Support
Support for CSS Level 3 Structural Pseudo-Classes
All the CSS Level 3 structural pseudo-classes are supported
(:root, :last-child,
:first-child, :nth-child,
:nth-of-type, :not(),
:empty, etc.)
Support for the Experimental CSS Level 4 Subject Selector
The experimental
subject selector from CSS Level 4 is now supported. It can match an
element by taking into account its children (for instance, "
chapter! >
title" will match any chapter that contains at least a title).
Support for :hover and :focus CSS
Pseudo-Classes
You can style your XML documents depending on the mouse and cursor
position over the document by using the :hover and
:focus CSS pseudo-classes.
Localize Static Content in CSS
You can use constructs such as
${i18n(key.name)}
directly in the CSS content of a
'before:' or
'after:' pseudo-element to reference keys which can be
translated to multiple languages through the built-in Oxygen
internationalization support.
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Import instructions from CSS documents are passed through the XML
catalog URI mappings.
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By adding a URI mapping to map a specific URI to a CSS file you can
contribute a CSS to be used when rendering any XML document in the
Author editing mode. This allows you to enforce some
specific styles on any XML file without the need to modify the CSS documents
which come with existing document type configurations.
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-oxy-prepend-content
The content used for the ":before" and ":after" pseudo-elements can be
created incrementally from the content specified by these properties. This
reduces the complexity of selectors when the content depends on multiple
conditions.
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Two additional boolean properties are available allowing to display the
associated action's text and/or icon on the button form control
(showText and showIcon).
In-Place Actions Can be Executed Preserving the Current Context
Using the actionContext property, available on the
oxy_button and oxy_button_group form
controls, the author actions associated with these form controls can be executed
either in the context of the element that contains the form controls or in
current context, if that is included in the element that contains the form
control. For example, this allows you to place element specific actions on an
element and execute them to perform actions at the cursor position (if the
cursor is inside that element).
Form Controls Can Edit Attributes from a Specified Namespaces
If the attribute edited through a form control is from a specific
namespace then you can specify it in the edit property as a
QName. The CSS must contain a namespace declaration mapping
the QName prefix to the attribute namespace.
Text Mode
Refactoring Highlighted Content
You can easily manage the occurrences of the text found through
executing an XPath expression or a find operation, using actions that act on all
highlights. You have the option to remove all highlighted content, modify, or
surround the content with a specific tag.
Select Attribute in Text Mode
You are able to quickly select an attribute and its value using triple
click on the attribute's name in the Oxygen stand-alone, and double-click
right before the attributes name in the Oxygen Eclipse plugin.
Automatically Comment a Matching Tag
Oxygen automatically applies the same action on the matching end
tag when you comment a start tag. You can comment one or more start tags and
their matching end tags are also commented so the document remains
"well-formed".
DITA Support
Syntax Highlight in Published Code Blocks Sections
You can add syntax highlight to the codeblock and
pre sections from your published PDF and XHTML-based
outputs by setting specific programming language values to the
outputclass attribute.
Generate Index Page in PDF Using Apache FOP
If you are using index terms in your DITA content, the PDF output
generated with the default bundled PDF processor (Apache FOP) will also contain
the index page at the end of the PDF.
DITA 1.3: Troubleshooting Specialization
You can create new troubleshooting topics based on the included
experimental DITA 1.3 Troubleshooting DTD specialization plugin.
Edit codeblock Sections with Syntax Highlight
Support
An alternate CSS was introduced, so you can now edit
codeblock sections using the Text Area form control. Thus,
you benefit from syntax highlight for a variety of document types.
DocBook 5 Support
Edit Program Listings with Syntax Highlight Support
An alternate CSS was introduced, so you can now edit program
listings using the Text Area form control. Thus, you benefit from
syntax highlight for a variety of document types.
CMS Integration and Connectivity
Accessing Microsoft Office 365 Documents
You can access documents stored on a SharePoint site from your Office
365 account using the "Open URL" action from Oxygen.
Integrating the Author Applet on a SharePoint Site
The Author Component can be embedded in a SharePoint site as a Java
applet. This is a simple and convenient way for you to retrieve, open, and save
XML and XML-related documents stored on your company's SharePoint server,
directly from your web browser. You can embed the applet either on a site that
is located on a standalone SharePoint server, or on your company's Microsoft
Office 365 account.
Syncro SVN Client
Support for SVN 1.8 Servers
Subversion 1.8 repositories are now supported, excepting FSFS-backed
repositories accessed through the "file://" protocol. Working copies having SVN
1.8 format are not yet supported.
Copy/Move Operation Improvements
The SVN Client does its best to copy/move items within the working
copy. In cases when the operation would not normally work in Subversion, a
simple file system copy/move operation is performed. Also, valid destination
directories are detected automatically and presented to you.
Drag-and-Drop Improvements in the Working Copy View
The Drag ad Drop support was extended to all the Working Copy view
modes. Also, compatibility between the SVN Client and external applications was
improved for dragging and dropping items from one to another.
Drag-and-Drop Support in the Repositories View
Copying and moving repository items is made easy through the
drag-and-drop support added in the Repositories view.
Component Updates
Calabash 1.0.16
The Calabash XProc engine was updated to version 1.0.16.
TEI XSL Update
TEI XSL was updated to version 7.7.0.
Saxon 9.5.1.3
The bundled Saxon Enterprise Edition XSLT processor from Saxonica was
updated to version 9.5.1.3.
Other
Bundled Java 7 JRE in the Mac OS X Installation Kit
The Oxygen installation kit for mac OS X (10.7, 10.8, and 10.9)
includes Java 7.
Improved Layouts
You can choose to keep a separate layout for each project, thus when
you move between projects you get not only the last opened files specific to
that project restored, but also the exact layout of views, editors, and
toolbars. Therefore, when you come back to a project you continue exactly from
the state in which you left that project.
Maven 4.0 Framework
A new document type configuration is available allowing to create and
edit Maven 4.0 POM documents.
Distinct Sounds Depending on the Status of the Current Operation
Success and failure of the validation or transformation actions can be
signaled also with a sound. The beep signal has a higher audio frequency when
the operation is successful, and a lower audio frequency when the operation
fails.
Extended API
A detailed list of all changes to the Java API can be found here.
Support for Setting Custom Pseudo-Classes
You can set your custom CSS pseudo-classes on the nodes from the
AuthorDocument. These are similar to the normal XML attributes, with the
important difference that they are not serialized, and by changing them the
document does not create undo and redo edits - the document is considered
unmodified. You can use custom pseudo-classes for changing the style of an
element (and its children) without altering the document.
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The custom URI resolvers set with the pre-existing API
XMLUtilAccess.addPriorityURIResolver(URIResolver)
are now called to resolve image and content references even if the resources are
placed on the local drive. This is useful for indirecting the application to
resolve resources in other places.
Obtain an Existing AuthorDocumentFilter
Implementation
If you have both a plugin and a framework which need to set an
AuthorDocumentFilter, you can obtain the existing filter
implementation and wrap it in your own filter implementation using the API
AuthorDocumentController.getDocumentFilter().
Refresh References in Document Controller
Actions Provider Access from DITA Map Editor Page
Obtain the Existing Unique Attributes Processor
API to Show Multiple Files Chooser
API to Create Input Stream over Editor's Content
The API method
WSEditorBase.createContentInputStream() allows
you to create an input stream over the contents of the editor. The
implementation will take care of using the proper character
encoding.
Create CSS Alternatives Toolbar in the Author Component
Save Global Preferences
Usually the application saves its global preferences when it is closed.
You can force save the global options to their storage location by calling this
API:
PluginWorkspace.saveGlobalOptions().
More Context Information for Editing Attribute Values
Open an Editor with an Imposed Content Type
DITA Map Content Type for a URL Connection
If a DITA Map URL does not have an extension and a custom URL
Connection is implemented for it in the application the method
URLConnection.getContentType() can return the value
application/ditamap to identify it as such.
Better Integration for Form Controls with Custom Edit
If a custom form control performs a custom edit, it can pass the
Runnable containing the edit to the application in order to
integrate better in the editing flow using the API
EditingEvent.customEdit.
Operation Capable of Running a Sequence of Other Actions
The
ExecuteMultipleActionsOperation can execute a
sequence of actions, defined as a list of IDs. The actions must be defined by
the corresponding framework, or one of the common actions for all frameworks
supplied by Oxygen.
ExecuteMultipleActionsOperation.
