Oxygen XML Editor 11.2
March 16, 2010
Author Component
Author Component Integration
An Author mode is available as a component that can be integrated in your Java application or applet. All features available for editing in the Author mode of Oxygen XML Editor are also available in the Author component.
Author for DITA
Support for Reusable Components
A fragment of a topic can be extracted in a separate file for re-use in
different topics. The component can be re-used by inserting an element with a
conref attribute where the content of the component is needed. This
works without any additional configuration and supports any DITA
specialization.
Content References Management
The DITA framework includes actions for adding, editing and removing a content
reference (conref, conkeyref, conrefend
attributes) to/from an existing element.
Fast Loading of DITA Maps
A new schema caching mechanism allows to quickly open large DITA Maps and their
referenced topics.
Author Editing Mode
Preserve Formatting for Unchanged Elements
A new option allows formatting and saving only the modified elements. This
keeps the formatting of the other elements for easy comparing of two versions of the file
in a versioning system.
Schema-Aware Editing Improvements
In case when multiple recovery strategies are validated by the schema
information a dialog box appears presenting the available recovery alternatives. The
dialog box also allows to execute the original action unchanged with the notice that the
result will be invalid according with the schema.
Author API
Update the Outline View
The current selection can be accessed and set in the Outline view from custom
extensions of an Author framework.
Customize the Outline View
The pop-up menu and the displaying and filtering of the tree nodes can be
customized in the Outline view with an extension of an Author framework.
Customize the Breadcrumb
The text displayed in the nodes list of the Breadcrumb and the pop-up menu of
the Breadcrumb can be customized with an extension of an Author framework.
Update the Status Bar
The user can be notified about the state of an operation by updating the
Oxygen status bar. This is usually preferable to displaying a dialog
box.
Text Editing Mode
Improved Handling of Large Documents
The support for large documents has been improved so that the opening and
editing of large documents are faster. Oxygen can also open documents with very long
lines by using automatic line wrapping.
Customizable Font Styles for Syntax Highlighting
A font style (bold/italic) and a background color can be set for any token
(element, attribute, text, etc.) that is displayed in an editor in Text
mode.
XSLT and XQuery
Debug XPath Expressions
The XSLT Debugger is capable to step into XPath 2.0 expressions when using the
bundled Saxon-HE/PE/EE XSLT processor.
XQuery 1.1 Transformations
Saxon 9 EE bundled with Oxygen can be used to run XQuery 1.1
transformations.
New Tools
New Spell Checker
Hunspell (the engine used by OpenOffice, Mozilla and others) is now used by
Oxygen for spell checking. Oxygen ships with dictionaries for English, German,
French and Spanish but users can also install others from the almost 100 dictionaries
available for Hunspell. The old spell checking engine remains available.
Hexadecimal Viewer
Oxygen includes a hexadecimal viewer.
Plugins API
Workspace Access Plugin
A new type of plugin was added. This plugin provides support for customizing
the menus, toolbars and views of the application and for opening and closing documents. It
is active in both Text mode and Author mode of all
opened documents.
Mark Resource Read-Only
A resource opened with a custom protocol plugin can be marked as read-only. It
can be used when opening resources from a CMS (Content Management System).
Open Redirect Plugin
This type of plugin is useful for opening multiple files with only one open
action. For example, when a zip archive or an ODF file or an OOXML file is opened in the
Archive Browser view the plugin can decide to open also a file from the archive in a new
XML editor panel. For example, the document.xml main file from an OOXML file
archive.
SVN Client
Faster Working Copy Load Time
A working copy is cached, so when it is loaded next time in the Working Copy
view, the operation will be much faster than in the previous versions of Syncro SVN
Client.
Automatic Refresh of the Working Copy
The working copy is automatically refreshed every time Syncro SVN Client gains
focus, if changes are detected in the file system. This is done in order to update the
state of the resources modified by external applications.
More Responsive Repository Browsing
You can configure the repository connections timeout and stop non-responsive
repository browsing operations.
Better Handling for Obstructed Resources
Operations correctly take into account obstructed resources.
Print or Save as Image a Revision Graph
Generated revision graphs can be printed or saved as images.
Component Updates
Updated DITA Open Toolkit
DITA Open Toolkit was updated to version 1.5.1 M1. It includes a speed
improvement implemented by caching the grammar pool used for transforming DITA
files.
Updated TEI P5 Framework
The TEI P5 schemas were updated to version 1.6.0. The TEI XSL stylesheets were
updated to version 5.29.
Updated Saxon 9 Processor
The Saxon 9 XSLT/XQuery processor was updated to version 9.2.0.6.
Updated Libxml and Libxslt Libraries
The Libxml library was updated to version 2.7.6. The Libxslt library was
updated to version 1.1.26.
Updated Calabash XProc processor
The Calabash XProc was updated to version 0.9.19.
Updated CSS Validator
The W3C CSS Validator was updated to version 2.0.