Oxygen XML Editor 12.1
Author
Smart Paste (Automatic Conversion to DITA, DocBook, TEI, etc.)
Styled content can be inserted by copying content from Office applications (for
example, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org Writer, and OpenOffice.org
Calc) and Web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.) and pasting it
in the Author editing mode. The styles and general layout of the copied
content (sections with headings, tables, list items, bold and italic text, hyperlinks,
etc.) are converted in the target document equivalent XML elements. Oxygen provides
default implementations for the following document types: DITA, DocBook, TEI, XHTML but
this support can be configured also for user-defined document types.
Automatic Refresh of Included Content
The content referenced by xi:include elements and
conref attributes is refreshed automatically when it is modified and
saved in another editor panel.
Manage Tracked Changes at Word Level
You can accept or reject tracked changes either entirely or only fragments of
them.
Different Visualization Modes of Documents Containing Tracked Changes
New visualization modes allow you to preview documents as if all their tracked
changes were accepted or rejected.
Content Completion Assistant Supports Custom Actions
You can customize the content of the Content Completion Assistant window,
Elements view, Element Insert menus, and Entities view, by adding items (which, when
invoked, perform custom actions) or by filtering the default contributed
ones.
Support for Auto Margins
The CSS properties margin-left:auto and
margin-right:auto are now supported.
New CSS Extension Functions
New CSS extension functions were added to improve string operations
(substring, indexof, and lastindexof)
and to provide XPath evaluation support (xpath).
DITA
Improved WebHelp Output
Oxygen provides support for converting DITA to WebHelp featuring a table of
contents, index navigation and text search capabilities. The new version improves the
search functionality to provide more accurate results and each hit contains a relevance
indicator.
Paste from HTML or Office Documents as DITA
The smart paste support was implemented for DITA to allow easy creation of DITA
content by just pasting it from office applications or from a web browser.
Improved Support for MathML in DITA
A sample DITA MathML domain specialization is available as a document template
which allows editing MathML embedded in DITA content. You can publish DITA with MathML
content into PDF format by using a built-in transformation scenario.
DocBook
Paste from HTML or Office Documents as DocBook
The smart paste support was implemented for DocBook to allow easy creation of
DocBook content by just pasting it from office applications or from a web
browser.
TEI
Paste from HTML or Office Documents as TEI
The smart paste support was implemented for TEI to allow easy creation of TEI
content by just pasting it from office applications or from a web browser.
XSLT and XQuery Debuggers
XSLT 2.0 and XQuery Types in Variables and the XWatch Views
The actual types of the evaluated variables and expressions from the Variables
and the XWatch views are displayed. Sequences are presented in a compact form, specifying
the type and the number of items while the complete sequence content is available in a
synchronized node set/sequence content view.
Enhanced XSLT Context Information
The XSLT Context view shows information from the dynamic context (the context
item inside the sequence of items currently being processed, the current position and the
context size). In general, the context item is the current node from the source that is
processed by the stylesheet and the current sequence is determined by the
xsl:apply-templates or xsl:for-each select expressions.
XML Development
Quick Assist
The Quick Assist feature was designed to improve the development workflow by
offering quicker access to the most commonly used actions during development of XML
Schemas, Relax NG schemas and XSL stylesheets.
Working Sets for Defining the Scope of Search and Refactoring Actions
The search and refactory actions require a scope that specifies what resources
should be searched or modified. This scope can now be defined more easily with the
addition of the working set concepts.
Easy Identification of Relax NG Pattern References
All the occurrences of a Relax NG pattern are highlighted in the text when you
place the cursor inside the pattern name. The occurrences bar from the right side of the
editor displays a summary of the pattern references in the Relax NG schema. The pattern
declaration is rendered with a darker color to make it easier to spot.
Regexp-Aware Content Completion Assistant in the Find/Replace Dialog Box
A Content Completion Assistant window is available to help you edit regular
expressions in the Find/Replace dialog box.
Syncro SVN Client
Support for --ignore-externals Option
You can choose to ignore "svn:externals" definitions when exporting or checking
out from repository or when updating resources in the working copy.
Working Copy Workflow Improvements
All Working Copy view modes contextual menus have the same content and
structure. They are dynamically built and display only the actions which can be applied
for the selected resources.
Working Copy Information Improvements
Information about the resources file type is presented in the Working Copy area
in a new column, which allows you to sort the resources according to the file extension.
The external and switched resources are marked consistently in all working copy
presentation modes. Resources in a real conflict state are marked differently than those
in pseudo-conflict state for an easier identification.
Improved Status Bar Information
The application status bar displays graphical hints corresponding to different
working copy options. For example, you can determine if the ignored/deleted resources are
being presented or not in the working copy or if the externals definitions are
processed.
Improved Diff Editor and Integrated Diff Tool
All compare algorithms were improved, they use less memory and need a shorter
amount of time to perform compare operations. The Diff Editor displays the names of the
last authors who committed the compared files.
Component Updates
SVNKit library was updated to version 1.3.3, which contains various bug fixes
and performance improvements.
Oxygen XML Diff
Improved Compare Algorithms
All compare algorithms were improved. They use less memory, so you can compare
larger files. Also, the accuracy of XML Fast algorithm was increased.
Diff Algorithm Strength
A diff algorithm now has several levels of strength. A high
strength setting increases the chance to obtain all the differences between the compared
resources, but consumes more memory. A low strength level allows you to
obtain partial comparison results, even if the number of differences between the files is
larger. This setting is available in the Options page.
Filter Pairs of Identical Files
"Show Only Modifications" action omits the identical files and directories from
the Diff Directories list. This reduces the clutter and allows you to spot differences
with ease.
Status Bar in Diff Directories Window
The status bar displays the number of differences, the diff algorithm and the
current status of the diff operation.
Flow of Differences in Diff Directories Window
You can navigate through the list of modifications, even across different
files. When the Diff Files tool is started from the Diff Directories, the Go to Next
Modification action allows you to navigate beyond the last modification from the currently
compared files and into the next pair of different files.
Extended API
The Author API was updated with a number of new capabilities. The new SDK
containing the updated API is available from the main developers page: http://www.oxygenxml.com/developer.html. For a list
summarizing the API additions please see http://www.oxygenxml.com/latest-api-changes.html.
Set Title of Editor Tab
An editor panel can have a custom title set through an Author extension or a
standalone plugin.
Rename Element
The name of an XML element can be changed in an Author extension with a simple
Author API call.
Get Current Context Data
The context of the current document position is available through a new method
call added to Author API. The context provides schema-related data about the elements and
attributes allowed at the current cursor position.
Filter Breadcrumb Nodes
An Author extension may decide to exclude some nodes in the list that is
displayed on the top of Author mode.
Persistent Options
A standalone plugin can save user options to the application preferences using
the getOptionsStorage method of PluginWorkspace
interface.
CustomProtocolPlugin Has Access to Workspace
A CustomProtocolPlugin received a
StandalonePluginWorkspace parameter which enables it to access many
components from the Oxygen workspace.
Delete Nodes Actions Have a New Callback Method
A new callback method signals when nodes are deleted in Author
mode.
Access to New Resolver Methods
Two new methods allow you to get access to URIResolver and EntityResolver
objects constructed from the Oxygen current catalogs.
Access to AuthorSchemaAwareEditingHandler
The Author extensions now have access to an
AuthorSchemaAwareEditingHandler instance for handing events generated by
the schema-aware editing mode.
Improved Editor State Change Listener
A new method was added in the WSEditorChangeListener to signal
when an editor is about to be opened.
Component Updates
Updated Saxon 9 Processor
The Saxon 9 XSLT, XQuery and XML Schema processor was updated to the latest
version 9.3.0.4. Oxygen includes Saxon 9 EE (Enterprise Edition) offering access to
all Saxon capabilities including XSLT 2.0 Schema Aware and experimental support for XML
Schema 1.1.
Updated Calabash XProc Connector
Calabash XProc connector was updated to include Calabash version 0.9.30. Please
note that this version of Calabash requires Java 1.6 or later.
Updated DITA Open Toolkit
The DITA Open Toolkit was updated to version 1.5.2 M5.
Updates DocBook XSL Stylesheets
The DocBook transformation stylesheets were updated to DocBook XSL
1.76.1.
Updated TEI Framework
TEI P5 schemas were updated to version 1.8.0. The TEI XSL stylesheets were
updated to version 5.45.
Updated XForms Schema
The XForms schema was updated to version 1.1. A new document template is
available to allow easy creation of XHTML with embedded XForms using an updated NVDL
script that dispatches the XHTML and the XForms content each to the corresponding schema
for validation.