Oxygen Scripting

A new command-line script (compareFiles) is now available that can be used to compare two specified files in one of three available output formats. You can also add numerous options as arguments and filter the results according to your needs. For details, see Scripting Oxygen: Compare Files. Note that this script requires a special scripting commercial license.

A new command-line script (compareDirs) is now available that can be used to compare two specified directories in one of six available output formats. You can also add numerous options as arguments and filter the results according to your needs. For details, see Scripting Oxygen: Compare Directories. Note that this script requires a special scripting commercial license.

A new command-line script is now available that can be used to execute XML Refactoring Operations. The xmlRefactoring script requires a special scripting commercial license and it helps to reduce the time and effort required to perform various structure management tasks.

The Batch Converter script (batchConverter) now supports converting multiple JSON documents to YAML or multiple YAML documents to JSON. For details, see the Oxygen Scripting: Batch Converter documentation topic.

A new argument (-csd) was added for the Batch Converter script. When set to true, it creates a short description element from the first paragraph before the headings.

The argument (-ss) used for converting sections into separate topics in the Batch Converter script can now be applied on Markdown to DITA or HTML to DITA (previously, it was only available for Word to DITA conversions). When set to true, it converts multiple headings from a Markdown or HTML document into separate individual DITA topics that are also referenced in a newly created DITA map.

The XML Instance Generator command-line script now has an extended version with additional arguments. For example, the -s argument can be used to specify an XML schema file to be used for the file generation, -r specifies the root element, -o specifies the output directory, -i specifies the number of XML files to be generated, and more.