What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 28.1.0
Oxygen XML Web Author 28.1.0 focuses on introducing significant advancements in AI-powered authoring through the new Planner chat mode in Oxygen AI Positron, enhanced editing capabilities including DITA improvements, expanded customization options, and improved table editing across multiple formats. This release also adds the ability to work with S1000D® issue 4.x content.
There are changes in:
Oxygen AI Positron for Web Author
Optimized Token Consumption for AI Prompts and Tools
New Planner Chat Mode for Resource Consuming Tasks
The newly-introduced Planner chat mode is available for complex, token-intensive operations (e.g. “Translate all files in the current folder” or “Find all conrefs and replace them with conkeyrefs in userguide.ditamap”).
After being given the prompt, the AI explores your project, proposes a multi-step plan, and, after your approval, delegates each step to the most suitable AI agent. This means large, project-wide changes can be coordinated without hitting LLM context limits, while still showing you the tool calls and results for review.
More Context Information Available in Chat
The AI chat now automatically includes additional information about your environment and editing context, such as the Oxygen application version, current date, and caret or selection data. Having richer contextual information leads to higher-quality AI responses.
Documentation and APIs to Create New Chat Modes
"output-action": "agentic" property.Tools to List and Invoke AI Agents
Control AI Action Visibility
Create AI Actions with Vision Support
"input-type": "markup-with-images" JSON
property.Generate Image Alternate Text Improvements
Preserve Structure and Styles for Attached Word and PDF Documents
General Editing/Reviewing
Apply Colors and Styles for Profiled Content using DITAVAL Flagging
Work with Large DITA Tables Using Sticky Headers
Insert Multiple Rows or Columns in Tables
Context-Based File Browsing Filter
The file browser now filters available files based on your current task. When you insert images, maps, DITAVAL files, or other assets, you see only file types that are valid for that action. This helps you find the right files faster and avoid selecting incompatible resources during authoring.
S1000D
Editing and Validation
Visual Editing and Actions
New File Templates
Documentation for S1000D Elements and Attributes
Smart Paste for S1000D Documents
Customization and Integration
Custom Mention Suggestions and Notifications
sync.api.author.UserMentionProposalsProvider
API. This helps reviewers quickly find and mention the right collaborators. You can
combine this with the sync.api.author.ReviewCommentHook API to detect
when comments containing mentions are added and notify the mentioned users. For more
details, see the User Mentions API
tutorial.When you mention a collaborator in a review comment, a drop-down list displays the available users to make it very easy to select the particular collaborator. By default, the list shows all authors from the current document.
Intercept and Validate Review Comments
sync.api.author.ReviewCommentHook API. This lets you enforce rules
such as allowing @ mentions only for users who are part of the review
team. For details, see the Review Comment Hook API tutorial.Customize File Browser Filters
Control UI Font Family via API
workspace.setBaseFontFamily(fontFamily) API to set a custom
font family for all views and dialog boxes in Web Author, so you can align the interface
with your branding or readability requirements.