Oxygen XML Author 16.0
May 20, 2014
Related version: 16.1
Working with conditional content is a lot easier with Oxygen XML Author 16 as you can set different colors and styles for each condition or focus exclusively on a specific deliverable by hiding all content that is excluded from that deliverable. Table properties can be easily modified for all the table models used in DITA and DocBook.
You can customize the style of the Oxygen WebHelp output that can be obtained from DITA and DocBook to look exactly as you want using the WebHelp skin builder.
Querying a set of files with XPath is facilitated by the XPath execution scope setting that can point to a predefined or a user-defined set of files.
As usual, this version includes many component updates and updated API functionality.
There are changes in:
XPath
XPath over Multiple Files
You can easily execute XPath expressions over multiple files. You can choose
one of the predefined scopes (Current File, Project, Selected Project Resources, All
Opened Files, Current DITA Map Hierarchy) or define your own collection of
files.
XPath File Filter
You can execute XPath expressions over all the files from the selected scope or
you can define an additional filter that will select the relevant resources from that
scope. The default filter selects all the known XML file types.
Stop XPath Execution
An XPath expression executed over multiple documents may take a long period of
time to complete. During the execution of an XPath expression, the XPath toolbar displays
a Stop button that allows you to stop the processing.
Visual XML Editing
Profiling Colors and Styles
Profiling, also known as conditional processing, allows tagging content that
will be available only in specific deliverables. This is usually implemented using
specific attributes (also called profiling attributes such as product,
audience, etc.) and setting values to them. Oxygen helps you
quickly identify the profiled sections of a document by allowing you to define colors and
styles for each profiling attribute value and to apply them automatically to the profiled
parts of the document.
Support for Editing Table Properties (for DITA & DocBook)
Properties for cells, rows, columns or the entire table can be customized using
the contextual Table Properties action. This allows setting vertical and horizontal
alignment, column and row separators, conversions between header, body and footer row
types or configuring the table frame property.
Hide Content Excluded in a Specific Deliverable
A deliverable is defined by a Profiling Condition Set that specifies what
conditional content will be included or excluded from the document. After selecting the
current Profiling Condition Set you can choose to hide the excluded content and focus on
that deliverable without any interference with the content that is not relevant in that
context.
Customizable Profiling Attributes Rendering
The profiling attributes and their values can be made visible and editable
directly in the Author visual editing mode. The colors used to render
profiling attributes and their values are customizable, you can change the default
rendering by setting custom background, border and foreground colors. You can also hide
the name of the profiling attribute.
Render the text-decoration-style CSS 3 Property
The text-decoration-style property as specified in the CSS
Text Decoration Module Level 3 will be rendered by Oxygen in the visual
Author editing mode. This allows you to control the style of a text
decoration (for example, to show a wavy underline).
WebHelp Skin Builder
DITA Support
DITA OT 1.8.4
The DITA Open Toolkit was updated to version 1.8.4.
Support for Editing DITA Table Properties
Properties for cells, rows, columns or the entire table can be customized using
the contextual Table Properties action. This allows setting vertical and
horizontal alignment, column and row separators, conversions between header, body and
footer row types or configuring the table frame property. CALS, Simple Table and Choice
Table formats are supported.
DITAVAL Content Completion Assistant
When editing a DITAVAL file, the Content Completion Assistant displays the
profiling attribute names and possible values.
Profiling-Aware DITA Key Resolution
When you work with conditional content you can focus on a specific deliverable
by enabling a profiling condition set. Some keys may be conditionally defined and
Oxygen will take into account the profiling condition set that filters out some of the
content when gathering the key definitions.
DocBook Support
Support for Editing DocBook Table Properties
Properties for cells, rows, columns or the entire table can be customized using
the contextual Table Properties action. This allows setting vertical and
horizontal alignment, column and row separators, conversions between header, body and
footer row types or configuring the table frame property. Both CALS and HTML table models
are supported.
Component Updates
Other
Extend Framework
You can extend a base document type configuration to add or remove
functionality. When the base is modified and evolves (from one application version to
another, for example) the extension will evolve along with it. This allows the extension
to use the new features/actions added in the base.
Eclipse Author Validation Stripe
The Eclipse Plugin was enhanced to contain a vertical validation stripe in the
Author visual editing mode showing an overview of all reported
validation errors.
Editor Variable for Evaluating XPath 3.0 Expressions
The xpath_eval(expression) editor variable allows you to
evaluate XPath 3.0 expressions either statically, in non-XML contexts, or dynamically,
relative to the current element, in XML contexts. As an example, this gives you access to
all standard XPath functions such as replace(),
substring(), or upper-case() when you compute the
output file name of a transformation.
Better Application Tooltips Styling
The user interface has been improved by using rich HTML for displaying tooltip
information. For example, in the case of a validation error the tooltip may contain a link
to an external web page.
Reference Video Files in EPUB and EPUB 3 Output
You can reference popular image or video media files to be included in EPUB and
EPUB 3
Oxygen API
A detailed list of all changes to the Java API can be found here.
Maven Repository for the Oxygen SDK
Oxygen provides API to extend its functionality and also makes available
components that can be used as part of other applications - all these form the Oxygen
SDK. Starting with version 16 the SDK is available through Maven.
Early Access to Oxygen XML Author WebApp
The Oxygen XML Author WebApp provides XML authoring and review in the
browser, running Oxygen XML Author on the server in a Java EE container and generating
HTML5+JavaScript for the client side. These technology choices make the XML authoring and
review available on any device that supports HTML5 and JavaScript, so it works also on
smart phones and tablets. The Oxygen SDK includes early access to this web/mobile
XML-editing platform.
Import Global Options from an XML Document
The API PluginWorkspace.importGlobalOptions(File) allows you to set
fixed options to the application from an exported XML options file.
Access to Plugin Workspace from the Author Component
The API AuthorComponentFactory.getPluginWorkspace() allows access to
the Plugins Workspace API from the Author Component API.
Obtain the Balanced Selection
The API WSAuthorEditorPageBase.getBalancedSelection(int, int) allows
you to obtain the balanced selection from the Author editing
mode.
Obtain the Element Fully Surrounded in the Selection
Use the API WSAuthorEditorPageBase.getFullySelectedNode(int, int) to get
the node which is fully surrounded by the current selection.
API to License MathFlow
The API methods MathFlowConfigurator.setMathFlowFixedLicenseFile(File) and
MathFlowConfigurator.setMathFlowInstallationFolder(File)
methods that allow to license and install the commercial MathFlow editor.
Get the Document Type of the Currently Open XML Editor
The WSEditorBase.getDocumentTypeInformation() API method allows
you to find details about the document type of the currently open XML
editor.
Set Multiple Attributes to an Element
The API method AuthorDocumentController.setMultipleAttributes() method
allows you to faster set multiple attributes to multiple elements.
Get the Build ID of the Current Version
The API method WorkspaceUtilities.getVersionBuildID() can be used to obtain
the build ID of the current version of the application.
Execute an Author Action at a Given Offset
The AuthorActionsProvider.invokeAuthorExtensionActionInContext()
method allows you to execute an Author Extension Action at a given cursor
offset.
Obtain All Registered Editor Listeners
The WSEditor.getEditorListeners() API method allows you to get
the list of all listeners registered on a particular editor.
Obtain All Registered Editor Change Listeners
The PluginWorkspace.getEditorChangeListeners() method allows you
to get the list of all editor change listeners registered in the
application.
Define Scopes for a Plugin's Library
In the plugin.xml plugin configuration file you can contribute
a referenced library to the main application class loader by setting the scope attribute
to one of the following values: global and
globalHighPriority.