Dear oXygen users,
We are happy to announce that version 18.1 of oXygen XML Editor is
close to being released.
We have decided to offer a beta version prior to the final release to
give you the opportunity to send us your feedback on the new features.
Below, please see information about:
* Downloading - oXygen 18.1 beta downloading links and notes
* Licensing - a trial license key for testing
* What's new - a summary of the most important new features in version
18.1
= Downloading =
Editor: https://www.oxygenxml.com/beta18_1/oxygenxml_editor.html
Important Notes:
- This build is meant for testing and evaluation purposes only. Do not
use it for production work.
- You should install this beta version in a different directory than
your current Oxygen installation. For Windows, we also recommend that
you disable file associations during the installation to preserve your
current Oxygen file associations with the various XML file types.
- You may encounter some bugs in this beta version. If you find one,
it'll be greatly appreciated if you could report it to us here:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/techSupport.html
- This beta version comes with no warranty. Please use it at your own
risk. It is therefore up to you to take adequate precaution against
possible damages resulting from the use of this beta software.
= Licensing =
If you already have a license key for Oxygen XML Editor with an active
SMP, it will also work for this beta version. If you don't have one, a
registration dialog box will open and you can use the following trial
license key:
------START-LICENSE-KEY------
Registration_Name=Beta 18.1
Company=
Category=Enterprise
Component=XML-Editor, XSLT-Debugger, Saxon-SA
Version=18
Number_of_Licenses=1
Date=09-15-2016
Trial=31
SGN=MCwCFDT7yh6jdxEXW+hBKLVE8gAZlZ5RAhQHasbikf65HICPaXFZ9eX5Nd828w\=\=
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= What's new in Oxygen XML Editor 18.1 =
For the full list of new features and changes in v18.1, please see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew18.1.html
Visual XML Editing
New Form Controls for Rendering and Playing Video and Audio Media
Three powerful new form controls were added that allow you to render
and play media in Author mode. The oxy_video form control can be used
to play video files, the oxy_browser form control can be used to
render an HTML page or SVG file, and the oxy_audio form control can
play audio clips.
Implement Custom "Heavy" Form Controls
oXygen now provides support for Heavy form controls. This new type of
form control allows you to play video and audio resources, and render
HTML or SVG resources. You can also implement your own custom form
controls based on the new Heavy architecture.
Convert Paragraphs to List Items and Change List Item Type
When editing DITA, DocBook, XHTML, or TEI documents, you can easily
convert selected paragraphs to list items by using the various Insert
List Item actions on the toolbar. You can also change selected list
items to another type (for example, change an unordered list to an
ordered list).
Smart Paste Handles Internal Links in Office Documents
The Smart Paste feature has been improved to preserve links to other
parts of the same document, when pasting content from Office documents
into Author mode. Links are converted to cross references for the
particular document type that you are working with.
Improvements to Paste Strategies in Tables
The strategies for the behavior of the paste mechanism when pasting
content in table cells has been improved. Now, copied cells are pasted
while preserving their initial order and spacing.
DITA
Support for Video and Audio Media Objects
oXygen now includes actions to easily insert video or audio content
within DITA topics. The oXygen visual editing Author mode will not
only display the media content, but also allow you to play it
in-place. On the publishing side, oXygen comes with a DITA-OT plugin
that will enable the multimedia content to appear in HTML and PDF output.
Embed Video and Audio Media in DITA to WebHelp Output
You can insert references to video and audio media resources (such as
YouTube videos) in your DITA topics and publish them to WebHelp
output. The embedded video and audio objects can be played directly in
all HTML5-based outputs, including WebHelp systems.
Improve Speed for Computing Topic Titles
The amount of time it takes to compute topic titles in the DITA Maps
Manager view was reduced as oXygen accesses multiple topics in the
same time to extract the title information.
New Action for Duplicating Topics
There is now a new contextual menu action in the DITA Maps Manager
view called Duplicate that creates a copy of the selected topic and
insert it as a sibling. It is helpful for quickly creating a new DITA
topics that is similar to an existing topic.
Lightweight DITA Improvements
The Lightweight DITA DTDs were updated to the latest version. Also,
you can now use the new Insert Media action to insert references to
video or audio resources when editing Lightweight DITA documents.
Tracked Changes and Comments Can Be Displayed in PDF Output
You now have the ability to display tracked changes and comments in
DITA to PDF output. This can be done by simply setting a parameter in
the transformation scenario.
Validate and Check for Completeness Command Line Tool
A new command line tool was added that executes a Validate and Check
for Completeness operation on a specified DITA map. The results are
displayed in the command console (for example, whether or not the
validation was successful, the number of errors or warnings, or you
can even specify to display the entire report). The tool requires an
oXygen Scripting license.
Markdown Editor
New Markdown Editor
oXygen now includes a built-in Markdown editor that allows you to
write and edit documents using Markdown syntax and converts it to HTML
or DITA. The specialized multi-pane editor includes a preview panel to
help you visualize the final output. The editor includes a variety of
helpful actions, automatic validation, syntax highlighting to make it
easier to read and write, and specialized syntax rules that combine
popular features from several specifications.
Create Markdown Documents Directly from DITA Maps Manager
The Markdown editing support includes unique features that allow you
to create Markdown documents directly in DITA maps (from the DITA Maps
Manager) and to convert Markdown documents to DITA topics.
Content Completion
Improved Precision for Content Completion
oXygen allows you to set a configuration file to control the content
completion proposals for elements presented in the Content Completion
Assistant. Now, you can identify more precisely the elements you want
to control, by being able to check attributes and attribute values on
those elements.
Improved Content Completion for XPath and XQuery
The Content Completion Assistant for XPath and XQuery was updated to
take into account the latest additions in XPath 3.0 and XQuery 3.0.
For example, new functions are now offered though content completion,
such as empty-sequence, document-node, item, comment, namespace-node,
and processing-instruction - just to name a few.
File Comparison Tool
More Accurate Second Level Comparisons on XML Nodes
When using the XML Fast and XML Accurate algorithms for two-way or
three-way comparisons, the second level comparison is now processed
using a syntax-aware comparison that splits the files or fragments
into sequences of tokens and computes the differences between them.
This results in a more accurate second level comparison.
Improvements to the Format and Indent Action
The Format and Indent action in the File Comparison tool now works on
more file types. You can now use the action on the following types of
files: XQuery, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, RNC, XSD, RNG, NVDL, XML, ANT,
DITAMap, WSDL, SVG, Schematron, XProc, XSL, and HTML.
As usual, oXygen also added many new API and component updates for
this release.
Please let us know if you encounter any problems with this beta build.
All feedback is welcome!
Best regards,
Adrian
Adrian Buza
oXygen XML Editor and Author Support
Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.2020
Fax: +40-251-461482
[email protected]
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