Hello everyone,
We are incredibly proud to announce the immediate availability of
*version 26* of our industry-leading XML suite of products: *Oxygen XML
Editor*, *Author*, *Developer*, *Web Author*, *Publishing Engine*,
*WebHelp*, *PDF Chemistry*, and *Scripting*, as well as the launch of
its newest product, *Oxygen JSON Editor,* an affordable
subscription-based application designed specifically for editing JSON
and JSON Schema documents.
This release introduces the exciting new *Oxygen AI Positron Assistant*,
an add-on that provides a powerful tool to help writers *increase their
productivity* by performing repetitive tasks, reviewing grammar,
generating structure and text, or proposing changes to improve
readability. It always *keeps the writer in control*, offering a visual
diff comparison to help quickly understand what changed and the ability
to continue the chat with the AI to refine the proposals.
There is new functionality available for *DITA users*, *XSLT/XQuery
developers*, as well as for *JSON/YAML developers*.
It is now possible to generate *comparison results as documents
containing change tracking highlights* to allow the changes to be
rendered visually in the resulting documents, making it easy to review,
accept, or reject them. This feature is also available via scripts to
enable automation.
Some of our popular*add-ons* were updated such as *Git Client*, *Batch
Documents Converter*, and *OpenAPI Documentation Generator*. As always,
this release also provides various important component updates, such as
*DITA-OT* and *Saxon*, bug fixes, and security enhancements.
*Oxygen XML Web Author version 26* provides a preview of *Oxygen **AI
Positron Assistant* on the Web Author demo server, allowing users to
experiment with a variety of AI-powered actions meant to improve their
overall productivity. It will be available for Web Author on-premise
installations very soon. Web Author also received component updates and
improvements related to *file comparisons*, *DITA editing*, and *security*.
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*What's New in Oxygen XML Editor 26*
One of the most anticipated and innovative additions in Oxygen 26 is the
*Oxygen AI Positron Assistant*, an add-on that provides a powerful tool
to help writers use AI-generated content to *enhance their overall
productivity* while keeping them in *full control of the changes* made
to the documents, allowing them to see exactly what is modified using
the powerful visual XML-aware diff comparison tool provided by Oxygen.
Users benefit from a set of fine-tuned predefined actions that enable
them to:
* *Generate content* such as DITA topics, document fragments, short
descriptions, and index terms.
**Improve existing content* in terms of grammar, readability, and the
use of active voice.
* *Get various insights* to understand how readable the content is and
how it responds to questions.
* *Translate**to various languages* while preserving the XML structure.
* *Write better marketing messages* with support for generating press
releases, marketing posts, or applying marketing frameworks.
Users can define their own *custom AI actions* or *favorite prompts* and
easily share them with other project members.
Oxygen AI Positron Assistant offers *intelligent support to help resolve
document validation problems* with an innovative variant of a quick-fix
called *AI-fix* that asks the AI engine to find a solution for a
validation problem and applies its suggestion.
For complex and repetitive tasks that the AI may not be able to
accurately complete without assistance, it is possible to *record a set
of instructions* for the AI to follow and the final result can be saved
as a custom AI action or as a favorite prompt.
Furthermore, the AI functionality is made available via two *XPath AI
functions* that enable the use of AI from any language that uses XPath
expressions such as XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron. For example, it is
possible to create XSLT-based XML refactoring actions that can batch
process multiple documents, applying AI functionality on them, or to
define Schematron Quick-Fixes that utilize the AI functions.
*DITA authors* can take advantage of a simplified process of extracting
and organizing parts of a document into separate topics with the ability
to *extract a selection of content into a new DITA topic*, better *i18n
support*, and the use of the existing DITAVAL filter files to
automatically apply colors and styles to render the content in the editor.
*JSON developers* can more easily navigate through large documents since
the JSON diagram editor now has its own *dedicated outline view*. When
*changing a property in the JSON diagram editor*, all the references to
that property are now automatically updated, saving the user time and
effort by eliminating the need to manually update the schema and
preventing any inconsistencies or errors. Additionally, if no JSON
schema is associated with a JSON document, Oxygen can now *learn the
document structure* by parsing the document internally and using that as
an inferred schema to provide content completion and validation.
*YAML developers* now have full support for creating, editing, and
validating YAML documents. They have access to new actions, such as the
*go to the definition action* that allows for easy navigation to the
definition of the current property and another action to *easily open
the associated schema for the YAML document*. When creating new YAML
documents, the new document wizard now includes a *Customize* option
that enables users to configure the generation of new YAML documents
based on a specified JSON Schema, ensuring consistency and adherence to
predefined rules.
For *XSLT and XQuery users*, the built-in Saxon processor used
for*transformations and debugging* was updated to version 12.3. Oxygen's
support has been enhanced to handle the latest extension functions
supported by Saxon. The *Extract Function* refactoring action was
improved to better handle XPath expressions. Additionally, two new
AI-based extension functions (contributed by the Oxygen AI Positron
Assistant add-on) that can be used to rephrase content and to perform
validation checks on the existing content are available in the content
completion for XSLT, XQuery, XPath, and Schematron.
The support to generate *comparison results as documents containing
change tracking highlights* is available for both document and directory
comparison tools, allowing the changes to be rendered visually in the
resulting documents, making it easy to review, accept, or reject them,
or enabling the users to publish them and highlight the modified
content. These tools are also available as *scripts* for those who are
interested in automating these processes, using the Oxygen XML Scripting
license.
Some of the most popular add-ons were updated. The *Git Client* add-on
now comes with integration of *Large File Support (LFS)*, among many
other new additions. The *Batch Documents Converter* add-on received
various improvements when converting OpenAPI to DITA, Word to HTML/DITA,
or Confluence to DITA, and the *OpenAPI Documentation Generator* add-on
now has the option to transform the OpenAPI content into DITA output,
along with several other enhancements.
Other improvements include enhanced coverage for *HTTPS certificate
validation in corporate environments by utilizing trusted root
certificates from the Windows certificate store*, improved syntax
highlighting for *Markdown documents containing LaTeX equations* that
allows for more efficient editing and seamless integration of
mathematical expressions, and as usual, this release includes several
important *component updates*, *bug fixes*, and *security enhancements*.
This short video highlights the most important additions to Oxygen XML
Editor version 26: https://youtu.be/fWvqYpGtJmw
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html
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*Introducing a New Product: Oxygen JSON Editor*
JSON developers will be thrilled with the launch of the new *Oxygen JSON
Editor*. This specialized product is *designed for editing JSON and JSON
Schema documents*, as well as other JSON-related technologies. What sets
the Oxygen JSON Editor apart is its *affordable subscription-based
pricing option*. Now, developers can *access powerful JSON editing
capabilities at a reasonable cost, without compromising on quality*.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/json_editor/whats_new.html
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*What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 26*
One of the most exciting new features is the preview of the new *Oxygen
AI Positron Assistant* plugin that provides a powerful tool to help
writers *use AI-generated content*, available now on the Web Author demo
server (https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen-xml-web-author/app/oxygen.html)
and soon to be available for Web Author on-premise installations. The
plugin contributes a side pane that offers a variety of *AI-powered
actions* with the goal of *improving productivity*. Actions are
available to provide helpful hints for the next writing steps, enhance
the readability of existing content, correct grammar errors, generate
index terms, translate content, create marketing-related material, or
even restructure parts of a document.
Interface improvements make it *easier to insert special characters*,
users can now *edit Mermaid diagrams in the editor*, tracked changes are
more visible when renaming elements, and static text labels are now
translated properly for the Chinese language. The ability to *merge
changes when comparing two documents* is now available to ensure a more
accurate and efficient collaboration on documents and users can now
trigger comparisons of specific document versions directly from the
Version History dialog box.
The *Concurrent Editing* feature now works with a *high availability
deployment* consisting of two servers to help mitigate the possibility
of losing connections, while also providing a higher capacity, as it can
accommodate more users.
DITA authors now have multiple convenient ways to *edit profiling
attributes* within the editor or in the Attributes side-pane and it is
now much *easier to create and insert topic references* when editing
DITA maps.
This short video highlights the most important additions to Oxygen XML
Web Author version 26: https://youtu.be/IQKzB3pJnXY
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html
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*What's New in Oxygen Publishing Engine 26*
*Oxygen Publishing Engine version 26 *encompasses the improvements and
additions implemented in *Oxygen XML WebHelp* and *Oxygen PDF
Chemistry*. This latest release offers some exciting new search features
for WebHelp publishers, new customization possibilities for PDF
publishers, and the bundled DITA-OT distribution was updated to version
4.1.1. Various other component updates and bug fixes were implemented as
well.
*Oxygen XML WebHelp version 26* introduces some exciting advanced search
features that were implemented in conjunction with the upcoming 4.0
release of *Oxygen Feedback*. Once *Oxygen Feedback 4.0* will be
released, WebHelp publishers will have access to *Semantic Search*,
which will enhance the accuracy of search results for the end user and
they will be able to configure *Faceted Search* functionality in the
WebHelp output, enabling users to refine their search results by
applying multiple filters that correspond to different facets of the
information they are seeking. The introduction of *Labels* in the
WebHelp output will make it effortless to search for topics with the
same label. Furthermore, the integration with the *Oxygen Feedback
Search Engine* will support advanced query syntax, giving users the
ability to create complex and flexible queries that generate precise
search results.
*Oxygen PDF Chemistry version 26* is the latest release for the CSS
Paged Media processor used for obtaining PDF output from HTML or XML
documents through CSS styling. This version brings the possibility of
setting the *width* property on top or bottom page margin boxes to
better customize documents when displaying page numbers, publication
titles, or other artwork and XPath expressions can be used inside SVG
templates to insert dynamic text when creating the PDF output.
For more information, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html
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*DITA-OT Day 2024*
On the *11th of February, 2024*, Oxygen XML Editor organizes the 8th
edition of the *DITA-OT Day conference in Helsinki, Finland*, a full
day, in-person event dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, which
is the reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all
DITA-based publishing solutions (Oxygen included).
Find out more details and registration information at
https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2024/dita-ot_day.html
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We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of
products!
As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is
welcome!
Best regards,
Alin
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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor
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