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Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of Oxygen Feedback version 5.0 for both Cloud and Enterprise editions!
Version 5.0 aims to take the innovative comment management platform to a whole new level with the possibility of integrating the new AI Assistant chat system and AI-Enhanced Search Summary components within your WebHelp output.
An organization owner or admin can now connect Oxygen Feedback to an existing OpenAI account. This enables the possibility of activating a chat system in the Oxygen WebHelp Responsive output in which Oxygen Feedback is installed, allowing users to chat with an AI Assistant for quicker answers and reference information.
The new AI-Enhanced Search Summary component displays an AI-generated response based upon information found in the available publication, along with the usual search results. Users also have the option to engage in further discussion with the AI Assistant after receiving this response by selecting the Continue in chat button.
The admin interface now displays AI-related information, along with new options and statistics to help in getting the most out of the new AI features. With the flexibility to connect to their preferred OpenAI account, admins can also choose the OpenAI model to be used by default, tailoring the AI's performance to meet specific needs.
For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Cloud edition, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_cloud/whats_new.html
For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Enterprise edition, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_enterprise/whats_new.html
About Syncro Soft
Syncro Soft develops the industry-acclaimed Oxygen suite of products, facilitating teams in small businesses, Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, government agencies, and international organizations in authoring documents, publishing in different formats, collaborating with team members, and managing content.
The complete Oxygen product suite includes XML Author for user-friendly visual XML authoring, XML Web Author for in-browser intuitive editing and reviewing, the easy-to-use and flexible Content Fusion collaboration platform, many publishing tools such as PDF Chemistry for obtaining PDF using CSS styles, WebHelp for modern and responsive HTML5 output, the Oxygen Feedback flexible commenting platform, Oxygen Publishing Engine, and Oxygen Scripting for automating publishing, validation, and many other tasks. Customizing XML applications can be done using the XML Developer and the flagship product, Oxygen XML Editor, provides an all-in-one comprehensive XML authoring, publishing, and development tool.
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Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the release of Oxygen Content Fusion 7.0, the web-based collaboration platform for content creation!
Oxygen Content Fusion version 7.0 enhances the project support by introducing a personal authoring workspace where you can make changes across multiple files and once you are happy with the results, you can commit them directly to the repository to share them with your team. The dedicated Changes side-view enables you to preview and adjust changes before committing. An XML-aware conflict resolution tool helps you pull changes from the repository, detects conflicts, suggests automated solutions, and also allows merging content manually for more complex scenarios. Along with the powerful editing features for XML documents, the built-in Web Author allows you to edit Markdown files inside the authoring workspace providing syntax preview and toolbar actions to insert common structures.
The workspace feature includes a Publications side-view for easy browsing of a publication's DITA map. Users can open the map in a specialized DITA map editor to modify the structure using toolbar or contextual menu actions. The intuitive interface supports drag and drop, copy/paste, and various other actions for organizing topics. The editor also supports advanced DITA features such as profiling attributes, key definitions, and map references.
Continuous Deployment for the output is now possible as version 7.0 adds support for publishing connectors to enable uploading output to various platforms such as Amazon S3, Netlify, or servers with SFTP protocol. The output can be configured to include an "Edit Online" link in each topic that sends authors to their personal workspace where they can make changes to the source of that topic. When used in conjunction with automated builds, these changes will be live as soon as the build finishes.
For more information about the new release, please see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html
You may also try these new features on our public demo deployment: https://fusion.oxygenxml.com/projects
Syncro Soft is proud to announce the release of version 2.1 for Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, a powerful tool that helps users increase their productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content within Oxygen tools - Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion.
Version 2.1 expands upon the enhancements of the previous version by adding the advanced multi-modal GPT-4o to the list of models to choose from. This model is quicker and more cost-effective compared to the GPT-4 Turbo model.
For the Enterprise version of Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service connector now supports authentication using Microsoft Entra ID, providing users with improved security and flexibility.
Processing content within the editor has gotten even more easier as any content selected in the main editor area is automatically passed as context for the conversation when directly initiating a new chat with the AI.
New AI actions have been introduced in this version, allowing users to generate, document, or explain specific code snippets, initiate a conversation with the AI regarding certain code snippets, and create alternate text for images
Version 2.1 also introduces three AI-powered XML refactoring actions that enable users working with DITA XML topics to generate alternate text for images, generate missing short descriptions, and shorten existing short descriptions.
Furthermore, Oxygen XML Web Author users who integrate the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise for Web Author plugin now have the ability to filter the list of AI actions.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron_assistant.html
Join us next week, on May 22nd, for the grand finale of our spring webinar series!
If you are looking to integrate Oxygen XML Web Author into your existing XML workflow, Mihaela Calotescu, software developer at Syncro Soft, will be your perfect guide. Within this 1-hour event, she'll lead you through the initial steps to unlock the full potential of Web Author.
During the Web Author Customizations - Getting Started webinar, you'll gain invaluable insights and practical guidance on how to:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2024-3.html
To stay in touch with us and discover what other events we have planned for you, please make sure to check https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html
Join us next week, on May 8th, as we continue our series of Oxygen XML live events with the webinar titled Oxygen AI Positron: Your Helper in All Stages of Content Creation!
Over the past year, AI services such as ChatGPT have established themselves as valuable tools for content creation and review. However, with each passing month, new advancements emerge. Among these is OpenAI's GPT4 with Vision, which can analyze images, presenting fresh opportunities for workflows and scenarios in the early stages of content development.
In this one-hour webinar, Sorin Carbunaru (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) will explore the ways in which AI can transform content creation through the lens of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on, focusing on the following topics:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2024-2.html
We would also like to invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar: May 22, 2024 - Web Author Customizations - Getting Started https://oxygenxml.com/evs2024-3.html
Starting next week, on April 24th, we kick off our brand-new series of Oxygen XML live webinars! Join us for our first exciting event where we will unveil the latest enhancements in Oxygen XML Web Author 26.1!
In the What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 26.1 webinar, Bogdan Dumitru (software developer at Syncro Soft) will showcase a range of new features designed to enhance your authoring experience. Here's a sneak peek at some of the highlights that he'll be covering:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2024-1.html
We would also like to invite you to join us for our next upcoming webinars:
Syncro Soft is proud to announce version 2.0 of Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, a powerful tool that helps users increase their productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content within the Oxygen tools - Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion.
Version 2.0 adds support for Vision models, allowing the AI to read and interpret images that can be easily added by users to the prompts entered in the Chat window, thus supporting more use cases.
A new action called Generate Documentation Draft is available that can be used to create a draft DITA topic. This feature provides users with control over the draft generation process, allowing them to specify the context for the new topic, instructions, and images. Furthermore, this version also introduces an action that enables users to get a proposal for updating a DITA topic after they update the images referenced in that topic, by having the AI analyze the new images and propose content changes.
Two new variables that can be applied on content with tracked changes were introduced and they can be used to write prompts, enabling users to provide the AI with both the original and modified text and ask the AI engine to analyze the change. Additionally, users now have the ability to filter the list of AI actions and some of the most frequently used actions (e.g. Correct Grammar, Improve Readability, Use Active Voice) are now available as Quick Assist fixes.
The Oxygen XML Enterprise edition license for Oxygen XML Editor, Author, and Developer products now includes access to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise add-on at no extra cost (provided their version is 26.0 or later). Moreover, the Enterprise version of the add-on allows users to connect directly to Anthropic Claude (in addition to the existing options for OpenAI and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service).
Additionally, from this release forward, Oxygen XML Web Author users also have access to the new Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise plugin for Web Author.
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability for Oxygen Content Fusion 6.2, the web-based collaboration platform for content creation!
The focus of this release was to redesign the user interface after analyzing the possible workflows, updating the layout to include more information and making the relevant actions at each step easily accessible, as well as updating the embedded visual editor that is based upon the Oxygen XML Web Author technology.
The new layout adjusts the fonts and spacing to include more information on each page, provides intuitive navigation controls and, in some cases, it extends the working area to take advantage of the full width of the page.
Users now have the ability to easily find the tasks they want to focus on by filtering the list of review tasks based on the task name. Task management actions can now be performed directly from the task list, so you can delete a task or mark it as integrated directly from the list of your tasks. The task activity view focuses on the changes made in each user interaction, but also provides actions to compare the selected version of the file with the latest version or open the latest version.
Content Fusion's visual editor was updated to integrate the latest changes implemented in Oxygen XML Web Author 26.1.0. Some of the interesting new features added for the visual editor include the ability for DITA users to easily switch profiling conditions and choose whether to hide the excluded content or show it as grayed out, and the Outline pane also now distinguishes nodes filtered by a DITAVAL file. When Markdown content is pasted within DITA, DocBook, TEI, or XHTML documents, it is automatically converted to the target vocabulary by the smart paste functionality. The Unicode support was improved to better support surrogate characters (e.g. emoji characters) and the text mode is now available in read-only mode for concurrent editing sessions. Additionally, the Split action now automatically inserts required first child elements.
When developers create customizations for the Web Author visual editor, they can now use the new CSS Inspector to easily view the styles applied to the selected element. Additionally, a validation process for uploading frameworks was introduced, ensuring that customized frameworks remain error-free.
To enhance the filtering capabilities, a new loading option is available that allows plugin developers to control whether content excluded by a DITAVAL filter is displayed as grayed out or completely hidden. Furthermore, a new API that enables the addition of a toolbar in a side view empowers developers to better customize the layout of the side-views contributed by their plugins.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html
Syncro Soft is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 26.1 of its industry-leading XML suite of products: Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, Scripting, and JSON Editor.
The Enterprise edition of Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer becomes AI-ready, offering access without the need for an additional subscription to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise add-on which allows direct connection to OpenAI accounts or to the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.
Version 26.1 introduces new functionality tailored for DITA users, XSLT/XQuery developers, and JSON/YAML developers, enhancing productivity and versatility across various workflows.
The Oxygen Publishing Engine include float support and new CSS properties, providing users with greater control over their PDF output customization.
Oxygen Web Author brings support for DITA-OT project files to manage the editing context and improved handling of DITAVAL filters.
Additionally, version 26.1 introduces the JSON Schema Validator add-on, facilitating seamless validation of JSON documents against JSON schema. Moreover, the Batch Documents Converter add-on now includes XSD to JSON Schema conversions, expanding its utility.
What's New in Oxygen XML Editor 26.1
Oxygen XML Editor is an incremental release of the industry-leading bundle of tools for content authors, developers, collaborators, and publishers.
Starting with this version, DITA authors can now convert sections to new topic files while preserving the DITA topic type, saving time and effort while ensuring that content remains properly structured. When editing DITA topics, several actions listed as proposals are accessible from the content completion window to help make it easier to insert content references and key references. A new option is also available to control whether or not non-DITA resources are automatically converted to DITA when inserting topic references in the DITA Maps Manager, yet another time saving improvement.
DITA publishers that use the Zendesk Help Center transformation scenario will be happy to know that it now automatically creates and publishes a table of contents and also supports publishing to a subsection. For CSS-based PDF transformations, the new support for prepress print layout ensures that your PDFs are print-ready. The PDF transformation now also automatically fixes some incorrect values for the units of measurement detected in the width/height of images. When running DITA transformations, the real-time progress is constantly updated in the status bar to keep users informed of the current publishing step being processed.
Author mode improvements include the content completion's Split action now automatically adding required first child elements inside the newly created element, removing extra steps from the editing process. Also, the spell checker now detects spelling errors for text inside two consecutive inline elements without a space in between them, helping to keep content error-free by preventing words from being incorrectly merged together.
Some quality of life improvements were also added when using Markdown. The Smart Paste mechanism converts Markdown content that is pasted within XML documents in Author mode into the target vocabulary. Syntax highlights are now displayed for other languages embedded within Markdown, making it easy to identify and edit code snippets in different languages. The DITA preview pane now presents colors and filters for profiling attributes, allowing users to visualize their filtered content with ease.
JSON users now have the power to transform JSON documents using XSLT transformation scenarios, unlocking a myriad of new possibilities. The content completion for JSON offers proposals even when no schema is associated and the JSON Outline view can help increase productivity as it now displays the number of child elements in each array's label and also supports drag and drop. Furthermore, basic text editing support was added for JSON5 documents, and a new JSON Schema Validator add-on is available to provide support for validating JSON documents against JSON schema version 2020-12.
The AI Positron Assistant continues to get impressive updates. A separate Enterprise version of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on is now available for users who want to connect directly to OpenAI accounts or Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. New document templates are available to help easily create AI Positron custom actions, unlocking personalized AI solutions. A new AI action is also available to translate content into any desired language. The AI Positron Refactoring action makes it easier than ever to refactor and optimize AI projects and it now works when applied on remote resources. In addition, the chat pane now uses XML syntax highlighting for XML code to make it easier to visualize and understand the AI response.
Other features and improvements were added as well. One such feature is the ability to execute Quick fix proposals in bulk, which allows users to resolve multiple issues at once. The latest engines are available for the Saxon XSLT and XQuery Transformer add-on and XProc 3.0 schemas were added to offer support for content completion and validation for XProc 3.0 files. Unique values are now automatically generated for ID-type attributes that are inserted using the Content Completion Assistant, saving time by eliminating the need to manually add them. Also, schema files and new file templates were added to support editing DocBook 5.2 documents and SVG 1.2 Tiny documents.
This release also implements a variety of performance improvements, security enhancements, API and component updates, and various bug fixes.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html
What's New in Oxygen JSON Editor 26.1
The JSON support added in Oxygen XML Editor/Developer is also available in the Oxygen JSON Editor version 26.1. JSON users now have the power to transform JSON documents utilizing XSLT transformation scenarios, access to content completion for JSON even when no schema is associated, JSON Outline view that displays the number of child elements in each array label and also supports drag and drop, basic text editing for JSON5 documents, and the new JSON Schema Validator add-on provides support for validating JSON documents against JSON schema version 2020-12.
Furthermore, this release also sees the implementation of various performance improvements, security enhancements, API and component updates, and bug fixes.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/json_editor/whats_new.html
What's New in Oxygen XML Scripting 26.1
The DITA Validate and Check for Completeness script received important performance enhancements, significantly reducing the time it takes for the script to finish when using DITAVAL filters.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html
What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 26.1
This release has some interesting new features for DITA users, introducing support for DITA-OT project files and providing better handling of DITAVAL filters. The DITA Map pane allows users to specify a DITA-OT project file and choose between the contexts defined within it. Users may also easily switch profiling conditions, and there is the option to hide or present as grayed out content that is excluded by the current filter in the document, DITA Maps pane, and in the Outline pane.
The AI Positron Assistant's feature for previewing changes was improved to allow choosing which of the AI's proposed changes will be incorporated into users' documents. When dragging a node within the Outline pane, the outline tree automatically scrolls along with the movement to make it easier to precisely drop the node where needed. The Unicode support was improved to better support surrogate characters (e.g. emoji characters) and the text mode is available as read-only mode for concurrent editing sessions. When Markdown content is pasted within DITA, DocBook, TEI, or XHTML documents, it is automatically converted to the target vocabulary by the smart paste functionality.
If users develop Web Author customizations, the new CSS Inspector lets them see the styles of the selected element and the process of uploading a framework now includes validation to keep customized frameworks error-free. Server logs are available from the Administration Page to help troubleshoot issues with the Web Author server and some new URL parameters are also available to impose a DITAVAL filter or a DITA-OT project context for filtering the document.
Version 26.1 also brings a variety of performance improvements, security enhancements, API and component updates, and bug fixes.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html
What's New in Oxygen Publishing Engine 26.1
Oxygen Publishing Engine version 26.1 adds basic float support, automatic fixes for incorrect values for width or height properties, and new CSS properties are available for configuring the PDF output. Additionally, the Zendesk Help Center transformation scenario now automatically creates and publishes a table of contents and supports publishing to a subsection. Furthermore, several performance improvements, component updates, and bug fixes were implemented.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html
Oxygen XML Users Meetup @ XML Prague 2024
Between the 6th and the 8th of June, 2024, the XML Prague Conference makes its return, offering a unique opportunity for developers, markup enthusiasts, information managers, and students to come together in person.
Continuing its tradition, the Oxygen XML team announces its presence at the conference, hosting yet another Oxygen XML Users Meetup on June 6th. This meetup has become a cornerstone of the event, providing attendees with firsthand insights into the latest developments straight from the dedicated individuals behind the Oxygen XML suite of products.
To find out more about this opportunity to connect, collaborate, and stay at the forefront of XML innovation, the event page is available here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2024/oxygen_user_meetup_Prague.html
Syncro Soft is excited to announce version 1.1 of Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, a powerful tool that helps writers increase their productivity by providing support for using AI-generated content within the Oxygen tools - Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer and Oxygen XML Web Author.
Version 1.1 introduces a separate Enterprise version of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on allowing users to directly connect to their AI models, either using their OpenAI accounts or OpenAI services hosted on Microsoft Azure. This enables them to have full control over the AI service that is used by the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant and to leverage personalized or company-specific AI models.
AI Positron custom actions, which are defined as JSON configuration files, can now be easily created by using new document templates that provide a starting point for action definition.
The translation actions were extended with a new action that enables content translation into any language.
The AI Positron Refactoring action that provides the ability to batch process a set of files using AI now works when applied on remote resources (such as resources located on WebDav servers or from Content Management Systems).
This version also includes various enhancements to improve the user experience. For example, the AI actions are displayed directly in the chat pane prior to a new chat being initiated, making them even more accessible. Additionally, XML syntax highlights have been implemented for XML code within the chat pane, aiding in better visualization and understanding of the XML structure.
To start benefiting from Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, users have the option of a trial period. Additionally, there are several subscription plans to choose from to align with specific usage needs.
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability for Oxygen Content Fusion 6.1, the web-based collaboration platform for content creation!
Version 6.1 introduces exciting new features, such as the Due Date for review tasks, to ensure effective project management. The due date is visible in various places in the user interface and reviewers will receive email notifications to remind them that they need to finalize their task in time.
Single Sign On support is another much requested feature. This is now available by using OpenID Connect, thus allowing users to authenticate using an organization's SSO system, offering a secure and simplified login procedure. Existing Oxygen Content Fusion users with an account created via LDAP or sign up can use a third party app that implements the OpenID Connect protocol.
With the new Comment-only Review Mode, task owners will now have better control as it allows them to limit the reviewers to only have the ability to add comments without changing the content. This ensures that the document content is always seen in its original form by all reviewers.
The newly introduced Request Re-Review action enables task owners to request additional reviews should the need arise (a typical scenario for utilizing this feature is after addressing comments provided by other collaborators and requiring a review of these new change). This resets the status of the review from Finalized to In Progress for all reviewers and they will also be notified via email that there is a request to review the task again.
Oxygen Content Fusion 6.1 also ensures a superior degree of control over finalized review status even when other collaborators make changes to documents within the task. The Finalized state will change for that particular user only if they make changes to the task documents, or if a task owner either re-opens the task or requests a re-review of the task.
Review status information is explicitly detailed, showing the number of reviewers assigned to the task and their finalized review status. Seamless integration with Oxygen XML Editor/Author is better handled by allowing tasks to be marked as Integrated once complete. The tasks in the Integrated state cannot be edited and are hidden by default, thus enabling you to remain focused only on the tasks that you are actively working on. In the web interface, the hidden integrated tasks can be displayed on demand.
Now, both task owners and reviewers have the ability to add files to a task, either by uploading an existing file or by creating a new file from a template. Moreover, keeping track of tasks has been made easier with a sortable list, and the Task Activity page has been redesigned to provide users with a view of all the changes made by collaborators. Clicking on a file name now opens a comparison view of the document, highlighting all modifications made in a clear manner.
This short video highlights the most important additions to Oxygen Content Fusion 6.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmIkpfVpmMs
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of Oxygen Feedback version 4.1 for both Cloud and Enterprise editions!
The main focus of Oxygen Feedback version 4.1 was to streamline the configuration and installation processes by implementing various navigation features and informative messages for the users if any issues arise during the integration process. For instance, users will be presented with warnings and indicators in several places in the interface when a site or version has no page views, typically indicating that the site or version has not been installed. This approach aims to provide users with troubleshooting hints directly within the admin interface.
A newly introduced Technical Support page serves as a valuable resource hub. It includes resources, such as a video demonstration on how to install Oxygen Feedback and relevant documentation topics. Additionally, administrators can effortlessly reach out to the support team for troubleshooting assistance through a dedicated form.
Starting with this version, users now get all the relevant site information at a glance from the new Site Dashboard page, which is acting as the default page for a site. This includes the activity stream, the various versions defined for that site, a chart presenting the status overview for the existing comments, page views, page ratings, and more.
The notification features have also been refined. Messages sent in notification emails for various events have been improved to make the information more clear and consistent.
As usual, version 4.1 of Oxygen Feedback also comes with various important component updates.
If you are interested in exploring the latest features in Oxygen that enhance its comparison support, join us on the 29th of November for our last scheduled live webinar of the year - Discover the Power of Diff with Change Tracking!
Our returning featured presenter, Octavian Nadolu (project manager at Syncro Soft), will focus on some of the new and exciting capabilities of the Merge Documents with Change Tracking Highlights and Merge Directories with Change Tracking Highlights by covering the following topics:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-16.html
On the 22nd of November, you are invited to a 1-hour webinar, during which we will delve into the robustness of Oxygen's YAML support and showcase the exciting new features introduced in Oxygen 26.
In the Exploring Oxygen's YAML Support live event, Octavian Nadolu (project manager at Syncro Soft) will guide you through a variety of features and improvements, providing a comprehensive understanding of Oxygen's capabilities when working with YAML documents. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge!
Some of the topics of the webinar will include:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-15.html
We would also like to invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar:
Next Wednesday, on the 15th of November, join us for an exciting webinar as we dive deep into the new features of Oxygen Feedback 4.0!
In this 1-hour live event, Alin Balasa (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) will explore the app's newest features, such as faceted search, advanced query capabilities, content labeling, and semantic search.
To find out more about how to elevate your website's search functionality, join our webinar where we'll be addressing the following topics:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-14.html
Whether you're an experienced developer in search of a specialized tool or just beginning your journey with JSON, the all-new Oxygen JSON Editor is designed to meet all your JSON editing needs. Mark your calendars for next Wednesday, the 8th of November, as you're invited to acquaint yourself with this comprehensive solution that offers a range of powerful features meant to enhance your productivity and streamline your JSON editing processes.
Join us for the Introducing Oxygen JSON Editor - The Ultimate Solution for JSON Editing webinar, where Octavian Nadolu, project manager at Syncro Soft, will be your guide. In this live event, you'll discover how the Oxygen JSON Editor can transform your JSON development workflow by delving into its key features:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-13.html
Syncro Soft is proud to announce the immediate availability of Oxygen Content Fusion version 6, as well as Oxygen Feedback version 4 (for both the Cloud and Enterprise editions).
Oxygen Content Fusion 6 introduces the new Projects feature, which allows you to manage a DITA project hosted in a Git repository while maintaining full compatibility with existing workflows and tools. New publishing features are also available to help authors build WebHelp and PDF deliverables and the Oxygen Styles Basket has been integrated to let users visually customize the output.
A big focus for the release of version 4 of Oxygen Feedback was to implement various advanced search functionalities, such as Semantic Search and Faceted Search, that can be used when searching WebHelp Responsive output. These advanced search functions are made possible by configuring the Oxygen Feedback Search Engine to be the engine used by WebHelp.
What's New in Oxygen Content Fusion 6
With version 6, Oxygen Content Fusion introduces a lot of interesting and substantial improvements for the flexible and intuitive documentation platform where content authors can publish content and collaborate with subject matter experts in their documentation review process.
The new Projects feature provides a way to manage a DITA project hosted in a Git repository while maintaining full compatibility with your existing workflows and tools without the need for any type of migration. Authors can create review tasks inside a project and reviewers' feedback is tracked on a dedicated branch in the Git repository.
Additionally, this newest version brings new publishing capabilities for creating WebHelp and PDF deliverables. Users can also leverage a range of built-in templates to adjust the look and feel of these deliverables, and the Oxygen Styles Basket has been integrated to provide a way for the users to visually customize the output.
Furthermore, review task owners now have the option to close reviews temporarily, giving them time to address feedback and make necessary changes before integrating content into the project. Enhancements were also made to the Content Fusion user interface to improve navigation and streamline workflows.
The release also includes bug fixes, security enhancements, and updates to various internal components.
What's New in Oxygen Feedback 4
Version 4 of Oxygen Feedback offers new enhancements for both its Cloud and Enterprise editions of the solution that empowers content by elevating community engagement.
One of the advanced functions that can be utilized is Semantic Search, an advanced search technique that improves the accuracy and relevance of search results by analyzing the context of the search query, rather than relying solely on keyword matching. Additionally, publishers can 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 that they are seeking.
Additionally, site admins can conveniently view the number of positive and negative votes received for a specific page directly in the output. A new ratings information page within the admin interface displays the number of votes and messages for each documentation page, including the content of each message. Also, site admins can easily navigate to the ratings information page directly from their email notifications. Furthermore, a new checkbox can be displayed in the output when a user provides negative feedback, indicating their preference to be contacted by email for additional information if needed.
This version also includes various component updates and bug fixes.
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
Next Wednesday, on the 1st of November, we continue our series of Oxygen XML live events with another 1-hour long webinar titled: What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 26!
During this webinar, Mihaela Calotescu (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) will be your guide on the journey to discover the new features included in the latest releases of the Oxygen XML Web Author, with a special focus on version 26.0, related to security, concurrent editing, profiling attributes and much more.
You'll also see how the new Oxygen AI Positron Assistant side-view provides you with various ways to use ChatGPT while editing or reviewing content. This tool offers a comprehensive interface for AI actions and options, empowering you to leverage the full capabilities of AI technology, thus enhancing your productivity. It allows you to receive helpful hints for your next writing steps, enhance the readability of your content, correct grammar errors, generate index terms, translate content, create marketing-related material, or even restructure your entire document.
Here are some of the topics that will be covered during this event:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-12.html
The introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT has unlocked a world of possibilities for revolutionizing technical content creation. In our upcoming webinar, taking place on the 25th of October, Alex Jitianu (Software Architect at Syncro Soft) will explore how AI can be a game-changer in content creation and introduce you to the great functionalities of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on, your trusted writing companion.
In this 1-hour live session, a range of exciting topics will be covered, including:
Don't miss this opportunity to explore the future of content creation with AI!
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-11.html
November 22, 2023 - Exploring Oxygen's YAML Support https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-15.html
Syncro Soft is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 26 of its 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 the 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.
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:
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
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.
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
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 26.0 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.
We are happy to introduce you to version 5.3.0 of the Oxygen Git Client add-on, your trusted companion for Git-related tasks, making version control and collaboration smoother and more efficient!
The newest release of our add-on comes with the following key improvements:
For more information on the Oxygen Git Client add-on (including the installation steps), you can check the page below: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/git-addon.html
We hope that you will enjoy using the most recent release of the add-on as much as we enjoyed developing it. As always, your feedback is welcome!
DITA-OT Day is returning for its 8th edition, taking place this time in Helsinki, Finland, on February 11, 2024!
The full day conference dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions, is a free and in-person event. All you have to do to be a part of this event is to register for on-site participation, by filling out the form that is found on the DITA-OT Day 2024 event page - https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2024/dita-ot_day.html#free-registration.
Furthermore, it is important to note that DITA-OT Day coincides with the pre-conference day of DITA Europe, both taking place at the Scandic Park Helsinki hotel.
The call for proposals is currently in progress, and we are actively seeking speakers who can address topics related to DITA-OT! Along with the usual updates on new features and plans, this year we want to focus on the people and teams using DITA-OT. Take a look at the Call for Proposals section for more information on how to submit your proposal and the deadline: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2024/dita-ot_day.html#call-for-proposals.
We look forward to seeing you in Helsinki!
PS: In case you missed the opportunity to attend prior events or if you simply want to refresh your memory, you can access the recordings from past DITA-OT Day conferences at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2024/dita-ot_day.html#related-events
We are thrilled to announce the release of version 5.2.0 for the Oxygen Git Client add-on!
This newest update brings an array of new features and improvements, the most important being the introduction of Large File Support (LFS) to the Oxygen Git Client. If you have installed LFS and specified which extensions represent large or binary files that should be uploaded through the LFS mechanism, they will be automatically detected and handled correctly. This ensures a smoother and more seamless handling of large files, improving your version control process overall.
Additionally, version 5.2.0 offers improved messages in the user interface to provide clearer and more informative notifications, making your interaction with the Git Client more intuitive and user-friendly.
It's also worth mentioning that now, when you clone a repository, the Git Client will automatically detect and open Oxygen project files. This feature simplifies the process of working with Oxygen projects that are stored in a Git repository.
Other improvements added in version 5.2.0 of the Oxygen Git Client add-on include:
For more information on the Oxygen Git Client add-on (including the installation steps), you can check the page below:
We hope that you will enjoy using the latest release of the add-on as much as we enjoyed developing it. As always, your feedback is welcome!
With the release of the Beta version of Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0, we aimed to enhance the DITA documentation review and publishing processes for the advanced online collaboration platform.
As we approach the full release, we highly value your feedback and invite you to actively participate in shaping the final version of Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0, as your insights will play a crucial role in refining this cutting-edge collaboration platform. Thus, next week, on the 26th of July, join us for the exclusive webinar titled Introducing Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0 Beta, where Cristian Talau (project manager at Syncro Soft) will showcase the significant improvements and features of Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0 Beta.
The topics of this webinar will focus on the following features and improvements of Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0 Beta:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-9.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Beta version for Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0, the web collaboration solution for structured documents!
Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0 introduces a lot of interesting and substantial improvements for the online collaboration platform designed to improve the DITA documentation review and publishing processes. Note that this is currently a Beta version of the 6.0 release cycle, so user feedback is welcomed and considered especially helpful as we prepare for the full release.
Some of the most interesting new features and improvements implemented in this version include:
For more information about the Beta version for Oxygen Content Fusion 6.0 and more details of what was added in this version, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/6_beta.html
We are thrilled to introduce you to the newest version of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on!
Version 0.9.3 comes with several exciting features, including a chat history so you can revisit previous chats and continue where you left off, editable user entries in chat to modify conversations and explore different paths, the introduction of user-defined actions, and the possibility to provide project-specific details for more accurate AI responses.
The AI Positron Chat now provides an overall improved experience with the addition of the History drop down toolbar button that allows you to go back to previous conversations and continue them. You can also edit prompts in the chat discussion thread so you can change the conversation and continue from any point if you want to explore a different path. Additionally, the AI response appears incrementally, as soon as the AI starts generating it, and you now have the option to stop the generation of a response early if you do not consider it fit for your needs.
Version 0.9.3 also introduces user-defined AI actions. The same approach used for defining built-in actions can now be used to specify actions on the client side through the usage of a JSON configuration file. It may even be linked to a project, making it simple to share actions with everyone who works on a certain project.
The newest version of the add-on comes with the possibility to provide additional options for an action. To avoid creating too many related actions, it is now possible to specify different facets for an action that the user can choose. This can be best seen in the action that generates short descriptions, as it uses this customization to allow users in choosing different writing styles, such as clear or engaging, as well as setting the number of expected sentences that will be generated.
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant now enables you to configure a context for all prompts in the AI Positron Assistant Preferences page. This can be set to be project specific and it allows you to pass certain information to all the built-in actions, so that the AI model will generate better and more relevant results, as it becomes more knowledgeable about your context.
It is also worth mentioning that the AI Positron activity messages have been integrated into the AI Chat view for a more streamlined and consolidated user experience, thus making the AI Activity View not needed anymore.
For additional information on the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, including the installation instructions, you can check out this article on the Oxygen XML Blog: https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/ai_positron.html
For an in-depth presentation of the various features and use cases for the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, you can view the recording of our latest live webinar, AI as a Tool for Technical Content Creation - https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-7.html
We want to remind you that we plan to frequently release new features and improvements, so please let us know what you think about the current version and stay tuned for exciting new versions of this add-on!
Your journey into the world of AI continues next week, on the 5th of July, with the Leveraging the Power of AI and Schematron for Content Verification and Correction webinar!
During this 1-hour live event, Octavian Nadolu (project manager at Syncro Soft) will be exploring the application of AI in conjunction with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fix (SQF) for content verification and correction. He will begin with a comprehensive overview of AI before going on to highlight the potential advantages it brings and shed light on the challenges we may encounter when utilizing AI for these purposes.
Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into the intersection of AI and content validation by exploring topics such as:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-8.html
On the 28th of June, we invite you to join us for one of the most anticipated Oxygen XML live events - the AI as a Tool for Technical Content Creation webinar!
In recent months, AI technology has advanced to the point where it is now applicable in a wide range of real-world situations. However, the AI-generated content is not always accurate, making it challenging to introduce this technology to end users. On the other hand, this is precisely why technical writers are an excellent fit for AI since they can serve as mediators between the AI and the end users, using it to boost their productivity while ensuring the content that they deliver is accurate.
Oxygen AI Positron Assistant is a new plugin for the Oxygen XML tools that connects to the Open AI Chat GPT engine, introducing AI technology for supporting technical writing operations. To keep authors in control, the workflows are optimized to include preview of proposed AI changes and the possibility to refine the results. Custom AI interactions are also possible, and you can easily reuse them with support to save them as favorites.
During this 1-hour live webinar, Sorin Carbunaru (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) will:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-7.html
We are excited to announce a new release for the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on!
Version 0.9.2 comes with a variety of exciting new features, including chat functionality, the ability to preview changes, AI-based quick fixes, AI-based XPath extension functions, and new AI actions for grammar corrections, content rewriting, and checking how your content responds to specific questions.
The AI Positron Chat side-view provides a better user experience and more control when invoking AI actions, allowing you to see the response and preview its impact on the document using an action that triggers the visual XML-aware comparison. You can also further refine the responses by continuing the discussion with the AI Positron platform in the chat view.
In a chat message, you can use editor variables that expand to the selected content or the entire document. These allow you to define flexible prompts, and the support to save favorites enables you to store and easily reuse the prompts you find useful.
Along with the preview action for the AI responses, you can also use actions to insert the response into your document or copy the response to the system clipboard.
Version 0.9.2 of the add-on improves the existing actions and contributes new AI actions:
The add-on now also helps you with validation problems. If an error message provides a good description of the identified problem and eventually a hint on how to fix it, which is typically the case with Schematron errors, then you can take advantage of the AI Positron Fix quick-fix action that tries to find a solution to the validation problem. This action can be triggered from the contextual menu for the validation problems that are displayed in the application's Problems list.
The add-on now also contributes two XPath extension functions that can be used from XSLT stylesheets, XQuery scripts, and from Schematron schemas to process content or to perform validation checks on existing content. Custom XML refactoring operations (based on XSLT or XQuery) can also take advantage of these AI functions, so you can apply batch processing on multiple documents.
For additional information on the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on, including the installation instructions, you can check out this article on the Oxygen XML Blog:
https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/ai_positron.html
We want to remind you that we plan to frequently release new features and improvements, so please let us know what you think of the current version and stay tuned for exciting new versions of this add-on!
In the recent months, AI technology reached a point where it became useful in many real-life scenarios. However, the AI generated content is not 100% accurate, which makes this technology difficult to deploy directly to end users that expect to only receive correct information. On the other hand, users who understand that AI-generated content is only a starting point, a hint, or a suggestion, and that they are in control of the final form, will experience an increase in productivity because the AI generated content will speed up many of their tasks.
The new Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin provides the bridge between AI and Oxygen users, helping them access AI-enabled tools to speed up content creation.
The plugin contributes helper actions that can be used to generate content:
A group of translation actions will try to preserve the XML markup structure while translating the content to French, German, Japanese, or English.
To obtain overview information, you can use an action to summarize the selected content or to get readability suggestions.
DITA Topic Tools actions allow you to perform DITA-aware tasks, such as:
The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin contributes its actions to the main menu, contextual menu, and in the AI Positron Assistant view. When invoking an action, you can monitor its progress and see the results in the AI Positron Activity view.
To enable the AI features, you need to connect the plugin to the Oxygen AI Positron service platform that now uses the Open AI API to access models like Chat GPT, GPT-4, etc. The initial release of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin is currently in an experimental phase, enabling users to perform up to 250 actions per month, but we expect to provide subscription options in the near future. We anticipate releasing new features and updates often, so please share your feedback about the current version and stay tuned for exciting new versions of this plugin.
For additional information on the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin, including the installation instructions, you can check out the following article written by Radu Coravu for the Oxygen XML Blog: https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/ai_positron.html
On the 26th of April, we invite you to join us for the latest Oxygen XML live event - the Interactive Tutorials in Oxygen webinar!
As you surely know by now, a traditional tutorial implies a set of written instructions that the users must follow. Well, Oxygen takes the concept one step further! With our Live Tutorials add-on, the tutorial is embedded within the application itself. The samples for each step are opened automatically, hints are available on request, and the application detects when a mission is complete (in this case, a mission consists of the initial file content that is opened in the application and a set of steps for guidance).
During this webinar, Alin Balasa (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) will provide a detailed overview of the various features that were added for those who want to make the most of our new and advanced search functionality, as well as information about the other new features that version 3.0 brings to the table. Our expert speaker will delve into the technical details and demonstrate how you can take advantage of these new features.
For 1 hour, Sorin Carbunaru (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) will explore in detail the Live Tutorials add-on, by covering the following topics from which you will benefit greatly:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-6.html
As promised, our live event series continues next Wednesday, on the 19th of April, with the How to Enable Content Indexing and Search in Oxygen Feedback 3.0 webinar!
Thus, we are excited to invite you to an event that is focused on the latest release of Oxygen Feedback version 3.0. This new release brings some exciting new enhancements to our modern comment management platform, including the implementation of content indexing and search functionality.
Whether you are an existing Oxygen Feedback user or interested in discovering more about our modern commenting platform, this webinar is a great opportunity to learn about the latest developments and how they can benefit your business. The following topics will be addressed:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-5.html
Get ready to mark your calendars because the Oxygen XML live event series is making a comeback! Next Wednesday, on the 5th of April, don't miss out on the chance to attend our first webinar of spring - we're talking about the DITA Project Management, Validation, and Translation in a Docs as Code Environment webinar!
Docs as Code> is a philosophy according to which you should write documentation using the same tools and workflows that software developers use to write code. But it's not so much about the tools, as it is about the workflows and practices involved, such as continuous integration or version control.
Next week, join Sorin Carbunaru (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) as he will look at such a setup using open-source tools and standards that include:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-4.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 25.1 of its industry-leading XML suite of products: Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Scripting, as well as version 3.0 of the Oxygen Feedback comment management platform.
Some of the highlights of this release include various productivity improvements for DITA authors and new possibilities for DITA publishers who produce either CSS-based PDF or WebHelp output. JSON schema designers can look forward to more functionality to help them in Design mode, as well as upgrades to some of the JSON tools, and support for editing JSON Lines documents. YAML developers will be happy to see that the YAML editing support was bolstered to a level similar to Oxygen's JSON support. Many of Oxygen's popular add-ons were updated with new options, visual improvements, performance enhancements, and ease-of-use features. The scripting community now has access to some ready-to-use GitHub project templates and GitHub actions that allow users to automate scripts and some of the existing scripts were improved, while new ones were added. This release also provides various important component updates, bug fixes, and security enhancements.
Oxygen XML Web Author, the cutting-edge web-based XML authoring tool, comes with even more improvements and updates. This release brings you updates for the comparison tool and image maps, new plugins are available for adding support for CALS tables in custom frameworks, rendering LaTeX equations, and providing client-side evaluation of XPath expressions. Various other enhancements were implemented as well.
One of the major additions in the latest version of Oxygen Feedback is the Content Indexing and Search feature, which enables you to utilize Oxygen Feedback as an external search engine for your published Oxygen WebHelp Responsive output.
What's new in Oxygen XML Editor 25.1
Oxygen XML Editor version 25.1 is a minor release of the industry-leading bundle of tools for content authors, developers, collaborators, and publishers. This release offers both enhancements to existing functionality and some brand new features that were requested by the community.
For DITA authors, when working with DITA-OT projects that define multiple output configurations (called contexts), it is easier to select the current context used to see how the DITA content looks like in that configuration using the re-designed interface. It facilitates the context selection with improved grouping and filtering options. Starting with DITA 1.3, it is possible to specify filters for a branch of a DITA map through a functionality called branch filtering. Oxygen's advanced DITA map validation and completeness check now factors in branch filtering. DITA 1.3 also introduced the concept of key scopes, enabling you to specify different sets of key definitions for different map branches. Oxygen's DITA Reusable Components view has a new filtering option to show keys with the closest relative key scope to the current editing location, and key references are validated taking the key scope into account. The DITA Map Metrics Report that contains useful statistics for the current DITA map was redesigned to allow easier navigation to its various categories. Performance was improved when editing large DITA maps and the Change or remove profiling attribute value refactoring action also updates DITAVAL filter files.
DITA publishers who produce CSS-based PDF output have the possibility of displaying line numbers or visual markers for whitespace characters in code blocks, making code snippets easier to read in the output. The error reporting was improved when publishing DITA-OT Project files. For example, the transformation error messages displayed in the Results pane contain the ID of the deliverable. You can also control the behavior of footnotes using a new transformation parameter that when set to yes, causes footnotes that are referenced multiple times throughout a publication to be cloned and placed at the bottom of the page for each occurrence instead of subsequent references pointing back to the original footnote. For WebHelp publishers, this release added new parameters for disabling the generation of index terms and excluding topic IDs from context-sensitive help, a new extension point can also be used to help you fine-tune the XSLT transformation that generates the mapping for context-sensitive help, and the JQuery library that comes bundled with WebHelp is accessible in the browser's global context enabling developers to use it.
The innovative JSON Schema Design mode received further enhancements. A new action was added to flatten the entire hierarchy of JSON schemas, the Extract Definition type actions work on multiple selections of components, and the functionality of search actions was extended to enable them to be used on the root schema component. The XSD to JSON Schema conversion tool and the JSON Schema Documentation Generator were both upgraded to fix various issues and enhance performance. Also, basic editing support was added for JSON Lines documents, and JSON property names are now displayed after ending brackets to make the code more readable when editing JSON documents in Text mode.
YAML developers have access to an Outline view that displays the list of all the components of the document in a hierarchical (tree-like) representation and can be used to navigate to a specific part, or to move or delete components. Content completion assistance was implemented to help you edit YAML documents by offering proposals for inserting YAML structures that are valid at the current editing location. Various actions (e.g. Toggle Line Comments, Copy JSON Pointer, and Copy XPath) were also implemented to bring the YAML editing support to a level similar to Oxygen's JSON support.
For XSLT and XQuery users, a new version of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery Transformer add-on is now available for Saxon 12 and the Saxon 11 version of the add-on was also updated to incorporate Saxon 11.5, the latest maintenance release of the Saxon 11 engine. Also, the output of XQuery Trace functions (used in XML refactoring actions for debugging purposes) is presented in the Results view to make the information more readily available.
Many of the most popular add-ons received updates and some interesting new add-ons were implemented. The Git Client add-on offers new options, visual improvements, performance enhancements, and ease-of-use features. Various performance, layout, and rendering improvements were implemented for both the JSON Schema and OpenAPI Documentation Generator tools, and the Batch Documents Converter and Terminology Checker add-ons also received various updates to bolster their functionality. A new Live Tutorials add-on is available to help you create tutorials for learning various editing functions for a certain vocabulary. This add-on also comes bundled with some small tutorials that teach you how to do various DITA editing tasks. Another new add-on is available to help you manage Fluenta DITA translation projects.
Other improvements include basic editing support and syntax highlights for Dockerfile documents, relative references in Framework Extension Script files are automatically resolved, certain XML refactoring operations process faster, and as usual, this release includes various important component updates, bug fixes, and security enhancements.
What's new in Oxygen XML Scripting 25.1
Oxygen XML Scripting version 25.1 offers updates and improvements for some of the scripts that are available to provide a variety of functions that can be scheduled or triggered using a command-line tool on Windows, Linux, or macOS.
The scripting community now has access to some ready-to-use GitHub project templates and GitHub actions that allow users to automate scripts that will be triggered every time you push changes to your repository. For example, there are templates that execute validation and transformation operations, while other templates allow you to compare directories or generate XSD/XSL/WSDL Documentation. The Validation script also received various improvements. For example, framework validation scenarios are automatically detected for OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON-LD documents. New scripts were added for generating JSON Schema or OpenAPI Documentation.
What's new in Oxygen XML Web Author 25.1
Version 25.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author is a minor release for the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release brings you improvements for the comparison tool and image maps, new plugins are available for adding support for CALS tables in custom frameworks, rendering LaTeX equations, and providing client-side evaluation of XPath expressions, while various other enhancements also were implemented.
This latest version includes several notable improvements. One of the main areas of focus was on enhancing stability and performance for non-Latin language input method editors (IME). The Web Author's file comparison tool has also been improved with new parameters and better visual highlighting of surround-type edits. New actions that move selected block elements have been introduced to help improve productivity. Image maps now support images referenced using keys, and several new open-source plugins are available, including one for adding support for CALS tables in custom frameworks, one for rendering LaTeX equations, and another for evaluating XPath expressions client-side. This version also includes a range of other productivity improvements, component updates, bug fixes, and security enhancements.
What's new in Oxygen Feedback 3.0
Version 3.0 of Oxygen Feedback offers exciting new enhancements for the modern comment management platform that provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact with and offer feedback about your content.
Some of the most significant additions for this version include the new search functionality that allows you to use Oxygen Feedback as an external search engine for your published Oxygen WebHelp Responsive output. The benefit of this functionality is the efficiency of the search process, which is performed on a pre-built index of the HTML content. Oxygen Feedback supports a vast list of languages to be used in the indexing process.
The page ratings component was enhanced to provide the possibility of displaying a survey when a user gives a negative rating for a page. The page ratings statistics page in the administration interface now has columns for both positive and negative votes, and shows the negative survey messages, which are also sent to admins in daily email notifications. You also have the ability to choose whether to display like/dislike icons instead of text responses (e.g. Yes and No) for the page ratings component.
Both Cloud and Enterprise editions also include other productivity improvements, bug fixes, and customization options.
What's new in Oxygen Publishing Engine 25.1
Oxygen Publishing Engine offers the same publishing functionality from Oxygen XML Editor to be used for automation and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) tasks. Version 25.1 includes the improvements and additions implemented in Oxygen XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry.
For Oxygen XML WebHelp publishers, this release added a new parameter for excluding topic IDs from context-sensitive help mappings, a new parameter to disable the generation of index terms, a new extension point to help you insert custom XSLT code to modify the XSLT transformation that generates the mapping for context-sensitive help, and the JQuery library that comes bundled with WebHelp is accessible in the browser's global context enabling developers to use it.
Starting with version 25.1 of Oxygen PDF Chemistry, you have the ability to embed videos in your PDF output. It is possible to display line numbers or markers for whitespace characters in code blocks to make your code snippets easier to read. You can also control the behavior of footnotes using a new transformation parameter that when set to yes, causes footnotes that are referenced multiple times throughout a publication to be cloned and placed at the bottom of the page for each occurrence, instead of subsequent references pointing back to the original footnote.
This release also includes various bug fixes and security enhancements.
Next Wednesday, on the 25th of January, we invite you to a live presentation of the newest features that came along with the release of version 25.0 of the Oxygen XML Web Author!
During the What's new in Oxygen XML Web Author 25.0 webinar, Bogdan Dumitru (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) will show you some of the features related to DITA Map files editing, as well as other general enhancements that will improve your editing experience, regardless of the edited document type.
And we won't be stopping there, because you'll also witness firsthand a Git workflow demonstration that allows Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to contribute content in a Git repository without having to solve conflicts and without them having to learn and remember DITA details or a specific topics structure. SMEs will seamlessly concurrently edit all the DITA topics by opening just the DITA Map that shows all topics expanded, also having the possibility to easily get around, sort topics, and add new ones.
Here are some features that will be presented during this event:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-2.html
If you thought that your PDF customization journey was finished, well we have some amazing news for you!
On the 18th of January, Julien Lacour (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) will be returning with the 4th part of his Transforming DITA documents to PDF using CSS webinar series! This latest installment will be called Advanced CSS Rules and it will target those of you that were thinking about controlling the change bars display, modifying your PDF viewer behavior or centering and rotating your tables.
So, clear you schedule for next Wednesday and get ready to take a deep dive into the following topics:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-3.html
What better way to kick off the new year than with the Oxygen XML Editor series of live events? So, next Wednesday, on the 11th of January, we invite you to the Validating XML and JSON Documents Using Oxygen Scripting webinar!
With the latest release of the Oxygen suite of products, additional support was added for validating XML and JSON files via Oxygen XML Scripting.
In this webinar, Octavian Nadolu (project manager at Syncro Soft) will cover details about this newly implemented validation scripting support, as well as showing examples of how to use it efficiently. By the end of the webinar, you will know how to validate files or directories from a command line interface and check that your documents are valid from an integration server, as well as having the possibility to generate reports in several formats (text, XML, JSON, or an HTML visual format). We won’t be stopping there, as we will also be looking at how you can use transformation or comparison scripts.
During this 1-hour live event, Octavian will focus on showing you how to:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-1.html
On the 14th of December, clear your schedule for the last Oxygen XML Editor live event of the year - the OpenAPI/AsyncAPI Support in Oxygen webinar. There is no way you want to miss this!
OpenAPI is a community-driven open specification that defines a language-agnostic interface used to describe, produce, consume, and visualize RESTful APIs and web services. AsyncAPI started as an adaptation of the OpenAPI specification, used for describing asynchronous messaging APIs. OpenAPI/AsyncAPI documents describe the API (or its elements) and are represented in either YAML or JSON formats.
During this live webinar, Octavian Nadolu (project manager at Syncro Soft) will be showcasing the support offered in Oxygen to create, edit, and validate OpenAPI/AsyncAPI documents, as well as demonstrating how to test, and generate documentation for OpenAPI documents.
By joining this live event, you will get the chance to learn the following:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-11.html
The Oxygen XML Editor live event series continues on the 7th of December with the Creating and Designing JSON Schemas webinar!
Octavian Nadolu, project manager at Syncro Soft, will present various powerful tools that are provided in Oxygen that allow you to design, develop, and edit JSON Schemas. During this webinar, he will focus on presenting features ranging from the new intuitive and expressive visual schema Design mode to the JSON Schema documentation generator that includes diagram images for each component.
By joining this live event, you will get the chance to learn and experience an in-depth look at all of these features:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-10.html
The long-awaited Oxygen XML Editor webinar series is finally back! The autumn/winter season of live events starts on November 23rd with the Integrating Various Document Formats (OpenAPI, Word, Markdown, HTML, Excel) into DITA Documentation webinar.
As we all know, some documentation projects require a mix of document formats (e.g. DITA for content, Markdown for release notes, JSON for API documentation). With this in mind, Cosmin Duna (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) created a live event in which he will demonstrate how you can integrate OpenAPI, Word, Markdown, HTML, and Excel content into your DITA documentation by simply using the Oxygen tools and features.
During this live webinar, you will get more insight on the following subjects:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-12.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 25 of its industry-leading XML suite of products: Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen XML Scripting.
This release provides a platform to work both with XML and XML-related resources by further extending its support to other languages such as JSON and YAML, and being able to treat some file types (Word, Excel, OpenAPI, HTML, Markdown, and others) as DITA-compatible resources and thus reference and use them from DITA maps, similar to how DITA XML topics are referenced and used. Furthermore, users now have the ability to generate Google Structured Data in WebHelp output, and for PDF publishers this version includes support for a variety of useful new CSS properties to customize the CSS-based PDF output.
The JSON support was improved to be at a similar level with the XML support and now includes a visual JSON Schema diagram that comes with search and refactoring actions.
For this release, we also focused our efforts to bring lots of improvements to some of the popular add-ons, such as the Git Client, Batch Documents Converter, and Terminology Checker. A new command-line script can be used to validate files or directories, and as usual, version 25 includes new API entry points, various bug fixes, and component updates.
Oxygen XML Web Author, the cutting-edge web-based XML authoring tool, now features even more improvements and updates. This major release offers enhancements to the general user interface, new DITA authoring features, more customization possibilities, refinements to concurrent editing sessions, and performance tweaks.
Oxygen XML Editor version 25.0 provides numerous new features, updates, and improvements that focus on productivity, performance, efficiency, advanced customization, and simplicity.
This major release introduces a lot of productivity enhancements for DITA authors and publishers. DITA maps are now automatically saved whenever a modification is made in the DITA Maps Manager, various improvements were added to make referenced DITA-compatible resources (Word, Excel, OpenAPI, HTML, Markdown) be treated similar to DITA resources when inserting references, validating DITA maps, or publishing content. Referenced content (topic or map references within DITA maps or content references in topics) can be expanded on demand in the Author visual editing mode, thus increasing the performance when opening files with many references, a new toolbar button in the DITA Maps Manager generates a DITA Metrics report with useful information about the current map, profiling attribute groups can now be defined in a subject scheme map, and new inline actions are available for inserting topic references in DITA maps, setting the note type, and setting the language for code blocks in DITA topics. A button was added for each deliverable in DITA-OT Project files to make it easy to publish that deliverable individually, while a publish button was also added at the top of the document to publish all deliverables specified in the DITA-OT project file. You now have the ability to generate Google Structured Data in WebHelp output, there is also a new Questions and Answers topic type that can be used during the publishing phase for creating the Google Structured Data in the output, and a new action makes it possible to insert an intent question within a DITA topic.
Many of the JSON features and tools were updated to support the latest JSON schema version (2020-12). This includes validating JSON schemas according to the 2020-12 specification, validating JSON or YAML documents against a 2020-12 schema, content completion proposals were updated, new components were added in the Palette view, and you can convert older JSON schemas to the latest version. The JSON Schema Documentation Generator, JSON Instance Generator, and JSON Schema Generator tools were also updated to support the 2022-12 schema version. New search and refactoring actions were also integrated into the JSON Schema Design mode, and containers are now automatically created when dragging components from the Palette view to the JSON Schema Design editor.
The OpenAPI standard is becoming more and more popular and our developers implemented various features and tools to support these types of documents. New document templates are available, you can edit OpenAPI documents in Text or Author mode taking advantage of automatic validation and content completion proposals, while the OpenAPI Documentation Generator and OpenAPI Tester tools were also improved. Additionally, support was also included for editing AsyncAPI, JSON-LD, and OpenAPI test scenario documents.
The built-in Saxon XSLT/XQuery processor was updated to the latest version, 11.4. It brings new functionality and support for new extension functions, as well as other features for XSLT and XQuery transformations and debugging. Other improvements include validation and transformation support for XSLT 4.0 documents, and content completion for XSLT 4.0 elements, attributes, and XPath 4.0 functions.
Add-ons were another focus of this release, with some of the most popular ones receiving lots of updates. Validation features were added in the Git Client, enabling automatic validation of files before performing the commit or push actions. The Batch Documents Converter now has an option for converting OpenAPI specification files encoded in JSON or YAML formats into DITA documents and many of the other types of conversions received various improvements. The Terminology Checker add-on now has the ability to control on which elements a rule is applied using simple XPath expressions, the users can now specify the phase (editing/validation/always) in which incorrect terms are detected, and it is possible for Oxygen add-on to contribute terminology files to be used by the Terminology Checker.
Other features and improvements include editing support and syntax highlighting for PowerShell files, performance was improved for the XPath in Files feature, shortcuts were added for controlling indentation in code blocks, and as usual, this release includes new API entry points, various bug fixes, and component updates.
Short video that highlights the most important additions to Oxygen XML Editor version 25: https://youtu.be/6NEXqJBING0
Oxygen XML Scripting version 25.0 offers updates and improvements for some of the scripts that are available to provide a variety of functions that can be scheduled or triggered using a command-line tool on Windows, Linux, or macOS.
This release added a new Validate Command Line Script that can be used for validating files or directories and generating reports in several formats (text, XML, JSON, or an HTML visual format). Also, the Batch Converter script now includes the option to convert multiple documents from OpenAPI to DITA.
Oxygen Publishing Engine version 25.0 encompasses the improvements and additions implemented in Oxygen XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry. This latest release offers a variety of new customization possibilities, transformation parameters, properties, component updates, and bug fixes for both WebHelp and PDF publishers.
For Oxygen XML WebHelp publishers, this release added the ability to generate Google Structured Data in the output and to control the search support. New transformation parameters were included to specify a custom search engine, to change the default search engine, or to replace the main page with a custom page. Customization possibilities were added for displaying a custom title in the search results page or for implementing custom search filters.
Some of the most interesting improvements offered with the latest version of Oxygen PDF Chemistry include support for a variety of new CSS properties to help users control how page, column, or region breaks behave, to force or avoid line breaks at hyphens, to omit the header or footer from tables when a page break occurs, or to display watermark images in the foreground. Also, new transformation parameters can be used to make documents archive-able (PDF/A compliant) or to filter the glossary, and it is now possible to define exception elements for hyphenation dictionaries.
Version 25.0.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author continues to bolster the innovative web-based XML authoring tool with more enhancements and additions. This major release offers improvements to the general user interface, new DITA authoring features, more customization possibilities, refinements to concurrent editing sessions, performance tweaks, as well as various bug fixes and component updates.
For awhile now, the DITA support has benefited from an image map editor and that was also extended to define and edit image maps for XHTML documents, and in general, the image map support can now be easily added for any other XML vocabulary.
When editing online, it is possible to lose the connection to the server. Once the connection is restored, the concurrent editing support now resumes seamlessly.
Inserting DITA new topics and topic references in DITA maps is made easier by a new CSS style that provides inline actions to insert topic references when editing DITA map documents in the visual editor.
Other interesting enhancements added in this version of Web Author include actions to select an element, its content, or its parent, actions to insert links were added to the floating toolbar, easier methods for controlling indentation and setting the syntax highlight language in code blocks, and the Outline pane is now also available for DITA maps.
DITA-OT Day 2022
On the 13th of November, 2022, Oxygen XML Editor organizes the 7th edition of the DITA-OT Day conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 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/2022/dita-ot_day.html
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Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of Oxygen Content Fusion version 5.0, the ultimate web collaboration solution!
Version 5.0 of Oxygen Content Fusion is the latest release for the innovative collaboration platform that is designed to improve any documentation review process.
Some of the most interesting features added in the latest version include a new Search side-view that enables searches throughout all files in a task, various user interface improvements that offer Content Fusion a more modern look and feel, and the ability to mention other collaborators in review comments.
The embedded visual editor that is based upon Oxygen XML Web Author technology was updated to include the new features and improvements that were added in the recently released Web Author 24.1.0. Some of its most important additions include performance optimizations for the concurrent editing feature and a new Find/Replace tab that makes it possible to see all search results without needing to scroll through the document.
Also, it is now possible for technical writers to open files sent for review directly from Oxygen XML Editor/Author to make changes or to apply a transformation scenario on the DITA map. To this end, new actions were introduced in Oxygen XML Editor/Author that enable you to open task files or the context map specified for a task.
To further improve the user experience, version 5.0 also includes numerous important component updates.
For more information about Oxygen Content Fusion and more details of what was added in this version, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html
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Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of Oxygen Feedback version 2.1 for both Cloud and Enterprise editions!
Version 2.1 of Oxygen Feedback offers a lot of exciting new enhancements for the modern commenting platform, the most significant addition being the introduction of the page ratings concept. This introduces a new page ratings component that gives your website users the power to vote on the quality of your web pages through customizable prompts, a Page Ratings statistics page in the administration interface that displays the top pages that have received votes for the current site configuration, and the option for the users with an administrative role to receive daily reports of the pages that were rated within the past 24 hours.
The block-level comments feature also received several updates that allow you to enable or disable block-level comments in the output, outline the current block on hover, as well as a better placement of the widget so that the comment can be more precisely attached to an element within a hierarchy of elements.
With this new release, other improvements were implemented such as the possibilities to automatically insert selected content as a quote in a new comment, filter reopened comments, and receive notifications when your comments are resolved.
Other upgrades include the complete removal of the Apache Log4j library to prevent security vulnerabilities associated with it, and as usual, various important component updates and bug fixes.
The Oxygen Feedback commenting platform provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback. Its modern, stylish appearance looks great on any website, it is very easy to configure and integrate, and it includes a user-friendly interface and numerous useful features for both Commenters and Administrators.
It is specialized for technical documentation and can be easily integrated with Oxygen XML Editor/Author to make it more efficient for content authors to manage comments and react to community feedback.
We all know that the road to becoming advanced in a specific subject is a long and tedious one. But with our help, it doesn’t need to be that difficult anymore!
Next Wednesday (April 13th), we will be meeting Julien Lacour (software developer at Syncro Soft) again to help us continue the journey into defining the look and format of PDF documents with the use of CSS. He will be bringing us another extensive tutorial, this time dedicated to adding custom fonts in CSS.
After this webinar, we will have all the tools needed to:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-8.html
OpenAPI is a community-driven open specification that defines a language-agnostic interface used to describe, produce, consume, and visualize RESTful APIs and web services. OpenAPI documents describe the API (or its elements) and are represented in either YAML or JSON formats.
Next Wednesday, on the 6th of April, Octavian Nadolu (project manager at Syncro Soft) will help you discover the support offered in Oxygen for OpenAPI documents as well as how to create, edit, test, and generate documentation. During this live webinar, you will get the chance to learn how to:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-7.html
The need to customize the appearance of published documentation is something that is being addressed constantly by our users. As a solution, Oxygen WebHelp offers a predefined set of layouts and styles, resulting in several different customization methods or combination of methods.
To get you accustomed to these options, Alin Balasa (software developer at Syncro Soft) put together a comprehensive live webinar that will walk you through some of the several techniques available for customizing the WebHelp Responsive output.
By joining us on the 30th of March, you will get the chance to learn the following:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-3.html
To stay in touch with us and discover what other subjects will be covered in our future presentations, please make sure to check https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html
With the recent release of version 24.1, Oxygen XML Editor now provides an improved and even more powerful and expressive visual schema diagram editor for editing JSON Schemas!
From the start, the structure of the diagram editor, known as the JSON Schema Design mode, was created to be intuitive and easy to use, no matter the level of your experience. And with the help of Octavian Nadolu, project manager at Syncro Soft, you will get to see how the Design mode can help both content authors who want to visualize or understand a schema and schema designers who develop complex schemas.
By joining next Wednesday’s (March 23rd) live webinar, you will also get the chance to learn:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-6.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 24.1 of its industry-leading XML suite of products: Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen XML Scripting.
This release includes productivity improvements for DITA authors and publishers, such examples being the possibility to rename referenced non-DITA resources directly in the DITA Maps Manager and performance enhancement when opening DITA maps with all of the referenced content expanded. On the DITA publishing side, the bundled DITA Open Toolkit was updated to the latest version and various updates, improvements, and new customization possibilities were implemented for DITA to WebHelp and CSS-based PDF output.
The innovative JSON Schema Design mode received a lot of improvements with a new Palette view that makes it very easy to build JSON schemas and content completion is now available for in-place editing within the diagram. Some of the existing JSON tools were also enhanced.
Add-ons were a major focus of this release, with many of the most popular ones receiving lots of updates, including the Git Client, Batch Documents Converter, OpenAPI Documentation Generator, OpenAPI Tester, and more, while an interesting new Smart Autocomplete add-on is also available to help writers create content by providing text completions.
With a focus on authoring experience and collaboration, the Oxygen XML Web Author now features a new Search side-view that makes it easier to find and replace content, support for @ mentions, and various security and component updates were also implemented.
Oxygen XML Editor version 24.1 is an incremental release for the industry's most advanced bundle of tools used by technical writers, developers, collaborators, and publishers everywhere. The focus of this release was to expand upon the new features and improvements that were added in version 24.0.
An example of a productivity enhancement for DITA authors is that you can now rename referenced non-DITA resources directly in the DITA Maps Manager and performance was improved when opening DITA maps with all of the referenced content expanded. Meanwhile, on the DITA publishing side, the bundled DITA Open Toolkit was updated to the latest version and new transformation parameters make it possible to display media objects with an external link and to have glossary entries sorted and grouped.
The innovative JSON Schema Design mode that was recently introduced in the previous version received a lot of further enhancements. You can now move and re-order components within the diagram, a new Palette view makes it very easy to build JSON schemas by offering quick access to components that can be dragged and dropped into the diagram, new items were added to the contextual menu for easier access to various actions, and content completion is now available for in-place editing within the diagram.
Some of the existing JSON tools were also enhanced. You can now mark properties to be required when using the JSON Schema Generator tool, the XML to JSON converter tool now offers the possibility of controlling how empty elements are converted, and the JSON Schema Documentation generator tool now presents diagrams in the generated documentation for components from referenced files and you can choose to include hyperlinks that navigate to the particular component.
Add-ons were a major focus of this release, with many of the most popular ones receiving lots of updates.
The Git Client add-on continued to be enhanced with the addition of a revision graph within the History view, various actions were added while the toolbar was simplified to display the most common actions, performance was optimized, and some components were updated.
The Batch Documents Converter add-on now includes the possibility of converting content from Atlassian Confluence to DITA, and the DocBook to DITA conversion offers an option to convert all sections into individual DITA topics that are referenced in a new DITA map. It also now provides options for configuring the mappings between elements for certain types of conversions and tables are now handled better when converting Markdown to DITA.
For OpenAPI developers, a new OpenAPI Documentation generator tool is available to easily generate full documentation for OpenAPI components in HTML format and a new OpenAPI Tester is available to inspect OpenAPI request responses and to ensure they work as expected.
This release also marks the introduction of an interesting new Smart Autocomplete add-on that helps writers create content by providing text completions. It contributes a side-view where you can choose between a Built-in or OpenAI engine for generating the proposals for text completion. The Built-in engine analyzes all XML, HTML, or Markdown files in a project and then offers completion proposals when editing text content, while the OpenAI engine uses language models provided by the OpenAI company. Not only does that engine offer text completion proposals, but it also contributes various configurable actions that can be used to transform the selected text in the editor, and it allows you to create your own fine-tuned language models. Some examples of the actions that are available to transform the selected text include grammar corrections, paraphrasing, translating content into other languages, adding markup, creating ordered lists, and many more.
XSLT and XQuery transformations and debugging features were enhanced as the built-in version of Saxon was updated to version 10.6, which is considered to be the most stable and reliable version of Saxon. Also, a new option was added in the Compile XSL Stylesheet for Saxon dialog box that allows you to set the default namespace for unprefixed element names.
Other improvements include the complete removal of the Apache Log4j library to prevent security vulnerabilities associated with it, a new setting to control the initial display mode for tracked changes in the Author visual editing mode, more Markdown rules were added, and as usual, this release includes various important component updates and bug fixes.
Oxygen XML Scripting provides a variety of functions that can be scheduled or triggered using a command-line tool on Windows, Linux, or macOS. The main focus for version 24.1 was various additions and improvements for the Batch Converter script.
For details, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_scripting/whats_new.html
Oxygen Publishing Engine version 24.1 encompasses all of the improvements and new customization possibilities implemented in Oxygen XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry.
For Oxygen XML WebHelp publishers, this release added some Ant extension points to allow custom tasks to be executed before and after various transformation steps, the context-sensitive help system was optimized, and new transformation parameters were added to help you customize your WebHelp output.
Some examples of the improvements and updates that were added to Oxygen PDF Chemistry include the processor now offering support for absolute positioning for inline elements and the dependency on the Log4j library was removed to help prevent possible security vulnerability issues.
Version 24.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest release for the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release expands upon the features that were recently added in Version 24.0.0 with further improvements to some of those features, along with several new enhancements. A new Search side-view makes it easier to find and replace content, @ mentions are now supported, performance was optimized, new functionality improves customizations and integrations, and various bugs were fixed, security was enhanced, and some components were updated.
In the first part of the Transforming DITA documents to PDF using CSS tutorial series, we aimed to teach you how to customize your PDF publications using CSS and make them compliant with all your company documents. Now, you are ready to continue your journey through DITA to PDF customization!
Next Wednesday, March 2nd, it’s time to move on and learn some great new tips and tricks about the PDF page layout. Join Julien Lacour (software developer at Syncro Soft) and, with his help, by the end of this course you will be able to:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-4.html
If you are planning to customize the look and feel of your PDF or WebHelp output but the simple mention of CSS makes you uneasy, don’t worry! Next Wednesday, February 2nd, we will show you the ultimate solution: the Oxygen Styles Basket visual customization tool.
To help you develop a custom CSS for styling your WebHelp or PDF output, Julien Lacour (senior software developer at Syncro Soft) created the “Using Oxygen Styles Basket to Create CSS Customization from Scratch” webinar. During this live event, Julien will show you what exactly is the Oxygen Styles Basket web-based application, how it works, and how you can use it best to fulfill the needs of your assignments.
After attending this crash-course, you will be able to:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-2.html
Get ready for the first Oxygen XML live event of 2022! On January 19th, we invite you to join us for the “Documentation Review Workflow Using Oxygen Feedback” webinar.
Just before last year was coming to an end, we announced the release of version 2.0 of the Oxygen Feedback web-based commenting platform. To mark this event, Alin Balasa (software developer at Syncro Soft) created an immersive live event in which he will take a deeper look at the latest features implemented in our modern comment management platform.
He will also be showcasing the use of Feedback in conjunction with Oxygen XML Editor so you can learn how to continuously improve your online documentation based on your subject matter experts (SMEs) and community feedback.
By taking part in this upcoming webinar, you will get the chance to learn everything about:
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2022-1.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of Oxygen Feedback version 2.0 for both Cloud and Enterprise editions!
Version 2.0 of Oxygen Feedback offers a lot of exciting new enhancements for the modern commenting platform, the most significant addition being the introduction of the organization concept in the Oxygen Feedback workflow, offering increased data security, streamlined workflows, and more customization possibilities.
The administration interface was redesigned for more efficient access to its various parts and for aggregating data and UI controls in one place. Improvements were also made to the Feedback commenting component that appears in the output (for example, the presentation of block-level comments was enhanced and there are more personalization options).
This release also includes other productivity improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements.
For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Cloud edition, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_cloud/whats_new.html
For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Enterprise edition, see:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_enterprise/whats_new.html
The year is quickly coming to an end so let’s meet again one more time, on December 8th, for one of the most requested Oxygen live webinars: Add-ons You Can Use for Technical Writing!
As you all know, Oxygen already offers extensive support for technical authoring but why not try and expand it even further with a variety of easy-to-install add-ons!
During our last live event of the year, Alex Jitianu (DITA evangelist and development lead at Syncro Soft) aims to take a deeper look at some of the most popular add-ons available in the Oxygen library and at the types of benefits they provide. Find out how easy it is to install them, as well as learn some ideas for how they can be integrated into your particular authoring workflow.
This is a free event but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2021-15.html
Next Wednesday, November 24th, get ready to continue your journey into the world of DITA, because the Oxygen XML team brings you the live webinar titled Working with DITA in Oxygen - Migrating to DITA and Refactoring!
From our experience, most companies do not start new DITA-based projects from scratch. They already have the content written in various formats and they need that content converted to DITA. But once the content is converted, there is still work to be done. It also needs to be refactored to follow the industry’s best practices.
To show you how this process can be made as simple as possible, Cosmin Duna (software developer at Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor) has in store for you an exciting live event in which he will cover various topics, such as:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-14.html
On Wednesday, November 17th, the Oxygen XML series of live events continues with the webinar titled The New Oxygen Compare and Merge Scripts!
With the latest release of the Oxygen suite of products, additional support was developed for Oxygen XML Scripting in order to compare and merge files or directories.
Octavian Nadolu (product manager at Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor) planned an exciting 1-hour event in which he will cover in great detail the newly implemented scripting support, as well as showing you examples on how to use it efficiently. He won’t be stopping here, as he will also be taking a look at the ways in which it is integrated with Oxygen XML Editor.
During this live webinar, you will get to see the following topics being discussed:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-13.html
The Oxygen XML weekly live event series continues in full force on Wednesday, November 10th, with the webinar titled Working with DITA in Oxygen - Quick start with the DITA Startup Project!
As you might know, Oxygen XML Editor provides the ability to organize your DITA resources in projects. The DITA Sample Project is a best practice example that shows how DITA content can be organized to provide a scalable and flexible project structure.
With this in mind, Alex Jitianu (DITA evangelist and development lead at Syncro Soft) will take the online stage for this 1-hour presentation in which he will go over:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-12.html
The Oxygen XML weekly live event series continues on Wednesday, November 3rd, with the webinar titled Comparing and Merging Documents in a Browser Using Oxygen Web Author!
One of the most common parts of documentation workflows for any set of evolving documents, whether it is for a newer version of a product or a simple document that goes through an improvement process, is comparing and merging documents.
The possibility to compare and merge them in a browser allows reviewers or other stakeholders to see what was changed without the headache of needing to install a separate tool. Their productivity can further be improved by sharing a link that opens the file comparison tool with the changes already being highlighted.
With this in mind, Mihai Coanda (software developer at Syncro Soft) will get you accustomed to this efficient method by showing you:
Where does it fit in Oxygen's internal workflow and how it is being used by our team.
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-17.html
To celebrate the release of version 24.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products, a brand-new series of live webinars have been created to shed light on the interesting new features and updates implemented in this latest version! Every Wednesday, Oxygen XML will host weekly live events where you can learn great insights from some of the most experienced people in the Tech Comm industry.
The series will start next week, on October 27th, with a webinar presented by Octavian Nadolu, product manager at Syncro Soft/Oxygen XML Editor, titled The New JSON Schema Diagram Editor.
Octavian will show you how Oxygen now offers even more powerful tools that allow you to design, develop, and edit JSON Schemas. He will be focusing on presenting features ranging from the new intuitive and expressive visual schema Design mode, all the way up to the JSON Schema documentation generator that includes diagram images for each component.
During this live webinar, you will get the chance to take an in-depth look at all of these features, as well as learn:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-16.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 24 of its industry-leading XML suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen XML Scripting.
This new release brings enhancements to the validation support with the DITA validate and check for completeness action being available as a validation unit that can be added to validation scenarios, dynamic publishing for DITA by converting various types of non-DITA resources to DITA, including MS Word, MS Excel, HTML, and Markdown, furthermore, the Enterprise Edition users may now upload and publish DITA to the Zendesk Help Center. The DITA to WebHelp transformation features improved navigation and the PDF Chemistry engine allows controlling the generated PDF security permissions and metadata.
The JSON support is improved constantly to match the support Oxygen offers for XML and version 24 brings a visual diagram editor for JSON helpful for increasing productivity when working with simple JSON Schemas and for visualizing, understanding, and editing complex JSON Schemas.
With a focus on authoring experience and collaboration, the Oxygen XML Web Author now boasts a re-designed interface, a new visual merge tool that enables you to easily resolve conflicts, and the ever popular Concurrent Editing feature has progressed through the BETA testing stages and now comes bundled with Web Author.
More functionality is exposed as part of Oxygen Scripting to enable automation/continuous integration and delivery workflows, including generating diff reports, as well as formatting and indenting XML documents.
Version 24 of Oxygen XML Editor, the XML community's most advanced bundle of tools, introduces lots of exciting new features, updates, productivity enhancements, new customization options, and various performance optimizations.
As the Oxygen team perpetually strives to make the DITA authoring experience more and more efficient and dynamic, DITA users can now configure and run validation scenarios directly from the DITA Maps Manager, or configure validation scenarios that process validation and completeness checks for DITA maps or DITA Open Toolkit projects. With the introduction of new refactoring actions for DITA, it is easier than ever to convert between DITA bookmaps and normal maps, to change or remove profiling attribute values, and to convert direct links to indirect key-based references. To help you get started with your own customizations, a new sample DITA project is available with examples for various framework customizations and best-practices techniques. We also continued to update Oxygen to support the latest DITA 2.0 standard.
On the DITA publishing side, a new transformation scenario (available in the Oxygen Enterprise edition) can be used to upload and publish content to the Zendesk Help Center. Also, it is now possible to dynamically convert various types of non-DITA resources (MS Word, MS Excel, HTML, and Markdown) to DITA during the publishing process. For PDF publishing, the output can be generated in compliance with the PDF/Universal Accessibility standard, copyright information is now automatically processed, and you can restrict the permissions for people using your PDF files, for instance to prevent printing or copying of the PDF content, or even to control the access to the PDF document by requiring a password.
Oxygen's expanding JSON community will be pleased to learn that a visual diagram editor was integrated in a new specialized editor for JSON Schema documents. It offers validation support, content completion, an outline view, and JSON-specific syntax highlighting. The JSON Schema editor's new intuitive, expressive visual schema design mode provides a simple diagram editor that is helpful for visualizing and understanding both simple and complex JSON Schemas. It also offers various editing features to help you modify JSON Schemas directly within the visual design mode.
Some of the general editing productivity improvements include a new Block Tags without Element Names display mode that shows block element tags in a more compact look, the ability to save remote images locally while choosing to update any existing references, and a new XML refactoring operation that can be used to batch accept tracked changes or remove comments and highlights.
When using the Compare Files or Compare Directories command-line scripts (or the similar comparison tools within Oxygen), you now have the ability to save the results of a comparison as an HTML report file that can be viewed in your browser or other application. A new tool was also added in Oxygen for generating an HTML report that contains the results of a directory comparison (for either 2-way or 3-way comparisons).
Add-ons continue to gain popularity and this latest release gives you the possibility to extend Oxygen's functionality even further by introducing numerous updates and improvements to the Git Client, DITA Prolog Updater, and Batch Converter add-ons. A new entry to the Oxygen add-ons library comes in the form of the Writer Helper. It is designed to help technical writers by offering them tips, finding possible similar content that could be reused, and even has an option for reading content out loud using the operating system's narrator.
Some of the other exciting highlights for this version include startup speed performance improvements, some new ways to use editor variables, various API additions, bug fixes, component updates, and much more.
Oxygen Publishing Engine version 24 encompasses all of the improvements and new customization possibilities implemented in Oxygen XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry.
As an Oxygen XML WebHelp publisher, now you have access to new transformation parameters to help style the WebHelp output to suit your specific needs, new expand/collapse buttons for choosing whether or not to display both the topic and publication table of contents, and various other small updates and bug fixes.
Some examples of the improvements and updates that were added to Oxygen PDF Chemistry include the possibility of controlling the security policies for the Chemistry processing, protecting your PDF files using security permissions, for instance to prevent printing or copying of the PDF content, or even to control the access to the PDF document by requiring a password. Some new properties can also be used to control various components in the PDF output (such as the initial settings for how the document is presented, copyright information, or custom metadata).
Version 24.0.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest release for the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release introduces a visual merge tool for resolving conflicts when committing to a shared Git repository, a re-design of the interface to offer a more modern and visually appealing look and better blending when Web Author is embedded in another application (such as a CMS), additional protection against XXE vulnerabilities and other security-related improvements, as well as more customization possibilities, performance optimizations, and accessibility enhancements.
Also, the ever popular Concurrent Editing feature has progressed through the BETA testing stages and is now bundled with the Oxygen XML Web Author installers.
The beginning of this fall brings with it the conclusion to one of our most highly-rated webinar series, Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS. Get ready for the grand finale with Part 4 - Advanced functionalities!
You started your journey by learning the basic CSS layout, and you continued with more advanced CSS properties until you were ready to tackle PDF publishing on your own. Now, Julien Lacour (software developer at Syncro Soft) brings to you his latest tutorial explaining how CSS can be your best asset when styling a production-ready PDF output.
On September 15, let's explore together the more advanced functionalities needed for you to become an unstoppable PDF publishing machine:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-11.html
The last live event of April is getting closer and closer, and we want you there! Join us next Wednesday (April 21) for the “Creating Frameworks Using an Extension Script” webinar.
During this event, Alex Jitianu (DITA evangelist and development lead at Syncro Soft) will take an extensive look at a specific method where a framework can be created using a special XML descriptor file, either from scratch or by extending an existing built-in framework (such as DITA or DocBook) and then making modifications to it. To make this possible, Alex will be covering topics, such as:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-9.html
Make sure to check the full list of our upcoming events: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html
Our weekly live event series continues next Wednesday (April 14) with the “Working with DITA in Oxygen - Customizing the Editing Experience” webinar!
Under the guidance of Sorin Carbunaru (software developer at Syncro Soft), you will explore several ways of customizing the DITA editing experience according to your desires. This webinar will cover the customization of:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-6.html
April is here and so are the weekly Oxygen live webinars!
We all know that the road to becoming advanced in a specific subject is a long one. That’s why Julien Lacour (veteran software developer at Syncro Soft) returns to make sure that your road towards mastery isn’t a difficult one. Join him next Wednesday (April 7) for the third installment of the “Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS” series!
Your journey into defining the look and format of your documents with the use of CSS continues with another extensive tutorial, this time dedicated to the global page layout. During this event, you will learn how to create and control PDF pages directly from CSS. To achieve these abilities, we will focus on the following subjects:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-8.html
To celebrate the release of version 23.1 of the Oxygen XML suite of products, next Wednesday (March 17) you are invited to a special live webinar - “What’s New in Oxygen 23.1 - Overview and Panel Discussion”.
See for yourself how this release builds upon the always expanding suite of our products by joining us for a one-of-a-kind discussion that will allow you to engage with the creative people behind Oxygen XML. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from the newly-implemented features in version 23.1, such as:
The panel will bring together George Bina, Alexandru Jitianu, Octavian Nadolu, Cristi Talau, Alin Balasa and Julien Lacour.
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-7.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 23.1 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen Publishing Engine, along with version 1.4 of the Oxygen Feedback comment management platform, and version 4.0 of the Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform.
This release introduces new features such as concurrent editing and reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's collaboration process, the ability to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings, and the new block-level comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page. Also, an updated Oxygen Styles Basket, a free web-based visual tool, helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or WebHelp output by picking and mixing pre-defined aspects from galleries.
Version 23.1 of Oxygen XML Editor expands upon the substantial list of features that were recently added in Version 23.0 with further improvements, along with various brand-new enhancements, fixes, and updates.
Dealing with errors and warnings is easier now with the new functionality that allows you to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions available in various places where the validation issues are presented.
DITA users benefit from reduced publishing times as the result of an update to the DITA-OT engine to version 3.6, a new refactoring action that generates unique IDs for specified elements, and the DITA to PDF transformation can now display SVG syntax diagrams in the PDF output.
On the development side, the JSON Schema Documentation Generator tool was enhanced with new filtering options, syntax highlights, and options for splitting the output into multiple files or showing the location of the source schema. A specialized YAML editor was added with various editing features including automatic validation, batch validation, syntax highlights, automatic indenting, tools for converting between YAML and JSON, and more. Various updates and improvements were also integrated for users working with XSLT, XQuery, HTML, and CSS.
The SharePoint integration in Oxygen (available in the Enterprise edition only) was redesigned to use the SharePoint REST API v2 to offer authentication using the OAuth protocol. This means that you now have access to a new SharePoint Online type of connection, the various UI components that display the connection details (SharePoint Browser View, Data Source Explorer View, and the Browse for Remote File mechanism in the Open URL dialog box) were redesigned for better consistency and productivity, and quick actions were added in the SharePoint Browser View to make it easier to connect.
Some of the most popular Oxygen add-ons continued to be improved. The Git Client add-on is even more robust with additional actions and options, as well as various UI and performance enhancements. Various new conversion possibilities were added in the Batch Converter add-on (e.g. convert between JSON and YAML or convert multiple Markdown/HTML headings into DITA maps with referenced topics), while the DITA References view add-on and the Oxygen Emmet Plugin received various improvements, and the XSpec Helper view add-on was updated.
Other highlights for this version include improvements to the shortcuts, as they can now be assigned to show side-views contributed by plugins, editor variables can now be resolved in project resources created from a project template, and as always, this release includes new API methods, various bug fixes, and component updates.
Some functionality available in Oxygen was made available for automation outside of Oxygen (for example, in a continuous integration server) using a separate Oxygen Scripting license.
Starting with version 23.1, you can take advantage of new command-line scripts for comparing files or directories and for executing XML refactoring operations. Also, the Batch Converter script now supports converting between JSON and YAML and various arguments were added to existing scripts to offer even more configuration options.
Version 23.1 of Oxygen Publishing Engine bundles the latest Oxygen PDF Chemistry and Oxygen XML WebHelp together with the DITA-OT used by Oxygen.
Oxygen PDF Chemistry received further enhancements, such as more details about warning and error messages to assist with debugging, additional support was included for some requested CSS properties along with the addition of new parameters to help fine-tune customizations, and the memory footprint was optimized to provide better performance.
Oxygen XML WebHelp offers new transformation parameters and HTML fragment placeholder parameters to open up a myriad of additional possibilities for customizing the look and style of your output, redesigned renderings of the various types of DITA elements, the ability to add a component in your WebHelp output that links to a PDF resource, and various bug fixes and component updates.
Version 1.4 of Oxygen Feedback brings you more exciting features for the modern comment management platform that provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback. .
The most interesting new feature added in this version is the ability for your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the output page where block elements appear, without having to scroll to the comments area at bottom of the page. The Block-Level Comments feature forms a flexible review solution when coupled with the Oxygen XML WebHelp and the Oxygen XML Editor/Author integration through the Feedback Comments Manager plugin, which makes it easy to locate the exact source content referenced by a particular comment and streamlines the process of making changes to the source document in response to the provided comments.
Version 23.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author offers some enhancements to features added in the past few major releases of the dynamic web-based XML authoring tool.
Some of the highlights include the Outline Pane that now displays the entire content of a DITA map when it is opened with all of the referenced topics expanded/editable in one document, optimized performance of the visual editor for Concurrent Editing sessions, while on the customization side, CSS variables are now supported and the feature that displays a DITA map with all of the referenced topic content expanded/editable in one document can now be enabled for Bitbucket integrations.
This release also includes new API methods, various bug fixes, and component updates.
Version 4.0 of Oxygen Content Fusion, the innovative collaboration tool that is designed to improve any documentation review process, brings you the ability for collaborative teams to edit and review content concurrently. This means that you and your colleagues can edit and review the same document simultaneously in the visual editor and each user can see the changes in real time.
Some of the other interesting new features and improvements added in this version include a new dynamic floating toolbar that gives you easier access to the most common editing and styling actions, the option to change the UI language to English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, or Chinese, and the preservation of styling when you copy content in the visual editor and paste it into an external application.
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Syncro Soft develops the industry-acclaimed Oxygen XML Editor, facilitating teams in small businesses, Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, government agencies, and international organizations in authoring documents, publishing in different formats, collaborating with team members, and managing content. At the same time, Oxygen enables XML developers to develop advanced style-sheets, edit schema, generate documentation, debug files, and connect databases. It is the only tool that supports all XML schema languages. It provides the widest coverage of state-of-the-art XML technologies, complies with standards of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and of other organizations, and enhances productivity through an intuitive and innovative authoring and development environment.
In the first part of the “Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS” tutorial series, we aimed to teach you a basic understanding of the CSS layout to help you have a better understanding of PDF publishing. Now, you are ready to continue your journey into defining the look and format of your documents!
Wednesday (February 10), we bring you the second installment titled “Lists, Tables and Images” where Julien Lacour (software developer at Syncro Soft) will teach you more advanced CSS properties that will help you to:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-4.html
If becoming advanced in profiling and reusing DITA content is one of this year’s resolutions, then you're in luck!
Next Wednesday (February 3), make time for the third installment of the “Working with DITA in Oxygen” webinar series. In this live event titled “Advanced Profiling and Reuse Strategies”, Sorin Carbunaru (software developer at Syncro Soft) returns to help you achieve mastery in more advanced DITA concepts, such as:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-3.html
We at Oxygen XML strongly think that anyone can contribute to the technical documentation with the proper collaboration tools!
And next Wednesday (January 27), during the "Engage everyone in the technical documentation process" live webinar, Bogdan Dumitru, software developer at Syncro Soft, will show you how Oxygen Content Fusion is a platform for all, not just for technical writers.
You will see firsthand how it can positively impact the activity of each person involved in the technical documentation process:
Along with the presented use-cases, this live event will also highlight DITA-specific features as well as some of the new additions brought to Content Fusion 4, in particular the concurrent editing support, allowing unrestricted access to edited files.
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-5.html
Next Wednesday, on January 20th, join us for the debut of our new live instructional webinar series titled “Transforming DITA documents to PDF”!
The first entry of this series, "Page Definitions, Cover Page and PDF Metadata", was created for the people who want to publish their DITA books and maps in PDF but are struggling with the process.
Understanding the not-so-easy path that a complete novice needs to take, during this 1-hour webinar, Julien Lacour (software developer at Syncro Soft) will teach you step-by-step how to customize your PDF publications and make them compliant with all your company’s documentation requirements. Quick, easy, and fun!
At the end of this crash-course, you will be able to:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-2.html
New year, new learning opportunities!
Due to your rising interest in our live events, we decided to not let you wait any longer: the 2021 Oxygen XML webinar series debuts on January 13 with the “DITA Publishing and Feedback with Oxygen Tools” webinar!
As you might know, DITA content can be published to modern WebHelp Responsive online help format (based on HTML5) featuring indexing and search, breadcrumb navigation, table of contents, responsive adaptive layout, and accessible content.
With this in mind, Alin Balasa (software developer at Syncro Soft) will take an in-depth look at the WebHelp Responsive output and at the process that allows you to update content continuously by embedding a commenting component to collect your customers’ feedback.
Some of the topics covered in this webinar will include:
This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-1.html
On December 16, you are invited to a great learning experience with the “Custom Business Rules for DITA Projects” live webinar!
Schematron and Schematron QuickFix (SQF) languages can be used to improve efficiency and quality when editing DITA documents. With their use, you can define actions that will add complex structures in your documents (missing table cells, list conversions, IDs, and more) and state integrity requirements in order to help you add content more easily and without making mistakes.
This indispensable webinar presented by Octavian Nadolu, software architect at Syncro Soft, will be your step-by-step guide to getting started as soon as possible with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. During this live event, you will go over topics, such as:
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-16.html
Make sure to check the full list of the upcoming webinars on our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html
To celebrate the release of version 23.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products, on Wednesday (December 9), we invite you to a special live webinar - “What’s New in Oxygen 23.0 - Overview and Panel Discussion”.
Join us for this 2 full hours live event that will allow you to engage with the amazing people who envisioned and developed our latest release. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from the newly implemented and game-changing features of Oxygen 23, such as:
The panel will bring together George Bina, Radu Coravu, Octavian Nadolu, and Cristi Talau.
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-18.html
Next Wednesday, on December 2, our weekly live event series returns in full force with the “Automate XML processing with Oxygen XML Scripting” webinar!
As you might know, continuous integration (CI) can be efficiently used to run automated scripts to validate changes as soon as they are saved to a remote repository.
To make things easier for you, Alex Jitianu, DITA evangelist and development lead at Syncro Soft, will introduce you to Oxygen XML Scripting, a bundle of command line tools that can be executed inside these continuous integration and deployment pipelines. This way, you can make sure that your project is valid and ready to be deployed at any time!
During this event, we will go over topics, such as:
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-17.html
2020 has certainly been a unique and challenging year for us all, but Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, persevered and is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 23 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and the Oxygen Publishing Engine. In addition, Oxygen Feedback Enterprise, the self-managed edition of the commenting platform, was introduced in the recently released version 1.3 of Oxygen Feedback.
This new release adds game-changing features like concurrent editing in Web Author for unrestricted collaboration, opening DITA maps in Author mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable, the possibility to define or customize how Oxygen supports an XML language using a framework script, and support for editing JSON documents visually in Author mode.
Version 23.0 of Oxygen XML Editor boasts the most substantial and comprehensive set of new features, productivity enhancements, and customization possibilities in the history of the most powerful XML authoring and development tool available on the market.
As always, a lot of attention was focused on the DITA community, to make the authoring experience even more efficient and dynamic. You can expect to discover a new dynamic floating toolbar that provides quicker access to common editing actions, it is now possible to edit submaps directly in the DITA Maps Manager view without needing to open them in their own tab, you can open DITA maps in Author mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable directly in the editor, two new DITA-specific sample project templates are available to help you get more familiar with how to use projects in DITA, and if you want to experiment with the upcoming version of DITA, DITA 2.0 maps and topics can now be created from new document templates.
On the DITA publishing side, you now have the ability to run multiple DITA-OT or Ant transformation scenarios simultaneously to shorten the time it takes to finish transforming large projects, image map numbers and shapes are now visible and clickable in CSS-based PDF output, and a lot of work was done on improving the Oxygen PDF Chemistry processor with various CSS property enhancements.
Some of the general editing productivity enhancements include a new Find Action feature that provides a very quick way to find and trigger actions, it is now possible to copy selected XML content from Author mode to the system clipboard with the XML structure preserved, and you can now easily create a new project from an existing project template.
The already robust JSON support was further enhanced. You can now edit JSON documents in Author mode with access to the various features available for XML documents, a handy tool was added for generating documentation for a JSON Schema file, and numerous improvements were made to the JSON to XML, XML to JSON, and JSON Schema Generator tools.
Add-ons continue to be great for extending the functionality of Oxygen XML Editor since updates and additions can be implemented and made available in-between major Oxygen XML Editor versions. Major updates have been made to the Git Client and Batch Converter add-ons, while some of the new add-ons that have been released include a Terminology Checker, a Translator Helper, and a Vale Validation add-on.
Some of the other exciting highlights for this version include the possibility of creating or customizing a framework through a script file rather than using the GUI, the capability of inserting and editing tables in JATS documents, the diff and merge support in the Eclipse plugin now incorporates the text-based mode that Oxygen users are familiar with, the content completion for XSLT 3.0 stylesheets now automatically inserts required attributes, speed optimization for documents that contain Hebrew characters, various new CSS properties, an option to batch convert HTML to well-formed XML structure, and some of the most popular command line scripts that are used for automating and running various utilities were enhanced, while other new scripts were added.
As always, this release also includes various API additions, bug fixes, and component updates.
Version 23 of the Oxygen XML Web Author continues to bolster the innovative web-based authoring tool. This release brings a lot of exciting new features, productivity enhancements, and customization possibilities to the online XML authoring community.
One of the most requested features that Web Author users have asked for in recent years is concurrent editing. You now have the possibility of sharing your editing session by sending its URL to other collaborators and then you and your colleagues can edit and review the same document simultaneously.
DITA users now have the ability to open a DITA map with all referenced topics expanded and editable in one single document. his allows you to perform rapid changes both at topic and map level, thus speeding-up the edit and review process in the context provided by the entire document. With the review process in mind, you can also download and print a PDF snapshot of the current document.
You can also look forward to a new dynamic floating toolbar that provides quicker access to common editing actions, copy content from Web Author and paste it into an external application with the HTML structure preserved, Bitbucket server is now supported, and enhancements to the Git commit workflow were implemented.
New customization possibilities and features for integrators include an option to implement Single Sign On for a CMIS server by using a service account and some new loading options and URL parameters, for example, to enable in-place editing of the content of referenced topics within a DITA map, to have topic titles resolved and displayed when opening a DITA map, or to enable multiple children of a folded element to remain visible.
As usual, this release also includes various API additions, bug fixes, and component updates.
Version 23 of the Oxygen Publishing Engine benefits from all the improvements and new features implemented in Oxygen XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry.
Oxygen XML WebHelp offers the option to link the WebHelp output to your own installation of Oxygen Feedback Enterprise, a self-managed edition specially designed for organizations that prefer to install the software on their own server for better data control. Several new transformation parameters were also added for this release.
Oxygen PDF Chemistry provides more improvements and new possibilities for the CSS Paged Media processor used for obtaining PDF output from HTML or XML documents simply by styling them with CSS.
Next Wednesday, on November 4, you are invited to our latest live event - “Introducing the Oxygen Publishing Engine for DITA” webinar!
Have you been looking for a solution that offers support for transforming your DITA content into PDF and WebHelp output? Look no further!
In this webinar, Julien Lacour, software developer at Syncro Soft, will introduce you to the Oxygen Publishing Engine – an automation product that bundles the DITA Open toolkit transformation engine with Oxygen publishing plugins and the PDF Chemistry engine.
This event will represent a crash-course for you to learn what the Oxygen Publishing Engine is by showing you how to install it, configure it in a Continuous Integration system, and then customize your output.
You will be shown its components, various workflows, and also get the chance to see how to transform a DITA map document by learning how to:
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-15.html
Our weekly series of live events continues on Wednesday (October 28), with the “Explore Web Author beyond technical documentation” webinar!
Picture a growing company. As it grows, so does the need for standardized procedures. And when new people join the company, they often need to be trained to follow existing procedures. As you can see, a lot of time is spent in training sessions, affecting your overall productivity.
With this in mind, Bogdan Dumitru, software developer at Syncro Soft, will show you how Web Author comes in handy in instances like this one, allowing you to build guided procedures where new employees don't require additional training or validation.
During this webinar, you will learn various ways in which Web Author can be used to enhance your productivity:
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-14.html
We continue our weekly series of live events, next Wednesday (October 21), with the “Transforming HTML documents to PDF, Part 1 - Basic CSS Layout” webinar.
If you want to be able to define the look and format of your document but struggling to grasp the basics of CSS, then this is the perfect crash-course for you!
In this webinar, Julien Lacour, software developer at Syncro Soft, will teach you a basic understanding of the CSS layout to help you to have a better understanding of PDF publishing. Be assured that there is no need for you to have any CSS background to learn the concepts explained during this webinar, but we promise to help get you up to speed by teaching you:
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-13.html
Our weekly live event series continues on Wednesday (October 14) with the “Introduction to XSLT using Oxygen XML Editor” webinar!
During this event, you will learn how to process XML documents with a combination of XSLT, the most powerful language designed to process XML documents, and Oxygen, the tool that is most suited for this job.
Whether you are a novice or you have been using Oxygen for years, Octavian Nadolu, software architect at Syncro Soft, will show you an easy-to-use workflow, as well as many great features that you may not have been aware of.
This live webinar will also teach you how to resolve a variety of problems by introducing you to:
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-12.html
We are happy to announce the release of Version 1.3 of Oxygen Feedback!
This version introduces the Enterprise self-managed edition of the Oxygen Feedback commenting system, which allows you to install the platform software on your own servers.
Some of the most important features found in Oxygen Feedback version 1.3 include:
The Oxygen Feedback commenting platform provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback. Its modern, stylish appearance looks great on any website, it is very easy to configure and integrate, and it includes a user-friendly interface and numerous useful features for both Commenters and Administrators. It is specialized for technical documentation and can be easily integrated with Oxygen XML Editor/Author to make it more efficient for content authors to manage comments and react to community feedback.
Oxygen Feedback Enterprise Special Offer for Existing Customers:
If you already own an Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author, Oxygen XML Developer, Oxygen WebHelp, or Oxygen Publishing Engine license key, you are eligible to get a 50% discount off the Oxygen Feedback Enterprise edition for the first year of subscription. This promotion applies to every Oxygen Feedback Enterprise edition subscription plan and requests must be received by 31 December 2020.
Want to make your DITA authoring experience even better?
If the answer is a resounding YES, next Wednesday (October 7), we invite you to the second event of our weekly series of live webinars - “Working with DITA in Oxygen - Basic Profiling and Reuse Strategies”.
Sorin Carbunaru, lead developer at Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor, will cover some of the most important concepts of DITA: profiling and content references. With his guidance, you will learn the benefits of knowing how to reuse and profile content in your documents, and how easy it is to do this in Oxygen.
At the end of this webinar, you will master the following:
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-11.html
A brand-new series of webinars is about to begin! On every Wednesday, Oxygen XML will host weekly live events where you can learn great insights from some of the most experienced people in the Tech Comm industry.
The series will start next week, on September 30, 2020, with a webinar presented by Alex Jitianu, development lead and product evangelist at Syncro Soft / Oxygen XML Editor, titled “Improving the Oxygen Authoring Experience Through Custom Actions”.
Most custom actions are very easy to create, as they are based on nothing more than a configuration file and ready-to-use built-in operations. Throughout this webinar, you will get familiar with custom actions, learn how to create your own, and you will see various use cases where they can be used.
At the end, you will know how to:
This is a free event and you can register at: http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-10.html
During this webinar, Alex Jitianu, lead developer at Syncro Soft, will analyze a working Docs as Code setup that will be freely available on GitHub afterward so attendees will be able to fork it, work with it, gain a deeper understanding and apply these concepts into their own documentation projects. Although any text-based document format works, for the purpose of this webinar, a mixed DITA and Markdown project will be used in the demo setup.
Some of the tools and techniques used in software development that can also be applied for documentation management:
You can register for free at : http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-9.html
Stay tuned for more of our upcoming webinars!
“Fine Tune Your DITA PDF Output Using CSS” is the next webinar in our weekly live events series and it will take place on Wednesday, July 15.
For an easier DITA PDF customization, Oxygen provides a DITA-OT plugin and an engine that generates PDF using CSS called Oxygen PDF Chemistry. As the publishing is triggered by scripts or integration servers, we also provide the possibility to run the same transformation pipeline that you run in Oxygen from a script. This is made available by the new product called Oxygen Publishing Engine.
For this webinar, Julien Lacour, software developer at Syncro Soft, will dive into all of these capabilities that will allow you to better customize the PDF output of your DITA project by addressing topics such as:
You can register for free at : http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-8.html
Our series of weekly live events continues next Wednesday (July 8) with the “Collaboration Made Simple with Oxygen Content Fusion” webinar!
Mihaela Calotescu, software developer at Syncro Soft, will present the various ways Oxygen Content Fusion can empower technical authors with the use of its latest features. In this webinar, you will learn how you can use Oxygen Content Fusion to:
You can register for free at : http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-7.html
"Tailored Authoring Experience with Oxygen Web Author", the 6th live event from our current weekly series of webinars, will take place on July 1st.
Bogdan Dumitru, Web Author software developer, aims to inspire you with some of the most exciting ways to improve your authoring experience. You will learn about the various ways Web Author can be customized and the new framework customizations. Some of the subjects that will be discussed include:
You can register for free at : http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-6.html
On June 24, we will continue our weekly series of webinars with the 5th live event – "Getting Started with DITA using Oxygen XML Editor".
Sorin Carbunaru, software developer at Syncro Soft, invites you to a live discussion that will focus on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen XML Editor, covering everything from creating DITA maps and topics from scratch to basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. Both beginner and advanced users will benefit from learning about subjects such as:
You can register for free at : http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-5.html
Our weekly series of live events continues on June 17 with the "Oxygen Markdown Support" webinar.
During this live event, Alex Jitianu, lead developer at Syncro Soft, will focus on showing you how Oxygen XML Editor supports SMEs (developers, or engineers) working with Markdown documents by offering features such as:
You can register for free at : http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-4.html
Also, make sure to check the full list of the upcoming webinars on our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html
On June 10, we continue our weekly series of live events with the "JSON and JSON Schema Support in Oxygen XML Editor" webinar.
Octavian Nadolu, one of our software architects, will return to demonstrate how Oxygen provides a specialized JSON and JSON Schema editor with a variety of editing features, helper views, and useful tools. During this live event, you will be shown an overview of the JSON and JSON Schema support, as well as the new additions, such as:
You can register for free at : http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-3.html
We are excited to announce the release for the newest version (2.2.0) of the Git Client Add-On!
This add-on contributes a built-in Git client directly into Oxygen in the form of a Git Staging view that includes various actions that perform common Git commands, such as push, pull, change branch, commit, and more. It also includes a built-in tool for comparing and merging changes, as well as other Git actions in the Project view and the main editing area.
From the beginning, the main purpose for this add-on was to increase the functionality of the Oxygen ecosystem by providing our users with a dependable Git staging option that is easy to access right from the editor. In version 2.2.0 of the Git Client Add-on, we expanded its functionality even further with improvements such as:
Starting with version 22.1 of Oxygen XML Editor, you can access the Git Staging view by selecting it from the Window > Show View menu (installation will be required for the first-time use).
For more information, see the details for the Git Client add-on on GitHub: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-git-plugin/blob/master/README.md
We continue our weekly series of live events next Wednesday with the "HTML5 Support in Oxygen XML Editor" webinar.
On June 3, Octavian Nadolu will present the full extent of the HTML5 support provided by the Oxygen XML Editor. Some of the features that will be discussed in this webinar include:
You can register for free at : http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-2.html
Starting next week, we are inviting you to join us every Wednesday for a series of 7 weekly webinars meant to enhance your Oxygen XML experience!
The first event of the series will take place on May 27. During this live event, Alin Balasa will present various features for the Oxygen Feedback comment management platform and showcase integrating it with Oxygen XML Editor to help you continuously improve your online documentation based on feedback from your community.
Some of the topics that will be covered in this webinar include:
You can register for free at : https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2020/webinar_introducing_the_new_oxygen_feedback_platform.html
This webinar will be recorded and made available on our website a few days following the event.
Please join us to discover Oxygen Feedback - a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback!
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 22.1 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and the Oxygen Publishing Engine. Oxygen Feedback, the new comments management platform, made available for commercial use a few months ago, is also updated to version 1.2.
New features and improvements added in Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer version 22.1 include:
Version 22.1.0 of the Oxygen XML Web Author expands upon the robust set of new features and updates that were recently added in Version 22.0.0 with further improvements to many of those features, along with lots of brand new enhancements.
This version includes a new Outline pane that offers a quick way to navigate through the document, gives you insight about the location of your modifications, shows the hierarchical dependencies between elements, and makes it easy to visualize the XML structure. It is available by default for DocBook, TEI, and XHTML documents, but it is also possible to configure other frameworks (such as DITA) to make it available for those particular types of documents.
Other enhancements include optimized contextual menus for various components (such as tables), Git sub-modules are now supported for all types of Git connectors, you can now control the font size in the editor, more customization possibilities were added, and as usual, this release provides various API additions, bug fixes, and component updates.
Version 22.1 of Oxygen PDF Chemistry provides more improvements and new possibilities for the CSS Paged Media processor that allows you to obtain PDF output from HTML or XML documents simply by styling them with CSS.
Some of the enhancements and customization possibilities that were added in this version include the ability to control the repetition of table captions, you can style embedded SVG images using the same custom CSS associated with your main document, the handling of the overflow-wrap CSS property was improved, and a new parameter is available for controlling what information about tracked changes is shown in PDF annotations. The painting of change bars was also greatly improved, removing duplicates and positioning.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/pdf_chemistry/whats_new.html
Version 1.2 of Oxygen Feedback provides more improvements for the modern comment management platform that provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback.
This version includes a new Dashboard page in the administration interface that aggregates information and statistics for all of your site configurations, provides an activity stream to see the most recent activity by your community, and various admin pages were improved to be even more user-friendly.
A single-level of replies for comments simplifies the discussion threads and an improved workflow allows you to see comments that need your attention and easily mark them as resolved.
The Feedback Comments plugin for Oxygen XML Editor/Author received new filtering options and better support for locating the original DITA or XML source files that correspond to particular comments added in the output, allowing you to easily update the content source in response to the users feedback, as well as to see and manage feedback directly from Oxygen XML Editor/Author.
For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback/whats_new.html
SOURCE: Syncro Soft SRL support@oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com
We are excited to announce the Extending the Functionality of Oxygen Using Add-ons webinar on May 6, 2020.
During the webinar, Sorin Carbunaru will take a deeper look at some of the most popular add-ons that are available for Oxygen XML Editor. You will get to see what benefits they provide, and some ideas for how they can be integrated into your particular authoring workflow. Some of the add-ons that will be featured include:
You can register for free at : https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2020/webinar_extending_the_functionality_of_Oxygen_using_ddd_ons.html
Please join us to discover how you can extend the functionality of Oxygen XML Editor!
We are excited to announce the What's New in Oxygen 22.0 webinar on April 29, 2020.
During the webinar, Steven Higgs will explore some of the most requested and significant features that were added in Version 22.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products. The subjects that will be discussed include:
You can register for free at : https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2020/webinar_what_is_new_in_Oxygen_22.html
Please join us to discover some of the most exciting features and improvements in Oxygen 22.0!
Syncro Soft announces the release of Version 22 for the Oxygen XML suite of products, boasting the most impressive set of new features and improvements to date. Two new products are also introduced, Oxygen Feedback and Oxygen Publishing Engine.
Release date: February 12, 2020
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 22 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and version 2.0 of Oxygen Content Fusion. Simultaneously, Oxygen Feedback, a new comments management platform, has progressed through the Beta phase and it is now available for commercial use, while the new Oxygen Publishing Engine offers automation support for transforming DITA content into WebHelp, PDF, EPUB, and plain HTML output from your integration scripts.
This release offers an incredibly robust set of new features and improvements and the seamless synthesis of all the products makes Oxygen the most comprehensive solution available for XML authoring, development, publishing, and collaboration. The latest additions and enhancements focus on productivity, performance, security, cost-efficiency, and simplicity.
New features and improvements added in Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer version 22.0 include:
New features added in Oxygen XML Web Author version 22.0.0 include:
New features added in Oxygen Content Fusion version 2.0 include:
Improvements and updates added for Oxygen PDF Chemistry version 22.0 include:
Today Montreal software company IXIASOFT announces it is taking its partnership with Syncro Soft’s Oxygen products to the next level. This partnership is at the heart of the ongoing IXIASOFT CCMS web strategy.
“We’re thrilled to be able to work with a leading company like Oxygen to develop and further improve future versions of IXIASOFT CCMS Web,” says Eric Bergeron, CEO of IXIASOFT. “I’m excited to see this innovative partnership grow as we evolve our web platform.”
Created by Syncro Soft, Oxygen is the world’s leading expert in XML technology and single-source publishing. Oxygen XML Editor can be used in conjunction with all XML-based technologies, including a large variety of powerful tools for creating, editing, and publishing XML documents. Oxygen operates within the IXIASOFT CCMS solution. Together, they streamline the creation and publication of technical content using the DITA XML standard.
IXIASOFT customers are no stranger to Oxygen, which is embedded into the desktop client. This editor is a great ally that fully supports extensive technical documentation authors. IXIASOFT’s strategic decision to migrate its platform to the web makes Oxygen a crucial component to the process.
In recent years, when IXIASOFT introduced its CCMS Web for contributors and reviewers, it relied on Oxygen to provide a powerful DITA-compliant backend to a light and intuitive interface designed for non-DITA experts. This authoring interface hides the XML/DITA markup within IXIASOFT CCMS Web.
IXIASOFT Advances Web Strategy with IXIASOFT CCMS 6.0
On September 5, 2019, IXIASOFT launched version 6.0 of its signature CCMS product. The version includes the search, unrestrained map, topic, and image edit, and new simple dialogs for easy content reuse. Oxygen is a key, integrated component of IXIASOFT CCMS Web 6.0. This partnership provides a second-to-none experience on the web for the technical writer—a big milestone for IXIASOFT.
“Authoring XML on the web is an emerging and very competitive area in our industry, so we are pleased to see that IXIASOFT decided to use our SDK technology, the Oxygen XML Web Author component, as the base for its web authoring solution,” says George Bina, owner of Syncro Soft and Oxygen XML Editor.
“This comes as no surprise because IXIASOFT needed a mature technology and the Oxygen web authoring support provided just that, being built on top of the core XML authoring functionality developed for more than 18 years in Oxygen.”
Catch Syncro Soft’s Software Architect Octavian Nadolu in episode 9 of IXIASOFT’s techcomm webinar series: IXIAtalks. Reserve your spot for the September 19 webinar here.
About IXIASOFT: Founded in 1998, IXIASOFT is a trusted global leader in the XML content management software industry. Its signature product IXIASOFT CCMS is an award-winning, end-to-end component content management solution (CCMS) that has been deployed by industry leaders such as Mastercard, Ericsson, Komatsu, Omron, Qualcomm and SAP®.
About Syncro Soft SRL: Syncro Soft develops the industry-acclaimed Oxygen XML Editor, facilitating teams in small businesses, Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, government agencies, and international organizations in authoring documents, publishing in different formats, collaborating with team members, and managing content. At the same time, Oxygen enables XML developers to develop advanced stylesheets, edit schema, generate documentation, debug files, and connect to databases. It is the only tool that supports all XML schema languages. It provides the widest coverage of state-of-the-art XML technologies, complies with standards of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and of other organizations, and enhances productivity through an intuitive and innovative authoring and development environment.
Congree Language Technologies and Syncro Soft, the company behind the Oxygen XML Editor suite of products, have intensified their partnership. The first step is to make the Congree integration into the Oxygen XML Editor available to the public. With this partnership, Congree has expanded their range of integrations and has added one of the most important editing environments within the XML world.
Release date: August 13th, 2019
Congree CEO Stefan Kreckwitz explains: „The Oxygen XML editor is a very well established editing environment and found an exciting number of customers with a broad range of users in various verticals. Also the growing global user base of Oxygen is a perfect match with our current activities to internationalize our business.“
George Bina, CEO of Syncro Soft, adds: "We are very excited to expand the partnership with Congree! Our users care a lot about the quality of their documents and now they can benefit of a state-of-the-art combination, having Oxygen extensive support for checking structural rules and the Congree linguistic intelligence and text optimization for checking language and terminology. This is a perfect fit for our customers!"
About Syncro Soft:
Syncro Soft develops the industry-acclaimed Oxygen XML suite of products, facilitating teams in small businesses, Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, government agencies, and international organizations in authoring documents, publishing in various formats, collaborating with team members, and managing content. At the same time, Oxygen enables XML developers to develop advanced style-sheets, edit schema, generate documentation, debug files, and connect to databases. It supports all XML schema languages, provides the widest coverage of state-of-the-art XML technologies, complies with standards of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and of other organizations, and enhances productivity through an intuitive and innovative authoring and development environment. For more information:www.oxygenxml.com
About Congree Language Technologies GmbH:
Congree Language Technologies GmbH, a software manufacturer in the field of content optimization, delivers the leading technology for the composition of consistent texts under consideration of defined style rules and uniform terminology. The development always focuses on the users and thus on the specific mode of operation of technical writers and other corporate authors. Regardless of the industry, Congree products support the communication of enterprises and departments of all sizes. By using Congree, authors can compose high-quality, rule-compliant, easy-to-translate texts in less time and at less cost. Further information at: www.congree.com
Syncro Soft Announces the Release of version 21.1 of the Oxygen XML Suite of Products, as well as the Commercial Availability of Oxygen PDF Chemistry.
Release date: May 22, 2019
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is excited to announce the immediate availability of version 21.1 of its industry leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, and Oxygen PDF Chemistry, as well as version 1.2 of the collaboration product Oxygen Content Fusion.
Oxygen PDF Chemistry, the CSS-based paged media processor, is no longer in a BETA stage, it is included in Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer as the default PDF publishing engine, and also now available as a separate commercial option for those who want to use it outside of Oxygen.
Version 21.1 of the Oxygen suite of products brings you a variety of new features and improvements that focus on productivity, performance, efficiency, and simplicity.
New Features and Improvements in Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer 21.1 include:
For the complete list of new features in Oxygen XML Editor, please visit https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html
The main focus for this release of Oxygen XML Web Author was to make it compliant with the Section 508 accessibility standard, making it accessible for everyone, including those with disabilities.
Other new features added in Oxygen XML Web Author version 21.1 include:
For the complete list of new features in Oxygen XML Web Author, please visit https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html
Oxygen Content Fusion enables simple and streamlined collaboration and was designed to adapt to any type of workflow, so it can be used and integrated into any documentation review or collaboration process.
New Features added in Oxygen Content Fusion version 1.2 include:
For the complete list of new features in Oxygen Content Fusion, please visit https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html
Free trials
Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer 21.1 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Oxygen XML Web Author can be tested online at https://www.oxygenxml.com/webapp-demo-aws/app/oxygen.html
Oxygen Content Fusion can be evaluated for free. For more information, see https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/get_started.html
Purchasing
To purchase Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, PDF Chemistry, or WebHelp, please visit the Oxygen XML store at http://www.oxygenxml.com/buy.html The Oxygen XML Web Author is available through several subscription packages at http://www.oxygenxml.com/webauthor/#buy To take full advantage of Oxygen Content Fusion, an Enterprise server is required. There are several subscription packages available at https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/buy_content_fusion.html
The Oxygen team is excited to announce a new series of webinars for the Spring season!
The first webinar, on April 17th, will provide an exploration of the new JSON features and improvements that were added in Oxygen 21. The second webinar, on May 8th, will offer a detailed look at how to use Content Fusion to collaborate with colleagues, as well as details about using your own On-Premise Enterprise Server and various customization possibilities. This is followed by a third webinar, on May 22nd, that will focus on getting started using Oxygen XML Editor/Author from the perspective of a new user.
More details about these events are available here:
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of version 21 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, Oxygen PDF Chemistry, as well as version 1.1 of the new Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform.
Release date: 22 February, 2019
Version 21 of the Oxygen XML Web Author also includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient, accurate, and productive than ever before.
New Features added in Oxygen XML Web Author version 21 include:
For the complete list of new features in Oxygen XML Web Author, please visit https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html
For the complete list of new features in Oxygen Content Fusion, please visit https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html
Version 1.1 of Oxygen Content Fusion adds various new features and improvements to the innovative collaboration tool for any XML documentation review process.
Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer 21 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
To purchase Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, or WebHelp, please visit the Oxygen XML store at http://www.oxygenxml.com/buy.html The Oxygen XML Web Author is available through several subscription packages at http://www.oxygenxml.com/webauthor/#buy To take full advantage of Oxygen Content Fusion, an Enterprise server is required. There are several subscription packages available at https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/buy_content_fusion.html
The Oxygen team is wrapping up this season's series of requested Webinars on Wednesday, December 12 at 11:00 AM US Eastern Time. This Webinar will provide an exploration of Oxygen's less commonly known, but helpful features. Join us to discover a lot of functionality that you may not be aware of, including useful shortcuts, side views, customizable toolbars, batch operations, helpful tools, and much more.
Register for free at : https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2018/webinar_oxygen_productivity_tips_and_tricks.html
The next highly requested Oxygen Webinar, "Getting Started with Creating Schematron Rules and Schematron Quick Fixes" will be hosted on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 11:00 AM US Eastern time and it will provide a step by step guide to getting started with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. The webinar will teach you how to create Schematron business rules and apply them in the Oxygen editing environment, enforce specific Schematron rules on all your XML files, and develop Schematron Quick Fixes to make it easy to solve the reported problems.
Register for free at : https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2018/webinar_creating_schematron_rules_and_quick_fixes.html
We're half way through our series of highly requested free Webinars for 2018, but we still have four more interesting subjects to present between now and December 12. We hope that you can join us for some, or all of them. The next event will be next Wednesday, November 7 at 11:00 AM US Eastern time and it will teach you how to create a custom framework. Register for free at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2018/webinar_creating_oxygen_frameworks.html.
To see the full list of upcoming Webinars, visit our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html
We are happy to announce the release of version 21 of Oxygen XML Web Author and Oxygen XML Web Author Component!
The new version includes numerous design improvements for the visual editor, various new toolbar and contextual menu actions to make it easier to perform common operations, the Dashboard was redesigned to make the browsing and document creation process more intuitive and convenient, and DITA maps now have several view modes to choose from. Also, some performance enhancements, numerous new customization possibilities, and many other requested features and improvements were added in this release.
The complete list of newly added features is available here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html
We are happy to announce the release of version 20.1.1 of Oxygen XML Web Author and Oxygen XML Web Author Component!
We are happy to announce a new webinar on October 24, 2018 11 AM - Noon ET.
You can register for free at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8064334342468798467
The Oxygen team is happy to announce a series of new webinars scheduled in the coming months. These upcoming webinars cover a variety of interesting subjects (all of which were requested by the Oxygen community) and are aimed at a variety of different audiences.
The first webinar, scheduled for September 26, will give you an opportunity to see the new collaboration platform, Oxygen Content Fusion, in action. This is followed by a tutorial for creating and executing unit tests for XSLT and Schematron on October 10 and a tutorial for creating custom Publishing Templates for WebHelp and PDF output on October 24.
Later, in November and December, subjects for the webinars include creating a custom framework, getting started with writing Schematron rules and Quick Fixes, how to setup a simple DITA project, and a presentation of useful tips and tricks found in Oxygen.
Syncro Soft Announces the Release of a New Collaboration Product, Oxygen Content Fusion, as well as Version 20.1 of the Oxygen XML Editor Suite of Products
Release date: June 15, 2018
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is excited to announce the release of a new web-based collaboration product called Oxygen Content Fusion, as well as the immediate availability of version 20.1 of its industry leading XML editing and publishing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, and PDF Chemistry.
Oxygen Content Fusion enables simple and streamlined collaboration and was designed to adapt to any type of workflow, so it can be used and integrated into any documentation review or collaboration process. It can be used from Oxygen XML Editor/Author to share XML content with reviewers and contributors, providing them access to a snapshot of your content from any device and without any installation. You can then easily merge their suggested changes back into your original content in Oxygen XML Editor/Author.
To learn more about Oxygen Content Fusion and evaluate it free for 60 days, go to: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion.html
Version 20.1 of the Oxygen suite of products brings you a variety of new features and improvements that focus on productivity, performance, efficiency, and simplicity.
For the complete list of new Oxygen XML Editor features and detailed information, visit http://www.oxygenxml.com/index.html#new-version
Oxygen XML Editor can be downloaded and freely evaluated for 30 days http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Oxygen XML Web Author provides an innovative web-based structured authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere that you can access a browser, on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices.
For the complete list of new Oxygen XML Web Author features and detailed information, visit https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html
Oxygen XML Web Author can be downloaded and freely evaluated for 30 days https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/download_oxygenxml_web_author.html and it can also be tested online at https://www.oxygenxml.com/webapp-demo-aws/app/oxygen.html
To purchase any Oxygen product, visit the Oxygen XML store at http://www.oxygenxml.com/buy.html If you are interested in triggering some of the functionality provided by Oxygen from other processes, you can do that using the new Oxygen XML Scripting license. For details, see https://www.oxygenxml.com/buy_oxygen_xml_scripting.html
We are happy to announce a new webinar on April 4, 2018 at 6:00 PM EEST.
You can register for free at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5102502901048453634
Please join us to discover how you can collaborate more efficiently during your documentation process!
Syncro Soft Announces Version 20 of the Oxygen XML Editor Suite of Products
Release date: March 16, 2018
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 20 of its industry leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, as well as the new Oxygen PDF Chemistry.
Version 20.0 brings you a variety of new features and improvements that focus on productivity, performance, efficiency, and simplicity.
Version 20.0 of the Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere you have access to a browser, on desktops PCs, tablets, or mobile devices. It includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient, accurate, and productive than ever before.
For the complete list of new features and detailed information, please visit http://www.oxygenxml.com/index.html#new-version
Oxygen 20.0 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Oxygen XML Web Author can also be tested online at https://www.oxygenxml.com/webapp-demo-aws/app/oxygen.html
To purchase Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer or WebHelp, please visit the Oxygen XML store at http://www.oxygenxml.com/buy.html
The Oxygen XML Web Author is available through several subscription packages at http://www.oxygenxml.com/webauthor/#buy
If you are interested in triggering some of the processing provided by Oxygen from other processes, you can do that using the new Oxygen XML Scripting license. For details, please contact us at sales@oxygenxml.com.
Syncro Soft Announces a New Release (Version 19.0) of the Oxygen XML Editor Suite of Products
Release date: September 29, 2017
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 19.1 of its industry leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, as well as the new Oxygen PDF Chemistry.
Version 19.1 brings you a variety of new features and improvements that focus on productivity, performance, efficiency, and simplicity.
There are also various other improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient, accurate, and productive.
As usual, this release of Oxygen also contains numerous new API and component updates.
Oxygen 19.1 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
We are happy to announce a new webinar on September 6, 2017 at 8:00 AM PDT.
You can register for free at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3228605229073571331
We are happy to announce a new DITA-related webinar on June 21, 2017 at 8:00 AM PDT. In this webinar we will show you some of the new DITA-related features that were added in Oxygen 19.
As usual, this is a free webinar but registration is required at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9089281479454880257
Please join us to discover how you can be more productive using DITA in Oxygen!
Release date: April 5, 2017
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 19.0 of its industry leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, and WebHelp.
Oxygen XML Editor Suite 19.0:
Oxygen 19.0 brings you a variety of new features and improvements that will make your XML authoring and developing experience more productive and powerful than ever before.
Oxygen XML Web Author 19.0:
For the complete list of new features and detailed information please visit http://www.oxygenxml.com/index.html#new-version
Oxygen 19.0 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
The new Oxygen XML Web Author can also be tested online at https://www.oxygenxml.com/webapp-demo-aws/app/oxygen.html
The new Oxygen XML Web Author is available through several subscription packages at http://www.oxygenxml.com/webauthor/#buy
Syncro Soft is a privately held software company founded in 1998 with a large area of expertise in XML technologies: XML Schema, Relax NG, Schematron, XSLT, XPath and XQuery. The main product <oXygen/> XML Editor provides the best coverage of the today XML technologies; it complies with the established standards released by W3C and other organisations and enhances developer productivity through an intuitive and innovative XML IDE. Syncro Soft is a member of the W3C. Another product developed by Syncro Soft is Syncro SVN Client: http://www.syncrosvnclient.com
<oXygen/> is a registered trademark of Syncro Soft in the U.S and other countries. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
In the next few months we will host a series of webinars covering many technologies available in oXygen XML Editor. The webinars are scheduled as follows:
Discover how you can use the XSpec framework to write unit test for your XSLT projects. We will discuss recent upgrades to the integration and show you how to create and execute XSpec test scenarios in oXygen and how to use an oXygen plugin to speed up scenario development.
You can register to attend at http://oxygenxml.com/events/2017/webinar_unit_testing_xslt_with_xspec_and_oxygen.html
Join us to see a presentation on the support for multimedia content that is offered in oXygen. This includes rendering video and audio files directly in the UI, rendering animated and interactive SVG drawing, interacting with SVG objects in Author mode, and creating interactive image maps. We will show you how easy it is to create multimedia content with oXygen and publish it in HTML5 output formats.
You can register to attend at http://oxygenxml.com/events/2017/webinar_multimedia_support_in_oxygen.html
In this webinar, a technical writer will offer a unique perspective of learning how to use oXygen to write and publish DITA documentation after coming from a professional background of writing in "unstructured" authoring applications. We will discuss our company's documentation workflow and the various ways we collaborate as a team, as well as presenting various features in oXygen that can help any technical writer.
You can register to attend at http://oxygenxml.com/events/2017/webinar_a_technical_writer_perspective_on_using_dita.html
Please join us to discover more about oXygen XML Editor!
Syncro Soft Announces a New Release (Version 18.1) of the Oxygen XML Editor Suite of Products
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 18.1 of its industry leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, and WebHelp. Syncro Soft is also pleased to announce the addition of a new Oxygen XML Scripting license, allowing some of the processing provided by Oxygen (such as the extensive DITA validation support) to be integrated in your own scripts.
Although Oxygen XML Editor version 18.1 is a maintenance release that focuses on performance and usability improvements, it also adds a variety of powerful new features, making it similar to a major release.
New Features and Improvements Include:
Oxygen XML Web Author provides an innovative web-based structured authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere, on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. The new functionality added in version 18.1 enhances the DITA authoring support by allowing you to easily insert content references, displays audio and video content, allows you to control what review information is visible, and includes improvements to the GitHub connector. The new Oxygen XML Scripting license allows you to automate the execution of the DITA Map Validation and Completeness Check from your own scripts. For example, you can use it as part of a continuous integration process. Other functionality made available by this license includes generating documentation (from XML Schema, WSDL, and XSLT), and access to the Flatten XML Schema and Instance Generator tools. For more details, please see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_scripting.html
As usual, Oxygen also added many new API and component updates for this release.
Oxygen 18.1 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
If you are interested in the new Oxygen XML Scripting license please contact us at sales@oxygenxml.com
This Thursday (September 22, 2016 8:00 AM PDT), we are hosting a new webinar where we will discuss how you can use oXygen to work with projects that allow you to easily organize your files, access resources relevant to the project, run batch operations, and share project-level options with your team.
As usual, this is a free webinar but registration is required at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2016/webinar_working_with_oxygen_projects.html
This Thursday (September 8, 2016 8:00 AM PDT) we are hosting a new webinar where we explore the DITA 1.3 functionality and how you can use oXygen to take advantage of the new DITA 1.3 features.
As usual, this is a free webinar but registration is required at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2016/webinar_ready_for_dita_1_3.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, announced the immediate availability of version 18.0.1 of its Oxygen XML Web Author.
oXygen XML Web Author version 18.0.1 is the latest release for the innovative oXygen web-based authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere, on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. It includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient and productive than ever before.
The expanded support for Git integrations gives you the ability to work with any type of Git repository manager (including GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab).
You can benefit now of automatic spell checking, video playing support inside DITA documents, and auto-save when you edit files from WebDAV repositories.
Several new actions were added to make your editing experience even easier and more dynamic. They include toolbar actions for inserting web links, file references, special characters and contextual menu actions to copy and cut content as well as a DITA specific contextual actions to open the DITA Style Guide.
This version also includes various other improvements, such as an automatic conversion of URLs to framework-specific linking elements, support for a URL Chooser form control for selecting local and remote resources, the ability to upload files or images, and enhancements to the Content Completion Assistant.
Oxygen XML Web Author is available as a ready-to-use product, and as part of the Oxygen XML SDK. For more information, please visit: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author.html
List prices of the Subscription Packages are available at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/buy_oxygen_xml_web_author.html
We are happy to announce a new webinar, "DITA publishing with oXygen XML Editor", presented by Alex Jitianu.
In this webinar we explore DITA publishing options from oXygen XML Editor including different HTML formats, PDF, EPUB, etc. and how these can be customized.
As usual, this is a free webinar but registration is required at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2016/webinar_publishing_from_dita.html
We are happy to announce a new webinar, "Understanding and developing Schematron Quick Fixes", hosted by George Bina and presented by Octavian Nadolu.
Schematron solves certain limitations that other types of schema have when validating XML documents since it allows the schema developer to define the errors and control the messages that are presented to the user. Therefore, Schematron makes the validation errors more accessible to users and helps to ensures that they understand the problem. These messages may also include hints to help the user to fix the problem, but this doesn't complete the solution since the user still needs to manually correct the issue. This may cause users to waste valuable time and also creates the possibility of making additional errors while trying to manually fix the reported problem. Schematron Quick Fixes provide automatic actions to fix validation errors, thus offering a complete solution, while saving time and avoiding the potential for causing other issues.
As usual, this is a free webinar but registration is required at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2016/webinar_understanding_and_developing_schematron_quick_fixes.html
We are happy to announce a new webinar, "Managing DITA Reuse with oXygen", hosted by George Bina and presented by Alex Jitianu.
This webinar will focus on advanced features that help you to achieve your return on investment from using DITA. REUSE is the key word and it can be implemented either directly through content references or indirectly through profiling/conditional content.
As usual, this is a free webinar but registration is required at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2016/webinar_dita_reuse_and_filtering.html
Today (Jun 16, 2016 8:00 AM PDT) we are hosting a new webinar where we will explore the importance of helping your authors to follow editing rules, such as grammar rules, document structure guidelines, business requirements, style preferences, or rules for the generated output.
To enforce these rules, companies often use grammar checking apps, custom schemas, or best practice guides. For content authors, there are usually too many rules to remember while writing content. The best approach for this challenge is to signal the user when a rule violation is detected and offer suggestions to help them solve possible rule problems and maintain integrity of their documentation.
As usual, this is a free webinar but registration is required at: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events/2016/webinar_enforcing_rules.html
oXygen XML Editor invites you to a series of free DITA-related webinars that will cover almost every aspect of working with DITA in oXygen XML Editor.
Please join us to complete your DITA learning experience with oXygen XML Editor!
Syncro Soft Announces the Release of a New Product, Oxygen XML Web Author, a New Version 18.0 of the Oxygen XML Editor Suite of Products
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 18.0 of its industry leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, and WebHelp. Syncro Soft is also pleased to announce the addition of a new product, Oxygen XML Web Author, which represents a major milestone for making XML authoring accessible to everyone by providing browser-based access to XML documents from both desktop and mobile devices.
To meet the evolving standards of the XML community, authors and developers need XML editing tools that progressively advance with the ever changing technologies. With the new Oxygen XML Web Author and the new version of Oxygen XML Editor suite of products, structured authoring professionals can create, edit, and develop XML content even more effectively and keep up with the continuous advancements in the technology world.
Oxygen XML Web Author provides an innovative web-based structured authoring tool. Its powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and edit content from anywhere, on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. It includes a variety of features and improvements to make your authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient and productive than ever before.
Oxygen XML Editor version 18.0 includes a variety of new features and improvements that set the standards for XML authoring and developing even higher than its users are already accustomed to.
Oxygen 18.0 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, announced the immediate availability of version 17.1.1 of its Oxygen XML Web Author.
The new Oxygen XML Web Author takes advantage of the state-of-the-art Oxygen authoring technology to bring XML editing and reviewing to any device that supports modern Web browsers. The adaptive and innovative user interface is designed to allow you to interact with XML content in the most efficient and productive way possible.
Oxygen XML Web Author provides guided authoring with content completion assistance, automatic validation, inline hints, and a variety of common editing actions for each type of document.
A review panel provides an overview of all comments and tracked changes, and offers you a simple and efficient way of navigating through changes and accessing various review actions.
Oxygen XML Web Author is available as a ready-to-use product, and as part of the Oxygen XML SDK.
For the complete list of new features and detailed information please visit http://www.oxygenxml.com/webauthor
oXygen XML Editor version 17.1 includes updates and improvements to make your XML authoring and developing experience even more productive and effective. The performance of many of the integral components has been optimized and numerous features were enhanced and fine-tuned to make oXygen XML Editor even more powerful, dynamic, and easy to use. It also features a spectacular new visual design that makes everything look crisp and beautiful.
Various DITA-related operations and dialog boxes have been reorganized and improved to maximize efficiency and convenience. You can also now enable experimental editing and publishing support for DITA 1.3, including new file templates, scoped keys, and branch filtering.
oXygen XML Editor extends support for resolving errors and managing the structure of your documents through powerful actions. Support for XML Quick Fixes was expanded and their performance improved, while XML Refactoring actions were enhanced to make them more accessible and powerful.
The oXygen WebHelp system was also improved to enhance your published output. Google Search, Google Analytics, and some popular social media widgets can now be integrated into your WebHelp system and search features are now available in offline mode.
Improved CSS support includes optimized performance and the ability to use several properties that were previously not supported. Support for some level 4 pseudo-classes was also added, as well as support for allowing negative values in certain properties.
The oXygen SDK contains many new API updates and the Web-based component provides new extension points to facilitate various integrations. The WebApp component has received numerous enhancements to allow you to customize many of its features, as well as an easy-to-use interface that makes it easy to configure your instance of the component.
Oxygen 17.1 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, announced the immediate availability of version 17.0 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML-related technologies.
Oxygen XML Editor version 17 sets the highest standard for XML development and XML authoring. It comes with important functionality updates and focuses on design to make your work not only productive, but also enjoyable.
The new user interface features Retina/HiDPI icons to make everything look crisp and beautiful, and an optional graphite color theme. Toolbars are configurable down to action level and they put you in full control of your work environment.
Oxygen XML Editor not only reports errors, it also helps you automatically correct them through Quick Fix and AutoCorrect support. In version 17, the Quick Fix support provides solutions for XML documents validated against Relax NG, XSD, and Schematron schemas. In the case of Schematron, the schema developer is in full control of the Quick Fix actions, offering the user one or more solutions to any detected issue. The new AutoCorrect functionality also helps to automatically fix common typing errors.
The new XML Refactoring support extends the power of Find/Replace across multiple files by applying XML-aware operations through a user-friendly interface. Additional custom operations can be easily plugged-in for Enterprise Edition users.
XML developers can take advantage of the XQuery and embedded XPath formatting feature. They can also use Oxygen XML Editor with the latest versions of MarkLogic and eXist XML databases, Saxon XSLT, XQuery and XML Schema engines, and XML Calabash XProc processor.
Version 17 takes a huge step forward in improving the CSS support that Oxygen XML Editor uses to render XML documents in Author mode. The new CSS Inspector view allows you to see what styles are applied to each element and to immediately navigate to the CSS source. If CSS does not give you enough flexibility then you can use LESS either directly, pointing to the LESS file, or automatically compile LESS to CSS when saving. Building eye-catching authoring interfaces can now be achieved by taking advantage of the support for relative, absolute, and fixed positioning of CSS blocks. You can also develop visual layouts that can respond dynamically to different page widths, define actions directly in CSS, and place static content on multiple "before" and "after" layers for any element.
The improved CSS support is used for DITA topics and maps to offer a choice of main rendering styles, as well as the option to add or subtract style layers. Guided DITA authoring was implemented as two optional style layers that allow you to see inline hints and actions. The CSS-based PDF output transformation automatically uses the CSS styles you select for authoring, so that you can reuse the same CSS files when publishing DITA to PDF. Oxygen bundles the latest DITA-OT 1.8 but version 2.0 is also supported, and integrating a new transformation is greatly simplified for annotated transformation types, as Oxygen will automatically discover their parameters.
The DITA/DocBook to WebHelp transformations optimize the page loading time and provide support for context-sensitive help, SEO resources, and LDAP authentication. The WebHelp output that now supports both RTL scripts and Japanese content can be easily embedded in a page.
The Web-based XML authoring SDK now provides new extension points to facilitate integration, as well as an adaptive user interface that is both mobile and desktop-friendly. Find more about the Oxygen WebApp and try it online at http://www.oxygenxml.com/webapp/
In response to integrators feedback, the Oxygen SDK has many new API updates to access additional extension points and to facilitate seamless integration.
Oxygen version 17 includes new frameworks for supporting JATS, ISO StratML, and XLIFF, while the TEI framework was updated to contain the latest schemas and stylesheets. The SVN client has also been updated to include a variety of improvements and bug fixes.
Oxygen 17.0 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
This training course, designed by Dr Tony Self and delivered by our Partner, Mekon, will give both experienced and novice DITA technical authors the knowledge they need to make the most of oXygen XML Author.
Upon successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to work with projects, create and edit DITA and other XML documents using oXygen and transform source files to Web, ePUB and PDF deliverable documents. Using a comprehensive training project and practical exercises attendees will learn about:
For further information or to book a place please contact Sam Cammock at Mekon: sam.cammock@mekon.com or call +44 (0)208 722 8400
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, announced the immediate availability of version 16.1 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML-related technologies.
Version 16.1 of oXygen XML Editor adds improvements to both the XML development and XML authoring functionality. Fixes for validation issues, such as adding a missing attribute or deleting an unexpected element are offered automatically by the Quick Fixes support. The XSLT support helps you better understand what each XSLT instruction does by presenting associated annotations with the description of the instruction and links to the specification.
The XML authoring mode received a number of improvements to the table support, track changes functionality, generic editing, as well as to the DITA specific actions. The WebHelp output that can be obtained from DITA and DocBook documents is marked with the HTML5 document type and videos are rendered using the HTML5 video element.
You can find patterns within an EPUB, OOXML, ODF or any ZIP archive by running XPath queries on all the documents from ZIP-based archives.
The Eclipse plugin version of oXygen XML Editor was updated to support Eclipse 4.4, the SVN support was updated to work with Apache Subversion 1.8, and many component libraries were updated to their latest stable versions. The accessibility was improved by automatically using colors defined by the high contrast theme in Windows when it becomes the current color theme.
For the complete list of new features and detailed information please visit: http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew16.1.html
Oxygen 16.1 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, announced the immediate availability of version 16 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.
oXygen XML Editor 16 increases your productivity for XSLT development with the addition of Quick Fixes and improvements to refactoring actions. Saxon-CE specific extensions are supported and you can apply now XPath queries on multiple files.
If you use Ant to orchestrate build processes then oXygen will support you with a powerful Ant editor featuring validation, content completion, outline view, syntax highlight and search and refactoring actions. Working with conditional content is a lot easier now as you can set different colors and styles for each condition or focus exclusively on a specific deliverable by hiding all excluded content. You can modify DITA and DocBook tables easily using the new table properties action. You can customize the style of the oXygen WebHelp output to look exactly as you want using the new WebHelp skin builder.
As usual, oXygen keeps you up-to-date as we updated a number of components to better support XSLT, XQuery, XPath, XProc, SVN, DocBook, TEI and DITA standards.
For the complete list of new features and detailed information please visit: http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew16.0.html
Oxygen 16 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, announced the immediate availability of version 15.2 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.
Version 15.2 of oXygen XML Editor improves the support for developing Schematron schemas by adding intelligent search and refactoring actions, in-context editing and validation, hierarchy/dependencies views, improved error reporting and more.
You can easily experiment with the new XML Schema 1.1 recommendation as oXygen handles the attributes that specify the minimum and maximum XML Schema version directly within the schema document. Editing XML documents visually is a lot easier now with the intelligent content completion and paste functionality that were enhanced to automatically look in nearby positions to determine a valid location for the new content.
You can create more interactive and user friendly interfaces for editing XML documents taking advantage of the new CSS level 3 and level 4 features supported in oXygen or using the new text area form control extension. Publishing DITA content features syntax-highlighting inside code blocks and the DITA 1.3 support debuts with the introduction of the new troubleshooting specialization.
One of the most important XML development feature of oXygen is the support for working automatically with modules by defining the master files, the documents that include/import modules. This was previously available only in the standalone distribution of oXygen and version 15.2 brings the same functionality also to the Eclipse plugin distribution.
As always, oXygen keeps you up-to-date, the new version featuring updated components including Saxon, Calabash, and the TEI stylesheets, support for MarkLogic 7 and Subversion 1.8 repositories. There is a large number of API additions in response to feedback provided by our partners which integrated the oXygen XML authoring technology into their solutions.
For the complete list of new features and detailed information please visit: http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew15.2.html
Oxygen 15.2 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, announced the immediate availability of version 15.1 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.
With the release of version 15.1, oXygen is the first XML editor to fully support right-to-left and bidirectional text in the visual editing mode. Content authors are now able to create and edit XML documents in the oXygen Author mode, in languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and others. This version of oXygen makes a leap forward in working with XML modules. Using the Master Files support, oXygen assists you while editing an XML document that belongs to a set of assembled modules, and provides you features like module validation, in-context content completion assistant, ID referencing or module connection overview. The integration of the entire DITA for Publishers plugins suite enables oXygen users to produce Kindle output from DITA maps. The latest Eclipse version (4.3) is now supported by the oXygen Eclipse plugin. Also, to keep you up-to-date, we bundled the latest third party components like Saxon Enterprise Edition 9.5.1.2, TEI Schemas (2.5.0), TEI Stylesheets (7.1.0), DITA for Publishers 0.9.18, and Calabash 1.0.13.
For the complete list of new features and detailed information please visit: http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew15.1.html
Oxygen 15.1 can be freely evaluated for 30 days from http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Brussels and Luxembourg, September 6th, 2013 – Acsone S. A./N. V., an independent IT services company, signed strategic partnership agreements with Syncro Soft, the publisher of oXygen XML Editor, and with Componize, the leading DITA component content management system on top of Alfresco.
“This three-party partnership supports and completes our offering in structured content management solutions regarding quality and regulation processes, fund information management, budget management and technical documentation in general. Joining our technical and commercial strengths reinforces our presence in Belgium and Luxemburg and offers a unique opportunity to our customers“, says Philippe Fontaine, Managing Director of Acsone. oXygen XML Editor is the best XML editor available. It supports schema driven content completion and sports a highly user-friendly authoring mode where most if not all XML tags and attributes may be hidden away from the novice user. Apart from a superior standard compliance, oXygen XML Editor is also known for its excellent integration with the most used content management systems, XML databases and relational databases.
Componize is a leading component content management system preconfigured for DITA that optimizes the authoring, management and publishing of structured and semi-structured content such as product documentation or learning content. Combining enterprise-wide collaboration, ease of use, scalability and an open architecture, it provides the full range of features that organizations need today for their content strategy. The users spend less time organizing, searching for and re-doing content and more time creating real value through better reuse and faster multi-channel production. Componize is today modernizing information development for AMD, Merck and SAP, among others.
“We have the chance of covering regions with many industries and service industries. For meeting their ever shrinking time to market constraints and the ever growing regulatory restrictions, they have to streamline their document production chains and to ensure the traceability of any document dispatched to their contacts or made publicly available. In this context, the end-users must be freed as much as possible of any technical hurdle. With Componize, they no longer worry about where to find the structured content they need and how to keep the history of their changes. All assets are stored by Componize in a central place and it does a very good job at keeping track of all references between the assets even if they change over time. Combined with the user-friendly and powerful capabilities of oXygen XML Editor, Acsone is now capable of delivering to the customer a turnkey solution for producing high quality documents with an intelligent and reusable content.”, says Stéphane Bidoul, Operations Director of Acsone.
“Adapting IT systems to overcome the challenges we face in today's business world can be daunting for companies. However, Acsone and Componize's expertise in streamlining content management and collaborative processing helps businesses to proactively address and overcome the rapid changes required to respond to the growing complexities of operational processes. Syncro Soft are proud to share the same strong business ethics to help deliver a competitively priced solution which, and most importantly, can be easily modeled around the specific needs of the customer”, says Sarah Draper, Director of Channel Sales & Marketing at Syncro Soft Ltd.
“We are proud to call Acsone our new Partner” says Jean-Luc Borie, co-founder and CEO of Componize. “Their team has over 20 years’ experience in solving the challenges organizations face in producing and maintaining complex business documents, and a very strong presence in Belgium and Luxembourg. We know Componize customers will be able to truly maximize the potential of the product when they’re in Acsone’s care.”
“There are several ways of doing intelligent content management ranging from a fully hand-tailored development to the customization of a commercial off-the-shelf solution”, confirms Jean-Paul Daisomont, Line Manager in Luxembourg, “oXygen XML Editor is the best of breed tool to edit effortlessly intelligent content structured in XML. It offers an excellent support for DITA and DocBook. It is easily customisable and thanks to its Java roots it can be run on virtually any modern platform, including Componize. With these partnerships, our customers can benefit of a very competitively priced solution that can be adapted very quickly to their needs thanks to the competency of our engineers in intelligent content management”. Starting from today, oXygen XML Editor will be the preferred choice for all the structured content management solutions promoted by Acsone for its customers. It will also be used as the primary IDE at all the XML and DITA training sessions given by Acsone.
Several medium-sized companies or departments have not yet any experience in a content production chain. Developing a fully custom-made solution is too expensive and takes too much time. Acsone engineers have the required knowledge to use Componize, oXygen XML Editor and DITA for this purpose. These solutions perfectly match the needs for quickly sharing and publishing documentation to multiple channels while keeping it in a perennial format that equally facilitates its use by humans and machines.
DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML-based OASIS standard aimed at authoring, producing and delivering technical information. It is easily extendable to cover any domains. The architectural archetype behind DITA is the decomposition of a document into the smallest possible blocs that are still meaningful. These blocs are strongly typed according to a few design principles. There is an inheritance hierarchy where the uppermost types are the generic “topic” and the “map” to associate several topics in a document. The “concept”, the “task” and the “reference” are refinements of the “topic”. New type specialisations can be added as needed to cover new information domains. Many software companies offer solutions around DITA. Companies like AMD, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Agfa Healthcare, Sanofi, SWIFT or Mastercard Worldwide have already adopted them and the DITA usage in Europe is constantly growing.
Syncro Soft is a privately held software company founded in 1998 with a large area of expertise in XML technologies and single source publishing. The main product oXygen XML Editor provides the best coverage of the today XML technologies; it complies with the established standards released by W3C and other organisations and enhances developers and content authors productivity through an intuitive and innovative XML IDE. Syncro Soft is a member of the W3C.
In 2008, Jean-Luc Borie and Frank Shipley, two veterans of enterprise information systems, founded Componize Software with a key insight into the future of content management and document management, in particular. They noticed that managers were increasingly frustrated with the limitations of their current CMSes with regard to the changing demands of their customers and end-users. They designed Componize. Componize's first versions were built for new and emerging technology architectures such as DITA.
Within three years of Componize’s first product launch, the wave of DITA adoption in enterprises had grown dramatically. The team was well positioned to answer the call, with one of the easiest and most effective DITA CMS solutions on the market. In fact, Componize is the only DITA CMS specifically designed for new technology architectures like DITA. Componize quickly secured early marquee clients including AMD, NXP and SAP, among others. They’re integrating Componize into their existing CMS programs or launching entirely new programs in order to maximize the benefits of Componize’s DITA CMS.
Acsone SA has been founded in June 2011 and is the outcome of an MBO (Management Buy-Out) of the Services department of Software AG in Belgium and Luxembourg. Acsone teams have more than 20 years of experience in content management and in intelligent documents management. Acsone is an independent IT services company focussing on delivering services to the European institutions, to the public administrations and to privately held companies present in Belgium and Luxembourg. Acsone employs a team of highly qualified consultants with numerous references in the financial sector (banking and insurance), in the public sector, in the energy sector and in the pharmaceutical sector. Having mostly deployed structured and intelligent content management solutions in the public sector and the pharmaceutical sector. The underlying principles can be applied to all sectors that deal with large quantities of frequently changing documentation. Regarding DITA, Acsone offers a discovery workshop with a sound methodology to explore together with the customer’s stakeholders how to improve their existing document production chains. It also offers training for basic and advanced users and consulting in the definition and the implementation of a DITA production chain.
If you missed the "XSLT Development with oXygen (Part 3)" webinar, or if you want to view it again, here you can find a recording of that event as well as the sample files used during the webinar.
XSLT is the best supported technology in oXygen. This is the 3rd webinar in a series of 3 that cover the XSLT development with oXygen.
You can find below an outline of the topics covered by the webinar:
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If you missed the "DITA Support in oXygen - Profiling and Reuse with DITA 1.2" webinar, or if you want to view it again, here you can find a recording of that event as well as the sample files used during the webinar.
If you missed the "The Business Case for Forms-based Authoring" webinar, or if you want to view it again, here you can find a recording of that event as well as the sample files used during the webinar.
This webinar focuses on more advanced features that justify the return of investment you get from using DITA - the key word here is REUSE. Reuse can be implemented either directly though content references or indirectly through profiling/conditional content. We will also explore the publishing part by showing how you can change transformation parameters and how you can obtain multiple output formats from DITA.
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Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, today announced the immediate availability of version 15.0 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.
oXygen XML Editor 15.0 streamlines the development of web services with major improvements to its WSDL editing support which now features intelligent search and refactoring actions, hierarchy and dependencies views, context-aware editing assistance and support for generating documentation. There are also improvements in working with XML databases and in the validation support. When authoring XSML content, you benefit from the improvements to the reviewing support, allowing you to easily find changes or annotations across all your project files. The power of XML is leveraged by providing built-in transformation from DITA and DocBook to mobile-friendly WebHelp that allows your users to access your content from their mobile devices. There are many additions to the DITA functionality, including the integration of "The DITA Style Guide" by Tony Self, which provides immediate access to the relevant style guide topic depending on the current editing context. As usual, oXygen keeps you up-to-date and we updated a number of components to better support XSLT, XQuery, XPath, XProc, EPUB, SVN, DocBook, TEI and DITA standards.
For the complete list of new features and detailed information please visit: http://www.oxygenxml.com/index.html#new-version
The XML Schema version 1.1 adds a number of new features that really improve the usability of XML Schema standard. These feature include assertions, conditional type assignment, open content, override, default attributes, negative wildcards, substitution for multiple elements and more. This webinar will present an overview of these new XML Schema features, how they work on simple examples and how you can use them from oXygen, so this is a great opportunity to discover what XML Schema 1.1 makes possible as well as how easy it is to develop schemas with oXygen.
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, today announced the immediate availability of version 14.2 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.
Version 14.2 of oXygen XML Editor adds important features for both XML Development and XML Authoring. On the XML development side, oXygen completes the set of XML Schema 1.1 related features with full schema editing support and capabilities to generate XML instances and schema documentation in accordance with this new W3C standard. On the XML Authoring side, oXygen streamlines XML reviewing by adding support for highlights and a Review manager panel. Highlights help you focus on the content you need to review and the Review manager panel presents all the changes, comments and highlights from a document so you can quickly inspect and manage them. Improvements were made for quickly finding resources in the project by searching in their content or file paths. oXygen offers these advanced search capabilities by adding a dedicated view that supports complex text search expressions, such as: multiple words, boolean operators, group searches, etc. as well as XML-aware filters. Documents from a Microsoft SharePoint server can now be accessed using the Data Source Explorer view, where you can edit, check-in, or check-out resources directly. As usual, oXygen XML updates many components to their latest versions, and extends the API available to third party applications.
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, today announced the immediate availability of version 14.1 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.
Version 14.1 of Oxygen XML Editor makes XML authoring available to everybody, by allowing attributes to be edited directly in the Author view through form like controls and placing actions directly in the document flow. This expands the range of XML documents that can be edited visually from text-centric to data oriented documents. The built-in frameworks support was improved, especially the DITA support which features better error reporting and a rename/move topic refactoring action. The XML developers can use XML to start experimenting with the new XML Schema 1.1 standard, while the huge XML files support allows them to edit multi GB documents. As many partners depend now on XML for their solutions, a lot of effort was put into improving and expanding the API to allow them to develop more integrated oXygen-powered applications. As usual, updates many components to their latest versions, the embedded SVN client supports now Subversion 1.7 and the Eclipse plugin distribution works with Eclipse version 4.2.
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, today announced the immediate availability of version 14 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies, and the establishment of a wholly-owned UK subsidiary of its business.
Version 14 marks a major step forward in the XML development support as it introduces new concepts and functionality that change the way XML and XML-related applications are developed. The XML authoring competes now with word processors on ease of use and functionality while providing all the benefits of having XML documents - it has never been easier before to create, annotate and review XML content. The built-in support for plugin and framework repositories allows Oxygen users to discover and install Oxygen extensions and enables the Oxygen developers to easily distribute and update their plugins and frameworks.
Since the company was founded in 1998, Syncro Soft has expanded its client base to over 35,000 customers in more than 100 countries. This substantial growth has resulted in the decision to expand its presence in the UK that will allow the company to be closer to existing customers as well as to engage with potential new users and partners.
"We are pleased to announce the establishment of our newest subsidiary in the UK," said Stefan Vasile, CEO of Syncro Soft. "Whilst we have been active in the UK market for over 9 years, we recently took the decision to upgrade our presence in the UK by establishing our own subsidiary so that we can offer better support and service to our end-users and channel partners."
"Our physical presence in UK will serve to strengthen Oxygen XML's global reach. Our goal is to provide our current and future customer base in the UK and European markets with excellent local support" said Sarah Draper, Managing Director of the UK subsidiary. "We will be focusing significant attention on Oxygen XML Editor growth in this market, and we look forward to building new partnerships and engaging with new customers".
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 13.2 of its XML Editor containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 13.2 introduces a new Syntax Highlight mechanism capable of handling mixed content types, improves the JSON editing support and bidirectional documents rendering, extends the XML-native database support with find/replace capabilities and updates many third-party components. Also, there are many improvements in the authoring support, including an updated DITA Maps Metrics Report, experimental support for CGM images and updated API .
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 13.1 of its XML Editor containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 13.1 adds support for XHTML 5, improved content completion in XML modules, a new TEI ODD framework, support for publishing DITA maps directly from a CMS or other remote resources and a metrics report for DITA maps. Being a maintenance release it has a focus also on fixing many small issues.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 13 of its XML Editor containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 13 introduces Oxygen XML Developer as a new product in the Oxygen XML family of products. This aggregates all the XML development features offering a cost effective tool for people that do not need the visual editing support. The Oxygen XML Editor is the union of Oxygen XML Developer and Oxygen XML Author offering both the XML authoring and XML development capabilities.
Version 13 is focused on user interface improvements related to visual XML editing, XML attributes editing, presentation of results for validation, transformation, spell checking and search operations, XML Diff and SVN support.
The EPUB support was extended with visual rendering of EPUB specific files and enhanced validation. New built-in transformation scenarios allow the conversion of TEI documents to EPUB, ODF and DOCX. DITA improvements include search references (where used) within a DITA map, map validation under multiple condition sets (ditaval files), use of subject scheme defined values and more.
The Data Source Explorer view features drag and drop capabilities that allow copy/move operations even between different databases. The new version adds support for JSON document editing, validation and conversion. Browser specific CSS extensions are now supported in the CSS editor.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Diff, has announced the immediate availability of version 4.0 of its product.
Version 4.0 of the Oxygen XML Diff introduces a new unified two-level changes presentation concept, a redesigned application layout and an improved main working area.
For the complete list of features please visit http://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_diff_and_merge.html#new-version
* Unified Two-Level Diff
* New File Comparison Representation and Functionality
* Enhanced Changes Navigation
* Improved Changes Management
* Redesigned Application's General Layout
Oxygen XML Diff with One Year Maintenance Pack costs $59
Oxygen XML Diff Component with One Year Maintenance Pack costs $1500
Volume discount rates are available starting with 5 licenses.
Oxygen XML Diff can be run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 12.2 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS-driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 12.2 of oXygen XML introduces a number of unique development features. It provides support for editing XSLT and XML Schema modules in the context of a main XSLT, respectively main XML Schema file. To improve XML Schema visual editing it introduces a Palette view that allows to easily create new schema components by dragging them from this Palette view into the diagram. For XSLT 2.0 and XQuery transformations it is possible to specify parameter values as XPath expressions when the engine allows that.
The new version includes also one of the most requested features: Ant integration - the support for Ant transformation scenarios allows executing a target from an Ant script.
The EPUB support received special attention, oXygen offers now EPUB validation by integrating EpubCheck, editing and validation for specific EPUB file types as well as a number of general enhancements for working with archive-based formats.
The visual authoring features improvements in change tracking, table editing, transformations to new target formats and new API additions.
The integrated Subversion client includes an improved Repositories view, offering a new design, better actions workflow and an optimized repository access.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of <oXygen/> XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 12.1 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. <oXygen/> combines content author features like the CSS-driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 12.1 of <oXygen/> XML adds new features to the Author editing mode like the smart paste action that automatically converts content from Office suite applications or from a web browser to DITA, DocBook or TEI, improves the XML authoring in areas like reference management, change tracking, CSS rendering support and extends the API to incorporate feedback from partners which integrate <oXygen/> with CMSs or other applications.
On the XML development side the new version introduces the Quick Assist helper to facilitate access to search and refactoring actions plus a number of improvements to the XSLT and XQuery debuggers and to the Relax NG schema editor.
The integrated Subversion client and XML Diff and merge tools include all the features added in Syncro SVN Client 6.1 and <oXygen/> XML Diff 3.0. The SVN Client improves the information presented in the Working Copy view and delivers better performance of the SVN related tasks and compare operations while the XML Diff provides enhanced diff algorithms to better handle a large number of differences.
As always there were continuous user interface and performance improvements and many of the <oXygen/> components were updated to their latest versions.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of <oXygen/> XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 12 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. <oXygen/> combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 12 of <oXygen/> XML improves the existing functionality, adds new features and, most importantly, enhances the user experience. A lot of effort was invested in minimizing memory usage and improving general performance.
The user interface has been redesigned and the Project view provides a simplified toolbar, an intuitive contextual menu and synchronized selection with the currently edited document. A new Open/Find resource dialog has been added along with improvements in Outline and Attributes View.
The new version offers generic conditional text support for any XML documentation framework, including (but not limited to) DITA and DocBook. All you need to do is to define the profiling attributes and corresponding profiling values.
The new ePUB support allows you to change, extract, validate and process data stored in ePUB files. These capabilities allow developers to pack files into ePUB and also process data from ePUB documents using XSLT or XQuery.
In case of complex XSLT transformations, inspecting the entire stack of XSLT templates that were active at the time the output fragment was generated, speeds up the debugging process. The new version adds the possibility to click an area of the output transformation text and see the templates stack which generated that particular output fragment.
Other new features include additions to the Author API, support for code templates, content annotation/comments in Author mode, DITA Map validation and completeness check, DITA 1.2 support, easy identification of XSL and XML Schema components references.
Syncro Soft SRL, the developer of <oXygen/> XML Diff, has announced the immediate availability of version 3.0 of its product.
Version 3.0 of the <oXygen/> XML Diff improves the diff algorithms to better handle large number of differences and adds a few user interface elements.
Improved compare algorithms All compare algorithms were improved. They use less memory, so you can compare larger files. Also, the accuracy of XML Fast algorithm was increased.
Diff algorithm strength A diff algorithm now has several levels of strength: a high strength setting increases the chance to obtain all the differences between the compared resources, but consumes more memory. Low strength levels allow you to obtain partial comparison results, even if the number of differences between the files is larger. This setting is available in the Options page.
Filter pairs of identical files "Show Only Modifications" action omits the identical files and directories from the Diff Directories list. This reduces the clutter and allows you to spot differences with ease.
Status bar in Diff Directories window The status bar presents the number of differences, the diff algorithm and the current status of the diff operation.
Flow of differences in Diff Directories window You can navigate through the list of modifications, even across different files. When the Diff Files tool is started from the Diff Directories, the Go to Next Modification action allows you to navigate beyond the last modification from the currently compared files and into the next pair of different files.
<oXygen/> XML Diff can be run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 11.2 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 11.2 of <oXygen/> XML Editor improves the XML authoring, the XML development tools, the support for large documents and the SVN Client.
Other XML Author improvements include automatic support for DITA reusable components, support for preserving the formatting for unchanged elements and an updated Author API containing a number of new extensions that allow customizing the Outline, the Breadcrumb and the Status Bar.
The XSLT Debugger provides more flexibility and it is THE FIRST DEBUGGER THAT CAN STEP INSIDE XPATH 2.0 EXPRESSIONS. The Saxon 9 EE bundled with <oXygen/> can be used to run XQuery 1.1 transformations. The XProc support was aligned with the recent update as W3C Proposed Recommendation and includes the latest Calabash XProc processor.
Hunspell (the engine used by OpenOffice, Mozilla and others) is now used by <oXygen/> for spell checking. <oXygen/> ships dictionaries for English, German, French and Spanish but users can install any from the almost 100 available dictionaries.
The support for large documents has been improved, including the support for documents with very long lines.
SVN Client improves working copy load time, automatically refreshes the working copy on external file changes, makes repository browsing more responsive, adds support for repository imports at file level and for replacing resources, improves the handling of obstructed resources and the history support, allows creating branches/tags directly from the repository and offers options to print and save as image a revision graph.
Syncro Soft is a privately held software company founded in 1998 with a large area of expertise in XML technologies: XML Schema, Relax NG, Schematron, XSLT, XPath and XQuery. The main product oXygen XML Editor provides the best coverage of the today XML technologies; it complies with the established standards released by W3C and other organisations and enhances developer productivity through an intuitive and innovative XML IDE. Syncro Soft is a member of the W3C. Another product developed by Syncro Soft is Syncro SVN Client: http://www.syncrosvnclient.com
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 11.1 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 11.1 of <oXygen/> XML Editor improves the XML authoring capabilities, the support for XML development and also a number of core features. The visual XML authoring uses now schema information to provide intelligent editing actions that help keeping the document valid and provide a better editing experience. The new compact representation of tags and the quick up/down navigation features improve the ergonomics and the usability. <oXygen/> XML Editor can use any XQJ compliant XQuery processor for XQuery transformations, different error levels and external references can be specified for Schematron messages and the XProc support was improved with better editing and execution. The XML format and indent operation can use DTD/schema information to provide better formatting and the find and replace is now XML-aware and can accept XPath filtering to delimit the search scope.
Starting with version 11.1 the diff and merge support from <oXygen/> XML Editor is available also as a separate application, <oXygen/> XML Diff.
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Design Science and Syncro Soft today announced that the newly released Oxygen XML Editor and Oxygen XML Author 11 have been designed to support MathML editing with Design Science's three MathFlow equation editors: Structure, Style and Simple. This combines Oxygen's powerful XML editing and development platform with MathFlow's industry standard MathML editing technology. MathML is the XML standard for representing mathematical notation and is a crucial component of technical publishing workflows, content managed websites, accessibility and education applications.
"We've recently had a large number of customer inquiries about using our MathFlow product with Oxygen, so we're happy to partner with Syncro Soft to help make this happen," said Bruce Virga, Design Science's VP of Business Development. "Since Oxygen and math are both big in education, we expect the combination to do very well in this arena," Virga added.
MathFlow is widely used in publishing, elearning, assessment, aerospace, defense, education, government, science and engineering, as well as enterprise solutions and commercial products. The MathFlow product line consists of a set of components for editing, display, and accessibility of mathematical notation for websites, applications and services. It includes MathFlow for Arbortext and XMetaL, and MathFlow Components & SDK which replace the company's WebEQ product.
Oxygen XML Editor has a large number of users ranging from beginners to XML experts providing support for all XML-based technologies including XSLT and XQuery, all the XML schema languages, XML databases, XProc pipelines and web services. Specially tuned for content authors the Oxygen XML Author comes with a configurable and extensible visual editing mode based on W3C CSS stylesheets with ready-to-use DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML support, making Oxygen the ideal XML authoring solution.
“We are pleased to partner with Design Science to extend the MathML authoring capabilities of our Oxygen XML product line," said Stefan Vasile, CEO at Syncro Soft. "The MathFlow MathML technology is a valued enhancement to our products, especially for the users creating scientific content: the MathFlow Editors provides them the ability to compose and visualize MathML mathematical notation directly from Oxygen, using a visual editing paradigm.”
Licensing and pricing plans have been set for enterprise, education and commercial OEM use. More information is available on Design Science's website, http://www.dessci.com, and the Oxygen website, http://www.oxygenxml.com.
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Long Beach, California, Design Science develops software used by educators, scientists and publishing professionals, including MathType, Equation Editor in Microsoft Office, MathFlow, MathDaisy and MathPlayer, to communicate on the web and in print. For more information please visit http://www.dessci.com.
Syncro Soft is a privately held software company founded in 1998 with a large area of expertise in XML technologies: XML Schema, Relax NG, Schematron, XSLT, XPath and XQuery. The main product oXygen XML Editor provides the best coverage of today's XML technologies; it complies with the established standards released by W3C and other organizations and enhances developer productivity through an intuitive and innovative XML IDE. Syncro Soft is a member of the W3C.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 11 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready to use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Oxygen XML Editor 11 comes with new features covering both XML authoring and XML development like: integrated documentation for XSLT stylesheets, XProc support, improved support for very large documents, an XQuery debugger for the Oracle Berkeley DB XML database, MathML rendering and editing support, DITA 1.2 features and a smarter Author mode for an improved visual editing experience.
Oxygen XML Editor 11 contains also an experimental integration with EMC Documentum Content Management System.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 10.3 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready to use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 10.3 of <oXygen/> XML Editor improves both the XML Authoring and the XML Development capabilities. As a result of user feedback the <oXygen/> XML Author API was reorganized and extended with additional functionality. There are various improvements to the existing frameworks (DITA, DocBook, TEI, etc.) like automatic ID generation or DITA aware search and replace. An important new XML development feature is the Component Dependencies View that presents a tree of component dependencies starting with a specified component for XSLT, XML Schema, Relax NG and NVDL. The new version also integrates the Saxon SA XQuery Update functionality and updates a number of components to their latest versions.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 10.2 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready to use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
New in version 10.2:
Version 10.2 of <oXygen/> XML Editor adds important new features for both XML authoring and XML development.
The visual editing in <oXygen/> 10.2 includes content change tracking support, image scaling, table width and column width support including visual resizing, a more compact representation for included content and tag markers as well as a number of additions to the Author SDK to allow building powerful applications on top of <oXygen/>.
The XML developers will benefit in <oXygen/> XML Editor 10.2 of a redesigned and more ergonomic XML Schema diagram with a number of additional editing capabilities, will be able to see and understand the include/import relations between XML Schema documents, Relax NG schemas and XSLT stylesheets with the help of the new Hierarchy/Dependencies views. The addition of the Author page for all XML schema editors creates a completely new perspective on schemas and schema documentation editing.
Other additions include new usability and accessibility features and a number of framework and component updates
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor and Author, has announced the immediate availability of version 10.1 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML development environment. It has ready to use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
New in version 10.1:
Version 10.1 adds a new, redesigned XML Schema diagram that allows visual XML Schema editing, a new XML Schema documentation engine supporting multiple output formats, new features in the Author visual XML editing mode, improvements in the Outliner and content completion and updates the database support.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 10.0 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
New in version 10.0:
One of the most important additions in Oxygen XML Editor and Author version 10 is the bundling of the schema-aware XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor from Saxonica. Saxon-SA is now available in all Oxygen editions at no additional cost.
Version 10 comes with a large number of improvements including a powerful new XML instance generator, better content completion offering proposals from included or imported XML Schema or XSLT modules, a better integration of the Intel(R) XML Software Suite and updates the document frameworks and XML, XML Schema, XSLT, XPath and FOP processors.
The SVN support was also updated to include Subversion 1.5 features.
The support for commercial databases was updated to support the latest versions of the databases: MarkLogic 4.0, Oracle 11g R1, SQL Server 2008, DB2 9.5, XHive 8.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 9.3 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
Version 9.3 adds as main feature the support for editing and processing resources inside ZIP-based packages including Microsoft® Office 2007 (OOXML) and OpenDocument (ODF) documents.
For the complete list of new features please visit http://www.oxygenxml.com/index.html#new-version
New in version 9.3:
Oxygen XML Editor and Oxygen XML Author offer support for editing, transforming and validating documents composing the Office Open XML (OOXML) package directly through the archive support. This support is also available for other zipped files.
Oxygen XML Editor and Oxygen XML Author allow you to extract, validate, edit and process the XML data stored in OpenDocument files and any other ZIP-based archive. These capabilities allow developers to use data from ODF documents together with validation and transformations (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats.
Transformations using XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery, validations and other operations are now available on files inside ZIP-based archives.
You can seamlessly compare and merge files in ZIP archives (like OOXML, ODF, JAR and others) using the Compare Directories tool. You can examine and merge differences in files from ZIP archives in the Compare Files tool.
Oxygen XML Editor and Oxygen XML Author include the Math 2.0 DTD's allowing validation and content completion in MathML XML documents.
A number of components were updated to their latest version. These include the eXist database support (version 1.2.2), the Saxon 9 XSLT and XQuery processor from Saxonica (version 9.0.0.6), the Xalan XSLT processor (version 2.7.1), the NekoHTML parser (version 1.9.7).
Syncro Soft SRL announces the integration of oXygen(R) XML Editor with the Intel(R) XML Software Suite. Develop your XML applications quickly using the Intel XML Software Suite within oXygen XML editor. oXygen XML Editor version 9.2 users you can benefit of a special offer from Intel.
Syncro Soft is pleased to announce that starting with oXygen XML Editor version 9.2, the Intel(R) XML Software Suite features for XML, XML Schema and XSLT can be easily used to develop XML application from within the oXygen XML development environment.
The Intel XML Software Suite delivers outstanding XML processing performance, great scalability across multi-processing environments and easy integration into the existing XML applications, providing higher return on your XML and SOA investments. The Intel XML Software Suite is fully compliant with industry standards and optimized to take advantage of Intel platform technologies. The Intel XML Software Suite provides comprehensive XML processing capabilities including XSLT, Parsing (SAX and DOM), XPath and Schema Validation.
oXygen XML Editor is a complete cross platform XML editor providing the tools for visual XML authoring, XML conversion, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, XPath, XSLT, XQuery debugging, SOAP and WSDL testing, access and query of XML databases.
oXygen is available both as a standalone application and as an Eclipse plugin. The support for the Intel XML Software Suite is available in both editions thus not only the users of the oXygen as a standalone product can benefit of this but also the large number of Eclipse developers, they can use the Intel XML Software Suite engines to develop their applications within Eclipse.
"Intel is excited to have the oXygen XML Editor support the Intel(R) XML Software Suite. As XML developers are looking to deliver XML and SOA applications, the adoption of the Intel XML Software Suite will bring unparalleled performance right out of the box. As Intel continues to enhance the Intel XML Software Suite, the users of oXygen will be able to extract new benefits seamlessly. This is a "win-win" for customers of both companies." said David Hinz, Director, XML Software Products at Intel Corporation.
"In today's demanding world using the best tools is a must to reach deadlines and to rapidly adapt to changing requirements and oXygen XML IDE provides exactly that. It was a great opportunity for us to work closely with Intel in making available a unique, integrated solution for developing XML applications using the high performance Intel(R) XML Software Suite engines and the powerful oXygen XML Editor IDE" said Stefan Vasile, the Syncro Soft CEO.
We are glad to announce a special offer for oXygen XML Editor 9 users. Intel offers one free copy of either the Intel(R) XML Software Suite 1.0 for Java Environments on Windows OS - Developer Edition or the Intel(R) XML Software Suite 1.0 for Java Environments on Linux OS - Developer Edition to oXygen XML editor version 9.2 users, a $499 value! This is a limited time offer, good through August 31st, 2008.
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Syncro Soft is a privately held software company founded in 1998 with a large area of expertise in XML technologies: XML Schema, Relax NG, Schematron, XSLT, XPath and XQuery. The main product Oxygen XML Editor provides the best coverage of the today XML technologies; it complies with the established standards released by W3C and other organisations and enhances developer productivity through an intuitive and innovative XML IDE. Syncro Soft is a member of the W3C. Another product developed by Syncro Soft is Syncro SVN Client: http://www.syncrosvnclient.com.
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Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 9.2 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
Version 9.2 introduces a new XML Author edition specially tuned for content authors providing a well designed interface for XML editing by keeping only the relevant authoring features. The major additions in Oxygen XML Editor 9.2 are related to the WYSIWYG-like editing support and in particular to the DITA support. The general visual editing improvements include displaying the resolved content in the editor and navigation through links. With the new DITA features that include a new DITA map editor, actions for inserting conref links, a tight integration of the latest version of the DITA Open Toolkit, Oxygen XML Editor becomes the leading DITA editor and the easiest to use. Other improvements are browsing of XML databases using WebDAV connections, better handling of Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) text, support for the Intel XML Software Suite and multiple component updates.
New in version 9.2:
Oxygen now offers a version specially suited for XML authoring enhancing the authors productivity by providing a clean and easy to use interface. The new Oxygen XML Author is available both as a separate product (standalone and Eclipse plugin) and also as a part of Oxygen XML Editor.
The DITA support reaches maturity with the new additions in version 9.2. The new DITA maps manager allows viewing and editing DITA map files and also acts as a project manager allowing to open different topics for editing. The tool chain for generating DITA output in a multitude of formats (XHTML, PDF, HTML, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help, DocBook, etc.) is ready to use out of the box as Oxygen tightly integrates the latest version of the DITA Open Toolkit through its normal transformation scenarios support. There is also special support for easily inserting content references.
Version 9.2 provides also significant improvements for the generic WYSIWYG editing support. The authors can have an overview of the actual document with the included/referred content presented in the editor. The support for navigation using links makes going from a reference to the referred content just a click away.
To enhance productivity with XML schema validation and XSLT transformation using Intel XML Software Suite, Oxygen XML Editor 9.2 provides special support to easily configure and use the Intel XML Software Suite in its normal development work flow.
There are also improvements in the support for XML Schema, Schematron, XML databases and XML editing.
A number of components were updated to their latest version. These include the DITA Open Toolkit (1.4.2.1), the DocBook XML framework (schema version 5.0 and stylesheets version 1.73.2) and the Saxon B XSLT processor from Saxonica (9.0.0.4). Oxygen XML editor supports also the Saxon SA 9.0.0.4 (that requires a separate license from Saxonica).
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 9.1 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
With a new approach to XML authoring, Oxygen XML Editor 9 makes easier than ever before to work with XML frameworks (DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML, etc). The CSS-based visual XML editor introduced by version 9 allows WYSIWYG like editing of XML documents. Version 9.1 adds a number of improvements, the main additions being related with the WYSIWYG like XML editor and with the WebDAV support. It contains also support for SOAP 1.2 and some updated components.
New in version 9.1:
When visually editing XML documents it is always a challenge to easily edit XML attributes. The new version solves this problem by allowing a quick and easy way with the new in place editing for XML attributes. The in place editing popup can be triggered with a configurable shortcut (by default that is Alt+Enter). Both XML attribute names and possible values can be quickly selected by typing their prefixes.
The visual Author mode from Oxygen XML editor was also enhanced with support for bookmarks. These allow quick positioning in large documents and working in multiple locations of multiple documents.
DITA map documents can be easily converted to HTML or PDF. A new pre-configured scenario was added for the default DITA configuration for transforming a DITA Map document to HTML. The already existing DITA to PDF scenario can handle now also DITA map files so you can use that to convert a DITA map to PDF.
The WebDAV support has been improved by adding WebDAV locking support. This ensures that only you can modify that resource on the WebDAV server. If another user tries to edit a locked resource s/he will receive a warning message containing the name of the lock owner. The resource is locked when you open it and released automatically when the resource is closed.
Oxygen XML editor now supports SOAP 1.2. The SOAP version is detected from the WSDL definition file and the appropriate headers are set in the SOAP request. The SOAP 1.2 envelope is validated against a SOAP 1.2 XML Schema.
Several components were updated. The TEI framework was updated to the latest P5 1.0 schemas, DITA Open Toolkit to the latest 1.4.1 and Saxon B XSLT processor from Saxonica to the latest 9.0.0.2 version. Oxygen XML editor supports also the Saxon SA 9.0.0.2 (that requires a separate license from Saxonica).
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 9.0 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
The main feature of version 9.0 is a CSS-based visual XML editor allowing WYSIWYG like editing of XML documents. With an innovative approach to XML authoring Oxygen allows you to work with XML frameworks (DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML, etc) easier than ever before. Version 9 adds a new concept called Document Type that allow users to provide ready to use support for a framework or an XML language and share that with other users. This version also brings improved error reporting for validation against Relax NG schemas and Schematron, additional side view helpers, some component updates and a number of other features.
New in version 9.0:
The WYSIWYG like rendering of the visual XML editor is driven by CSS stylesheets conforming with the W3C CSS 2.1 specification so that users are not locked into a custom format. Some enhancements introduced by the W3C CSS 3 working draft like CSS XML namespaces and the attr function are also supported. The tagless editor comes with ready to use support for largely used XML frameworks: DITA, DocBook 4 / DocBook 5, TEI P4 / TEI P5 and XHTML. Both the CALS and HTML table models are supported.
The new Document Type concept allows to easily share between users preconfigured support for an XML framework or language consisting of default schema for validation, CSS stylesheets for WYSIWYG editing, custom actions, document templates, XML catalogs and transformation scenarios.
Incomplete error reports in validation against a Relax NG schemas like "required attributes missing", "required elements missing" or "unfinished element" were updated to report exactly what XML attributes or elements are missing and what is expected to finish the element. The diagnostics messages issued by a Schematron schema are displayed together with the other validation errors. Schematron report messages are treated as warnings.
The new outliner implementations for CSS and XQuery allow you to see immediately the structure of your CSS and XQuery documents. Two new views, the XML Elements View and the Entities View allow to easily insert new elements and entities in your XML files.
There were many small but useful new features in Oxygen XML editor version 9, to take an example the spell checking is aware of xml:lang values and this allows to check the spelling in documents that contain content in more than one language.
Syncro Soft SRL,the producer of <oXygen/> XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 8.2 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
The key word for Oxygen XML Editor version 8.2 is innovation. It brings the first XQuery debugger against a native XML database allowing users of the MarkLogic 3.2 database to debug their XQuery code based on the new MarkLogic Server 3.2 XQuery debugging API. Oxygen is the first tool announcing ISO Schematron support covering also ISO Schematron embedded in XML Schema or Relax NG, abstract patterns and included Schematron schemas. Oxygen version 8.2 is the first XML IDE that enables working with modules (XML external entities, included/imported stylesheets, XQuery modules, etc.). You can validate the current module in the context it is used from and also perform multiple validation operations in a single action using the new validation scenarios feature. To the main features list we can add also the capability to view very large files with sizes larger than a Gigabyte and multi-line find/replace support. There are also other enhancements, fixes and component updates.
New in version 8.2:
XQuery debugging was available until now only against standalone engines. After a close cooperation with MarkLogic we are happy to provide the first XQuery debuggind tool supporting a native XML database. Queries executed on a MarkLogic 3.2 database can now be debugged in the XQuery Debugger perspective of Oxygen. The following views are displayed in this perspective: Breakpoints, XWatch, Context, Variables and Stack. The debugger is able to show debugging information also inside XQuery modules.
With oXygen you get complete support for XML related technologies, you get also support for the latest technologies. Thus version 8.2 adds ISO Schematron support. This covers ISO Schematron schema editing, ISO Schematron rules embedded in XML Schema or Relax NG, abstract patterns and included Schematron schemas.
Validation scenarios are a very powerful feature and they solve a number of important issues when working with XML and XML related technologies. They allow working with modules and performing multiple validations in one action. By default the validation of a document is done by using a processor (XML parser, XSLT transformer, XQuery engine, etc.) to analyze the current file. The validation scenario allows to specify a set of files to validate and for each file what processor to use and whether or not to perform continuous validation. Thus if you work on a module you can set the validation on the master file, the file that refers that module. Also you can perform multiple validations with different processors or on different files.
Very large files (larger than a Gigabyte) which cannot be opened in the editor panel can be viewed in the Large File Viewer without loading the entire file in the memory.
The Find/Replace is enhanced with multi-line capabilities. Both the find and the replace expressions can cover multiple lines of the document. This together with the regular expressions and XPath filtering support allow powerful changes to be applied on the document content.
Syncro Soft SRL,the producer of <oXygen/> XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 8.1 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
Version 8.1 of the <oXygen/> XML Editor improves the support for NVDL scripts and adds a series of enhancements, fixes and component updates.
New in version 8.1:
The new <oXygen/> NVDL (Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language) editor allows you to visually edit NVDL scripts. A diagram showing the script structure and allowing navigation from a mode reference to its definition is available. When editing an NVDL script the content completion offers assistance for entering a mode reference by presenting the defined modes and for entering a new mode by presetting the modes used but not defined. Also the NVDL schema that drives the content completion was annotated, so you will get documentation for the proposals offered during editing.
A new XQuery Input View has been added. When editing an XQuery file, <oXygen/> detects the documents used as inputs and presents a simplified outline for each one. The input view can analyse documents that are stored on the local file system. You can use the Drag and Drop triggered popup menu to easily create XQuery FLWOR constructs or XPath expressions.
You can copy and paste sections of tabular data between Microsoft Excel and the XML Grid Editor. This allow an easy import of tabular data into an XML structure and, respectively, an easy export of tabular data from an XML document to Excel.
Other new features include indexing support for Berkeley XML DB, custom format of calendar dates for import operations, update to Xerces-J parser 2.9.0 and support for SVN version 1.4.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of <oXygen/> XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 8.0 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
Version 8.0 of the <oXygen/> XML Editor adds as main features a spreadsheet-like XML Grid Editor, management support for both XML and relational databases: Berkeley XML Database, eXist, IBM DB2 PureXML, MarkLogic, Microsoft SQLServer 2005, Oracle 10g R2, RainingData TigerLogic XDMS, SoftwareAG Tamino and XHive XML Database, options and transformation scenarios that can be stored into the project file and support for NVDL (Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language) scripts.
The new <oXygen/>'s grid editor allows you to edit repetitive XML content in a special layout similar to a spreadsheet application, without the need to interact with the markup. Using the new Database perspective you can browse tables or collections from databases, execute XQuery or SQL queries, inspect or modify data, specify XML Schemas for the XML fields and collections. The database support includes many of the popular servers, operating either as native XML storage: Tamino, XHive, MarkLogic, TigerLogic, eXist, Berkeley or mixed, as relational and XML at the same time: DB2, SQLServer, Oracle.
The transformation scenarios can now be stored in the project file. This simplifies the scenario management by attaching only the relevant scenarios to a project. Furthermore, you can pass over to your teammates a set of pre-configured project scenarios. You can specify both the transformation XML source and the stylesheet locations, it is not required anymore for the edited document to be one of the transformation XML source or stylesheet. This allows editing a module and invoking a transformation on the master files. You can save the current editor layout (what views and toolbars are visible and their position) and reuse it later, or even share it with your team by taking advantage of the new support for saving/loading the editor layouts.
You can edit Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language scripts using the new NVDL Editor. <oXygen/> distributes an NVDL implementation allowing the validation of XML documents against NVDL scripts. The support includes validation on demand, continuous validation, validation with external schema, batch validation from the project, etc. The content completion is now able to use NVDL Scripts to offer proposals; this makes possible editing documents with complex structure, that contain multiple languages defined by different schemata, for instance XHTML with embedded XForms. You can specify almost all of the <oXygen/> settings at project level. This makes possible to pass along with the project XML Catalogs settings, transformation scenarios, formatting options, validation options, editor layout, etc.
Other new features include accurate XML error reporting and accurate XPath result elements locations, support for the Secure FTP (SFTP) Protocol, better Integration of the XML Instance Generator, validation engine detection for XSLT and XQuery, improved support for schemas with embedded Schematron rules. Several components were updated: Xerces-J parser was updated to version 2.8.1, Saxon 8B XSLT processor from Saxonica was updated to the latest 8.8 version and the DocBook support includes the DocBook 5.0 RELAX NG Schemas. <oXygen/> supports also the Saxon8SA 8.8 (that requires a separate license from Saxonica).
Syncro Soft is a privately held software company founded in 1998 with a large area of experise in XML tehnologies: XML Schema, Relax NG, Schematron, XSLT, XPath and XQuery. The main product oXygen XML Editor provides the best coverage of the today XML tehnologies; it complies with the established standards released by W3C and other organisations and enhances developer productivity through an intuitive and innovative XML IDE. Syncro Soft is a member of the W3C.
Combination of Ingeniux CMS and oXygen XML Editor provides an end-to-end XML platform for content development, publishing, and lifecycle management.
The adherence to best of breed XML and easy to use solutions have made both Ingeniux and Oxygen popular in corporate and academic worlds. Ingeniux CMS is a leading Web content management solution based entirely on XML (extensible Markup Language). The Ingeniux system allows content contributors to work in a friendly user interface to produce well formed XML documents for deployment to the Web, to print, or for application integration. Templates in the system are centered on standards-based XML schemas and XSLT stylesheets. The oXygen XML Editor provides developers using Ingeniux with a robust tool set to quickly write new XML Page Types and manage complex development projects.
Using oXygen Ingeniux XML documents can be created and validated against any user defined schema. The smart context sensitive editing saves time and guarantees a minimum number of validation errors. Developers can use oXygen/ for authoring document schemas and for editing and debugging the XSL stylesheets needed for the presentation layer. Integration with document repositories is made through the WebDAV, Subversion and FTP protocols.
"The benefit Ingeniux provides in focusing on open standards like XML is that developers can leverage powerful third party tools for creating Ingeniux Web sites and solutions," said Ingeniux President and CEO Jim Edmunds. "The partnership with Syncro Soft provides Ingeniux customers with a great XML editor. Our professional services group has used oXygen for years and we know it is the ideal solution for Ingeniux development. We are excited to roll this out to our customers."
"The adherence to best of breed XML and easy to use solutions have made both Ingeniux and Oxygen popular in corporate and academic worlds," said Stefan Vasile, Syncro Soft CEO. "From a technology and a business perspective this distribution agreement makes sense. It provides the necessary development and publishing tools for XML document creation and presentation and brings together two of the leading XML content solutions."
Ingeniux Corporation is the trusted provider of Web content management and publishing software. Its XML-based technology empowers Web developers and content creators to build the next generation Internet with products acclaimed for their ease-of-use, rapid deployment, extensibility and low total cost of ownership. Ingeniux delivers quality software with unparalleled customer service to customers in a broad range of industries, including higher education, trade associations, broadcasting, e-government, and financial institutions.
Syncro Soft is a privately held software company founded in 1998 with a large area of experise in XML tehnologies: XML Schema, Relax NG, Schematron, XSLT, XPath and XQuery. The main product oXygen XML Editor provides the best coverage of the today XML tehnologies; it complies with the established standards released by W3C and other organisations and enhances developer productivity through an intuitive and innovative XML IDE. Syncro Soft is a member of the W3C. Visit oXygen XML Editor website at thttp://www.oxygenxml.com.
Syncro Soft SRL, the producer of <oXygen/> XML Editor, has announced the immediate availability of version 7.2 of its XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.
Version 7.2 of the <oXygen/> XML Editor adds as main features a complete Subversion client, support for flattening XML Schemata, an XML Schema instance generator, integration with the X-Hive/DB, MarkLogic and TigerLogic XML databases, editing actions on the diagram, rename refactoring action and search references/declarations actions in XML Schema and Relax NG schemata editors.
<oXygen/> makes easier the document sharing between content authors by including a Subversion (SVN) client. The SVN client allows you to browse repositories, check for changes, review, merge and commit changes, update your working copy and examine the revision history. Schema support enhancements include support for flattening XML Schema, rename refactoring action, find declarations or references of XML Schema components. There are available new editing actions in the contextual menu of the full model diagram view allowing the addition of new elements and editing their attributes. A new regular expressions builder has been added that helps to construct and test regular expressions allowed in XML Schema restriction patterns. You can now quickly generate a large set of XML document samples based on a given XML Schema using the XML Schema instance generator tool.
The HTML documentation for XML Schema has been improved. The generated schema diagram images contain image maps allowing to click directly on a diagram component to navigate to the documentation for that component. The documentation of a definition includes an "Used By" section with links to the other definitions which refer to it. Navigation is possible in both directions between a schema and the included/imported ones. The support for XQuery execution over an XML native database was extended by adding the following engines: X-Hive/DB XML Database, MarkLogic XML Database and TigerLogic XML Database. With the integrated xqDoc tool you can generate HTML documentation for XQuery files with just a couple of clicks. One or more input XQuery files are accepted and the function namespaces are configurable. Other new features include the possibility to generate a brief documentation listing the services, bindings, port types and messages defined in a WSDL file, the addition of a dockable view called Dynamic Help that changes its content automatically to the relevant help page for the focused editor, view or dialog and support to configure the background color for syntax highlighting tokens. [Version 7.2 Build 2006060615]