XML Developer

Support was added to format and indent the content of the current HTML element. After the action is performed, the structure of the document will be preserved as is (including, for example, unclosed elements or missing attribute quotes).

The XSD to JSON Schema Converter tool was improved to handle better name conversions. For example, improved naming conversions when underscores or camel-case names are used.

Various other improvements were added for JSON support. Noteworthy items are:

• Better indentation when generating JSON content.
• The Generate Sample JSON Files action provides better support for date-time, time, email, and ipv6 formats.
• JSON Schema draft-08 declarations are handled, allowing users to edit and validate them in draft-07 compatibility mode.

The Emmet Plugin is now installed automatically the first time you invoke the Emmet action. To help make expanding the abbreviations easier, you can now use the Ctrl+Space keyboard shortcut. Also, the Wrap with Abbreviation action now displays an in-place field where you can type the abbreviation.

The Feedback Comments Manager view can filter comments by site, version, and status. This makes it easier for you to focus on particular comments (e.g. unresolved comments, or a particular version or site). The mapping of the comments to DITA topics was improved to support DITA-specific features such as branch filtering and chunking.

The Git Client plugin now offers the Git Staging view that acts as a basic Git client integrated directly into Oxygen. It provides support for committing changes to a Git repository, comparing and merging changes, and other Git-specific commands. This view is now listed in the Window > Show View menu and the Tools menu even when the Git Client add-on is not installed, making it easier to perform the installation, as that is triggered automatically when one of these actions is invoked.

The Batch Converter add-on contributes numerous actions in a Batch Converter submenu located in the Tools menu and the contextual menu of resources in the Project view. These actions allow for batch conversions between various formats (MS Word, MS Excel, HTML, JSON, and Markdown documents to DITA, DocBook, XHTML, or XML). If the add-on is not already installed, selecting Batch Converter will trigger the installation process for this plugin.

The XSpec add-on was updated to include XSpec version 1.6.0, which is the same version that is now bundled with Oxygen.

The Saxon transformer add-on now supports Saxon version 10.0.

The Results view that displays messages generated from various operations like validations, transformations, or search can now be moved to your desired UI location alongside other side views and you can also set it to be hidden automatically when not focused.

The Ignore extra whitespaces option was added in the Find/Replace dialog box. It is helpful when searching for space-separated words because enabling this option means that line-breaks and indentation between words will not affect the results.

If you want full focus on the current file, or during some presentations, you may find it useful that now it is possible to hide all the file tabs to only display the currently open file. This does not close the other tabs, just hides them. You can still navigate between tabs using keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab, Ctrl+F6, Ctrl+Shift+F6).

The AuthorElement.getPseudoClassNames() method was added and it can be used to retrieve the names of the pseudo-classes set on an element.

The ExtensionsBundle.customizeLinkTooltipDescription() method was added and it can be used to customize the tooltip description that is displayed when hovering over a link in the Author editing mode.

The PluginWorkspace.createAuthorDocumentProvider(URL, Reader) API can be used to create a provider for a given resource specified by a URL and/or Reader. The provider creates a structure of AuthorNodes and allows it to be manipulated via an AuthorDocumentController interface. This API is useful if, for example, you want to load XML content and use the Author API to make changes to it.

Two new APIs were added that can be used to run validation scenarios in particular situations. The ExecuteValidationScenariosOperation API can be used to run a validation scenario on an Author Action file, while the ValidationScenarioInvoker API can be used to run a validation scenario from a plugin or framework customization.

A new WSTextEditorPage.addExternalContentCompletionProvide API can be used to display additional code template proposals in the content completion assistant.

A new DiffAndMergeTools.openMergeApplication API can be used to control the text presented in a tooltip when you hover over the filtering options in the file comparison merge tool.

The DITA Open Toolkit version bundled with Oxygen was updated to 3.4.1.

The DITA Open Toolkit plugin for DITA-to-Word conversions was updated to version 1.4.0.

Updated the Saxon library that is distributed with Oxygen to version 9.9.1.7.

Updated the Apache Xerces library to version 2.12.1.

The Everit library was updated to version 1.12.1.

Oxygen has been tested and is officially compatible with the MarkLogic 10 server.

Updated the bundled TEI schemas to version 4.0.0 and the TEI stylesheets to version 7.49.

The bundled focheck framework that is used for enhanced XSL-FO validation was updated to version 0.7.6.

Updated the log4j library to version 2.13.

The Rhino library was updated to version 1.7.12.

Updated the Eclipse plugin to support version 4.15. Note that starting with Oxygen version 23, Eclipse versions earlier than 4.4 will no longer be supported.

Updated the XSpec library to version 1.6.