DocBook Features

Oxygen XML Web Author comes with built-in support for the most popular XML documentation frameworks, including DocBook. The built-in DocBook framework includes support for the latest version of DocBook 5.1, as well as backwards compatibility for previous versions.

When reviewing and editing DocBook documents in Oxygen XML Web Author, a variety of features are available that were designed specifically for DocBook document types.

Actions

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of toolbar and contextual menu actions that are specifically for DocBook documents. They make it very easy to insert and work with DocBook markup.

DocBook Toolbar

New Document Templates

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of new document templates that make it easy to create various types of DocBook documents with some of the document structure already present.

DocBook Templates

Validation

Oxygen XML Web Author automatically validates DocBook documents as you type and presents warning messages in the Validation panel on the right side of the screen. Many of the DocBook validation issues that are detected also include Quick Fix proposals to help you solve the problems.

DocBook Validation

Content Completion

Oxygen XML Web Author includes an inline content completion assistant to help you insert and manage DocBook markup without having to take your fingers off the keyboard. By default, it appears when you press the Enter key and it offers proposals that are valid at the current location within the DocBook document with the most logical choices listed first. Most proposals also include a description to help you understand exactly what the particular selection will do.

DocBook Content Completion

CSS Styles

Oxygen XML Web Author has an option to adjust the rendering of documents simply by choosing from several styles. Each style is based on a corresponding CSS file stored in the built-in DocBook framework. There are several different styles available for DocBook documents, with choices such as switching to a full width mode, displaying colored revision changes, and showing or hiding column specifications for tables.

DocBook CSS Styles

What's New in
Oxygen XML Web Author 27.0.0

November 27, 2024

Oxygen XML Web Author version 27.0.0 is the latest major release of the innovative web-based XML authoring tool. This release is packed with innovative new AI features and improvements that have been implemented in recent updates to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise for Web Author plugin, the powerful productivity-enhancing tool that provides you with the ability to use a specific AI engine (OpenAI, Microsoft Azure OpenAI, or Anthropic Claude) and assist in leveraging AI-generated content. Additionally, this release sees the implementation of new features for the file comparison and merge tool, support to make DITA maps editable in a specialized tree editor, various general editing improvements, and security enhancements.

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