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What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 22.0.0

February 12, 2020

Related version: 22.1.0    

Version 22.0.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author is the latest major release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. The major focus of this release was to offer numerous productivity enhancements as well as various security and performance improvements.

Some examples of what is new in this release include general editing improvements to make it more efficient to insert XML markup, content references, or cross references, DITA users can expect a better behavior for certain keyboard shortcuts and a new action for defining DITA variables, the Markdown editor now includes toolbar actions and the possibility of real-time validation of against a custom Schematron file, and built-in support for the Chinese language.

General Editing improvements

Text-to-Markup Automatic Conversions

Some built-in frameworks have shortcut patterns that can be used to automatically insert a certain XML structure. The XML structure (fragment) automatically replaces a specific prefix pattern. For example, if you enter a hyphen (-) followed by a space at the beginning of a paragraph in a DITA document, the prefix pattern is replaced with an unordered list element (ul) with a child list item element (li). Similarly, "Note:" will be converted to a <note> element in DITA, and triple backticks to a codeblock element.
Text-to-Markup Automatic Conversions

Improvements to the Reuse Content and Cross Reference Dialog Boxes

When inserting content references, or cross references, the preview pane now loads the whole document and you can select the element you want to reference straight from the preview.
Improvements to the Reuse Content and Cross Reference Dialog Boxes

DITA

Improved Behavior for Keyboard Shortcuts in DITA Topics

When you choose to not show the content completion menu, the Enter key now inserts a new paragraph in DITA topics. For empty paragraphs, an inline insertion menu can be configured to easily insert the most common DITA elements. Content completion can still be invoked using Ctrl+Enter. The behavior of the Delete key was also improved to avoid placing the cursor in horizontal positions between blocks.

Inline Insertion Actions

A new CSS style was added for DITA topics and it displays an inline button to the left of empty paragraphs. Clicking the button allows you to quickly insert elements at that position.
Inline Insertion Actions

Dedicated Action to Define DITA Variables

While DITA variables are a very powerful content reuse tool, the underlying XML structure is complicated. Now it is easier to insert a variable definition using a dedicated toolbar action. Rendering of these variables has also been simplified.
Save Various DITA-Related Settings at Project Level

DocBook

Toolbar Actions to Insert XInclude and Links

It is now easier to reuse content in DocBook documents. Specialized dialog boxes were added to make it easier to choose elements to XInclude or insert links.
Toolbar Actions to Insert XInclude and Links

Markdown

Toolbar Actions to Insert Markup

Web Author now has a toolbar with actions that make it easy to insert the most common markup structures without having to remember the exact syntax.
Toolbar Actions to Insert Markup

Schematron Validation

Web Author supports real-time validation of Markdown documents against a style guide by using a custom Schematron file.
Schematron Validation

Security

Built-in Firewall

It is now possible to restrict the hosts that the Web Author server is allowed to connect to. This can be done directly in the Administration page.

Stricter Policy for CSS Evaluation

CSS code is now loaded only when it comes from a trusted location. Such trusted locations are frameworks, plugins, or other locations configured in the Administration page.

Other

Built-in Support for the Chinese Language

The Chinese language was added to the list of built-in supported languages for the interface. Web Author also supports writing content in Chinese using the platform-specific IME. Grammar checking for simplified Chinese can also be enabled by using a plugin: https://www.oxygenxml.com/maven/com/oxygenxml/languagetool-plugin/.
Built-in Support for the Chinese Language

Performance

Loading large documents was improved by progressively rendering the content after the document is loaded. Other performance improvements were implemented. For example, when typing with the Track Changes feature enabled or loading documents from Git repositories.

API and Customization

Choose Schematron Phase

A Schematron file can define multiple phases and, by default, Web Author executes all of them. Now, it is possible to use the ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.webapp.WebappSchematronPhaseChooser API to choose which phase to execute.

Change the Context of a DITA Topic Without Reloading the Editor

The sync.api.EditingContextManager and ro.sync.servlet.operation.SetDitaMapOperation APIs can now be used to change the current DITA editing context that is composed of a DITA map and DITAVAL filtering file.

API to Trigger a Save Operation

The sync.api.Editor.triggerSave API was added to allow an integration developer to trigger a save of the current document to ensure the copy in the CMS is up-to-date.

API to improve performance of an EntityResolver

The ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.util.EntityUrlResolver interface that extends org.xml.sax.EntityResolver was added to allow the implementation to receive a special callback when Web Author is not interested in the content of the resolved entity, just in its URL. This method can be more efficient than the resolveEntity method in the parent interface.

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