Oxygen XML Developer V26.0

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant

• Unlock the Potential of AI with the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on - Oxygen now offers the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on, a powerful tool designed to enhance the productivity of writers by providing support for using AI-generated content with the Oxygen AI Positron service.
• AI Positron Actions - The AI Positron Assistant side-view and various menus contain a variety of AI-powered actions. For example, actions are available to provide helpful hints for your next writing steps, enhance the readability of your content, correct grammar errors, generate a short description or index terms, convert passive voice phrases to active, translate content, create marketing-related material, or even restructure parts of your document. Additional custom actions can also be configured in the add-on's preferences page.
• AI Chat View - The AI Positron Chat allows you to track the progress and view the results of triggered actions, along with the responses received from the AI platform. With actions available to insert the response within the document, preview the response insertion, or copy the response to the clipboard, you have complete control over the AI-generated content before it is incorporated into your document.
• Validation Fixes - When validation problems are displayed in Oxygen's Results pane, you can right-click on a problem and use the AI Positron Fix action to request assistance from the Oxygen AI Positron platform to resolve the issue. It will propose content in the AI Positron Chat view that can be used to solve the problem.
• AI Positron Preferences - The preferences page provides options for configuring custom actions and defining a context used in each action and chat request.
• Change Default Model - The preferences page has an option for changing the default model (GPT 3.5 or GPT 4) to use for the chat view and for actions that do not explicitly specify a model.
• Custom AI Actions - In the preferences page, you can define a reference to a folder that contains custom actions, which can be easily created using Oxygen's new file wizard. The benefit of this feature is that it provides you with a seamless way to create, organize, and manage your custom actions to effectively leverage the power of AI technology within Oxygen.
• Custom Schematron Rules - The add-on contributes two XPath extension functions that can be used from custom Schematron schemas or XML Refactoring actions to rephrase content or to perform validation checks on existing content.
• Record Examples for a Set of Instructions - Added the Record button which enables you to provide a set of instructions and record a collection of examples directly in the editing area to assist the AI in better understanding the given instructions.

JSON

• Dedicated Outline View Added for JSON Diagram Editor - A dedicated Outline view has been added for the JSON Diagram editor. It presents all of the properties, pattern properties, and definitions found in the document, making it easy to navigate to a specific item within the document. You can also drag items from the Outline view and drop them into an appropriate location in the diagram editor.
• Improved Property Renaming in JSON Diagram Editor - When renaming a property in the JSON Diagram mode, the required property field is now automatically updated by either modifying the property accordingly or deleting it from the array.
• Oxygen Can Learn Document Structure When JSON Schema is not Detected - If no JSON schema is associated with a JSON document, Oxygen can learn the document structure by parsing the document internally to provide an initialization source for content completion and validation.

YAML

• Full Support for Creating, Editing, and Validating YAML Documents - With Oxygen's specialized YAML editor, you can streamline your YAML editing process, making it easier to create, edit, and manage YAML files.
• Configuration Wizard Page Added for Creating New YAML Documents - When using the new document wizard to create a new YAML document, a Customize option is now available. This feature allows you to configure the generation of new YAML documents based on a specified JSON schema, ensuring consistency and adherence to predefined rules.
• Go to Definition Action Added for YAML Documents - The Go to Definition action has been added in the contextual menu when editing YAML documents. It allows for easy navigation to the definition of the current key, provided that a JSON schema is associated with the YAML document and that schema contains a definition for the key.
• Open Associated Schema in YAML - A new action is now available for YAML documents to open the associated schema. With this new action, you can easily open the associated schema for your YAML document, providing a seamless way to validate and enhance your work.
• Enhanced Visibility for the Space Character in the YAML Text Editor - Space characters are now more visible and distinguishable with the addition of vertical lines to help preserve proper indentation.

XSLT / XQuery / XPath

• XSLT and XQuery Transformation and Debugging Updated to Use Saxon Version 12.3 - The built-in Saxon processor from Saxonica used for XSLT and XQuery transformations and debugging was updated to version 12.3.
• Content Completion Support for the New Saxon Extension Functions - Saxon added more extension functions and instructions in the Saxon namespace, as well as experimental implementations for version 4.0 extensions.
• XPath 4.0 Syntax Extensions - XPath 4.0 syntax extensions are now fully supported.
• Improved XPath Expressions Handling for the Extract Function Refactoring Action - When using the Extract Function action (found in the contextual menu's Refactoring submenu) to extract XSLT functions, XPath expressions are rebuilt based on the current context. The context is passed as a parameter in the newly created function. This ensures that the extracted functions seamlessly integrate into the existing code, providing a more efficient and reliable development process.
• Content Completion for New AI-based XPath Extension Functions - Two new AI functions are now available in the content completion proposals for XSLT, XQuery, XPath, and Schematron. The ai:transform-content(instruction, content) function can be used to rephrase content and the ai:verify-content(instruction, content) function can be used to perform validation checks on the existing content. These extension functions are added by the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant plugin, enabling the use of AI-based processing from XPath expressions.

XML Refactoring

• Default Resources Filter Pattern in XML Refactoring Actions - Some refactoring actions can be applied on specific documents, providing a way to select only those documents. A new optional filesFilter attribute can now be used in the descriptor file when creating custom refactoring operations to specify a default resources filter by using a file pattern or list of file patterns separated by a comma (e.g. filesFilter="*.dita, *.xml" will select only the files with either .dita or .xml extensions).

File Comparison

• Merge Documents with Change Tracking Highlights - A new Merge Documents with Change Tracking Highlights action is now available in the Tools menu. It can be used to merge two XML files (based on a 2-way mode comparison). All the files involved in the process are merged by saving the visual comparison results as a separate document with highlighted tracked changes that can later be reviewed and accepted or rejected.
• Merge Directories with Change Tracking Highlights - A new Merge Directories with Change Tracking Highlights action is now available in the Tools menu. It can be used to merge two directories (based on a 2-way mode comparison). All pairs of modified XML files involved in the process are merged by saving the visual comparison results as documents with highlighted tracked changes that can later be reviewed, with the option to accept or reject these changes.
• Save Comparison as New Document with Tracked Changes - The file comparison tool now has a new action in the File menu called Save Comparison as Document with Tracked Changes. This action allows you to merge two compared documents based on the differences detected and save the results as a specified file that includes the special change tracking marks. You can load the resulting file in Oxygen's Author mode so you can conveniently accept or reject the changes, ensuring accurate and efficient collaboration on your documents.

Markdown

• Syntax Highlights Improved for Markdown Files With LaTeX Equations - The syntax highlights have been improved for Markdown content, making it easier for you to work with LaTeX equations within your Markdown files, allowing for more efficient editing and seamless integration of mathematical expressions.

Add-on Updates

• OpenAPI Documentation Generator Improvements - The following improvements have been added to the OpenAPI Documentation Generator add-on:
  • An option has been added to transform the OpenAPI content into DITA or PDF output.
  • The examples element is now rendered when transforming to HTML output.
  • A detailed warning message is now displayed when the transformation's target file has unsaved changes.
• Git Client Improvements - Various improvements have been made to the Git Client add-on:
  • Large File Support (LFS) is now integrated. This means that if you have installed LFS and specified which extensions represent large or binary files that should be uploaded through LFS, they will be automatically detected and handled correctly.
  • When you clone a repository, the Git Client automatically detects and opens Oxygen project files. This feature simplifies the process of working with Oxygen projects that are stored in a Git repository.
  • The project detection mechanism has been improved when opening a new repository in the Staging view.
  • When checking out a branch, submodules in parent repositories are now checked out at the index defined in the parent repository. This ensures that the submodules reflect the actual state of the parent repository at that time.
  • The integrated JGit library has been upgraded to version 6.7.
  • Various messages in the user interface have been improved.
  • Various bug fixes have been implemented. For example, an issue has been fixed where untracked files were not being restored from a stash.
• Batch Documents Converter Improvements - Several enhancements have been made to the Batch Documents Converter add-on, including corrections for the OpenAPI to DITA, Word to HTML/DITA, Confluence to DITA conversions, and updates to its components.

Scripting

• The All Platforms distribution of Oxygen is bundled with a scripts sub-folder that contains scripts for automating and running various utilities from a command line interface. To run any of these scripts, you need to purchase a scripting license.
  • Merge Files with Change Tracking Highlights - A new Merge Files with Change Tracking Highlights script is available. It can be used to merge two XML files (based on a 2-way mode comparison) with highlighted tracked changes that can later be reviewed and accepted or rejected.
  • Merge Directories with Change Tracking Highlights - A new Merge Directories with Change Tracking Highlights script is available. It can be used to merge two directories (based on a 2-way mode comparison) with highlighted tracked changes. All pairs of modified XML files involved in the process are merged by saving the visual comparison results as documents with tracked changes highlighted that can later be reviewed and accepted or rejected.
  • New option for Compare Directories script - A new option has been added to the Compare Directories script. With the inclusion of the (-enx XPathExprToExcludeNodes) option, users can now exclude specific nodes from the comparison using XPath expressions.
  • XPath Expressions Supported in Generate HTML Report for Directory Comparison Tool - An XPath expression specified in the Ignore nodes by XPath text field (in the Options->Preferences->Diff->Files Comparison preferences page) is now taken into account if you opt to generate additional file comparison reports.

Other

• Application Now Uses Trusted Root Certificates From the Microsoft Windows Certificate Store - By default, the application now uses the trusted root certificates from the Windows certificate store to improve coverage for HTTPS certificate validation in corporate environments.

API

• Open Preview Changes in Files Dialog - A new API method (openPreviewDialog) has been added in the ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.standalone.DiffAndMergeTools API. It can be used to display a dialog box that shows a preview of the changes between the original and modified versions of the resources.
• Merge Changes between Two Files - A new API method (openMergeApplication) has been added in the ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.standalone.DiffAndMergeTools API. It can be used to display a dialog box that shows differences between two files and you can save changes.
• Display Warning Message - A new API method (showWarningDialog) has been added in the ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.WorkspaceUtilities API. It can be used to display a warning message dialog box.