Oxygen XML Author V25.1

DITA Authoring

• Support for Branch Filtering in Validate and Check for Completeness Operations - The Validate and Check for Completeness action that is used to validate DITA maps has been enhanced with initial support to process branch filtering (<ditavalref> elements) during the operation.
• DITA Maps Manager's Context Drop-down Menu Reorganized - The Context map drop-down menu in the DITA Maps Manager has been reorganized to improve the grouping of the contexts from DITA-OT projects that are set as Main Files.
• Option to Hide Irrelevant Contexts in DITA Maps Manager - A new option (Only display items related to currently open maps in the Context drop-down list) has been added in the DITA / Maps preferences page and it can be activated to hide irrelevant contexts in the Context map drop-down menu in the DITA Maps Manager. It is especially helpful if you are working with multiple DITA-OT projects and DITA maps set as Main Files since it helps you narrow down the relevant contexts.
• New Action to Choose Context from Main Files - A new action (Choose context from main files) is now available in the Choose context root map drop-down menu in the DITA Maps Manager. It can be used to search for a context in the DITA maps and the DITA-OT project files that are set in the Main Files folder.
• DITA Map Metrics Report Improved - Oxygen includes a Generate Metrics Report action on the DITA Maps Manager's toolbar that creates a metrics report with useful statistics for the current DITA map. The visual appearance of the resulting report has been improved to make it easier to read, and the table of contents panel on the left side now remains stationary allowing you to scroll through the report while keeping the TOC visible.
• Better Filtering Options for the DITA Reusable Components View - A new filtering option (named Show only keys with closest relative key scope) is now available in the settings menu within the Keys and Media tabs of the DITA Reusable Components view. It filters the presented keys to only show the relative key references that have the closest relative key scope path to the current context (it hides the fully qualified key scope paths). This toggle option can be combined with any of the other filtering options.
• Validate a Topic in the Current Key Scope Context - When topics are opened from the DITA Maps Manager view in a certain key scope context, the key references and content key references within the topic are now validated according to the particular context of the key scope.
• APIs to Resolve Key Reference From XSLT Stylesheets or Schematron Schemas - Some APIs have been added that retrieve information about DITA keys that are referenced within a topic. The APIs can be called from XSLT Stylesheets (including XML Refactoring operations) or Schematron schemas.
• Performance Improvements for Large DITA Maps - Various performance and validation improvements have been implemented for situations when editing DITA maps with peer map references used for cross-deliverable links.
• XML Refactoring Action to Change/Remove Profiling Attribute Values Now Updates DITAVAL Files - The XML Refactoring action Change or remove profiling attribute value now also modifies the value in DITAVAL filter files, as well as in DITA maps and topics.
• Option to Index Only Files Marked as Resource-Only in the Context DITA Map - A new setting (Only index files referenced in the context DITA map and set as resource-only) has been added in the Open/Find Resource preferences page to only index the resources that are referenced in the context DITA map and set as "resource-only". This setting is useful when you have a very large number of topics, to restrict the indexing to only the resources from the main DITA map and thus to speed up the computation of the reusable components displayed by the DITA Reusable Components view in the Components tab.

DITA Publishing

• Embed Videos in Your PDF Output (experimental) - For CSS-based PDF transformations, it is now possible to embed videos (mov, mp4, m4v) that your readers can watch directly in your published PDF documents by referencing them from within your HTML or XML documents.
• Display Line Numbers in Codeblocks - For CSS-based PDF transformations, it is now possible to display line numbers in codeblocks by setting the @outputclass attribute on the <codeblock> elements to the show-line-numbers value.
• Display Whitespace Characters in Code Blocks - For CSS-based PDF transformations, it is now possible to display a visual representation of whitespace characters in code blocks. You can do this by setting the @outputclass attribute on the <codeblock> elements to the show-whitespace value.
• DITA-OT Project File Transformation Error Reporting Improved - The information, warning, and error messages that are presented in the Results pane if issues are detected when publishing a DITA-OT Project file have been improved. For example, the messages now contain the ID of the deliverable.
• Control the Behavior of Footnotes - For CSS-based PDF transformations, a new transformation parameter (args.css.param.clone-referenced-footnotes) is now available to control the behavior of footnotes. When set to yes, footnotes that are referenced multiple times throughout a publication are cloned and placed at the bottom of the page for each occurrence. Otherwise, only the first footnote reference is placed at the bottom of the page and subsequent references point back to the original footnote.

Author Visual Editing

• Improved Content Completion for Element Values - A schema or an Oxygen content completion configuration file may define a set of values for an XML element. The content completion mechanism in Author mode now allows you to insert any number of values from that set by re-triggering the list of content completion proposals and filtering out the proposals that were already inserted.
• Set the Default Schema Using the Framework Extension Script - If an XML document does not specify a DTD or a schema, it is still possible for Oxygen to determine a default schema or DTD to use for validation and content completion if it is specified by an Oxygen framework that matches the respective document. A document framework can also be defined with an Oxygen Framework Extension Script file and it is now possible to specify the default schema or DTD for that framework directly in these files.

Add-ons

• JSON Schema Documentation Generator Improvements - Various improvements have been added to the JSON Schema Documentation Generator add-on:
  • The time it takes to generate the documentation has been reduced significantly, especially for large schemas.
  • Text content will now wrap on multiple lines to avoid exceeding the cell margins.
  • Schema definitions are now presented even if they are not referenced.
  • Some rendering problems have been fixed regarding the linking of the diagrams with the components from the documentation.
  • Various performance and bug fixes have been implemented, including some broken links and encoding issues.
• OpenAPI Documentation Generator Improvements - The following improvements have been added to the OpenAPI Documentation Generator add-on:
  • You now have the option to include hyperlinks for the diagrams displayed for each JSON schema component. The hyperlink navigates to the definition of that component.
  • The OpenAPI Documentation action is now properly aligned in the Generate Documentation menu on Apple macOS distributions.
  • Links from the Source code section are now functional.
  • Various layout and rendering improvements have been implemented.
• Git Client Improvements - Some improvements have been made to the Git Client add-on:
  • A new options page has been added for SSH connections to control SSH agent usage.
  • The Oxygen project change detection mechanism has been improved. It is now faster and the Git Staging view no longer needs to be displayed.
  • The presentation of the labels associated with a commit in the Git History view has been improved to avoid truncating names when it is not necessary.
  • The commit dot in the Git History graph associated with the head of the current branch is now painted differently to make it easier to be seen.
  • Various bug fixes and performance improvements have been implemented.
• Saxon XSLT and XQuery Transformer Add-on is Now Available for Saxon Version 12 - A new Saxon XSLT and XQuery transformer add-on is now available for Saxon version 12. The add-on integrates the latest major release of Saxon (version 12.0 of the engine).
• Updated Saxon XSLT and XQuery Transformer Add-on for Saxon 11 - A new version for the Saxon XSLT and XQuery transformer 11 add-on is now available. The new version integrates Saxon 11.5, the latest maintenance release of the Saxon 11 engine.
• Live Tutorials Add-on - The new Live Tutorials add-on allows you to create live tutorials for people who want to learn various editing functions for a certain vocabulary using the application. The add-on comes bundled with small tutorials for learning how to perform various DITA-related editing tasks in Oxygen. For example, there are tutorials that contain various missions for learning some basic DITA editing tasks, learning how to work with tables, learning how to edit and insert images, and more.
• Fluenta DITA Translation Add-on - Fluenta is a tool designed to simplify the translation of DITA projects. The new Fluenta DITA Translation add-on allows you to manage a Fluenta translation workflow directly from within Oxygen. The Fluenta DITA Translation add-on provides access to the following features:
  • A Fluenta menu is added to the contextual menu in the DITA Maps Manager and it includes a Create project action that opens a dialog box where you can create and configure a Fluenta project.
  • Once you are ready to send a project to translators, you can use the Generate XLIFF action (available in the Fluenta menu) to open a dialog box where you can select the languages and other options and then generate an XLIFF file for each selected language. You could then send the XLIFF file(s) to a translation service provider.
  • Once you receive the XLIFF back from the translator, you can use the Import XLIFF action (available in the Fluenta menu) to generate a translated version of your project.
  • You can edit previously created Fluenta projects by using the Edit project action (available in the Fluenta menu).
• Batch Documents Converter Improvements - Various improvements have been made to the Batch Documents Converter add-on:
  • The processing of table captions has been improved when converting Microsoft Word to XHTML or DITA. The table is now obtained with a caption child in HTML or with a title in DITA.
  • The width of table columns is now preserved when converting Word to XHTML or DITA.
  • The processing of figure captions has been improved when converting Word to XHTML or DITA. For XHTML, a <figure> element is obtained with a <figcaption> child element. For DITA, a <fig> element is obtained with a <title> child element.
• Terminology Checker Improvements - Two new extra plugins have been added to the Terminology Checker add-on:
  • The ASD Simplified Technical English Specification (ASD-STE100) Rules plugin contributes ASD Simplified Technical English Specification rules to the Terminology Checker.
  • The MS Writing Style Guide Vale Rules plugin contributes a set of Vale-compatible rules based on the Microsoft Writing Style Guide to the Terminology Checker.

Other

• Impose a Content Type for an Element when Configuring Content Completion - When configuring the content completion proposals at framework level using the cc_config.xml configuration file, you can now force an element to have a content type imposed. This is done by using the new contentType attribute on the elementProposals and its possible values are: elementOnly, mixed, and empty.
• Basic Editing Support and Syntax Highlights Added for Dockerfile Documents - Basic editing support and syntax highlights are now provided for working with Dockerfile documents.
• Relative Paths in Framework Extension Script Files are Automatically Resolved - When using a Framework Extension Script file to customize a framework, relative paths listed in the script file are now automatically resolved relative to the location of the script file.
• XQuery Trace Functions Now Presented in Results View - The output of the XQuery trace() functions that are used in XML refactoring actions for debugging purposes is now presented in the Results view at the bottom of the application.
• Performance Improvements for XML Refactoring Operations - When processing XML refactoring actions that use the document function to load additional resources, the access to schemas that are referenced in the loaded documents is now cached to speed up the refactoring process.