Dear oXygen users, We are happy to announce that version 18.1 of oXygen XML Editor is close to being released. We have decided to offer a beta version prior to the final release to give you the opportunity to send us your feedback on the new features. Below, please see information about: * Downloading - oXygen 18.1 beta downloading links and notes * Licensing - a trial license key for testing * What's new - a summary of the most important new features in version 18.1 = Downloading = Editor: https://www.oxygenxml.com/beta18_1/oxygenxml_editor.html Important Notes: - This build is meant for testing and evaluation purposes only. Do not use it for production work. - You should install this beta version in a different directory than your current Oxygen installation. For Windows, we also recommend that you disable file associations during the installation to preserve your current Oxygen file associations with the various XML file types. - You may encounter some bugs in this beta version. If you find one, it'll be greatly appreciated if you could report it to us here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/techSupport.html - This beta version comes with no warranty. Please use it at your own risk. It is therefore up to you to take adequate precaution against possible damages resulting from the use of this beta software. = Licensing = If you already have a license key for Oxygen XML Editor with an active SMP, it will also work for this beta version. If you don't have one, a registration dialog box will open and you can use the following trial license key: ------START-LICENSE-KEY------ Registration_Name=Beta 18.1 Company= Category=Enterprise Component=XML-Editor, XSLT-Debugger, Saxon-SA Version=18 Number_of_Licenses=1 Date=09-15-2016 Trial=31 SGN=MCwCFDT7yh6jdxEXW+hBKLVE8gAZlZ5RAhQHasbikf65HICPaXFZ9eX5Nd828w\=\= -------END-LICENSE-KEY------- = What's new in Oxygen XML Editor 18.1 = For the full list of new features and changes in v18.1, please see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew18.1.html Visual XML Editing New Form Controls for Rendering and Playing Video and Audio Media Three powerful new form controls were added that allow you to render and play media in Author mode. The oxy_video form control can be used to play video files, the oxy_browser form control can be used to render an HTML page or SVG file, and the oxy_audio form control can play audio clips. Implement Custom "Heavy" Form Controls oXygen now provides support for Heavy form controls. This new type of form control allows you to play video and audio resources, and render HTML or SVG resources. You can also implement your own custom form controls based on the new Heavy architecture. Convert Paragraphs to List Items and Change List Item Type When editing DITA, DocBook, XHTML, or TEI documents, you can easily convert selected paragraphs to list items by using the various Insert List Item actions on the toolbar. You can also change selected list items to another type (for example, change an unordered list to an ordered list). Smart Paste Handles Internal Links in Office Documents The Smart Paste feature has been improved to preserve links to other parts of the same document, when pasting content from Office documents into Author mode. Links are converted to cross references for the particular document type that you are working with. Improvements to Paste Strategies in Tables The strategies for the behavior of the paste mechanism when pasting content in table cells has been improved. Now, copied cells are pasted while preserving their initial order and spacing. DITA Support for Video and Audio Media Objects oXygen now includes actions to easily insert video or audio content within DITA topics. The oXygen visual editing Author mode will not only display the media content, but also allow you to play it in-place. On the publishing side, oXygen comes with a DITA-OT plugin that will enable the multimedia content to appear in HTML and PDF output. Embed Video and Audio Media in DITA to WebHelp Output You can insert references to video and audio media resources (such as YouTube videos) in your DITA topics and publish them to WebHelp output. The embedded video and audio objects can be played directly in all HTML5-based outputs, including WebHelp systems. Improve Speed for Computing Topic Titles The amount of time it takes to compute topic titles in the DITA Maps Manager view was reduced as oXygen accesses multiple topics in the same time to extract the title information. New Action for Duplicating Topics There is now a new contextual menu action in the DITA Maps Manager view called Duplicate that creates a copy of the selected topic and insert it as a sibling. It is helpful for quickly creating a new DITA topics that is similar to an existing topic. Lightweight DITA Improvements The Lightweight DITA DTDs were updated to the latest version. Also, you can now use the new Insert Media action to insert references to video or audio resources when editing Lightweight DITA documents. Tracked Changes and Comments Can Be Displayed in PDF Output You now have the ability to display tracked changes and comments in DITA to PDF output. This can be done by simply setting a parameter in the transformation scenario. Validate and Check for Completeness Command Line Tool A new command line tool was added that executes a Validate and Check for Completeness operation on a specified DITA map. The results are displayed in the command console (for example, whether or not the validation was successful, the number of errors or warnings, or you can even specify to display the entire report). The tool requires an oXygen Scripting license. Markdown Editor New Markdown Editor oXygen now includes a built-in Markdown editor that allows you to write and edit documents using Markdown syntax and converts it to HTML or DITA. The specialized multi-pane editor includes a preview panel to help you visualize the final output. The editor includes a variety of helpful actions, automatic validation, syntax highlighting to make it easier to read and write, and specialized syntax rules that combine popular features from several specifications. Create Markdown Documents Directly from DITA Maps Manager The Markdown editing support includes unique features that allow you to create Markdown documents directly in DITA maps (from the DITA Maps Manager) and to convert Markdown documents to DITA topics. Content Completion Improved Precision for Content Completion oXygen allows you to set a configuration file to control the content completion proposals for elements presented in the Content Completion Assistant. Now, you can identify more precisely the elements you want to control, by being able to check attributes and attribute values on those elements. Improved Content Completion for XPath and XQuery The Content Completion Assistant for XPath and XQuery was updated to take into account the latest additions in XPath 3.0 and XQuery 3.0. For example, new functions are now offered though content completion, such as empty-sequence, document-node, item, comment, namespace-node, and processing-instruction - just to name a few. File Comparison Tool More Accurate Second Level Comparisons on XML Nodes When using the XML Fast and XML Accurate algorithms for two-way or three-way comparisons, the second level comparison is now processed using a syntax-aware comparison that splits the files or fragments into sequences of tokens and computes the differences between them. This results in a more accurate second level comparison. Improvements to the Format and Indent Action The Format and Indent action in the File Comparison tool now works on more file types. You can now use the action on the following types of files: XQuery, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, RNC, XSD, RNG, NVDL, XML, ANT, DITAMap, WSDL, SVG, Schematron, XProc, XSL, and HTML. As usual, oXygen also added many new API and component updates for this release. Please let us know if you encounter any problems with this beta build. All feedback is welcome! Best regards, Adrian Adrian Buza oXygen XML Editor and Author Support Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.2020 Fax: +40-251-461482 support@oxygenxml.com