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Schematron including XSLT, under XSpec
by Wendell Piez 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hello oXygenists, Today I find myself (surprisingly for the first time in a serious way) using the fantastic Schematron testing under XSpec as implemented in oXygen. Beautiful job in every way. Except my fancy Schematrons all embed XSLT and my operations rely on -allow-foreign:true in my Schematron processor. Running the XSpec (using its bundled Ant build) gives me grief about the XSLT. I poked around in the Options but nothing is obvious. Is it the build.xml file? My Ant is even worse than my XSpec. Thanks, Wendell -- ...Wendell Piez... ...wendell -at- nist -dot- gov... ...wendellpiez.com... ...pellucidliterature.org... ...pausepress.org... ...github.com/wendellpiez... ...gitlab.coko.foundation/wendell...

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Displaying LaTeX in XML documents
by Michael Boudreau 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

Hello, The blog post at https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/adding-latex-equation-support-dita.html refers to a plugin that will create an image from LaTeX to display in Author mode. I downloaded the ‘latex-images-support’ folder and installed it in my plugins folder. The math expression in the sample file— <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="sample.css"?> <root> A document containing LaTeX : <latex>$x=\frac{1+y}{1+2z^2}$</latex> </root> is rendered correctly as an image when I view it in Author mode (using Oxygen 23.0). I’d like to be able to use the plugin with JATS XML documents, which can contain LaTeX inside a <tex-math> element, like so: <tex-math notation="LaTeX" version="MathJax">$x=\frac{1+y}{1+2z^2}$</tex-math> or <tex-math notation="LaTeX" version="MathJax"><![CDATA[$x=\frac{1+y}{1+2z^2}$]]></tex-math> Is there a way to configure or modify the plugin to handle this? -- Michael R. Boudreau Electronic Publishing Technology Manager The University of Chicago Press 1427 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 www.journals.uchicago.edu<http://www.journals.uchicago.edu>

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[Ann] Webinar: Creating Frameworks Using an Extension Script (April 21)
by Alin Belu 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hello, This is a reminder to let you know that the last live event of April is getting closer and closer, and we want you there! Join us this Wednesday (April 21) for the “Creating Frameworks Using an Extension Script” webinar! During this event, Alex Jitianu (DITA evangelist and development lead at Syncro Soft) will take an extensive look at a specific method where a framework can be created using a special XML descriptor file, either from scratch or by extending an existing built-in framework (such as DITA or DocBook) and then making modifications to it. To make this possible, Alex will be covering topics, such as: * The framework structure as a package that contains resources and configuration information to provide ready-to-use support for an XML vocabulary or document type. * What benefits this new approach brings when compared with creating a framework in GUI. * Exploring various use cases and implement them through the script. * How to extend existing built-in or custom frameworks. * What deployment options are available. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-9.html Make sure to check the full list of our upcoming events: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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oXygen validation of datetime attribute in XHTML
by Elisa Beshero-Bondar 17 Apr '21

17 Apr '21

Greetings, oXygen list, One of my students (copied here) has discovered an interesting discrepancy between the way oXygen and the w3c Validator respond to the datetime attribute in XHTML. In oXygen, with an XHTML 5 file, the encoding of the datetime attribute with simply a year <time datetime="2019">2019</time> raises an error. The error notification disappears if we use an ISO formatted year-month or year-month-day datatype (as in <time datetime="2019-04">2019</time> or <time datetime="2019-04-15">2019</time>). The xsd:gYear datatype isn't recognized as valid in oXygen's validation of XHTML, but we notice that it's not flagged as an error by the w3c markup Validation service for an XHTML document. When we change the context from XHTML 5 to HTML in oXygen, the use of a year only in the @datetime attribute is valid and all is well. My student and I would like to know if there's a reason for the year being insufficient for @datetime in XHTML validation in oXygen, or if this is something perhaps to be corrected in oXygen's validation? Thanks! Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD Program Chair of Digital Media, Arts, and Technology | Professor of Digital Humanities | Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Development site: https://newtfire.org

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[Ann] Webinar: Creating Frameworks Using an Extension Script (April 21)
by Alin Belu 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Hello, The last live event of April is getting closer and closer, and we want you there! Join us next Wednesday (April 21) for the “Creating Frameworks Using an Extension Script” webinar. During this event, Alex Jitianu (DITA evangelist and development lead at Syncro Soft) will take an extensive look at a specific method where a framework can be created using a special XML descriptor file, either from scratch or by extending an existing built-in framework (such as DITA or DocBook) and then making modifications to it. To make this possible, Alex will be covering topics, such as: * The framework structure as a package that contains resources and configuration information to provide ready-to-use support for an XML vocabulary or document type. * What benefits this new approach brings when compared with creating a framework in GUI. * Exploring various use cases and implement them though the script. * How to extend existing built-in or custom frameworks. * What deployment options are available. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-9.html Make sure to check the full list of our upcoming events: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Save via WebDAV
by Gary Kopp 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

I must be missing something . this is too complicated. I'm using oXygen with eXist-db. All I want to do is save the results of an XQuery query to the eXist database as a new document in a direct a way as possible. Saving the results from the results window only seems to support the local filesystem. I can jump through a few hoops and get the results transferred to an editing window where I can "Save to URI" and ultimately get it sent out via WebDAV, but the dialogs for that are ridiculously convoluted IMO. Am I missing a more direct way? --Gary Kopp

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 23.1 (2021040908)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2021040908) for oXygen 23.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author, XML WebHelp, Publishing Engine). The build number can be verified in the Help -> About dialog box from the application (next to the version number). You can download the new installation kits from our web site: http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html Here you can find the complete list of bug-fixes: http://www.oxygenxml.com/build_history.html#2021040908 You can follow our oXygen release/build RSS feed here: http://www.oxygenxml.com/rssBuildID.xml Please let us know if you encounter any problems with this new build. Regards, Adrian -- Adrian Buza oXygen XML Editor and Author Support

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[Ann] Webinar: Working with DITA in Oxygen - Customizing the Editing Experience (April 14)
by Alin Belu 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Hello, Our weekly live event series continues next Wednesday (April 14) with the “Working with DITA in Oxygen - Customizing the Editing Experience” webinar! Under the guidance of Sorin Carbunaru (software developer at Syncro Soft), you will explore several ways of customizing the DITA editing experience according to your desires. This webinar will cover the customization of: * Author actions - edit existing actions, remove actions or add new ones. Add actions to the main toolbar, the contextual menu, or the content completion window. * The Author-mode rendering - tailor the visuals of the editing experience using CSS and add in-place actions directly in the Author page. * Document validation - create new validation rules and provide quick fixes using Schematron. * The content-completion assistant - automatically insert or reject elements, attributes, and values. * New document templates - add prefixes or suffixes to the names of your new documents, customize the template icons, mark templates as popular. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-6.html Make sure to check the full list of our upcoming events: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Webinar: Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS, Part 3 (April 7)
by Alin Belu 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Hello, This is a quick reminder that our April webinar series starts tomorrow! We all know that the road to becoming advanced in a specific subject is a long one. That’s why Julien Lacour (veteran software developer at Syncro Soft) returns to make sure that your road towards mastery isn’t a difficult one. Join him next Wednesday (April 7) for the third installment of the “Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS” series! Your journey into defining the look and format of your documents with the use of CSS continues with another extensive tutorial, this time dedicated to the global page layout. During this event, you will learn how to create and control PDF pages directly from CSS. To achieve these abilities, we will focus on the following subjects: * @page CSS at-rule * Page-margin boxes * Page-selectors (default, front-page, etc.) * Page orientation * Column-count * Page-breaks * Odd and even pages This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-8.html Make sure to check the full list of our upcoming events: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Multiple Transformation Scenarios?
by Gary Kopp 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

It looks like I need two transformation scenarios in one execution, and I'm not sure that's possible, or if there is another way to accomplish what I need. I want to execute an XProc script containing a p:xquery step. In the XQuery step the context will be whatever document I pass as the XProc source node, which is fine. But within the p:xquery step I also want to access (in let statements) documents accessed from the eXist-db datasource defined in oXygen. Such eXist datasource access normally requires an oXygen transformation scenario of its own. Can I do this? --Gary Kopp

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