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[ANN] S1000D Framework Add-on v1.2 is Now Available!
by Alin Belu 27 Jul '26

27 Jul '26

Hello, We are proud to announce the release of version *1.2* for the *S1000D Framework Add-on* for Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, and the Eclipse distribution. This new release brings two new publishing scenarios for your S1000D Data Modules, validation against BREX modules, and a set of refinements that make everyday authoring smoother. Here's what's new: *PDF Preview for a Data Module* The new "*S1000D Data Module PDF*" scenario renders a single Data Module as a print-ready PDF, giving you a faithful preview of how that module will look on the page. Check formatting, spacing, and layout before you commit. It is a quick way to see your structured content the way a reader would. *HTML Preview for a Data Module* The "*S1000D Data Module HTML*" scenario renders a Data Module as HTML and opens it in your default browser. You get a fast, faithful preview for reviewing content and catching layout issues early as you iterate. *A More Polished Authoring Experience* This release also includes a round of improvements to the Author page, such as *better S1000D rendering*, with elements now being displayed more accurately, and *more consistent styling*, with the full-width style being applied correctly alongside other styles. *S1000D Framework Add-on 1.2* is available for Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author, Oxygen XML Developer, and the Eclipse distribution. You can update it from *Help > Install new add-ons* or install it from the S1000D Framework Add-on page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/addons/oxygenxml.s1000d.framework.html We hope that you will enjoy using the most recent release of the add-on as much as we enjoyed developing it. As always, your feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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[ANN] Oxygen Git Client Add-on 6.0 is Now Available!
by Alin Belu 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

Hello, We are proud to announce *Oxygen Git Client Add-on 6.0*, a major update that makes Git workflows in Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author, Oxygen XML Developer, and Oxygen JSON Editor faster, clearer, and easier to manage. This release delivers a redesigned Git History view, AI-assisted merge conflict resolution, smarter credential management, partial stashing, visual image comparisons, and workflow refinements that help teams move from change to commit with greater confidence. *What's New in Oxygen Git Client Add-on 6.0:* ************************************* *A Reimagined Git History View* The enhanced History view makes repository activity easier to understand at a glance. Uncommitted changes now appear in the graph as a pending commit, active merge, rebase, cherry-pick, and revert operations are clearly marked, and you can compare any two points in history, including a selected revision against the working copy. Interactive branch and status labels provide quick access to branch actions and tracking details. Together, these enhancements make it easier to trace changes, compare revisions, and understand work in progress without losing context. *AI-Assisted Conflict Resolution* AI Positron can now analyze conflicting file versions and propose a resolution with an explanation that you can verify using the available compare actions, then refine it further if needed. You stay in control as suggestions are applied only after approval. This helps you resolve conflicts more confidently while staying in control of the final result. *More Control, Less Friction* Version 6.0 adds context-sensitive controls for interrupted merge, rebase, cherry-pick, and revert operations, making it easier to continue, restart, or abort safely. A new Credentials preferences page lets you review and remove individual stored credentials, while an improved login behavior reduces repeated authentication steps. These improvements help you recover from interrupted workflows more easily and manage authentication with less friction. *Smarter Everyday Workflows* Partial stashing lets you stash selected files instead of the entire working copy, and a Rebase action enables you to rebase the current local branch onto a selected revision. Image diffs are displayed as true side-by-side visual comparisons, making design and asset changes easier to review. Additional enhancements include Push and Pull actions on the current branch menu, faster remote branch discovery, improved Blame integration, new actions to ignore untracked files or folders, and customizable AI instructions for commit messages and commit explanations. For a detailed list of the features added in *Oxygen Git Client Add-on 6.0*, please see: https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/wn_git_client_6.html *Availability* ******************* *Oxygen Git Client Add-on 6.0* is available for Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author, Oxygen XML Developer, and Oxygen JSON Editor. You can update it from *Help > Install new add-ons* or install it from the Oxygen Git Client add-on page - https://www.oxygenxml.com/addons/com.oxygenxml.git.html We hope that you will enjoy using the most recent release of the add-on as much as we enjoyed developing it. As always, your feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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[ANN] Oxygen AI Positron 8.3 is Now Available!
by Alin Belu 01 Jul '26

01 Jul '26

Hello everyone, We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the *Oxygen AI Positron 8.3* plugins for all our major Oxygen XML suite products, including Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer (desktop and Eclipse distributions), Oxygen JSON Editor, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion. Version *8.3* introduces stronger enterprise AI governance, a new project-aware development agent mode, expanded AI model support, and new XML automation capabilities. The release gives technical writers, XML developers, information architects, and enterprise administrators more control over AI behavior while improving assistance for technologies such as XSLT, Schematron, XPath, and DITA. *What's New in Oxygen AI Positron 8.3* ******************************** * *AI Governance with Event Hooks* Organizations can now monitor and control AI-driven workflows more closely with the introduction of a hook system for intercepting AI events, offering improved visibility and control over AI-driven workflows. Organizations can use hooks to audit AI activity, enforce governance policies, collect usage metrics, or block potentially risky operations before they are executed. To simplify integration with existing enterprise tooling, the new *Oxygen AI Positron Hooks* add-on lets teams run external scripts when specific AI hook events occur. This makes it easier for administrators to connect AI lifecycle events to auditing, analytics, policy enforcement, and workflow automation systems. * *Dev Agent Chat Mode for XML Development Projects* The new *Dev Agent* chat mode gives XML teams a project-aware AI assistant for development tasks such as XSLT, Schematron, XPath, validation, and transformations. The Dev Agent can explore the project, propose a plan, and perform project-wide changes, while you remain in control of reviewing and deciding which modifications to keep. * *Specialized Development Skills* Version 8.3 adds specialized skills for development vocabularies including *XSLT*, *XSD*, *Schematron*, and *XSpec*. These skills help the AI produce more accurate code suggestions and reduce errors, enabling faster and more efficient development. Custom skills can also now be packaged as ZIP archives with the /.skill/ file extension. Once placed in the configured skills folders, these packages are automatically recognized and loaded by AI Positron, making it easier for you to distribute and share custom AI capabilities. * *Expanded Enterprise AI Connectivity* Organizations can now access newer OpenAI reasoning models through a new *OpenAI Responses* enterprise connector. Version 8.3 also adds support for connecting to *Model Context Protocol (MCP)* HTTP servers that use OAuth authentication. You can view a summary of running or failed servers in the /Connection status/ section, with integrated login and logout controls. For AWS users, the *AWS Bedrock* connector now supports *AWS Credentials (Profile/SSO)*, offering a more secure authentication option than API keys. * *New AI Models and Improved Reasoning Visibility * Oxygen AI Positron 8.3 expands the list of available AI models for AI-assisted tasks, including: - *GPT-5.4 Thinking*, *GPT-5.5,* and *GPT-5.5 Thinking* through the Positron Service or an OpenAI Responses enterprise connection. - *Claude Opus 4.8 Thinking* and *Claude Opus 4.8*, designed for agentic workflows and complex multi-step tasks. - *Gemini 3.5 Flash* through the Positron Service or the Vertex AI enterprise connection. You can now inspect reasoning from supported OpenAI thinking models in a collapsible chat section, improving transparency without cluttering the conversation. Administrators can also manage which models are available for configured AI connections, define recommended defaults, and add models beyond the predefined list. * *Automatic Conversation Compaction for Longer AI Sessions* Long AI conversations can now continue more smoothly with the new automatic conversation compaction feature. When the allowed context usage reaches 70%, AI Positron summarizes older portions of the conversation and replaces them with a concise recap, preserving relevant context while allowing the discussion to continue. You can disable automatic compaction from the /Preferences/ page or manually trigger compaction using the *Context Consumption* button in the footer of the AI Positron view. * *Fix Multiple Validation Issues at Once* The *AI Positron Fix* action can now be applied to multiple selected validation problems in the /Results/ pane. This allows you to resolve several issues in a single AI-assisted operation, improving productivity when working with large or complex XML documents. * *More Flexible Custom AI Actions* When creating custom AI actions, you can now use Oxygen editor variables in the /prompt_ref/ property. For example, a prompt can reference content from your home folder, and the variable will be expanded automatically. * *New AI Tool Function for XPath Evaluation* AI Positron now includes an /evaluate_xpath/ tool function that helps AI-assisted workflows access structured XML content more precisely. * *New XPath AI Functions for Advanced Automation* Two new AI extension functions, /ai:chat()/ and /ai:resolve-action()/, are now available for XPath-based automation workflows, with full technical details available in the supporting documentation. For the complete list of features added in *Oxygen AI Positron 8.3*, please see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron/whats_new.html As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 28.1 (2026062905)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2026062905) for oXygen 28.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author, JSON Editor, 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#2026062905 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 _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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Optimizing multi-lingual WebHelp Responsive output
by Frank Dissinger 17 Jun '26

17 Jun '26

Hi Oxygen users & support, I have just finished configuring Oxygen to create customized WebHelp Responsive output to replace Microsoft HTML Help (*.chm). Until recently, I was forced to use CHM files to incorporate legacy help files created from FrameMaker sources (which I have eventually all converted into DITA files). I have presented the result to our development team. They like the result but have requested some changes: * They noticed that the WebHelp output takes up about four times more disk space than the CHM file. This was not immediately seen as a problem, but its practical impact remains to be seen. * They objected to the fact that each language variant of the online help is generated as a self-contained file set in a separate directory. This means that all asset files - such as the context-sensitive help mapping file, logos, JavaScripts and CSS files - and language-agnostic images used in the DITA topics are stored multiple times. They would like all these files to be consolidated into a single directory structure without any redundant files. * They want a button in the header of the help window that allows the user to switch the help system to their desired language. Can Oxygen do this out of the box, or are add-ons or external tools required? Freundliche Grüße | Best regards Frank Dissinger Documentation Manager .......................................... CGS ORIS GmbH Email frank.dissinger(a)cgs-oris.com<mailto:frank.dissinger@cgs-oris.com> | Web www.cgs-oris.com<http://www.cgs-oris.com/> Address Kettelerstrasse 24 | 63512 Hainburg | Germany Phone +49 6182 9626-0 | Fax +49 6182 9626-99 Commercial register Offenbach, HRB no. 21495 Managing directors Bernd Rückert, Christoph Thommessen, Kunio Muraji [cid:image001.png@01DCFE64.71A389C0]<https://www.cgs-oris.com/> _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 28.1 (2026052805)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 29 May '26

29 May '26

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2026052805) for oXygen 28.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author, JSON Editor, 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#2026052805 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 _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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[ANN] Webinar: Streamlining S1000D Authoring with Oxygen XML Editor (May 20, 2026)
by Alin Belu 07 May '26

07 May '26

Hi everyone, Join us on *May 20* to discover how Oxygen XML Editor helps simplify and streamline *S1000D authoring* with powerful built-in features, including editing, validation, visual authoring, templates, BREX handling, and Smart Paste. In the webinar *"Streamlining S1000D Authoring with Oxygen XML Editor*", Octavian Nadolu (Product Manager at Syncro Soft) will demonstrate how to efficiently create, manage, and maintain Data Modules and Publication Modules across Oxygen XML Editor Desktop, Web Author, Content Fusion, and the Eclipse plugin. This live session will also explore how AI-powered capabilities in Oxygen can support authors, reduce repetitive tasks, and boost overall productivity. Don’t miss this opportunity to see how Oxygen can reduce authoring friction and deliver a more consistent and efficient S1000D workflow. The event is free, but registration is required. You can register at https://oxygenxml.com/evs2026-3.html To stay in touch with us and discover what other events we have planned for you, check https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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[ANN] Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 is Now Available!
by Alin Belu 05 May '26

05 May '26

Hello everyone, We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the *Oxygen AI Positron 8.2* plugins for all major Oxygen XML suite products, including Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer (desktop and Eclipse distributions), Oxygen JSON Editor, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion. This release introduces major enhancements focused on extensibility, richer context awareness, and improved transparency across AI-assisted authoring workflows. With support for reusable skills, advanced new reasoning models, and expanded analysis of rich content formats, Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 gives technical communicators and developers more control over how AI is adapted to their workflows and organizational requirements. As AI-assisted authoring continues to evolve beyond generic prompting, Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 helps teams build more specialized, transparent, and context-aware experiences for structured content development, review, and transformation. * What's New in Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 ***************************************** * *Extensible AI Workflows with Skills* The standout addition in Oxygen AI Positron 8.2 is support for reusable *skills*, based on the Anthropic Agent Skills. Skills allow organizations and individual users to extend the AI assistant with specialized modules for repetitive workflows, external tool and API integrations, best-practice enforcement, and domain-specific processes. To help you get started quickly, several built-in skills are included for tasks such as adding review comments, translating XML content while preserving markup and structure, and performing structured persona-based analysis across multiple audience perspectives. * *Advanced Reasoning with Claude 4.6 Thinking Models* Version 8.2 adds support for the new *Claude Sonnet 4.6 Thinking* and *Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking* models. These adaptive thinking models automatically determine how much reasoning is needed for each request, enabling deeper analysis for complex tasks while remaining responsive for simpler interactions. To improve transparency, the chat interface now displays a collapsible real-time summary of the model's thinking process when these models are used, helping you better understand how responses are being developed. * *Smarter Context Awareness and Transparency* Another important improvement is the AI assistant's smarter awareness of the current working context during ongoing conversations. If you continue a chat after selecting different content or switching files, the AI is now able to better understand the current context and respond accordingly. You also benefit from a *new context window size indicator* that shows the total context window available for the selected model and how much of it is currently being used, making it easier to manage larger and more complex interactions. * *Expanded Rich Content and File Analysis* This release significantly expands support for working with rich content and binary resources. You can now ask the AI to analyze *PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or image files* without first needing to manually attach them in the chat. Support was also added for analyzing *SVG* images during AI actions and chat interactions, complementing existing image handling capabilities and making it easier to work with documentation projects that use this image format. * *Enterprise AI Integration Enhancements* For enterprise deployments, version 8.2 adds support for configuring reasoning effort levels for Microsoft Azure connections and for using *Claude deployments hosted in Azure AI Foundry* through Microsoft Azure AI connections. Various other improvements were also implemented for AI integrations, model selection, file handling, and review workflows, further strengthening Oxygen AI Positron as a flexible AI platform for professional XML and structured content environments. For the complete list of features added in *Oxygen AI Positron 8.2*, please see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron/whats_new.html As always, thank you for your support and don't forget that feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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Re: [OXYGEN-50002] [XSD question] Given a type, how to find elements with that type?
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Teo Timplaru) 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

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[XSD question] Given a type, how to find elements with that type?
by Roger L Costello 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

Hello, I have an XML Schema that consists of 20 schema files. One of the files is named Enumerations.xsd. It contains simpleTypes that have enumeration values. One of the simpleTypes is named PreferredRouteRouteType. I want to know, in the other 19 schema files, what elements have type PreferredRouteRouteType. Is there a way to instruct Oxygen to "show me all the elements in the schema that are declared to have type PreferredRouteRouteType"? /Roger _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list -- oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com To unsubscribe send an email to oxygen-user-leave(a)oxygenxml.com

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