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Why doesn't Oxygen "learn" the meaning of file extensions?
by Roger L Costello 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Hi Folks, I am using Oxygen to create C programs. I drag and drop a .c file into Oxygen and Oxygen recognizes that it should use its C editor to open the file. I drag and drop a .h file into Oxygen and Oxygen asks me what kind of file it is. I can drag and drop the .h file into Oxygen a hundred times and Oxygen will always ask me what kind of file it is, and I always tell Oxygen the same thing. Why can't Oxygen learn? After some number of times telling Oxygen to use the C editor, Oxygen should assume that the .h file should be opened using the C editor. Well, that is on my wish list for Oxygen. /Roger

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short and long
by Aaron Mehl 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Is there some way I can do an action and then assignment to a keyboard shortcut? I often capitalize letters that shouldn't be and on Frame and Word there is a keyboard shortcut to change it quickly. I didn't see such a shortcut in Oxygen (maybe there is?). I also see there is no way to record macros. I am using Linux and would like to record/create macros. How do I do this? Thanks? Aaron Sent from Mailspring (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/912E42AA-0763-4BA6-A236-BD434926EF5A@ge…) the best free email app for work

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[Ann] Oxygen XML Editor version 23.1, Oxygen Feedback version 1.4, and Oxygen Content Fusion version 4.0 are available!
by Alin Belu 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Hello everyone, Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 23.1 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen Publishing Engine, along with version 1.4 of the Oxygen Feedback comment management platform, and version 4.0 of the Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform. This release introduces new features such as concurrent editing and reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's collaboration process, the ability to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings, and the new block-level comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page. Also, an updated Oxygen Styles Basket, a free web-based visual tool, helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or WebHelp output by picking and mixing pre-defined aspects from galleries. ============================================================================= Version 23.1 of Oxygen XML Editor expands upon the substantial list of features that were recently added in Version 23.0 with further improvements, along with various brand new enhancements, fixes, and updates. Dealing with errors and warnings is easier now with the new functionality that allows you to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions available in various places where the validation issues are presented. DITA users benefit from reduced publishing times as the result of an update to the DITA-OT engine to version 3.6, a new refactoring action that generates unique IDs for specified elements, and the DITA to PDF transformation can now display SVG syntax diagrams in the PDF output. On the development side, the JSON Schema Documentation Generator tool was enhanced with new filtering options, syntax highlights, and options for splitting the output into multiple files or showing the location of the source schema. A specialized YAML editor was added with various editing features including automatic validation, batch validation, syntax highlights, automatic indenting, tools for converting between YAML and JSON, and more. Various updates and improvements were also integrated for users working with XSLT, XQuery, HTML, and CSS. The SharePoint integration in Oxygen (available in the Enterprise edition only) was redesigned to use the SharePoint REST API v2 to offer authentication using the OAuth protocol. This means that you now have access to a new SharePoint Online type of connection, the various UI components that display the connection details (SharePoint Browser View, Data Source Explorer View, and the Browse for Remote File mechanism in the Open URL dialog box) were redesigned for better consistency and productivity, and quick actions were added in the SharePoint Browser View to make it easier to connect. Some of the most popular Oxygen add-ons continued to be improved. The Git Client add-on is even more robust with additional actions and options, as well as various UI and performance enhancements. Various new conversion possibilities were added in the Batch Converter add-on (e.g. convert between JSON and YAML or convert multiple Markdown/HTML headings into DITA maps with referenced topics), while the DITA References view add-on and the Oxygen Emmet Plugin received various improvements, and the XSpec Helper view add-on was updated. Other highlights for this version include improvements to the shortcuts, as they can now be assigned to show side-views contributed by plugins, editor variables can now be resolved in project resources created from a project template, and as always, this release includes new API methods, various bug fixes, and component updates. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Some functionality available in Oxygen was made available for automation outside of Oxygen (for example, in a continuous integration server) using a separate Oxygen Scripting license. Starting with version 23.1, you can take advantage of new command-line scripts for comparing files or directories and for executing XML refactoring operations. Also, the Batch Converter script now supports converting between JSON and YAML and various arguments were added to existing scripts to offer even more configuration options. ============================================================================= Version 23.1 of Oxygen Publishing Engine bundles the latest Oxygen PDF Chemistry and Oxygen XML WebHelp together with the DITA-OT used by Oxygen. Oxygen PDF Chemistry received further enhancements, such as more details about warning and error messages to assist with debugging, additional support was included for some requested CSS properties along with the addition of new parameters to help fine-tune customizations, and the memory footprint was optimized to provide better performance. Oxygen XML WebHelp offers new transformation parameters and HTML fragment placeholder parameters to open up a myriad of additional possibilities for customizing the look and style of your output, redesigned renderings of the various types of DITA <note> elements, the ability to add a component in your WebHelp output that links to a PDF resource, and various bug fixes and component updates. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Version 1.4 of Oxygen Feedback brings you more exciting features for the modern comment management platform that provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback. The most interesting new feature added in this version is the ability for your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the output page where block elements appear, without having to scroll to the comments area at bottom of the page. The Block-Level Comments feature forms a flexible review solution when coupled with the Oxygen XML WebHelp and the Oxygen XML Editor/Author integration through the Feedback Comments Manager plugin, which makes it easy to locate the exact source content referenced by a particular comment and streamlines the process of making changes to the source document in response to the provided comments. Both Cloud and Enterprise editions also include other productivity improvements, bug fixes, and customization options. For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Cloud edition, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_cloud/whats_new.html For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Enterprise edition, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_enterprise/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Version 23.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author offers some enhancements to features added in the past few major releases of the dynamic web-based XML authoring tool. Some of the highlights include the Outline Pane that now displays the entire content of a DITA map when it is opened with all of the referenced topics expanded/editable in one document, optimized performance of the visual editor for Concurrent Editing sessions, while on the customization side, CSS variables are now supported and the feature that displays a DITA map with all of the referenced topic content expanded/editable in one document can now be enabled for Bitbucket integrations. This release also includes new API methods, various bug fixes, and component updates. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Version 4.0 of Oxygen Content Fusion, the innovative collaboration tool that is designed to improve any documentation review process, brings you the ability for collaborative teams to edit and review content concurrently. This means that you and your colleagues can edit and review the same document simultaneously in the visual editor and each user can see the changes in real time. Some of the other interesting new features and improvements added in this version include a new dynamic floating toolbar that gives you easier access to the most common editing and styling actions, the option to change the UI language to English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, or Chinese, and the preservation of styling when you copy content in the visual editor and paste it into an external application. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of products! As always, any feedback on it is welcomed. Best regards! -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on v.3.0.0 has been released!
by Alin Belu 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

Hello, We are happy to announce that version 3.0.0 of our Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on is now available in the Oxygen XML default add-on repository! The add-on is free and is compatible with any Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer version 20.0 and newer. Version 3.0.0 of the Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on comes with these useful new improvements: * Two new conversions were added: YAML to JSON and JSON to YAML. * Import actions are now available from the Append child, Insert Before, and Insert After sub-menus from the DITA Maps Manager's contextual menu. They convert documents and automatically insert them into the DITA map. * Converter actions were included in the File->Import/Convert->Additional conversions sub-menu. * The converter actions have been re-organized for easier access. To install the add-on, follow these instructions: 1. Go to Help->Install new add-ons to open an add-on selection dialog box. 2. Select "-- All Available Sites --" in the Show add-ons from field. 3. Select the Batch Documents Converter add-on and click Next. 4. Read the end-user license agreement. Then select the “I accept all terms of the end-user license agreement” option and click Finish. 5. Restart the application. For more information, see the details for the Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on on GitHub: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-resources-converter We hope you will find this add-on useful and as always, any feedback is welcomed! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Custom XML Calabash in oXygen
by Martin Kraetke, le-tex 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

Hi, I want to convert XProc Pipelines in oXygen with a custom XML Calabash (https://github.com/transpect/calabash-frontend) Therefore, I followed Adrian's instructions which he made on this list some years ago: https://www.oxygenxml.com/pipermail/oxygen-user/2013-March/004558.html However, I ran into a couple of problems: (1) I can run a simple XProc pipeline, but when I want to use an XProc extension step in my pipeline, Calabash aborts and states that there is no class in my configuration for the extension step. However, I've added this to my engine.xml: <library name="extensions/transpect/unzip-extension/io/transpect/calabash/extensions/UnZip.class"/> And I have this in my calabash.config file. The paths are correct. <implementation type="letex:unzip tr-internal:unzip" class-name="io.transpect.calabash.extensions.UnZip"/> (2) I was not able to add a custom XML catalog to the configuration. I've tried to add this to the engine.xml, but it doesn't worked: <system-property name="Dxml.catalog.staticCatalog" value="1"/> <system-property name="Dxml.catalog.files" value="xmlcatalog/catalog.xml"/> Has anyone integrated it's own Calabash or has any suggestions? Kind regards, Martin -- Martin Kraetke Lead Content Engineer le-tex publishing services GmbH Weissenfelser Str. 84, 04229 Leipzig, Germany Phone +49 341 355356 143, Fax +49 341 355356 543 martin.kraetke(a)le-tex.de, http://www.le-tex.de Registergericht / Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Leipzig Registernummer / Registration Number: HRB 24930 Geschäftsführer: Gerrit Imsieke, Svea Jelonek, Thomas Schmidt

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Why is "Go to definition" so slow?
by Roger L Costello 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Hi Folks, In XML Schema documents I can select a type, right-mouse-click, select "Go to definition", and then Oxygen will take me to the type definition. This is a great feature. However, in recent versions of Oxygen, it has gotten really slow. For example, I have a schema file that is 604 lines (i.e., a small schema). I selected a type, right-mouse-clicked, and selected "Go to definition". It took 20 seconds for Oxygen to find the type. Why does it take so long? I remember in previous editions of Oxygen it would take less than 2 seconds. /Roger

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[Add] Webinar: Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS, Part 2 – Lists, Tables and Images (10 February)
by Alin Belu 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hello, In the first part of the “Transforming XML and HTML documents to PDF using CSS” tutorial series, we aimed to teach you a basic understanding of the CSS layout to help you have a better understanding of PDF publishing. Now, you are ready to continue your journey into defining the look and format of your documents! Wednesday (February 10), we bring you the second installment titled “Lists, Tables and Images” where Julien Lacour (software developer at Syncro Soft) will teach you more advanced CSS properties that will help you to: * Customize unordered and ordered lists, list-items, list bullets, etc. * Set table elements such as headers / footers / captions / size. * Display images by defining size, resolution, remote images, etc. * Select a particular node or set of nodes from the document with CSS combinators. * Create more complex elements with the ::before and ::after pseudo elements. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-4.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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Re: [oXygen-user] How to get the location of "invalid UTF-8 characters"?
by Gibbons, Dave (US - Oregon) 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

We have to search and replace high-bit characters sometimes. Here's what we do: Find/Replace in Files Enable the Regular expression option Use this code: [^\x00-\x7F] If that gets garbled in posting, it's left square bracket caret backslash x00- backslash x7F right square bracket On 31.01.2021 00:30, Roger L Costello wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have a large XHTML file. Apparently, somewhere in the file is an invalid Unicode character because when I drag-and-drop the file into Oxygen I get the error message: > > Cannot open the specified file: Got a character encoding exception. File encoding (UTF-8) does not support all characters from the current file. > > The problem is this: Where is the invalid UTF-8 character? > > Is there a way to get Oxygen to tell me where -- what character position -- it detected the invalid Unicode character? >

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How to get the location of "invalid UTF-8 characters"?
by Roger L Costello 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hi Folks, I have a large XHTML file. Apparently, somewhere in the file is an invalid Unicode character because when I drag-and-drop the file into Oxygen I get the error message: Cannot open the specified file: Got a character encoding exception. File encoding (UTF-8) does not support all characters from the current file. The problem is this: Where is the invalid UTF-8 character? Is there a way to get Oxygen to tell me where -- what character position -- it detected the invalid Unicode character? /Roger

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[Ann] Webinar: Working with DITA in Oxygen - Advanced Profiling and Reuse Strategies (3 February)
by Alin Belu 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Hello, If becoming advanced in profiling and reusing DITA content is one of this year’s resolutions, then you're in luck! Next Wednesday (February 3), make time for the third installment of the “Working with DITA in Oxygen” webinar series. In this live event titled “Advanced Profiling and Reuse Strategies”, Sorin Carbunaru (software developer at Syncro Soft) returns to help you achieve mastery in more advanced DITA concepts, such as: * Conref ranges – easily create content references to ranges of adjacent (sibling) elements. * Conref push - an alternate way of creating content references by injecting element values from the source element into a topic where it is to be re-used. * Subject scheme maps - create custom controlled values and manage metadata attribute values for an organization or a project without having to write a DITA specialization. * Profiling attribute groups - used to support situations where an attribute applies to multiple specialized subcategories. * Key scopes - specify different sets of key definitions for different map branches. * Branch filtering - set filtering conditions for specific branches of a map. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-3.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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