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Responsibiliy for epub tools at Syncrosoth?
by Bernhard Kleine 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

I would like to know who will be able to explain the workchain with the epub generation and where different indizes fail to be generated. I already ask the mailing list for ant.apache.org and they could not respond. It would be very helpful if anybody competent will answer to this. Kind regards Bernhard -- spitzhalde9 D-79853 lenzkirch bernhard.kleine(a)gmx.net www.b-kleine.com, www.urseetal.net Ich darf auf mein neues Buch "670 Falter im Hochschwarzwald" aufmerksam machen (Infos bei mir) - thunderbird mit enigmail GPG schlüssel: D5257409 fingerprint: 08 B7 F8 70 22 7A FC C1 15 49 CA A6 C7 6F A0 2E D5 25 74 09

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[Ann] Webinar: Custom Business Rules for DITA Projects (December 16)
by Alin Belu 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Hello, On December 16, you are invited to a great learning experience with the “Custom Business Rules for DITA Projects” live webinar! Schematron and Schematron QuickFix (SQF) languages can be used to improve efficiency and quality when editing DITA documents. With their use, you can define actions that will add complex structures in your documents (missing table cells, list conversions, IDs, and more) and state integrity requirements in order to help you add content more easily and without making mistakes. This indispensable webinar presented by Octavian Nadolu, software architect at Syncro Soft, will be your step-by-step guide to getting started as soon as possible with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. During this live event, you will go over topics, such as: * Creating business rules with Schematron to avoid the common issues when editing documents. * Defining SQF actions to correct the Schematron imposed rules. * Configuring and applying specific Schematron rules on DITA projects. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-16.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] Oxygen Batch Converter add-on version 2.1.0 has been released!
by Alin Belu 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Hello, We are happy to announce that version 2.1.0 of our Oxygen Batch 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 2.1.0 of the Oxygen Batch Converter add-on comes with these useful new improvements: * A new option was added for converting Markdown documents with multiple headings into DITA maps with referenced DITA topics (Markdown to DITA). * The addition of a new option for creating DITA short description elements in the Markdown to DITA conversion. * Improvement to the Markdown to DITA conversion to allow conversions of documents that start with a high heading level or increase the heading level with more than one unit. * A new option was added for converting HTML documents with multiple headings into DITA maps with referenced DITA topics (HTML to DITA). * Various small bugs were fixed in the HTML to DITA and Word to DITA conversions. To install the add-on, follow these instructions: * Go to Help->Install new add-ons to open an add-on selection dialog box. * Enter or paste https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-resources-convertor/mast… in the Show add-ons from field. * Select the Batch Converter add-on and click Next. * Read the end-user license agreement. Then select the “I accept all terms of the end-user license agreement” option and click Finish. * Restart the application. For more information, see the details for the Oxygen Batch 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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[ann][webinar] What’s New in Oxygen 23.0 - Overview and Panel Discussion (December 9)
by Alin Belu 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hi, This Wednesday (December 9), you are invited to a special live webinar - “What’s New in Oxygen 23.0 - Overview and Panel Discussion”! Join us for this special live event that will allow you to engage with the amazing people who envisioned and developed our latest release. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from the newly implemented and game-changing features of Oxygen 23, such as: * Concurrent editing in Web Author for unrestricted collaboration so you and your colleagues can edit and review the same document simultaneously. * Opening DITA maps in the Author visual editing mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable, thus allowing you to edit the referenced content directly in one single document. * The possibility to define or customize how Oxygen supports an XML language using a framework script. * Updates to JSON Schema support and editing JSON documents visually in Author mode for an improved user experience. * Integrating the Oxygen WebHelp with the Oxygen Feedback platform. * And so much more. The panel will bring together George Bina, Radu Coravu, Octavian Nadolu, and Cristian Talau. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-18.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: What’s New in Oxygen 23.0 - Overview and Panel Discussion
by Alin Belu 04 Dec '20

04 Dec '20

Hello, To celebrate the release of version 23.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products, on Wednesday (December 9), we invite you to a special live webinar - “What’s New in Oxygen 23.0 - Overview and Panel Discussion”. Join us for this 2-hour live event that will allow you to engage with the amazing people who envisioned and developed our latest release. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from the newly implemented and game-changing features of Oxygen 23, such as: * Concurrent editing in Web Author for unrestricted collaboration. * Opening DITA maps in the Author visual editing mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable. * The possibility to define or customize how Oxygen supports an XML language using a framework script. * Updates to JSON schema support and editing JSON documents visually in Author mode. * Integrating the Oxygen WebHelp with the Oxygen Feedback platform. * And so much more. The panel will bring together George Bina, Radu Coravu, Octavian Nadolu, Cristi Talau, and Radu Pisoi. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-18.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: Automate XML processing with Oxygen XML Scripting
by Alin Belu 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

Hello, Next Wednesday, on December 2, our weekly live event series returns in full force with the “Automate XML processing with Oxygen XML Scripting” webinar! As you might know, continuous integration (CI) can be efficiently used to run automated scripts to validate changes as soon as they are saved to a remote repository. To make things easier for you, Alex Jitianu, DITA evangelist and development lead at Syncro Soft, will introduce you to Oxygen XML Scripting, a bundle of command line tools that can be executed inside these continuous integration and deployment pipelines. This way, you can make sure that your project is valid and ready to be deployed at any time! During this event, we will go over topics, such as: * DITA validation and checking for completeness - a tool that checks DITA maps and topics to see if they are valid and if all of the relationships between them are working. * Translation Package Builder - a tool for detecting changes, sending them to translation, and applying the translated files. * Examples on how to integrate these command line tools into integration servers, like Github Actions or Netlify. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-17.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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The Wellformed XML Scanner validator tried to connect to: 209.250.6.226:80
by Patrick Durusau 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

Greetings! I'm trying out Oxygen XML Editor 22.1 on Debian and I'm getting this persistent message: ***** The Wellformed XML Scanner validator tried to connect to: 209.250.6.226:80 The host 209.250.6.226:80 is not in the list of trusted hosts. Do you want to allow the connection to this host? ***** I checked the forum, the documentation, even searched the Internet and have not found this message elsewhere. The host in question, 209.250.6.226, just displays a Testing 123 page to show an Apache HTTP server is working. I keep denying it access but there's no persistent block that I can find. Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks! Patrick PS: I've run whois and written to the technical contact but the popup makes it sound like I'm originating the request. PPS: No, I haven't seen this message until installing the trial version of Oxygen XML. -- Patrick Durusau patrick(a)durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau

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[Ann] Oxygen XML Suite Version 23 Release
by Alin Belu 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

Hello everyone, 2020 has certainly been a unique and challenging year for us all, but the Oxygen team persevered and is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 23 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and the Oxygen Publishing Engine. In addition, Oxygen Feedback Enterprise, the self-managed edition of the commenting platform, was introduced in the recently released version 1.3 of Oxygen Feedback. This new release adds game-changing features like concurrent editing in Web Author for unrestricted collaboration, opening DITA maps in Author mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable, the possibility to define or customize how Oxygen supports an XML language using a framework script, and support for editing JSON documents visually in Author mode. ============================================================================= Version 23 of Oxygen XML Editor boasts the most substantial and comprehensive set of new features, productivity enhancements, and customization possibilities in the history of the most powerful XML authoring and development tool available on the market. As always, a lot of attention was focused on the DITA community, to make the authoring experience even more efficient and dynamic. You can expect to discover a new dynamic floating toolbar that provides quicker access to common editing actions, it is now possible to edit submaps directly in the DITA Maps Manager view without needing to open them in their own tab, you can open DITA maps in Author mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable directly in the editor, two new DITA-specific sample project templates are available to help you get more familiar with how to use projects in DITA, and if you want to experiment with the upcoming version of DITA, DITA 2.0 maps and topics can now be created from new document templates. On the DITA publishing side, you now have the ability to run multiple DITA-OT or Ant transformation scenarios simultaneously to shorten the time it takes to finish transforming large projects, image map numbers and shapes are now visible and clickable in CSS-based PDF output, and a lot of work was done on improving the Oxygen PDF Chemistry processor with various CSS property enhancements. Some of the general editing productivity enhancements include a new Find Action feature that provides a very quick way to find and trigger actions, it is now possible to copy selected XML content from Author mode to the system clipboard with the XML structure preserved, and you can now easily create a new project from an existing project template. The already robust JSON support was further enhanced. You can now edit JSON documents in Author mode with access to the various features available for XML documents, a handy tool was added for generating documentation for a JSON Schema file, and numerous improvements were made to the JSON to XML, XML to JSON, and JSON Schema Generator tools. Add-ons continue to be great for extending the functionality of Oxygen XML Editor since updates and additions can be implemented and made available in-between major Oxygen XML Editor versions. Major updates have been made to the Git Client and Batch Converter add-ons, while some of the new add-ons that have been released include a Terminology Checker, a Translator Helper, and a Vale Validation add-on. Some of the other exciting highlights for this version include the possibility of creating or customizing a framework through a script file rather than using the GUI, the capability of inserting and editing tables in JATS documents, the diff and merge support in the Eclipse plugin now incorporates the text-based mode that Oxygen users are familiar with, the content completion for XSLT 3.0 stylesheets now automatically inserts required attributes, speed optimization for documents that contain Hebrew characters, various new CSS properties, an option to batch convert HTML to well-formed XML structure, and some of the most popular command line scripts that are used for automating and running various utilities were enhanced, while other new scripts were added. As always, this release also includes various API additions, bug fixes, and component updates. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Version 23 of the Oxygen XML Web Author continues to bolster the innovative web-based authoring tool. This release brings a lot of exciting new features, productivity enhancements, and customization possibilities to the online XML authoring community. One of the most requested features that Web Author users have asked for in recent years is concurrent editing. You now have the possibility of sharing your editing session by sending its URL to other collaborators and then you and your colleagues can edit and review the same document simultaneously. DITA users now have the ability to open a DITA map with all referenced topics expanded and editable in one single document. his allows you to perform rapid changes both at topic and map level, thus speeding-up the edit and review process in the context provided by the entire document. With the review process in mind, you can also download and print a PDF snapshot of the current document. You can also look forward to a new dynamic floating toolbar that provides quicker access to common editing actions, copy content from Web Author and paste it into an external application with the HTML structure preserved, Bitbucket server is now supported, and enhancements to the Git commit workflow were implemented. New customization possibilities and features for integrators include an option to implement Single Sign On for a CMIS server by using a service account and some new loading options and URL parameters, for example, to enable in-place editing of the content of referenced topics within a DITA map, to have topic titles resolved and displayed when opening a DITA map, or to enable multiple children of a folded element to remain visible. As usual, this release also includes various API additions, bug fixes, and component updates. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Version 23 of the Oxygen Publishing Engine benefits from all the improvements and new features implemented in Oxygen XML WebHelp and Oxygen PDF Chemistry. Oxygen XML WebHelp offers the option to link the WebHelp output to your own installation of Oxygen Feedback Enterprise, a self-managed edition specially designed for organizations that prefer to install the software on their own server for better data control. Several new transformation parameters were also added for this release. Oxygen PDF Chemistry provides more improvements and new possibilities for the CSS Paged Media processor used for obtaining PDF output from HTML or XML documents simply by styling them with CSS. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html We hope you will enjoy Oxygen 23! As always, any feedback on it is welcomed. Best regards! -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Git submodules in frameworks
by Wendell Piez 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

oXygen friends, Frameworks in oXygen make up a fantastic feature set. Git is a very nice way to manage versioning in a distributed way. I am looking at making a framework that uses libraries from Github. Presently I am thinking of pointing to those libraries from my framework as git submodules and maintaining them that way. Is this a bad idea? If my framework is eventually distributed from Github, is this likely to be nice, or not so nice? Thanks - a git user for years now, but still a novice -- Cheers, 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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Format and indent the document on open
by Franz-Josef Knelangen 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Hi there, really like this option - saves me a lot of Shift+Ctrl+P presses - but have a problem that this marks all files as dirty and after saving they will be displayed "changed" when committing the results to our VCS. Is there a way to work around this or do I have to disable that option? TIA, Franz-Josef AKG Software Consulting GmbH Franz-Josef Knelangen Uhlandstra?e 12 79423 Heitersheim Germany Tel.: +49 (0)7634 5612-611 Fax: +49 (0)7634 5612-300 E-Mail: fjk(a)akgsoftware.de Internet: www.akgsoftware.de<http://www.akgsoftware.de> Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Dipl.-Ing. Artur K. G?nther, Dipl.-Ing. Arno Br?ggemann, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Bernhard Feser, Dipl.-Ing. Jens G?nther Sitz der Gesellschaft: Heitersheim, HRB 310383 (Amtsgericht Freiburg)

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[Ann] Oxygen Terminology Checker add-on version 2.0
by Alin Belu 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hello, We are glad to announce version 2.0 of our Terminology Checker 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 or XML Author version 20.0 and newer. 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 "Default Update Site" (or paste https://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Addons/default/updateSite.xml <https://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Addons/default/updateSite.xml>) in the *Show add-ons from* field. 3. Select the *Terminology Checker* add-on and click *Next*. 4. Select the *I accept all terms of the end user license agreement* option and click *Finish*. 5. Restart the application. Version 2.0 of the add-on brings these useful new features: * Partial support to load Vale <https://github.com/errata-ai/vale> rules and use them to highlight problems. Supported Vale scopes: /heading/, /table.header/, /table.cell/, /list/, /paragraph/, /code/,/strong/, /emphasis/. Supported Vale extension points: /Existence/, /Substitution/, /Occurrence/. For example, you can download the Microsoft style guide yaml rules <https://github.com/errata-ai/Microsoft/tree/master/Microsoft> and add them to the terminology folder configured in the *Preferences->Plugins / Terminology Checker* page. * The new *Terminology Helper* side view gives an overview of the terminology problems. Clicking in the side view on the incorrect term will focus the matching term in editor area. * Share favorite rules with the team: define a folder /oxygen-term-checker/ in the root of your project and terms are automatically loaded from it. * Use capturing groups in the suggestions and messages in your custom term rules using the term match regular expression. * Match user defined custom terms at word level, character level or with a regular expression. * Insert replacement suggestion value as plain-text or as XML fragment. * Set problem severity (info, warning or error) for each matched term. * Enable/disable add-on from the tool bar without restarting *Oxygen*. We hope you will find the plugin useful and as always any feedback is welcomed. Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Master files?
by David Birnbaum 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

Dear oxygenxml.com, Thank you, Gerrit and Octavian, for the quick and helpful responses. Thanks to your advice, which helped me understand when and how <oXygen/> updates the dependencies when using master files, I realized both why the problem was happening and—alas!—that in an effort to simplify the description when I wrote for advice, I had unwittingly omitted a decisive detail. Octavian writes: The master files graph is updated automatically when you save a file from the editing area. Therefore, when you add the "xsl:import" instruction in the master file, the module should be added in the graph and validated correctly. If a module is not detected correctly, you can also try to refresh the Master Files folder from the Project view. For this you can use the "Refresh" action from the Project view contextual menu. I described my workflow as having a master file (a.xsl) that imports a library of functions (lib.xsl) and some subsidiary files that contain only templates (b.xsl, c.xsl, etc.). The issue was that the template files use functions declared in lib.xsl, but the template files do not import lib.xsl directly. Since the template files are intended to be used only as imports into a.xsl, and a.xsl imports lib.xsl, this means that the library functions are available when I run a real transformation. The problem I reported was that when I created a new template file to be imported, <oXygen/> was raising errors about unknown functions in it, although older template files that used the same functions did not raise those errors. This led me to understand that <oXygen/> was able to learn about the dependency hierarchy, but that that didn't happen automatically and completely whenever I created a new template file to be imported. What I left out, because I did not recognize its importance at the time, is that the import is mediated; a.xsl imports only lib.xsl and an auxiliary file (let's call it aux.xsl), which consists entirely of <xsl:import> instructions to import b.xsl, c.xsl, etc. The intermediary step is based on https://www.oxygenxml.com/archives/xsl-list/201510/msg00002.html; I want to import everything in the modules directory without having to mention them all explicitly, so I run a preprocessing XSLT script that creates aux.xsl, and a.xsl then imports that. This means, I now realize (funny how obvious things can be in retrospect!), that of course 1) I have to rerun the preprocessing script to update aux.xsl every time I create a new template file to be imported, and 2) <oXygen/> will not know that this file has been imported if it is not watching it. Keeping it open in <oXygen/> and ensuring that it reloads/refreshes each time I rerun the preprocessing script fixes the problem. This all makes perfect sense ... er ... in retrospect. Best, David djbpitt(a)gmail.com

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Master files?
by David Birnbaum 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Dear oxygen-user list, I've configured an XSLT transformation using master-file support, where there is one master XSLT file (a.xsl), which imports (with <xsl:import>) a file of functions (lib.xsl) and a set of files that contain only templates (b.xsl, c.xsl, etc.). The imported template files use functions defined in lib.xsl but don't import those functions directly. Since the imported template files are never run on their own, and used only by being imported into a.xsl, the functions from lib.xsl are available to the imported template files when they are used, and the transformation runs successfully. I have specified a.xsl as a master file, and <oXygen/> validates it successfully. For the most part (the four scariest words in debugging!) the imported template files do not raise real-time validation errors about unknown functions, even though they would have access to the functions they use only because both they and those functions are imported into a.xsl together. So far, so good. My issue is that when I create a new template file to be imported into a.xsl, <oXygen/> doesn't seem to know that it should be validated with the understanding that it is being imported into a.xsl, which is also importing lib.xsl. This means that when I create a new template file, <oXygen/> raises real-time validation errors about unknown functions, even though it does not raise those errors for other imported template files that use similar function calls. At some point <oXygen/> seems to learn that the new imported template files should be checked with access to master-file information, that is, that they will have access to the functions in question when they are used, at which point the imported template files no longer raise validation errors when I have them open in <oXygen/>. I have not, however, been able to identify what exactly enables <oXygen/> to learn this about new imported files as I am creating them, or how to notify <oXygen/> explicitly about them when I first begin to author them. Can someone please advise? Thanks, David djbpitt(a)gmail.com

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[Ann] Webinar: Introducing the Oxygen Publishing Engine for DITA
by Alin Belu 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Hello, Next Wednesday, on November 4, you are invited to our latest live event - “Introducing the Oxygen Publishing Engine for DITA” webinar! Have you been looking for a solution that offers support for transforming your DITA content into PDF and WebHelp output? Look no further! In this webinar, Julien Lacour, software developer at Syncro Soft, will introduce you to the Oxygen Publishing Engine – an automation product that bundles the DITA Open toolkit transformation engine with Oxygen publishing plugins and the PDF Chemistry engine. This event will represent a crash-course for you to learn what the Oxygen Publishing Engine is by showing you how to install it, configure it in a Continuous Integration system, and then customize your output. You will be shown its components, various workflows, and also get the chance to see how to transform a DITA map document by learning how to: * Use the “DITA Map PDF – based on HTML5 & CSS” transformation on an integration server using a publishing template for customizing the output. * Create a custom CSS stylesheet and use it in your transformation to get that extra level of customization for your specific needs. * Debug the CSS inside both a web browser and Oxygen to see how to choose the correct selectors and properties used for further styling your content. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-15.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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Set Color in Data Source Explorer
by Karl Stubsjoen 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

This is a wish request. Would be great if there was an option to set the color for the objects and collections in the Data Source Explorer window for a top level connection. Think DEV vs. PROD. When you have the explorer expanded and you are looking at virtually the same list of objects in PROD as in DEV you have to be VERY CAREFUL that you don't actually perform an action in PROD that you intended to do in DEV! However, if the color of the collections in PROD could arbitrarily be set, in my case I'd choose to make all of those objects red, it would be a nice visual guard against making this mistake. Karl..

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[Ann] Webinar: Explore Web Author beyond technical documentation
by Alin Belu 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Hello, Our weekly series of live events continues on Wednesday (October 28), with the “Explore Web Author beyond technical documentation” webinar! Picture a growing company. As it grows, so does the need for standardized procedures. And when new people join the company, they often need to be trained to follow existing procedures. As you can see, a lot of time is spent in training sessions, affecting your overall productivity. With this in mind, Bogdan Dumitru, software developer at Syncro Soft, will show you how Web Author comes in handy in instances like this one, allowing you to build guided procedures where new employees don't require additional training or validation. During this webinar, you will learn various ways in which Web Author can be used to enhance your productivity: * Guiding new writers with the help of Schematron Quick Fixes or easy-to-configure contextual actions, so they can just follow the on-screen instructions. * Creating forms and sharing them with other users, with the possibility of automated processing. * Using Web Author to keep track of standardized procedures (e.g. release notes) with the possibility of filtering out the completed tasks and only focusing on the ongoing ones. * Document collaboration with real-time co-authoring. Instead of having read-only access to a document, now you can work alongside other colleagues. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-14.html Make sure to check the full list of the upcoming webinars on our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Webinar: Transforming HTML documents to PDF, Part 1 - Basic CSS Layout
by Alin Belu 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

Hello, We continue our weekly series of live events, next Wednesday (October 21), with the “Transforming HTML documents to PDF, Part 1 - Basic CSS Layout” webinar. If you want to be able to define the look and format of your document but struggling to grasp the basics of CSS, then this is the perfect crash-course for you! In this webinar, Julien Lacour, software developer at Syncro Soft, will teach you a basic understanding of the CSS layout to help you to have a better understanding of PDF publishing. Be assured that there is no need for you to have any CSS background to learn the concepts explained during this webinar, but we promise to help get you up to speed by teaching you: * The basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML5. * How to customize your document with the help of fonts, text, and background colors, and by adjusting the position of elements on your page. * How to debug your CSS document fast and easy with the help of Oxygen. * How to put your CSS to good use and obtain a deliverable PDF output. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-13.html Make sure to check the full list of the upcoming webinars on our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Release of Git Client Add-On version 2.3
by Alin Belu 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hello, We are excited to announce the release of version 2.3 for the Oxygen Git Clientadd-on! One of the most important featuresaddedin thisversionof the add-onis the Git Branch Manager, a side-view that presents all the local and remote branches as a tree. Actions added to the tree's contextual menu make it easier for you to check out branches and to create or delete branches. Also, you cannoweasily switch between local branches with the Git Branch Manager or by using the drop-down menu in the top-right corner of the Git Staging view. Other improvementsadded inversion 2.3 of theOxygenGit Clientadd-on that expand its functionality even furtherinclude: * A new action (Reset "[branch_name]" to this commit) was added in the history table that can be used to undo changes by moving the HEAD of the current branch to the selected commit. * Some editor variables are now supported, including ${git(working_copy_name)}, ${git(working_copy_path)}, ${git(short_branch_name)}, ${git(full_branch_name)}. * The Git History view now has better automatic refresh support. * A confirmation dialog box has been added for instances when you try to commit without a message. * The add-on now contributes a preferences page (Options > Preferences > Plugins > Git Client) that contains a "Notify me about new commits in the remote repository" option. When this option is selected, Oxygen will show notification messages when it detects that new commits have been pushed to the remote repository. * Support for French localization was added. * TheJGitcomponent included in the Git Client was updated to version 5.9.0. * Various other minor improvements and bug fixes were implemented. For more information, see the details for the Git Client add-on on GitHub: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-git-plugin/blob/master/README.md We hope that you will enjoyusingthelatestrelease oftheOxygen Git Clientadd-on as much as weenjoyeddevelopingit! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Webinar: Introduction to XSLT using Oxygen XML Editor
by Alin Belu 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hello, Our weekly live event series continues this Wednesday (October 14) with the “Introduction to XSLT using Oxygen XML Editor” webinar! During this event, you will learn how to process XML documents with a combination of XSLT, the most powerful language designed to process XML documents, and Oxygen, the tool that is most suited for this job. Whether you are a novice or you have been using Oxygen for years, Octavian Nadolu, software architect at Syncro Soft, will show you an easy-to-use workflow, as well as many great features that you may not have been aware of. This live webinar will also teach you how to resolve a variety of problems by introducing you to: * XSLT editing features, such as the Content Completion Assistant that makes XSLT editing easy and intuitive. * XSLT validation and how to use Oxygen’s validation abilities with the support of multiple XSLT processors and automatic validation to keep your XSLT document valid at all times. * XSLT transformations and how to create a simple XSLT transformation scenario and apply it to XML documents. * XPath Content Completion Assistant that shows the proposed list of XPath functions in the current context, documented with information from the W3C specifications. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-12.html Make sure to check the full list of the upcoming webinars on our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 22.1 (2020100710)
by Adrian Buza 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2020100710) for oXygen 22.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author, XML WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, 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#2020100710 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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Refactoring operation to transform the first row of all tables in a set of DITA topics to a header row
by Yves Barbion 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Hi group I've got a bunch of DITA topics with tables which do not have a header row yet, so I was wondering whether there is a refactoring operation available somewhere which transforms the first row(s) of all tables in a set of DITA topics to a header row? Thanks Yves

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Basic help - consulting need
by leipold＠comcast.net 13 Sep '20

13 Sep '20

I am looking for someone to help me get Oxygen not to break with everything I try. I have watched every webinar and searched for answers, but it is just not helping. I am new to Oxygen. I have a very large set of books that I need to get going quickly. While I have figured some complex things out, I can't get the basics working. I need to set up a project that will have three large books in it. For now, I am just trying to get one working. I set up a project and added the ditamap I have been working on. I use the Ditamap PDF - based on HTML5 &CSS scenario and it outputs ok, although the bookmark are all squishy. I want to customize the output, so I duplicate the scenario and change some parameters and save as a publishing template and add to my project. Now I can output using the new scenario. If I use miniTOC, things get messed up. The only way to get rid of the problem is to delete the whole project and scenario and start over.. I do that and the new scenario works (without minTOC). Now I try to edit the css in the publishing template. No matter what I try to edit, even if I put in a period and then delete it, Oxygen breaks and won't transform anything. It says there is a problem with build.xml Again, the only way to get it working again is to delete everything and start over. All I really need are the following items. * Headers Bold non serif * Table format: shaded top row and full borders * Line under the first header(title). * Headers to continue for tables (not available in Parameters) * minitoc would be nice, but not necessary if it causes problems. * hyphenation * I'll need to configure the cover page at some point This is really basic stuff that should take me a few miniutes. I just don't understand how to get it setup and working in Oxygen. I don' think that it will take more than 2 hours to get all this going. I have put about 18 in to attempting to make it work. Between this and the issue I had with Equation conversion from Word (which Radu thankfully helped me through), I am way behind. If I can just get this basic startup, the rest should be pretty smooth. Creating the ditamap and content is not my issue and if I make no changes to the scenario or CSS I can output to PDF. But i do need to make changes to the CSS (or scenario) and I need help getting that working as soon as possible. Thanks, Debbi Debbi Leipold | Mobile (410) 905-7948

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Re: [oXygen-user] Xspec support broken?
by Erik Zander 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

Hi Alex, No luck there :( No exceptions in the console. I have uploaded an image to https://ibb.co/yg6CLKG As I think the maillist scrubs images. The image shows the empty list. Regards Erik ============================================== OLD MESSAGES ======================================================= Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 08:18:34 +0300 From: Alex Jitianu <alex_jitianu(a)sync.ro> To: oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Xspec support broken? Message-ID: <403e53e9-4557-3532-5e58-73cec7fd366e(a)sync.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Hi Erik, The dialog usually presents the templates and functions to help create some scenarios stubs for them. It looks like in the picture below. In your case, do you get an empty list? Please start Oxygen from the command line script (oxygenDeveloper.bat or oxygenDeveloper.sh) and check the console for any exceptions after clicking the customize button. Best regards, Alex -- Alex Jitianu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 9/1/2020 1:38 PM, Erik Zander wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Yes that's exactly what I expect how ever my oxygen does not display any thing in the new dialog when selectin xspec in new and pressing customize. > Until that step all looks good. > > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:31:33 +0300 > From: Alex Jitianu <alex_jitianu(a)sync.ro> > To: oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Xspec support broken? > Message-ID: <0004e195-3803-f86d-7b8e-f0f1d9aacee2(a)sync.ro> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hello, > > The XSpec support is included in the Developer edition. The wizard appears in the New dialog: > > as well as in the project view's contextual menu over an XSLT file: > > The wizard helps you create new XSpec files. To execute them, just open the XSpec file and click on the *Apply transformation Scenario* action on the toolbar : > > Best regards, > Alex > -- > Alex Jitianu > <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger > http://www.oxygenxml.com > > On 8/28/2020 5:47 PM, Erik Zander wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It was a while since I used xspec but I do remember it to just work out of the box. >> >> In my oxygen XML Developer 22.1, build 2020072902 >> >> I see the menus but not the wizard and threes no template for running the tests. >> >> Is something broken or is support dropped? >> >> Or should I unites xslt in any other way? >> >> Regards >> Erik Zander >> _______________________________________________ >> oXygen-user mailing list >> oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com >> https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.oxygenxml.com/pipermail/oxygen-user/attachments/20200902/f68465c…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: bfhdmhfnclgnnegb.png Type: image/png Size: 13010 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.oxygenxml.com/pipermail/oxygen-user/attachments/20200902/f68465c…> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user ------------------------------ End of oXygen-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 2 *******************************************

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[Ann] New Oxygen add-on to help translators
by Radu Coravu 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Hi everyone, Over the course of this summer one of our interns, Mircea Badoi, worked on a free Oxygen XML add-on designed to help translating XML content. Starting from yesterday, the add-on is available for Oxygen vesions 21.1 or newer in our default add-on repository. If you want to install it, you can use the Oxygen main menu "Help->Install new add-ons", choose the default Oxygen add-on update site and you will find an add-on named "Translator Helper (Experimental)" in the list. The add-on has two main features: 1. You can translate content using Google Translate to various languages: * Select the content to translate in the *Author* visual editing mode. You can also select the entire document contents. DITA topics are small so you can select the entire topic contents. * Right click. Select "Google Translate into" and choose the target language. * Copy the translated content from the opened web page. * Click *Replace* in the Oxygen *Translate using Google Translate* dialog that showed up. The original content should now be replaced with the translated content, the original element structure and attributes should remain unchanged. * In addition you can choose to show the original document content in the *Translator Helper* side view. This will allow you to correct the translation further by looking at the original text and the translated text side by side. 2. You can see the original content side by side with the content that you are translating, so you can translate correctly and easy by right clicking in the Author visual editing mode and invoking the *Show current content in side view* action. So I hope you will enjoy the add-on, if you have questions or improvement requests, they are as usual welcomed. One area in which the plugin may be useful is for example if you want to quickly demo to a customer how a topic written in English would look like in other languages like Japanese Chinese, French, German, Russian, etc. Regards, Radu Radu Coravu Oxygen XML Editor

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Re: [oXygen-user] Xspec support broken?
by Erik Zander 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

Hi Alex, Yes that's exactly what I expect how ever my oxygen does not display any thing in the new dialog when selectin xspec in new and pressing customize. Until that step all looks good. Message: 1 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:31:33 +0300 From: Alex Jitianu <alex_jitianu(a)sync.ro> To: oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Xspec support broken? Message-ID: <0004e195-3803-f86d-7b8e-f0f1d9aacee2(a)sync.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Hello, The XSpec support is included in the Developer edition. The wizard appears in the New dialog: as well as in the project view's contextual menu over an XSLT file: The wizard helps you create new XSpec files. To execute them, just open the XSpec file and click on the *Apply transformation Scenario* action on the toolbar : Best regards, Alex -- Alex Jitianu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 8/28/2020 5:47 PM, Erik Zander wrote: > Hi, > > It was a while since I used xspec but I do remember it to just work out of the box. > > In my oxygen XML Developer 22.1, build 2020072902 > > I see the menus but not the wizard and threes no template for running the tests. > > Is something broken or is support dropped? > > Or should I unites xslt in any other way? > > Regards > Erik Zander > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user

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