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[oXygen XML Editor Blog] - Sharing Application Settings
by oXygen XML Editor Blog 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

oXygen XML Editor Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// Sharing Application Settings Posted: 24 Nov 2015 11:44 PM PST http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutOxygenXmlEditor/~3/ijz2ztr8NGQ/sharing-… There are varios ways in the Oxygen standalone version through which a team of writers can share and use a set of common settings. Below I will try to list each of these possibilities along with useful links: Save the settings at project level and have all users use the same project "projectName.xpr" file in the Project view when editing. Most of the Oxygen Preference pages have a switch radio button which allows you to pass the settings to Project level and save them in the current project configuration file opened in the Project view. If you commit that Project configuration file to a version control system like GIT or SVN, all writers can open and use that project when working with the repository content. For example, when we work on the Oxygen User's Manual using our common GitHub repository, we all open in the Project view the "userguide.xpr" project which comes with various fixed options (eg: enabling automatic spell checking):https://github.com/oxygenxml/userguide You can find out more details about sharing projects here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/#topics/sharing-proje…. Create and then provide a default options XML document to others. When placed in a specific place in the Oxygen installation or referenced via a specific property in the application startup script, this default options XML document will be used by the application to provide default values for certain settings. You can find out more about how default options work here:https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/#topics/default-…. Have others manually import an options XML document which you exported from Oxygen:https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/#topics/import…. An Oxygen plugin could use our Java API to impose fixed options when the application starts using the API method: PluginWorkspaceProvider.getPluginWorkspace().setGlobalObjectProperty(key, value). In our Maven-based SDK we have a sample plugin called ImposeOptions which imposes a fixed set of options when the application starts. If you want to share document type configurations (for editing certain XML vocabulary) you can find more details in this older blog post: http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2015/08/document-type-extension-sharing.html. -- You are subscribed to email updates from "oXygen XML Editor Blog." To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now: https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=y_tRXtumvTurKTedh51Jnl… Email delivery powered by Google. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 17.1 (2015111718)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2015111718) for oXygen 17.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author). 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#2015111718 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 Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.2020 Fax: +40-251-461482 support(a)oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com

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[oXygen XML Editor Blog] - Possibilities to obtain PDF from DITA
by oXygen XML Editor Blog 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

oXygen XML Editor Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// Possibilities to obtain PDF from DITA Posted: 16 Nov 2015 01:07 PM PST http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutOxygenXmlEditor/~3/sXZMCVP56Pc/possibil… Lately while attending Tekom 2015 and DITA OT Day 2015 I happened to come across two more DITA to PDF solutions that I did not know about so I tried to compile below a list of all DITA to PDF possibilities that I know of, along with some details: Legacy DITA to PDF editing solution. It is no longer distribute with DITA OT 2.x and is probably not compatible anymore with it. Default DITA to PDF solution embedded in the DITA Open Toolkit distribution. Besides Apache FOP you can also use RenderX XEP or Antenna House for publishing. It's customization can be done either via a plugin or via a PDF customization folder: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/index.html#topics/dit…. DITA to PDF using CSS. This open source DITA OT plugin was developed by Oxygen as an alternative to the default PDF publishing. It allows styling the DITA content using CSS and publishing to PDF using either Prince XML or Antenna House. Antenna House DITA OT plugin for producing PDF from DITA using Antenna House. There is also a DITA specialization plugin which allows you to set specific formatting attributes directly to DITA elements. The TopLeaf XML Publisher commercial product allows you to produce various outputs like PDF and EPUB from XML content. The application also has a visual PDF layout formatter, it comes also with a DITA OT plugin and has installation instructions for Oxygen:http://www.turnkey.com.au/tksweb/xmtp/webhelp_out/oxygen/install.html. Miramo, again a commercial solution which recently started developing support for DITA using a DITA OT plugin. Possibly user based DITA to PDF publishing will be free and server based production will require buying a license. Like TopLeaf, it also has a visual PDF layout designer. Adobe FrameMaker can also publish to PDF using its own solution. Now the question would be, why there are so many solutions available? In my opinion all these solutions are available because the default DITA to PDF output still requires quite a lot of XSLT skills in order to customize. Jarno Elovirta's PDF plugin generator covers some of the mainstream possible customizations but not all. What do you think? -- You are subscribed to email updates from "oXygen XML Editor Blog." To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now: https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=y_tRXtumvTurKTedh51Jnl… Email delivery powered by Google. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

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Automatic Validation - in text mode, in Eclipse release of oXygen
by Echlin, Robert 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi I have developed some schematron rules to apply to DITA content for our staff. We use the IXIASOFT CMS Client, which means that we are using oXygen inside of Eclipse. When I open a file in Author Mode, the schematron rules are applied automatically. Red and yellow underlines flag the items considered invalid by the Schematron rules. When I switch to editing the file in Text mode, the Schematron rules are not applied automatically. I have to manually run validation. We are behind in the IXIASOFT releases, so we are using Eclipse 3.5.2 and oXygen 16.1. Is there a setting I can change to fix this? Is this fixed in oXygen 17.1? Is it fixed in newer versions of Eclipse? All my very best, Rob -- Rob Echlin, Documentation Systems Architect, Wind River Office: 613-270-5796, Cell: 613-266-8311, Skype: rob.echlin.wr

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displaying <> around element names in Schematron messages
by Echlin, Robert 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Hi Adrian and Radu et all, I want to display Schematron messages such as: - a <systemoutput> element must be inside a <codeblock> element. The display in oXygen looks like this: - a <systemoutput> element must be inside a <codeblock> element. I was expecting this: - a <systemoutput> element must be inside a <codeblock> element. Is there a way to achieve that? Or can you add it in a future release, please? All my very best, Rob -- Rob Echlin, Documentation Systems Architect, Wind River Office: 613-270-5796, Cell: 613-266-8311, Skype: rob.echlin.wr

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[oXygen XML Editor Blog] - Adding CALS-table related functionality to your custom Oxygen framework
by oXygen XML Editor Blog 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

oXygen XML Editor Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// Adding CALS-table related functionality to your custom Oxygen framework Posted: 30 Oct 2015 07:32 AM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutOxygenXmlEditor/~3/dZaVU4PwlCc/adding-c… Oxygen comes with full support for CALS tables in DITA and Docbook documents, meaning that you can easily make selections, resize columns, and invoke special actions like insert or delete rows and columns, join, or split cells. You can also easily customize tables properties such as alignments, separators, and table borders. But what if you are editing documents from other vocabularies, containing tables with CALS structure? What you can do to obtain the same table editing features? Let's suppose that you already created an Oxygen framework for your documents vocabulary (if you need further information about frameworks, see http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2014/08/the-oxygen-sdk-part-2-frameworks.html) What we want to obtain next is to extract all the CALS tables related support from Docbook framework and add it to your custom framework. Why Docbook and not DITA as reference? Because the DITA customization is based on the "class" attribute checking while the Docbook one is more general (element-name oriented). Table rendering copy [oXygen_install_dir]\frameworks\docbook\css\cals_table.css in your framework css directory in the Document Type edit dialog, Author tab, CSS sub-tab, add the ${framework}/css/cals_table.css entry to the list of the CSSs In this way the table will be rendered properly in Author mode and the following features will be available: select cells (CTRL+click), rows (click before the row), columns (click on top of the row), tables (click in the left-up corner of the table) resize table column Create table actions Here are the table-related actions implemented in Docbook that you can implement also in you framework: Expand colspecs Insert/Delete Rows Insert/Delete Columns Table Properties Join cells Split cell Copy [oXygen_installation_dir]\frameworks\docbook\docbook.jar in your framework directory (this jar contains all the table operations classes needed to create table actions). In Document type edit dialog go to Classpath tab and add the docbook.jar from your framework directory to the list of paths. In this way you have access to all table operations from your framework. For every table action you have to define a corresponding action in the Document type configuration dialog. Here are the details: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.1/ug-editor/#topics/the-action-di…. You can look at the corresponding Docbook action to see the properties (id, name, icons, the conditions that enables it, the specific operation for CALS tables). Once you created these actions you can add them to the UI. Add table actions to menu, toolbar and contextual menu To add an action to the menu go to Document Type configuration dialog, Author tab, Menu sub-tab, select the action from Available actions section and add it to the Current action section. To add an action to the contextual menu go to Document Type configuration dialog, Author tab, Contextual menu sub-tab, select the action from Available actions section and add it to the Current action section. To add an action to the toolbar go to Document Type configuration dialog, Author tab, Toolbar sub-tab, select the action from Available actions section and add it to the Current action section. If all goes well, your custom framework which uses the standard CALS table naming mechanism will properly handle tables, both for display and for table-related operations. -- You are subscribed to email updates from "oXygen XML Editor Blog." To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now: https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=y_tRXtumvTurKTedh51Jnl… Email delivery powered by Google. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 17.1 (2015102718)
by Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2015102718) for oXygen 17.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author). 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#2015102718 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 Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.2020 Fax: +40-251-461482 support(a)oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com

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[oXygen XML Editor Blog] - How Special Paste works in Oxygen
by oXygen XML Editor Blog 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

oXygen XML Editor Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// How Special Paste works in Oxygen Posted: 28 Oct 2015 04:48 AM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutOxygenXmlEditor/~3/8aMRl4DpDek/how-spec… If you've worked with one of the XML vocabularies for which Oxygen has out of the box support like DITA, Docbook, TEI, XHTML you've probably already used the support Oxygen has for converting content pasted in the application from external applications like Microsoft Word, Excel or from any web browser. This is a very useful feature for converting various types of content to XML because it preserves and converts styling, links, lists, tables and image references. The feature relies on the fact that when copying content in the applications mentioned above, they set in the clipboard the HTML equivalent of the copied content. So all Oxygen has to do is clean up that HTML, make it wellformed XHTML and apply conversion XSLT stylesheets over it. This support is not hardcoded and anybody who is developing an Oxygen framework customization for a certain XML vocabulary can provide conversion stylesheets for external pasted HTML content. I will describe how this works for the DITA framework and you can do the same for yours. You can also use this information to modify the way in which smart paste works for the bundled framework configurations. In the Preferences->Document Type Association page you can choose to edit (or extend) the DITA document type association. In the Extensions tab the Extensions bundle implementation is set to DITAExtensionsBundle which resides in the DITA Java extensions archive dita.jar. The DITAExtensionsBundle is an extension of the ExtensionsBundle API and it provides its own external object extension handler: /** * @see ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.ExtensionsBundle#createExternalObjectInsertionHandler() */ @Override public AuthorExternalObjectInsertionHandler createExternalObjectInsertionHandler() { return new DITAExternalObjectInsertionHandler(); } The DITAExternalObjectInsertionHandler extends the base class AuthorExternalObjectInsertionHandler and provides a reference to its specific conversion stylesheet: /** * @see ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.AuthorExternalObjectInsertionHandler#getImporterStylesheetFileName(ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.AuthorAccess) */ @Override protected String getImporterStylesheetFileName(AuthorAccess authorAccess) { return "xhtml2ditaDriver.xsl"; }Note: The Extensions tab also allows you to specify the external object insertion handler as a separate extension. In the same Document Type edit dialog in the Classpath tab you will see that there is a reference to a framework-specific resources folder like:${framework}/resources/ If you look on disk in the DITA framework resources folder: "OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita\resources" you will find the xhtml2ditaDriver.xsl stylesheet there. The stylesheet imports various other stylesheets which you could probably fully reuse and which apply various cleanups on HTML produced with MS Word. It also handles the conversion between the pasted HTML content and DITA so it is a good starting point, you can copy the entire set of XSLT stylesheets to your framework and use those as a starting point. -- You are subscribed to email updates from "oXygen XML Editor Blog." To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now: https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=y_tRXtumvTurKTedh51Jnl… Email delivery powered by Google. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

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conditional table columns
by Surbhi SINGHAL 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Hello As far as I know, this is not possible, but just in case, if there is any possibility. I have a 5 column table where I need to make 3 columns conditional based on audience attribute. Is this possible? Since it might be a common challenge, what are the work-arounds that are used for tackle such scenarios. Thanx Surbhi

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Replacing icons on oXygen form control elements with a custom made icon font
by Stefan Eike 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Hi, I have written a blog post about creating oXygen form control elements with a custom made icon font. This may boost the rendering performance in Author view when using many form control elements and large files. http://xephon2.github.io/2015/10/21/fontello/ Best regards, Stefan

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