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We are pleased to announce the release of oXygen XML Author version 18.1.

New in oXygen XML Author 18.1

Although oXygen XML Author version 18.1 is a maintenance release that focuses on performance and usability improvements, it also adds a variety of powerful new features, making it similar to a major release.

Audio and video content in DITA is now fully supported. oXygen XML Author 18.1 allows you to insert media objects, play audio, and display video directly in the Author visual editing mode and includes updates to the publishing workflow to handle video and audio objects in the output.

A new Markdown editor allows you to easily write, preview, and convert Markdown content into HTML or DITA and you can use Markdown-encoded topics in DITA maps. When validating a DITA map, oXygen is also able to validate Markdown documents and transform them in the publishing stage.

Checking for and merging changes is made easier with the new 3-way directories comparison tool and the addition of more syntax-aware diff algorithms.

You can publish the tracked changes and comments made in DITA documents to PDF output, thus allowing you to have the review information that is captured in oXygen also available as PDF.

The responsive WebHelp system received numerous updates, including new skins, support for expanding/collapsing components (sections, tables, etc.), automatic image scaling, support for

DITA 1.3-specific context sensitive help information, and control over what is indexed for searches.

As usual, oXygen also added many new API and component updates for this release.

oXygen XML Web Author

Action to Insert References to Reusable Content in DITA

The Reuse Content action was added to the DITA toolbar and it provides a mechanism for reusing content fragments. It opens a dialog box that allows you to select the content you want to reuse and inserts it as a content reference (conref), or if the target topic has a defined key, it is inserted as a content key reference (conkeyref).

Video and Audio Media Objects are Rendered in Web Author

Video and audio media objects are rendered by the oXygen XML Web Author directly in the editing area, with inline players that allow you to play the video or audio content.

Filtering and Better Rendering of Review Panel Information

The Review panel allows you to quickly find specific changes or comments by filtering the presented entries on content, author name, type of change or a date range. Replies to comment are indented and grouped together so you can easily understand the flow of the discussion.

Control Display of Review Information

When a document contains track change information, you can choose if that is visible or not. By choosing to see the final form of the document, you will not see any track changes in the document but these are still recorded and they will be available when needed, for example when someone wants to accept/reject the changes made to the document.

Visual XML Editing

New Form Controls for Rendering and Playing Video and Audio Media

Three powerful new form controls were added that allow you to render and play media in Author mode. The oxy_video form control can be used to play video files, the oxy_browser form control can be used to render an HTML page or SVG file, and the oxy_audio form control can play audio clips.

Convert Paragraphs to List Items and Change List Item Type

When editing DITA, DocBook, XHTML, or TEI documents, you can easily convert selected paragraphs to list items by using the various Insert List Item actions on the toolbar. You can also change selected list items to another type (for example, change an unordered list to an ordered list).

Convert Selected Content to a Table

When editing DITA, DocBook, XHTML, or TEI documents, you can easily convert selected paragraphs, lists, and inline content into a table by using the Insert Table actions on the toolbar. It opens a dialog box that allows you to configure the table and inserts the selected content in the first column and first row after the header.

Smart Paste Handles Internal Links in Office Documents

The Smart Paste feature has been improved to preserve links to other parts of the same document, when pasting content from Office documents into Author mode. Links are converted to cross references for the particular document type that you are working with.

Improvements to Paste Strategies in Tables

The strategies for the behavior of the paste mechanism when pasting content in table cells has been improved. Now, copied cells are pasted while preserving their initial order and spacing.

DITA

Support for Video and Audio Media Objects

oXygen now includes actions to easily insert video or audio content within DITA topics. The oXygen visual editing Author mode will not only display the media content, but also allow you to play it in-place. On the publishing side, oXygen comes with a DITA-OT plugin that will enable the multimedia content to appear in HTML and PDF output.

Embed Video and Audio Media in DITA to WebHelp Output

You can insert references to video and audio media resources (such as YouTube videos) in your DITA topics and publish them to WebHelp output. The embedded video and audio objects can be played directly in all HTML5-based outputs, including WebHelp systems.

New Action for Duplicating Topics

There is now a new contextual menu action in the DITA Maps Manager view called Duplicate that creates a copy of the selected topic and inserts it as a sibling. It is helpful for quickly creating a new DITA topic that is similar to an existing topic

Lightweight DITA Improvements

The Lightweight DITA DTDs were updated to the latest version. Also, you can now use the new Insert Media action to insert references to video or audio resources when editing Lightweight DITA documents.

Lightweight DITA Improvements

Markdown Editor

New Markdown Editor

oXygen now includes a built-in Markdown editor that allows you to write and edit documents using Markdown and then converts the syntax to HTML or DITA. The specialized

multi-pane editor includes a preview panel to help you visualize the final output. The editor includes a variety of helpful actions, automatic validation, syntax highlighting to make it easier to read and write, and specialized syntax rules that combine popular features from several specifications.

Convert Markdown Documents to DITA Topics

The Markdown editing support includes unique features that allow you to create Markdown documents directly in DITA maps (from the DITA Maps Manager) and the transformation process will convert them the same as other DITA topics. You can also use a new action (in the DITA Maps Manager) to manually convert Markdown documents to DITA topics.

Comparison Tools

Directory Comparison: Support for Three-Way Directory Comparison

A new feature was added that allows you to perform three-way comparisons on directories to help you identify and merge changes between multiple modifications of the same directory structure. It is especially helpful for teams that have

multiple authors contributing documents to the same directory system. It offers information about conflicts and changes, and includes actions to easily merge, accept, overwrite, or ignore changes to the directory system.

File Comparison: More Accurate Second Level Comparisons on XML Nodes

When using the XML Fast and XML Accurate algorithms for two-way or three-way comparisons, the second level comparison is now processed using a syntax-aware comparison that splits the files or fragments into sequences of tokens and computes the differences between them. This results in a more accurate second level comparison.

File Comparison: Improvements to the Format and Indent Action

The Format and Indent action in the File Comparison tool now works on more file types. You can now use the action on the following types of files: XQuery, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, RNC, XSD, RNG, NVDL, XML, ANT, DITAMap, WSDL, SVG, Schematron, XProc, XSL, and HTML.

Content Completion

Improved Content Completion Configuration Support

oXygen allows you to set a configuration file to control the content completion proposals for elements presented in the Content Completion Assistant. Now, you can identify more precisely the elements you want to control, by being able to set conditions that include attributes and attribute values.

WebHelp

New Skins Added to the WebHelp Responsive System

Some creative new skins were added to the WebHelp Responsive system for both tree and tile variants of the templates. For example, there are new skins called Aqua Marine, Ashes, Hightech, and Sky that were added to the growing list of predefined skins.

Added Expand/Collapse Functionality in the WebHelp Responsive Output

The HTML content generated for the DITA sections, tables, topics, or other components is now collapsible or expandable, allowing you to easily navigate through the DITA topic content.

XSLT Extension Points for the DITA-OT WebHelp Plugin

The DITA-OT WebHelp plugin exposes two XSLT extension points that allow you to override the XSLT stylesheets that generates the WebHelp HTML pages. This allows you to customize the WebHelp output without changing the resources within the WebHelp plugin.

Context Sensitive WebHelp was Updated for DITA 1.3

The Context Sensitive WebHelp system was updated to support the new changes from DITA 1.3 specifications. For example, you can now associate a topic with an application by using the @appid and @appname attributes available on the resourceid element.

New Template Components Were Added for WebHelp Responsive DITA Output

The WebHelp Responsive template mechanism received two new components. One for related links and another for child links. This improvement allows you to hide or move these components anywhere in the layout.

Exclude Content from the WebHelp Search Indexer

The WebHelp Search Indexer can now be customized to exclude topics from the indexing process through various methods. You can do so by using a WebHelp transformation parameter or in the

DITA map by setting the @search attribute to "no".

Images are Automatically Scaled in WebHelp Responsive Output

Improvements were made to image rendering in the output of WebHelp Responsive layouts. The width of images in topic pages now automatically adapt to the size of the screen.

Other

Japanese Content Now Supported in Open/Find Resource Mechanism

The Open/Find Resource mechanism now supports Japanese content and other languages. You can specify the content language in the Open/Find Resource preferences page and the search engine will use stop words and analyzers tuned for that specific language.

Support Added for BITS Documents

Support was added for BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite) documents in the JATS (NISO Journal Article Tag Suite) framework. This includes an NLM Book 2.0 new document template and BITS 2.0 XSD schemas.

Improvements to the XLIFF Editing Experience

Various improvements have been added for editing XLIFF documents. For example, in Author mode you can now select between different styles to see various views of the XLIFF documents. Also, oXygen now supports setting the @approved attribute on trans-unit elements to make it easier to proofread translations directly in Author mode. Furthermore, a Schematron validation can automatically detect content that appears to not have been translated.