Oxygen XML Web Author

Oxygen XML Web Author

 

Engage Your Whole Organization In Content Creation

 

 

Oxygen XML Web Author takes advantage of the state-of-the-art Oxygen authoring technology to bring XML editing and reviewing to any modern web browser. You can collaborate with other members of your team to contribute and modify content from anywhere on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. The adaptive and innovative user interface is designed to allow you to interact with XML content in the most efficient and productive way possible.

 

Features & Technologies

 

Built-in Support for all major documentation frameworks

 

Oxygen XML Web Author comes with built-in support for DITA, DocBook, TEI, and XHTML document types. This support includes updates to the latest version of DITA (1.3) and allows you to use the latest specializations such as Lightweight DITA or DITA Learning and Training. Oxygen XML Web Author provides features such as visual editing, document structure validation, and content completion. You can also tweak the editing experience using standard technologies, such as CSS and XML Schema languages.

 

DITA

 

Oxygen XML Web Author comes with built-in support for the most popular XML documentation frameworks, including DITA. The built-in DITA framework includes support for the latest version of DITA 1.3, as well as backwards compatibility for previous versions and the latest specializations (such as Lightweight DITA and DITA Learning and Training).

When reviewing and editing DITA documents in Oxygen XML Web Author, a variety of features are available that were designed specifically for DITA document types.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of toolbar and contextual menu actions that are specifically for DITA documents. They make it very easy to insert and work with DITA markup.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of new document templates that make it easy to create various types of DITA documents with some of the document structure already present.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author automatically validates DITA documents as you type and presents warning messages in the Validation panel on the right side of the screen. Many of the DITA validation issues that are detected also include Quick Fix proposals to help you solve the problems.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes an online content completion assistant to help you insert and manage DITA markup without having to take your fingers off the keyboard. By default, it appears when you press the Enter key and it offers proposals that are valid at the current location within the DITA document with the most logical choices listed first. Most proposals also include a description to help you understand exactly what the particular selection will do.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author has an option to adjust the rendering of documents simply by choosing from various styles. Each style is based on a corresponding CSS file stored in the built-in DITA framework. There are numerous different styles available for DITA documents. You can choose one main style and multiple additional styles that act as layers, with choices such as switching to a full width mode, a print preview mode, or adding inline hints to help you understand the type of content that is expected within the DITA structure.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a toolbar button for selecting a root DITA map for the current document. This makes it possible for the defined keys to be resolved and displayed properly.

Example: Unresolved key with wrong context map selected.

 

Example: No errors with correct context map selected.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author proposes attribute values according to the subject scheme referenced from the context DITA map. If your document is associated with a root DITA map that contains a subject scheme, the Attributes panel provides proposals for attribute values according to the definitions in the subject scheme map.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author can be configured to display DITA maps with all the referenced topics expanded in one document without having to open each topic individually to see their content. This can be achieved with a simple URL parameter.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes support for image maps in DITA documents to provide an easy way to create hyperlinks in various areas within an image without having to divide the image into separate image files. The built-in Image Map Editor is a very simple yet powerful image mapper tool that makes it very easy to create and configure the mapped areas and assign the target links.

 

 

Oxygen XML Web Author displays defined DITA profiling attributes and their values inline, making it very easy to see how the content will be filtered in the output depending on the attribute value selected in the publishing phase.

 

 

DocBook

 

Oxygen XML Web Author comes with built-in support for the most popular XML documentation frameworks, including DocBook. The built-in DocBook framework includes support for the latest version of DocBook 5.1, as well as backwards compatibility for previous versions.

When reviewing and editing DocBook documents in Oxygen XML Web Author, a variety of features are available that were designed specifically for DocBook document types.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of toolbar and contextual menu actions that are specifically for DocBook documents. They make it very easy to insert and work with DocBook markup.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of new document templates that make it easy to create various types of DocBook documents with some of the document structure already present.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author automatically validates DocBook documents as you type and presents warning messages in the Validation panel on the right side of the screen. Many of the DocBook validation issues that are detected also include Quick Fix proposals to help you solve the problems.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes an inline content completion assistant to help you insert and manage DocBook markup without having to take your fingers off the keyboard. By default, it appears when you press the Enter key and it offers proposals that are valid at the current location within the DocBook document with the most logical choices listed first. Most proposals also include a description to help you understand exactly what the particular selection will do.

 

 

Oxygen XML Web Author has an option to adjust the rendering of documents simply by choosing from several styles. Each style is based on a corresponding CSS file stored in the built-in DocBook framework. There are several different styles available for DocBook documents, with choices such as switching to a full width mode, displaying colored revision changes, and showing or hiding column specifications for tables.

 

 

TEI

 

Oxygen XML Web Author comes with built-in support for the most popular XML documentation frameworks, including TEI. The built-in TEI framework includes support for the latest version of P5.

 

When reviewing and editing TEI documents in Oxygen XML Web Author, a variety of features are available that were designed specifically for TEI document types.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of toolbar and contextual menu actions that are specifically for TEI documents. They make it very easy to insert and work with TEI markup.

 

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of new document templates that make it easy to create various types of TEI documents with some of the document structure already present.

 

 

Oxygen XML Web Author automatically validates TEI documents as you type and presents warning messages in the Validation panel on the right side of the screen. Many of the TEI validation issues that are detected also include Quick Fix proposals to help you solve the problems.

 

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes an inline content completion assistant to help you insert and manage TEI markup without having to take your fingers off the keyboard. By default, it appears when you press the Enter key and it offers proposals that are valid at the current location within the TEI document with the most logical choices listed first. Most proposals also include a link to a TEI site that offers more information about the element.

 

 

Oxygen XML Web Author has an option to render TEI documents in a full width mode to maximize the screen space used by the document.

 

 

 

XHTML

 

Oxygen XML Web Author comes with built-in support for the most popular XML documentation frameworks, including XHTML.

 

When reviewing and editing XHTML documents in Oxygen XML Web Author, a variety of features are available that were designed specifically for XHTML document types.

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of toolbar and contextual menu actions that are specifically for XHTML documents. They make it very easy to insert and work with XHTML markup.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a variety of new document templates that make it easy to create various types of XHTML documents with some of the document structure already present.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author automatically validates XHTML documents as you type and presents warning messages in the Validation panel on the right side of the screen. Many of the XHTML validation issues that are detected also include Quick Fix proposals to help you solve the problems.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes an inline content completion assistant to help you insert and manage XHTML markup without having to take your fingers off the keyboard. By default, it appears when you press the Enter key and it offers proposals that are valid at the current location within the XHTML document with the most logical choices listed first. Most proposals also include a description to help you understand exactly what the particular selection will do.

 

Oxygen XML Web Author has an option to adjust the rendering of documents simply by choosing from several styles. Each style is based on a corresponding CSS file stored in the built-in XHTML framework. You can choose between several main styles and an additional style is also available to switch to a print preview mode.

 

Content Repositories

Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

 

Edit files directly from your public or private Git repositories. This includes support for all Git repository managers, with an improved user experience for GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket. You can use a branching workflow to take advantage of automatic merging support for conflicts resolution.

 

WebDAV Servers

 

Choose from a variety of servers that support WebDAV, such as Box.com, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS, Subversion Edge, and Alfresco. The WebDAV support includes useful features such as automatic locking and automatically saving your document whenever a change is made.

 

SharePoint

 

Use Oxygen XML Web Author to edit and manage documents stored in a SharePoint library. After configuring your integration, you will have access to SharePoint-specific toolbar buttons that allow you to easily use a checkin/checkout collaboration workflow.

 

Extensibility

CMS Integration

 

Oxygen XML Web Author is integrated by many of the industry leading content management service providers. Our CMS partners providing integrations for Oxygen XML Web author include Astoria, Componize, DitaExchange, DITAworks, KGU, RSI and Vasont. A connector for IBM FileNet is also available.

 

Powerful API

 

Every feature is designed with customization in mind. By using the Oxygen SDK, you can add support for other XML vocabularies, connect the Oxygen XML Web Author to a CMS, or integrate it into your own application.

 

Custom Document Types

 

The Oxygen XML Web Author can be configured to work with any XML document type. The XML frameworks that are developed for Oxygen XML Editor can be deployed in the Web Author with a high degree of compatibility and you can customize the entire editing experience.

 

Contribution

 

Guided Authoring

 

The interface supports simple and intuitive data entry in XML format using form controls (such as text-fields, check-boxes, and buttons). The Content Completion Assistant simplifies the process of adding and editing XML structure while preserving document validity.

 

Automatic Validation

 

Automatic validation helps to keep the document structure valid and to report spelling errors. Quick Fixes also help you to solve validation issues. It uses the same technology as Oxygen XML Editor and numerous validation engines are provided (such as DTD, XML Schema, RNG, Schematron).

 

Document Templates

 

Oxygen XML Web Author includes a large variety of predefined templates to make it very simple to create new documents for any of the built-in frameworks. You can also create and customize your own templates in the desktop version of Oxygen XML Editor to use them in Web Author.

Reviewing

 

Easy Collaboration

 

You can collaborate with others just by sharing the link to the document. You can also use the change tracking feature to record all the changes made to the document so that others can review them before they are accepted.

 

Add Comments

 

Reviewers can add and manage comments directly in the document using a familiar GUI, with no XML knowledge required. Authors can use any Oxygen XML product to read and reply to the comments and adapt the content accordingly.

 

 

Single-Source Review

 

The Web Author offers true single-source reviewing, directly on the topic source. The nightmare of generating lengthy outputs, sending them to various reviewers, and then merging their suggestions is over.

 

Easy Management

 

Easy to Deploy

 

Oxygen XML Web Author can be installed in very little time using an intuitive wizard. System admins can perform maintenance tasks with an easy-to-use administration interface.

 

Easy to Maintain

 

Oxygen XML Web Author does not use a database, so it is easy to update or deploy in a cloud service provider. You can use the same frameworks as Oxygen desktop applications to make sure all your users have the same editing experience.

 

Runs in any Modern Browser

 

You can use Oxygen XML Web Author on your mobile devices or desktop browser and no setup is required. Just click on a link and you can immediately start reviewing or editing.