Version 11.2 of <oXygen/> XML Editor improves the XML Author, the XML development tools, the support for large documents and the SVN Client.

There are changes in:

Author Component

• Author Component Integration
  An Author page is available as a component that can be integrated in your Java application or applet. All features available for editing in the <oXygen/> XML Editor Author page are also available in the Author component.

• Support for Reusable Components
  A fragment of a ic can be extracted in a separate file for reuse in different ics. The component can be reused by inserting an element with a conref attribute where the content of the component is needed. This works without any additional configuration and supports any DITA specialization.
• Content References Management
  The DITA framework includes actions for adding, editing and removing a content reference (conref, conkeyref, conrefend attributes) to/from an existing element.
• Fast Loading of DITA Maps
  A new schema caching mechanism allows to quickly open large DITA Maps and their referred ics.

Author Editing Mode

• Preserve Formatting for Unchanged Elements
  A new option allows formating and saving only the modified elements. This keeps the formating of the other elements for easy comparing of two versions of the file in a versioning system.
• Schema-aware editing improvements
  In case when multiple recovery strategies are validated by the schema information a dialog appears presenting the available recovery alternatives. The dialog also allows to evecute the original action unchanged with the notice that the result will be invalid according with the schema.

Author API

• Update the Outline View
  The current selection can be accessed and set in the Outline view from custom extensions of an Author framework.
• Customize the Outline View
  The popup menu and the displaying and filtering of the tree nodes can be customized in the Outline view with an extension of an Author framework.
• Customize the Breadcrumb
  The text displayed in the nodes list of the Breadcrumb and the popup menu of the Breadcrumb can be customized with an extension of an Author framework.
• Update the Status Bar
  The user can be notified about the state of an operation by updating the <oXygen/> status bar. This is usually preferable to displaying a dialog box.

Text Editing Mode

• Improved Handling of Large Documents
  The support for large documents has been improved so that the opening and editing of large documents are faster. <oXygen/> can now also open documents with very long lines by using automatic line wrapping.
• Customizable Font Styles for Syntax Highlighting
  A font style (bold/italic) and a background color can be set for any token (element, attribute, text, etc.) that is displayed in an editor in Text mode.

XSLT and XQuery

• Debug XPath Expressions
  Now the XSLT Debugger is capable to step into XPath 2.0 expressions when using the bundled Saxon-HE/PE/EE XSLT processor.
• XQuery 1.1 Transformations
  Saxon 9 EE bundled with <oXygen/> can be used to run XQuery 1.1 transformations.

New Tools

• New Spell Checker
  Hunspell (the engine used by OpenOffice, Mozilla and others) is now used by <oXygen/> for spell checking. <oXygen/> ships with dictionaries for English, German, French and Spanish but users can also install others from the almost 100 dictionaries available for Hunspell. The old spell checking engine remains available.
• Hexadecimal Viewer
  <oXygen/> includes a hexadecimal viewer.

Plugins API

• Workspace Access Plugin
  A new type of plugin was added. This plugin provides support for customizing the menus, toolbars and views of the application and for opening and closing documents. It is active in both Text mode and Author mode of all opened documents.
• Mark Resource Read-Only
  A resource opened with a custom protocol plugin can be marked as read-only. It can be used when opening resources from a CMS (Content Management System).
• Open Redirect Plugin
  This type of plugin is useful for opening more than one file with only one open action. For example when a zip archive or an ODF file or an OOXML file is opened in the Archive Browser view the plugin can decide to open also a file from the archive in a new XML editor panel, like the document.xml main file from an OOXML file archive.

SVN Client

• Faster Working Copy Load Time
  A working copy is cached, so when it is loaded next time in the Working Copy view, the operation will be much faster than in the previous versions of Syncro SVN Client.
• Automatic Refresh of the Working Copy
  The working copy is automatically refreshed every time Syncro SVN Client gains focus, if changes are detected in the file system. This is done in order to update the state of the resources modified by external applications.
• More Responsive Repository Browsing
  You can configure the repository connections timeout and s non-responsive repository browsing operations.
• Better Handling for Obstructed Resources
  Operations correctly take into account obstructed resources.
• Print or Save as Image a Revision Graph
  Generated revision graphs can be printed or saved as images.

Component Updates

• Updated DITA Open Toolkit
  DITA Open Toolkit was updated to version 1.5.1 M1. It includes a speed improvement implemented by caching the grammar pool used for transforming DITA files.
• Updated TEI P5 Framework
  The TEI P5 schemas were updated to version 1.6.0. The TEI XSL stylesheets were updated to version 5.29.
• Updated Saxon 9 Processor
  The Saxon 9 XSLT/XQuery processor was updated to version 9.2.0.6.
• Updated Libxml and Libxslt Libraries
  The Libxml library was updated to version 2.7.6. The Libxslt library was updated to version 1.1.26.
• Updated Calabash XProc processor
  The Calabash XProc was updated to version 0.9.19.
• Updated CSS Validator
  The W3C CSS Validator was updated to version 2.0.