 10:30-11:30
Nov 14, 2022 | Test Kitchen | What's New in Oxygen XML Editor version 25 for DITA Editing -
Radu Coravu & George BinaRadu Coravu & George Bina -
Oxygen XML Editor
We will start with an overview of Oxygen XML tools for technical publishing and then
focus on some of the new features Oxygen XML Author version 25 brings for DITA editing:
- Dynamically convert OpenAPI content to DITA at edit or publishing time
- Support for Q/A topics and for producing Google Structured Data from DITA tasks and Q/A topics
- Expand topic references and content references on demand
- Easy Access to the DITA Metrics Report
- Improvements made to the DITA Reusable Components View
- Speed improvements when opening large DITA Maps
- Publishing speed improvements
- Support for publishing new codeblock syntax highlight colors (YAML, Powershell, DTD, or CMD)
- Create archivable PDF documents
and more.
Radu Coravu is a technical guru working on oXygen XML Editor. During the last years, his main focus has
been in the development of the visual XML Author editing environment and the specific-DITA support provided
by oXygen. He provides support for complex integrations and helps steer the product in the right direction,
all this with some development on the side.
George Bina is one of the founders of Syncro Soft, the company that develops oXygen XML suite of XML editing,
authoring, development, publishing and collaboration tools. He has more than 20 years of experience in working
with XML and related technologies, bringing many innovative ideas to reality and contributing to XML-related open-source projects.
He presented at many XML, DITA, and technical communication conferences, giving passionate presentations and challenging the
technological status quo, trying to get the audience to think outside the box, and re-imagine the future.
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12:30-13:30
Nov 14, 2022 | Presentation | DITA Perspectives -
George BinaGeorge Bina - Oxygen
XML Editor
DITA is not defined as a flat list of elements, but each element is either a base element or it derives
as a specialized version of another element. This hierarchy should actually decrease the cognitive complexity
of a vocabulary because it allows you to find an element faster than working with a flat list.
In this presentation we want to show the hierarchy of elements in DITA and then explore how we may
take advantage of this in understanding the DITA architecture, learning DITA, document authoring, etc.
George Bina is one of the founders of Syncro Soft, the company that develops oXygen
XML suite of XML editing, authoring, development, publishing and collaboration tools. He has more than
20 years of experience in working with XML and related technologies, bringing many innovative ideas to
reality and contributing to XML-related open-source projects.
He presented at many XML, DITA, and technical communication conferences, giving passionate presentations
and challenging the technological status quo, trying to get the audience to think outside the box,
and re-imagine the future.
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08:30-09:30
Nov 15, 2022 | Presentation | Blogging Using the DITA XML Standard -
Radu CoravuRadu Coravu - Oxygen
XML Editor
I will share with you some of the ways in which I customized DITA editing
and publishing to produce a blog web site from DITA XML content:
- Using GitHub to store the blog contents.
- Adding editing constraints for the blog project.
- Using a DITA OT project file to publish the blog to various output sources like WebHelp, PDF, EPUB.
- Using the Netlify platform to host the published blog contents.
- Integrating the blog output with a feedback form and online editing tool.
- Customizing the published output to generate an RSS feed.
- Customizing the published output to build a what’s new list of articles.
- Customizing the published output to show the author's name and article creation date.
- Customizing the published output to add category labels to articles.
and more…
Radu Coravu is a technical guru working on oXygen XML Editor.
During the last years, his main focus has been in the development of the visual
XML Author editing environment and the specific-DITA support provided by oXygen.
He provides support for complex integrations and helps steer the product in the
right direction, all this with some development on the side.
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16:00-17:00
Nov 15, 2022 | Presentation | Custom Rules for DITA Projects -
Octavian NadoluOctavian Nadolu - Oxygen
XML Editor
A step-by-step guide to getting started with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes.
Schematron and Schematron QuickFix (SQF) languages can be used to improve efficiency
and quality when editing DITA documents. You can define actions that will add complex
structure to your documents, or make modifications in multiple places or actions that
will convert a structure into another. These changes are made by keeping the document
structure valid and conforming to your project specification and will help the content
writer add content more easily and without making mistakes.
Join us to see:
- How to create business rules with Schematron.
- How Schematron rules are applied.
- How to apply specific Schematron rules on all DITA files.
- How to develop Schematron Quick Fixes to make it very easy to solve the reported problems.
Octavian Nadolu is a software architect at Syncro Soft Ltd, the company that produces Oxygen XML Editor.
With more than 15 years of experience in working with XML technologies, he contributes to a number of XML-related
open-source projects. He also acts as co-editor of the Schematron QuickFix specification developed by a W3C community group.
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