Is it necessary to see how the text will be displayed? If so, and if you are single sourcing and multi-channel publishing, which channel do you need to see, and when? What information does an author really need? Does s/he need to see XML tags, or are there better ways to define structure? etc. Some of what has been discussed there centres around the tools an author needs to be able to do her or his work properly. The Content Wrangler Community on LinkedIn has been having a lively debate on the possible imminent death of WYSIWYG editing. Enhanced reviewing aids (introduced in 14.2).Forms based attribute editing for authors and SME’s (introduced in 14.1).I can’t and won’t cover a long list, but will call out two recent additions that are worthy of special consideration for content developers: The list of features in oXygen, whether in the authoring package or the development package, is immense – and most of them are really useful, which is really rare. It has connectors to software version control, and component CMS systems, as well. OXygen is packaged in a variety of formats: standalone desktop client, Java Web Start (thin) client, or as an Eclipse plugin. To the best of my knowledge, oXygen is the only product of its type that is totally cross-platform: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris. The author tool supports Microsoft Open Office XML (OOXML) as well as the Open Document Format (ODF) used by Open Office and its descendents. The developer tools include converters between different schema languages. DITA publishing is done through the DITA Open Toolkit. It successfully and seamlessly integrates a number of tools, including validation software and rendering engines, many of them open source, to help XML authors and developers do their work. oXygen XML Editor packages all of these together.oXygen XML Developer is an environment for editing and developing DTD, CSS, XQuery, XSLT, and a variety of schema languages.oXygen XML Author is an XML content authoring tool.OXygen, in fact, is not a product, but a suite of products: In fact, the release of 14.2 is simply an excuse to review the product as a whole, something I feel I ought to do, after reviewing Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite 4 in this blog. This was especially the case with release 14.1 that included forms based editing of XML attributes – about which more in a moment. I use quotes because Syncro Soft, the publisher of oXygen, regularly includes major new features in these free, “incremental” upgrades. OXygen’s new release is part of the company’s policy of regularly (every three or four months) releasing “incremental” upgrades.
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