In this session, George Bina, Co-Founder of oXygen, will show you how to leverage some of the oXygen functionality to increase the quality of the markup and content in the DITA topics, integrating your own style guide with oXygen, checking project specific rules as the document is created, controlling the elements and attributes that are visible to users, etc. This presentation was given at the IXIASOFT User Conference 2016.

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George Bina
@georgebina
george@oxygenxml.com

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About me
• Syncro Soft / oXygen XML Editor
• Working with XML since 1998
• DITA NG – DITA implementation in Relax NG,
which resulted in DITA 1.3 being defined in
Relax NG as the normative schema language
• Contributions to other open source projects
• Getting from ideas to reality

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Note
All the examples presented below are
implemented in the following GitHub repository:
https://github.com/georgebina/sampleFrameworkExtension

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oXygen support for XML
XML
document DITA? DocBook?
DITA specific
support
DocBook
specific
support
Generic
XML
support
Generic
XML
support
Generic
XML
support

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oXygen frameworks
oXygen provides ready-to-use frameworks for
- DITA
- DocBook
- XHTML
- TEI
etc.

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DITA frameworks
dita.framework – DITA topics
ditamap.framework – DITA maps
ditaval.framework – DITAVAL filters
dita-lw.framework – Lightweight DITA topics
ditamap-lw.framework – Lightweight DITA maps

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Demo – the DITA frameworks
Resources
• CSS files
• DITA-OT
• images
• refactoring actions
• XSLT scripts for smart copy, reporting
• document templates
Configuration information
• stored in *.framework files
• custom actions
• validation
• publishing scenarios

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Loading frameworks
Frameworks directories
• Preferences -> Document Type Associations -> Locations
• frameworksDirectory/
frameworkFolder1/
config1.framework
resources…
frameworkFolder1/
config2.framework
config3.framework
resources…
Add-on mechanism (standalone version only)
CMS specific mechanisms

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oXygen framework customization
• Create new framework
• Duplicate and change an existing framework
• Extend an existing framework

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Extended framework
Extending a framework
Original
base framework
(for ex version 17)
Changes to base
framework
Extended framework
Current
base framework
(for ex version 18)
Changes to base
framework
Definition time Actual use time

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Add your own actions
Adding actions for inserting notes
Notes
• Note
• Important
• Warning

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Demo: add your own actions
Create an extended DITA framework
Define 3 new actions for inserting simple notes,
important notes and warning notes
Contribute the actions to the DITA toolbar
Test the new actions

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Set your own rendering
Set a yellow background on warnings

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Demo: control rendering
Create a new CSS and contribute it to the DITA
extension
Add a warning note and check that the
background is yellow

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Increase markup and content quality
Use Schematron to
• Enforce business rules
• Provide automatic fixes

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Enforce DITA markup for notes
Use Schematron to detect paragraphs that start
with “Warning:” and direct the user to create a
note with type=“warning”
Add the Schematron to the DITA validation
Offer a quick fix to create the note automatically

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Constraining DITA
• Define new DITA constrained topic types
• Enforce constraints through Schematron
• Enforce constrained editor behavior though
configuration files:
• Remove elements/attributes so users cannot add them
• Control available attribute values
• Control default content for elements
• Control rendering labels for elements and attributes

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Removing highlight domain
elements
Make it difficult to insert b, i and u elements

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Demo: Use configuration file to
remove elements
Use the cc_config.xml to remove b, i and u
elements from content completion
Also, remove the B, I, U actions from the toolbar

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Control the authoring experience
Lightweight DITA provides an example of controlled
authoring experience:
• use of cc_config.xml to
• add attribute values (format, translate, dir, etc.)
• insert usual elements (title and p inside a section, etc.)
• render the elements with more friendly names (shortdesc as
Short Description, etc.)
• use CSS to add
• hints
• placeholders
• inline actions
• editable elements/attributes through form controls

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Demo AX for Lightweight DITA
• Hints and placeholders
• User-friendly element names
• Inline actions to add structure
• Inline editing actions
Note the direct Markdown support!

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Use LESS to do more
LESS can be used as a replacement for CSS and
provides many interesting features
• allows defining a library of templates and instantiate
them
• makes style specification compact and declarative
LESS can be compiled to CSS or used directly

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Control AX for our framework
Rename shortdesc as Short Description
Insert title and p in a new section
Add a hint for short descriptions
Control the placeholder information for short
descriptions
Make links editable directly within the document

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Demo AX setup
Setup the plus.css as another CSS for our
framework
Add a short description and see the placeholder
and hint information
Add a link and see the inline edit action
Look at the plus.less file to see how all these are
done

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Implement user-controlled templates
Using a few lines of CSS we can implement:
• inline hints
Specify HTML content as hint with <?hint HTML-content ?>
• inline placeholders
Specify the placeholder text with <?placeholder text?>
• read-only elements
Use <?readonly?> and <?editable?> to mark corresponding
elements in the document to be readonly or editable,
respecively

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Style guide integration
• Use the @see attribute to link a Schematron rule to
the style guide page that explains that problem
• Configuration file to provide links from elements to
style guide pages that describe how those elements
should be used

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DIM project
DIM = Dynamic Information Model
Intelligent style guide - provides the previous
resources automatically from the style guide
itself
Removes the need for IA to know Schematron by
providing a UI to instantiate generic rules
Generally available at
http://github.com/oxygenxml/dim

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DIM in action
Demo DIM
• Show a task with a short description with 1
word and no error
• Add a rule in the short description topic to
enforce word limits
• Show the same task and the errors that link to
the styleguide

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Thank you
Questions?
george@oxygenxml.com
@georgebina
http://www.oxygenxml.com