What tool should you choose for technical documentation? There are many options available and deciding which one to choose is not an easy task. Discover the main advantages of using oXygen XML Editor and its functionality that sets it apart from the rest.

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<oXygen/> XML Editor
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About <oXygen/> XML Editor

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What is your role?
● Technical Writer
● Member in a collaborative authoring team
● Information Architect (Developer)
● Academic/Student
● Manager of a documentation team
● Integrator looking for an authoring solution

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Combines Authoring, Development,
Publishing and Reviewing

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Availability on Every Platform
● Is a cross-platform application
● Ideal for organizations that need to manage large
projects
● Can be run on:
– OS X
– Windows
– Linux
– Eclipse

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User-Based License
● Install and use any type of oXygen distribution
(standalone, Eclipse plugin, Java Webstart)
● On any platform (Mac OS X, Windows,
UNIX/Linux)
● Use it from work, home, or anywhere
Other license types include: floating, subscription,
and greatly discounted academic group licenses.

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Availability on Any Device
● Use oXygen Web Author to contribute and modify
content from anywhere on desktops, tablets, and
mobile devices
● Runs on any modern browser

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XML Standards and Frameworks
● Supports all XML standards
● Includes ready-to-use support for the most popular
document types such as DITA, DocBook, XHTML,
and TEI

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Over 50 Built-in Document Types
are Available

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Flexibility
Configure <oXygen/> to suit your specific needs
– Create new custom frameworks
– Customize an existing framework
– Create plugins

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Perfect Tech Docs Solution
● Intuitive visual editing
● Premier DITA editing tool with innovative features
● Complete DITA support (including 1.3 specs)
● Integrated with terminology checkers (eg. Acrolinx
IQ )

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Guide the User

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Business Rules
Define rules for your documents that cannot be
imposed by the schema
Examples:
● Titles should have content
● Consecutive lists are not allowed
● IDs must follow a certain pattern
● Consecutive notes of a same type
● Too many entries in a table row
● Sections must have IDs
● Titles are too long
● ...

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Intelligent Style Guide
● Enables communication between an information
architect and a team of writers
● Add rules as part of a style guide
● Enforce rules automatically, leveraging
Schematron and SQF
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Review and Collaboration
● Complete review and collaboration workflow
● GitHub, SharePoint, Google Drive, DropBox,
WebDAV, or create your own plugin connector

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Change Tracking and Review
● Multi-user change tracking and review
● Reply to comments or changes
● Available cross-platform
● Structural tracked changes
● Publish to PDF or WebHelp

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Single-Source Publishing
Produce output in
● PDF
● EPUB
● HTML
● and many other formats

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WebHelp
● Transform DITA and DocBook resources into
WebHelp output:
– Desktop WebHelp with or without feedback
– WebHelp for mobile devices, supported over multiple
platforms

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Integrate with Most Popular CMS

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Batch Process a List of XML Files
Apply batch transformations
Validate and check well-formedness
Find and replace in files
XPath in files
Format and indent
Check spelling in files
Refactoring operations

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Reasons for Choosing <oXygen/>
● Available on every platform and device
● User-based license
● Flexibility
● Intelligent editing
● Perfect for technical documentation
● Review and collaboration
● Single source publishing

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Are You a Technical Writer?
● <oXygen/> is the complete solution for writing
documentation in the most popular formats
● Various documentation languages to choose from
(DITA, DocBook, Markdown, XHTML, TEI)
● Smart paste from Office applications and
browsers into structured content

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Are You Part of a Collaborative
Authoring Team?
● <oXygen/>'s review features allow you to
collaborate more efficiently than ever
● Track the changes made in a document by
multiple members of your team
● Add and reply to comments without modifying the
content
● Share project options and color themes with your
team

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Are You an Information Architect
(Developer)?
● <oXygen/> is the industry-leading XML
development tool
● Everything you need for designing XML schemas
and transformation pipelines
● Find errors and solve performance issues with
the XSLT/XQuery Debugger
● Write custom validation rules and fixes

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Are You a Student?
● <oXygen/>'s discounted Academic license
provides an economic way to learn all aspects
of XML technology
● Great tutorials and documentation
● Access to a complete XML editing environment

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Are you the manager of a
documentation team?
● With <oXygen/>, your team collaborates
productively in building reusable and
standardized XML content.
● State of the art DITA Maps Manager
● DITA 1.3 features
● Single-source publishing (WebHelp, PDF, HTML)

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Are You an Integrator Looking for
an Authoring Solution?
● <oXygen/>'s powerful SDK helps you to
integrate various components into your XML
authoring solution
● Powerful connectivity support for various XML
databases and CMS
● Award-winning technical support team

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Now You Have It All!
From Guided Authoring To Advanced XML Development,
Review and Publishing

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The Complete Solution for XML
Authoring & Development

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We Take Support Seriously!

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<oXygen/> XML Editor
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