What's New in Oxygen XML Webhelp 23.1
Related version: 23.0
Version 23.1 of Oxygen XML WebHelp offers some very exciting enhancements and customization possibilities for the premier publishing solution for modern web-based help documentation.
Some of the new version highlights include:
- New transformation parameters and HTML fragment placeholder parameters to open up a myriad of additional possibilities for customizing the look and style of your output (e.g. you can integrate a custom search engine or add custom content to background areas that were previously inaccessible).
- The rendering of the various types of DITA
<note>elements was redesigned to make them stand out and more visually appealing. - You now have the ability to add a component in your WebHelp output that links to the PDF equivalent of the documentation.
- This release also includes various bug fixes and component updates.
You can visually customize the web help HTML output using Oxygen Styles Basket, a free web-based visual tool that helps you fine-tune the CSS that is used by Oxygen XML WebHelp to produce web help output and by Oxygen PDF Chemistry to produce PDF.
The Oxygen WebHelp can now be used with the Oxygen Feedback 1.4 block-level comments functionality to form a flexible review solution, allowing users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page where block elements appear. The Feedback Comments Manager plugin for Oxygen XML Editor/Author integrates also the block-level comments functionality, making it easier to locate the exact content source referenced by a particular comment and streamlines the process of making changes to the source document in response to the provided comments.
Responsive WebHelp
Add and Manage Comments Contextually
Automatically Convert HTML Fragments to Well-formed XML
webhelp.enable.html.fragments.conversion transformation
parameter was added and when set to true (the default setting), the
transformation will automatically convert contributed content to well-formed XML. If set
to false, the transformation will fail if any included HTML fragments are
not well-formed.Access More HTML Fragment Placeholder Possibilities
Integrate a Custom Search Engine in Your WebHelp Output
webhelp.fragment.custom.search.engine.results parameter can be used to
replace the search results area with custom XHTML content, while the
webhelp.fragment.custom.search.engine.script parameter can be used to
replace the built-in search engine implementation with your own custom one.Content of DITA Note Elements Now More Distinguishable
<note> elements in the WebHelp
output was redesigned to make the content within the note even more noticeable. The
various icons used for representing the types of notes were modernized and the content
within the note is now enclosed in a stylish highlighted box that helps make your
documentation more visually appealing.
Add Link Component in WebHelp Output to Open PDF Documentation
Oxygen Styles Basket
Component Update: DITA Open Toolkit 3.6
store-type=memory parameter to
reduce the publishing time.