[Ann] Oxygen XML Editor 18.1 version released

Hello everybody,

I am happy to announce that version 18.1 of oXygen XML Editor is now 
available for download on our website: www.oxygenxml.com . Those of you 
that are interested in what new functionality it brings will find a 
short summary below. The entire set of new features can be found at 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew18.1.html . We hope that the new 
version brings features that will help you with your work and we are 
looking forward to any feedback that you may have!

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Visual XML Editing
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- Convert Paragraphs to List Items and Change List Item Type
When editing TEI documents, you can easily convert selected paragraphs 
to list items by using the various Insert List Item actions on the 
toolbar. You can also change selected list items to another type (for 
example, change an unordered list to an ordered list).

- Convert Selected Content to a Table
You can convert selected paragraphs, lists, and inline content into a 
table by using the Insert Table actions on the toolbar. It opens a 
dialog box that allows you to configure the table and inserts the 
selected content in the first column and first row after the header.

- New Form Controls for Rendering and Playing Video and Audio Media
Three powerful new form controls were added that allow you to render and 
play media in Author mode. The oxy_video form control can be used to 
play video files, the oxy_browser form control can be used to render an 
HTML page or SVG file, and the oxy_audio form control can play audio 
clips. These form controls could be used to render the TEI media 
elements in the author mode by just contributing a CSS rule.

https://oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/18.1/ug-editor/topics/oxy-video-form-control.html

- Improvements to Paste Strategies in Tables
The strategies for the behavior of the paste mechanism when pasting 
content in table cells has been improved. Now, copied cells are pasted 
while preserving their initial order and spacing.

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Content Completion
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- Improved Content Completion Configuration Support
oXygen allows you to set a configuration file to control the content 
completion proposals for elements presented in the Content Completion 
Assistant. Now, you can identify more precisely the elements you want to 
control, by being able to set conditions that include attributes and 
attribute values.

https://oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/18.1/ug-editor/topics/configure-elements-attr-cc-individually.html

- Improved Content Completion for XPath and XQuery
The Content Completion Assistant for XPath and XQuery was updated to 
take into account the latest additions in XPath 3.0 and XQuery 3.0. For 
example, new functions are now offered through content completion, such 
as empty-sequence, document-node, item, comment, namespace-node, and 
processing-instruction - just to name a few.

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Comparison Tools
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- Directory Comparison: Support for Three-Way Directory Comparison
A new feature was added that allows you to perform three-way comparisons 
on directories to help you identify and merge changes between multiple 
modifications of the same directory structure. It is especially helpful 
for teams that have multiple authors contributing documents to the same 
directory system. It offers information about conflicts and changes, and 
includes actions to easily merge, accept, overwrite, or ignore changes 
to the directory system.

https://oxygenxml.com/demo/Merge_Directories.html

  - File Comparison: More Accurate Second Level Comparisons on XML Nodes
When using the XML Fast and XML Accurate algorithms for two-way or 
three-way comparisons, the second level comparison is now processed 
using a syntax-aware comparison that splits the files or fragments into 
sequences of tokens and computes the differences between them. This 
results in a more accurate second level comparison.


For those of you that are also customizing Oxygen, the SDK Maven 
repository has also been updated:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_sdk.html

As always we added lots of Java API to Oxygen and the complete list can 
be found here:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew18.1.html#18.1API

Thank you,
Alex
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Alex Jitianu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com