- DITA Publishing Customization Overview
Oxygen XML Editor publishes DITA content to various output sources using a bundled version of the DITA Open Toolkit (short name: DITA OT ) publishing engine. Oxygen versions prior to version 20 come...
- Converting OpenAPI to DITA XML and Publishing to WebHelp (Experimental)
OpenAPI documentation is usually stored in JSON or YAML formats. In this topic, we will attempt to convert OpenAPI documentation to Markdown using widdershins , convert Markdown to DITA content using...
- Dynamically publishing a list with the most recent topics
DITA topics can contain an optional <created> element that specifies the date when they were created by the technical writer. <topic id = "..." > <title> ... </title> <prolog> <author> ... </author>...
- Show DITA Task Steps in Separate Tabs
You can present individual DITA task steps in separate tabs in the generated WebHelp output by using this free plugin: https://github.com/oxygenxml/dita-wh-tabs . Suppose you have a DITA task that...
- Embedding Diagrams in DITA topics using PlantUML
PlantUML is a neat library that takes textual descriptions of diagrams and produces visual diagrams from them. Suppose you have a DITA topic that embeds such a textual description of a diagram...
- Embedding Diagrams in DITA Topics Using Mermaid
Mermaid is a neat library that takes textual descriptions of diagrams and produces visual diagrams from them. Suppose you have a DITA topic that embeds such a textual description of a diagram...
- Presenting DITA Task Steps as Diagrams
By using our free DITA Open Toolkit plugin, you can embed diagram text descriptions (either in PlantUML or Mermaid format) in DITA topics and have them rendered as diagram images in the published...
- Dynamically Generating an RSS Feed
When publishing a website from DITA XML content, we can dynamically generate an RSS XML feed by customizing the WebHelp Responsive output. DITA WebHelp output can be customized using a publishing...
- Oxygen XML Blog 2022 Retrospective
So here we are at the end of 2022 and I figured it's a good time to go through some of the improvements we made and posts we added in the Oxygen XML Blog . A short summary of our activity on the...
- Generating Google Structured Data from your DITA tasks
HTML pages published on the web can contain metadata specified using the Google Structured Data specification. Once such metadata exists in an HTML page, the Google search engine can present, for...