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Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on for Oxygen XML Editor

This add-on can be installed in Oxygen XML Editor to enable batch conversions between the following formats:

  • HTML to XHTML

  • HTML to DITA

  • HTML to DocBook4 / DocBook5

  • Markdown to XHTML

  • Markdown to DITA

  • Markdown to DocBook4 / DocBook5

  • Word to XHTML

  • Word to DITA

  • Word to DocBook4 / DocBook5

  • Excel to DITA

  • Confluence to DITA

  • DocBook to DITA

  • JSON to XML

  • JSON to YAML

  • XML to JSON

  • XML to YAML

  • YAML to JSON

  • YAML to XML

  • XSD to JSON Schema

For more information about the add-on see the following documentation topic: Batch Documents Converter Add-on

Compatibility

The add-on is compatible with Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer version 23.1 or newer.

How to Install

  1. Go to Help->Install new add-ons to open an add-on selection dialog box.
  2. Enter or paste https://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Addons/default/updateSite.xml in the Show add-ons from field.
  3. Select the Batch Documents Converter add-on and click Next.
  4. Read the end-user license agreement. Then select the I accept all terms of the end-user license agreement option and click Finish.
  5. Restart the application.

Result: A Batch Documents Converter submenu will now be available in the Tools menu and in the contextual menu. This submenu will contain a list of the various types of available conversions. Selecting one of the types of conversions will open a dialog box where you can configure options for the conversion.

The add-on can also be installed using the following alternative installation procedure:

  1. Go to the Releases page and download the oxygen-batch-converter-{version}-plugin.jar file.
  2. Unzip it inside {oXygenInstallDir}/plugins. Make sure you don't create any intermediate folders. After unzipping the archive, the file system should look like this: {oXygenInstallDir}/plugins/oxygen-batch-converter-x.y.z, and inside this folder, there should be a plugin.xmlfile.

Converting a document:

  1. Select the type of conversion from one of the following sub-menus
  • Batch Documents Converter located in the Tools menu
  • Additional conversions located in the File -> Import/Convert sub-menu.
  • Import located in the Append child, Insert Before, and Insert After sub-menus from the contextual menu of the DITA Maps Manager view.
  1. Add the Input files.
  2. Choose the path of the Output folder that will contain the converted document.
  3. Click the Convert button (or Import for the actions invoked from the contextual menu of the DITA Maps Manager view).

or:

  1. Select a folder or a set of files in the Project view, right-click, choose Batch Convertor.
  2. Choose the path of the Output folder that will contain the converted document.
  3. Click the Convert button.

When actions are invoked from the contextual menu of the DITA Maps Manager view, the resulting documents from the conversion are automatically inserted in the map as follows:

  • Actions from Append child inserts map nodes as children of the currently selected node.
  • Actions from Insert Before inserts map nodes as siblings of the currently selected node, above the current node in the map.
  • Actions from Insert After inserts map nodes as siblings of the currently selected node, below the current node in the map.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2018-2022 Syncro Soft SRL.

This project is licensed under Apache License 2.0

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