Advanced Customization Tutorial - Document Type Associations

Oxygen Author is highly customizable. Practically you can associate an entire class of documents (grouped logically by some common features like namespace, root element name or filename) to a bundle consisting of CSS stylesheets, validation schemas, catalog files, new files templates, transformation scenarios and even custom actions. The bundle is called document type and the association is called Document Type Association.

In this tutorial a Document Type Association will be created for a set of documents. As an example a light documentation framework (similar to DocBook) will be created, then complete customization of the Author editor will be set up.

Note: The samples used in this tutorial can be found in the Example Files Listings.
Note: The complete source code can be found in the Simple Documentation Framework project, included in the Oxygen Author SDK zip available for download on the Oxygen website.
Note: The Javadoc documentation of the Author API used in the example files is available on the Oxygen website. Also it can be downloaded as a zip archive from the website.
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