Understanding Oxygen frameworks and extensions

IXIASOFT CCMS Web uses Oxygen frameworks to deliver much of the authoring functionality within the system.

These frameworks can be extended (i.e. customized) to suit any specific authoring needs that are required.

Within CCMS Web 6.3, there are three Oxygen frameworks:

dita-ixia: used exclusively for handling topic-related functions within CCMS Web
dita-ixia-advanced: used by CCMS Web Advanced for handling topic-related functions
ditamap-ixia: used by CCMS Web Advanced for handling map-related functions

These frameworks are used exclusively by CCMS Web, and have no impact on IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop, which uses a different framework setup.

Each framework controls a wide range of functionality within CCMS Web, allowing for customization of the following:

DTDs
Toolbars and menus
Style and form controls
Content completion checking
Validation using Schematron

IXIASOFT provides customers with a template file that they can download, which contains the three frameworks. Customers can modify the frameworks and install them on their system.