Get started authoring content

All your content lives in self-contained files called components. You can create components from various types of templates, including topics, maps, images, and DocBook articles. You can also create a component from non-XML content such as PDF documents. Storing content in Inspire gives you a single, trusted source of content. Inspire tracks specific and relevant metadata about each component to help you manage and reuse content intelligently.

Inspire provides Oxygen as an XML editor that lets you author and develop content using structured mark-up languages such as XML, XSD, Relax NG, XSL, DTD.

• When you're managing content development and publishing cycles in Inspire, you can collaborate with contributors and subject matter experts using the Oxygen XML editor.
• If you're used to working in Oxygen's editor, you can edit a component in Inspire with Oxygen editing tools.

Before you begin

Your ability to access the following Oxygen features may vary depending on how they are configured by an administrator:

• Change tracking: An administrator can force Change tracking to stay on or off.
• Accept and reject changes: An administrator can disable the use of the Accept and Reject options that are available when Change tracking is on.
• Delete another user's comments: An administrator can allow the Remove button to be active even if the current user editing the component did not create the comment.
• Edit XML source mode: An administrator can hide the Edit XML Source option.

Important notes:

• These permissions are set on a per user or role basis.
• These permissions do not apply to components in a review.

For a full explanation, read Understand Oxygen behavior.

Administrators can follow the steps in: Grant permissions to options in Oxygen.

When using Save and Submit to upload your component changes to the Inspire database, you may be prompted to enter a check-in comment.