Colors

Oxygen XML Author supports syntax highlight for XML, JavaScript / JSON, PHP,CSS documents. While Oxygen XML Author provides a default color configuration for highlighting the tokens, you can choose to customize it, using the Colors options panel.

The Colors options panel is opened from menu Options > Preferences > Editor > Colors.

Each document type has an associated set of tokens. When a document type node is expanded, the associated tokens are listed. For each token, you can customize the color and the font style. These properties are used in Text mode of the editor panel. The tokens for XML documents are used also in XSD, XSL, RNG documents.

Note: The Preview area contains 4 tabs that allow you to preview XML, XSD, XSL, RNG sample files as they are rendered in Oxygen XML Author.

When you do not know the name of the token that you want to configure, select a token by clicking directly on that type of token in the Preview area.

You can edit the following color properties of the selected token:

Foreground color - The Foreground button opens a color dialog that allows setting the color properties for the selected token with one of the following color models: Swatches, HSB, or RGB.
- Swatches - Displays a color palette containing a variety of colors from across the color spectrum and shades thereof. Select a color.
- HSB - Hue, Saturation and Brightness (HSB) enables you to specify a color by describing it using hue, saturation, and brightness.
- RGB - Red, Green and Blue (RGB) enables you to specify a color using triplets of red, green, and blue numbers.
Note: You can also open the dialog for changing the foreground color of a token by double-clicking (or pressing Enter) on the tree node that corresponds to that token.
Background color - The Background button opens the same color dialog as the Foreground button.
Bold style - This checkbox enables the bold variant of the font for the selected token. This property is not applied to a bidirectional document.
Italic style - This checkbox enables the italic variant of the font for the selected token. This property is not applied to a bidirectional document.

The Enable nested syntax highlight option controls if different content types mixed in the same file (like PHP, JS and CSS scripts inside an HTML file) are highlighted according with the color schemes defined for each content type.