Welcome to the User Manual of the <oXygen/> XML Author plugin for Eclipse ! This book explains how to use the 9.3.0 version of the <oXygen/> XML Author plugin for Eclipse effectively to author XML documents visually in a WYSIWYG like way quickly and easily.
The <oXygen/> XML Author plugin for Eclipse is a cross-platform application for authors who want to edit XML documents visually without extensive knowledge about XML and XML related technologies. The WYSIWYG like editor is driven by CSS stylesheets associated with the XML documents and offers the option to switch off XML tags completely when editing an XML document.
The offers the following key features and benefits.
| Multiplatform availability: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris | Non blocking operations, you can perform validation and transformation operations in background |
| Visual WYSIWYG XML editing mode based on W3C CSS stylesheets. | Visual DITA Map editor |
| Closely integration of the DITA Open Toolkit for generating DITA output | Support for latest versions of document frameworks: DocBook and TEI. |
| Outline view in sync with a non well-formed document | |
| Multiple built-in validation engines (Xerces, libxml, MSXML 4.0, MSXML.NET) and support for custom validation engines (Saxon SA, XSV, SQC, Intel® XML Software Suite). | Multiple built-in XSLT transformers (Saxon 6.5, Saxon 9 B, Saxon 9 SA, Saxon.NET, Xalan, libxslt, MSXML 3.0 / 4.0, Microsoft .NET 1.0, Microsoft .NET 2.0), support for custom JAXP transformers and also Intel® XML Software Suite. |
| Ready to use FOP support to generate PDF or PS documents | XInclude support |
| Context sensitive content assistant driven by XML Schema, Relax NG, DTD, NVDL or by the edited document structure enhanced with schema annotation presenter | New XML document wizards to easily create documents specifying a schema or a DTD |
| XML Catalog support | Unicode support |
| Easy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on it | Easy configuration for external FO Processors |
| Apply XSLT and FOP transformations | XPath search and evaluation support |
| Preview transformation results as XHTML or XML or in your browser | Support for document templates to easily create and share documents |
| Batch validate selected files in project | Canonicalize and sign documents |
| Configurable actions key bindings | Associate extensions with editors provided by the oXygen plugin. |
| Model View | Attributes View |
| XSLT 2.0 full support | XPath 2.0 support |
| Document folding | Spell checking supporting English, German and French including locals |
| Pretty-printing of XML files | Drag&drop support |