XML Document Actions

The Text mode of the XML editor provides the following document level actions:

• Document > Schema > Show Definition (also available on the contextual menu of the editor panel) - Moves the cursor to the definition of the current element or attribute in the schema (DTD, XML Schema, Relax NG schema) associated with the edited XML document. In case the current attribute is "type" belonging to the "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" namespace, the cursor is moved in the XML schema, to the definition of the type referred in the value of the attribute.
  Note: Alternatively you can use any of the following shortcuts:

  • Ctrl+Shift+Enter on your keyboard;
  • press and hold Ctrl (Meta on Mac OS) and click an element or attribute name.
• Document > XML Document > Copy XPath (Ctrl+Alt+.) - Copies the XPath expression of the current element or attribute from the current editor to the clipboard.
• Document > XML Document > Go to Matching Tag (Ctrl+Shift+G) - Moves the cursor to the end tag that matches the start tag, or vice versa.
• Document > XML Document > Go after Next Tag (Ctrl+]) - Moves the cursor to the end of the next tag.
• Document > XML Document > Go after Previous Tag (Ctrl+[) - Moves the cursor to the end of the previous tag.

• Document > XML Document > Associate XSLT/CSS Stylesheet - Inserts an xml-stylesheet processing instruction at the beginning of the document referencing either an XSLT or a CSS file depending on the user selection. Either reference is useful for rendering the document in a Web browser when the action Open in browser is executed. Referencing the XSLT file is also useful for automatic detection of the XSLT stylesheet when there is no scenario associated with the current document.

  When associating the CSS stylesheet, the user can also specify a title for it if it is an alternate one. Setting a Title for the CSS makes it the author's preferred stylesheet. Selecting the Alternate checkbox makes the CSS an alternate stylesheet.

  Oxygen XML Developer fully implements the W3C recommendation regarding Associating Style Sheets with XML documents. See also Specifying external style sheets in HTML documents.