The <oXygen/> interface uses standard interface conventions and components to provide a familiar and intuitive editing environment across all operating systems.
In <oXygen/> you can work with documents in one of the perspectives:
- Editor perspective
Editing of documents is supported by specialized and synchronized editors and views.
- XSLT Debugger perspective
XSLT stylesheets can be debugged by tracing their execution step by step.
- XQuery Debugger perspective
XQuery transforms can be debugged by tracing their execution step by step.
- Database perspective
Multiple connections to both relational databases and native XML ones can be managed at the same time in this perspective: database browsing, SQL execution, XQuery execution and data export to XML.
- Tree Editor perspective
An XML document is viewed and edited as a tree of XML elements.
The Editor perspective is used for editing the content of your documents. The space is organized in:
When two or more panels are displayed, the application provides divider bars. By selecting a divider bar, it can be dragged to a new position, therefore increasing the space occupied by one panel while decreasing it for the other.
As majority of the work process centers around the Editor panel, other panels can be hidden from view using the expand and collapse controls located on the divider bars.
This perspective organizes the workspace in the following panels:
- Main menu
Provides menu driven access to all the features and functions available within <oXygen/>.
- Main toolbar
Provides easy access to common and frequently used functions. Each icon is a button that acts as a shortcut to a related function.
- Editor panel
The place where you spend most of your time, reading, editing, applying markup and checking the validity and form of your documents.
- Outline view
Provides the following functions: XML document overview, modification follow-up, document structure change, document tag selection.
- Model view panel
Presents the structure of the current edited tag and additional tag documentation.
- Results panel
Displays result messages returned from user operations. The following actions are available:
Hierarchical view
- that allows you to see the results in
tree-like manner. Clicking on a tree leaf highlights
the corresponding line in the document.
Flat view
- that will present the errors in a table-like
manner. Clicking on a table row highlights the
corresponding line in the document. Remove selected
- removes the currently selected message from
the list.Remove all
- clears the message list.
Navigation to the previous and next message is possible from the contextual menu.
- Project view
Enables the definition of projects and logical management of the documents it contains.