Visual - WYSIWYG DocBook Editor

DocBook Documents Support

<oXygen/> comes with DocBook DTDs, XML catalog, XSL stylesheets and document templates so that one can start creating DocBook documents right away. The articles from our site are written using DocBook and their sources are available for download. You can use them as samples to start with! DocBook documents can be converted to HTML, PDF or PostScript and supports intelligent XML editing, validation, content completion.

To start the content completion you just have to press ENTER. This presents the list of elements that can be inserted at the caret position. For simplicity the additional views: Attributes, Entities, Elements have been collapsed to the right side of the editor. The toolbar at the top of the editor the contains the specific DocBook actions.

Specific DocBook Actions

<oXygen/> is able to recognize the DocBook documents based either on the root element name or namespace. When you switch to the Author mode, the editor loads both the set of CSS files and the available actions that were associated in the DocBook configuration.

The action set include operations for emphasising text, creating lists, tables, sections and paragraphs.

More than this, you can create your own operations for inserting or deleting XML document fragments.

Table Support: CALS and HTML Table Model

You can create CALS or HTML tables, join or split cells, add or remove rows easily. <oXygen/> will create all the column specifications for you.

A CALS and HTML table example. The caret is positioned between two cells.

XML Source Editing

You can edit the DocBook files using the text/source editing mode of <oXygen/> XML Editor. The "as you type" validation and the powerful content completion are always on your side.

DocBook with XInclude Support

A new module file was added in the DocBook DTD distribution adding XInclude support to the DocBook DTD. There are also document templates (New from templates action) that allows easy creation of a DocBook document with XInclude support. An XInclude sample is provided.

DocBook Catalog

<oXygen/> adds by default a root catalog that refers the built-in catalogs for DocBook documents. These are located in the frameworks/docbook subdirectory of the installation.

Transforming DocBook documents to PDF

Before transforming the current edited XML document in <oXygen/> one must define a transformation scenario to apply to that document. A scenario is a set of values for various parameters defining a transformation.

<oXygen/> has two predefined scenarios for DocBook, one using the XSLs for FO-PDF output and the other using the stylesheets for HTML. These scenarios can be reused for any DocBook document. If the predefined settings are not exactly what you need you can easily change them.

The Apache FOP is bundled inside <oXygen/> and it does not require any special configuration. Thus you can convert DocBook to PDF just by selecting a scenario and pressing a button.

Always Up to Date!

Each <oXygen/> XML Editor release bundles the latest DocBook schemas and XSL stylesheets. At this time, both DocBook 4 and DocBook5 are included.