<oXygen/>XML Plugin for Eclipse
To see the differences between the Standalone and Eclipse version of
<oXygen/> click here.
Tree based outliner
This is an automatically synchronized tree based outliner. The
document tree structure is presented as the document is edited. The
modified element is revealed and selected in the outliner. Also an
element can be selected in the text editor by clicking on the
corresponding node in the outliner. The outliner uses a robust parser
thus being able to handle correctly not well formed documents.
XML perspective and project support
From the dialog for creating new Eclipse projects you can choose the
type "XML Project". This will change the perspective to <oXygen/> XML
Perspective allowing you to easily access <oXygen/> actions and to
better organize your XML files.
XSLT/XQuery Debugger Perspectives
<oXygen/> adds two debugger perspectives to the Eclipse IDE providing a
special layout that shows the source and the stylesheet/xquery documents
side by side and also the results and special debugging views:
"Context", "Call stack ", "Trace history", "XPath watch", "Variables",
etc. All debugger capabilities are provided: step into, step over, step
out, run, run to cursor, run to end, pause, stop."
<oXygen/> wizards
The <oXygen/> plugin installs a series of Eclipse wizards for easy
creation of new documents. Using these wizards you let <oXygen/> fill
in details like the system ID or schema location of a new XML document,
the minimal markup of a DocBook article or the namespace declarations of
a Relax NG schema.
Non blocking operations
Some operations may take some noticeable time when you work on large
documents or you perform complex transformations. Unlike other editors
that block during these operations and remain unusable for large periods
of time <oXygen/> performs all these operations in background letting
the interface usable, so you can continue editing the document or switch
to other document and edit it or perform other operations.
XML Catalog support
The XML Catalog support allows you to specify in a document references
to original remote resources (using a public ID or a remote URL) while
the application is using your local copy of those resources. Thus the
documents are written in a portable manner, the access to resources is
faster because the local copy is used and the remote resource references
can be used even when you are offline. With <oXygen/> you can use OASIS
Entity Resolution Technical Committee XML Catalog file, Extended OASIS
Entity Resolution Technical Committee XML Catalog files, OASIS Open
Catalog files and "xcatalog" XML Catalog files .
XInclude support
<oXygen/> allows to enable the XInclude support from the preferences
dialog. The XInclude support is based on Xerces.
Context sensitive content assistant
<oXygen/> offers elements, attributes and attribute values via a
feature insight like mechanism. Unlike other editors that offer all the
available entries <oXygen/> will offer only the entries that are valid
in the editing context so you are creating valid content while
editing.
Content Assistant Shows XSLT Output Document Elements
While creating an XSLT document you are creating as output, in
general, HTML, FO or another XML format. XSLT allows you to specify
elements from the target output directly, that is you can specify
something like <table> ... </table> instead of
<xsl:element name="table"> ... </xsl:element>. The content
assistant provided by <oXygen/> will offer you whenever an xsl:element
is allowed also the elements from the target output. The target output
document type can be easily configured from options where you can choose
from XHTML, FO and to specify a custom XML Schema or DTD.
XSLT Transformations
<oXygen/> allows you to define a stylesheet and a FOP to be applied on
your XML document and also how you would like to save or view the
transformation result. For a file you can create more transformations
and the current transformation can be executed with one mouse click or
keyboard shortcut. Also support for cascading stylesheets is
available.
DocBook Documents Support
<oXygen/> plugin comes with DocBook DTDs, XML catalog, stylesheets and
document templates so that you can start creating DocBook documents
right away. The articles from our site are written in DocBook and their
sources are available for download so you can easily have some samples
to start from. DocBook documents can be converted to HTML, PDF or
PostScript.
TEI Documents Support
<oXygen/> plugin comes with TEI DTDs, XML Catalog, stylesheets and
document templates so that you can start working right away with TEI
documents. You can edit documents guided by the context sensitive
content assistant, easily validate the edited documents and transform
them to HTML or PDF for presentation. We cooperate with TEI Consortium
and we are committed to keep the TEI support up to date in future
<oXygen/> releases.
Configurable Document Templates
<oXygen/> allows a very flexible document creation management through
document templates. You can create new document templates from the
editor content and you can publish your templates to share them with
other users. Organisations can maintain a central document templates
repository and all the users will be able to create documents using it.
More, <oXygen/> provides a set of document templates for the most used
types of documents.
Automatic Generation of Required Content
To speed up the content creation <oXygen/> can automatically insert
the required attributes inside an element and can also automatically
insert the required element content of the inserted element. You can
also configure the optional content to be inserted, like the first
element from a choice or the first occurrence of an optional
element.
Well Formed Document Checking
This check allows you to verify that a document is XML well formed.
This verifies the general document structure and not if the structure
conforms with a specified XML schema or DTD. Passing this test is a must
for a document in order to be considered an XML document. The well
formedness can be checked at every save operation of the edited document
if the checkbox for this option is activated from the general options
page for <oXygen/> plugin.
Validate XML Documents Against W3C XML Schemas, DTDs , Relax NG
schemas and Namespace Routing Language Schemas
The XML schemas gain more and more usage over DTDs. <oXygen/>
integrates the latest version of the Xerces-J XML parser to validate
documents against XML Schemas. You can use <oXygen/> also to validate
an XML document instance against a specified DTD, Relax NG schemas both
in XML syntax and compact syntax and Namespace Routing Language schema
.
Wizard for Schema Association
To associate a DTD or a schema with a document you can use the
"Associate schema..." action that will present a wizard to easily
accomplish this task.
XSLT support
With <oXygen/> you can easily create, edit, test and validate XSLT
document. To create a new XSL document there is a new XSL option, the
editor will automatically know the XSL allowed content and the content
assistant will provide the elements, attributes and attribute values for
XSL plus the elements from the target document. Transformations can be
easily configured and run to easily test the XSL you are creating. You
can choose between the most popular XSLT engines (Xalan, Saxon 6.5,
Saxon EE) when performing XSL transformations. You can also configure
any JAXP compliant XSLT processor and use it to perform transformations.
Thus you can easily work in development with the engine you choose for
your production system. Other XSLT engines can be configured as external
tools.
Preview Transformation
<oXygen/> offers an integrated view to show transformation results that
will render XML, HTML or text results. The possibility to show the
transformation results in your browser is vital when you are working on
a production ready system. This allows you to view for instance HTML or
PDF transformation results.
XPath Search and Evaluation
<oXygen/> features a powerful XPath support allowing you to both
perform XPath searches on an XML document and to evaluate XPath
expressions. If location paths are selected by your query then they are
presented in the XPath view area together with their text content, if
available, to allow you to easily visually identify the nodes. Clicking
on a result location path will highlight the corresponding part from the
document. Note that you can choose to execute your XPath query in
conformity with the version 1.0 or 2.0 of the standard.
FOP Support
The Apache FOP is bundled inside <oXygen/> plugin and it does not
require any special configuration to use it. Thus you can convert
DocBook to PDF or PostScript for instance by just setting up a
transformation to use the DocBook to FO stylesheet and choose the
perform FOP option. If the Apache FOP is not enough for your development
and you need to use another FOP you can very easily add that to
<oXygen/>. In case of XEP it is even simpler as you just have to browse
for its start file and <oXygen/> will know how to use it.
XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG schema and Namespace Routing Language
schema support
W3C XML Schema documents can be edited and validated with <oXygen/>.
While editing the user is assisted by the context sensitive content
assistance guided by the schema for schemas. The validation is not
performed against schema for schemas but the schema is validated
according with the W3C specification, <oXygen/> is using the latest
version of Xerces-J at the time of release. The DTD editor features
syntax coloring and validation support. Relax NG schemas can be edited
both in XML syntax and in Compact syntax. The Relax NG schemas in XML
syntax editing is helped by content assistant and validation. Namespace
Routing Language schemas can be edited with <oXygen/> using content
assistant and validation.
Conversion between Different Schema Types
You can convert from a DTD, Relax NG schema in XML or Compact syntax
to DTD, W3C XML Schema, Relax NG schema in XML or Compact syntax using
the "Convert with Trang" action.
Pretty Print XML Documents
XML documents can be formated and indented with this option. This does
a hard wrapping of text content and you can specify the indent size, the
maximum line length and if spaces or tab should be used for indenting.
To control the elements that should not be processed you can use the
xml:space attribute and specify its value to "preserve" or "default"
depending on whether you want to keep the formating or to format the
elements respectively. Also you can edit two lists of elements that will
be treated as if they have an xml:space attribute with the value
"preserve" and "default" respectively. Advanced options to allow to sort
the attributes or keep their order or to output empty elements as an
empty tag or as start and end tag are also available.
Unicode Support
<oXygen/> offers full Unicode support. The text font for the plugin
document editor can be specified independently from the Eclipse
settings.
Spell Checking
You can check the spelling of your document content from within
<oXygen/>. This is very important when you write a lot of text content.
The spell checking support is XML aware looking for XML text and can
skip the markup so it is more easily to check the spelling of an XML
document inside <oXygen/> than using some other not XML enabled spell
checking tool. The supported languages are English, German and French
including locale variants
Mark selected text
If you have an unstructured document and you want to get it as XML
then you will find really useful the "surround in ..." options offered
by <oXygen/>. This allows you to surround the current selected text
into a specified tag.
WSDL Editing and Testing
The WSDL files contain information about the published services, like
the name, the message types and the service bindings. The editor is
offering you a way to edit the WSDL files that is similar to edit XML,
the content completion being driven by a mix of the WSDL and SOAP
Schema.
More that just editing, you can test the definitions directly from the
editor. For this you can use the integrated WSDL tester. It
automatically discovers the services, so you just have to select the
service, port and action and <oXygen/> tries to generate as much
content as possible for the call skeleton. Usually you just have to
change few values in order for the request to be valid. The content
completion is available for the request editor and is driven by the
schema that defines the type of the current message.
Fold of the XML Elements
Starting from the version 3.0, Eclipse offers support for folding of
the Java elements. We have extended it for XML. The folding allows you
to collapse elements, leaving in the focus only the ones you need to
edit.
In the next image you can see that only one of the chapter sections is
expanded, the rest are collapsed.
To make the fold operation faster you can use the contextual menu to
collapse or expand all the child folds of an element.
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