Extensible XML Editor

Starting with version 9 <oXygen/> adds a new concept called Document Type that solves the problem of providing ready to use support for a framework or an XML language. The Document Type concept is used to provide the built in support <oXygen/> has for a number of XML frameworks (DITA, DocBook, TEI) but, more importantly, it can be employed to provide support for a user defined framework that needs to be shared with other users.

You can modify the built-in document type associations or to create your own new associations. In this way you can customize the editor to match exactly your use cases.

Default schema

You can specify the default schema to be used for validation and content completion for the documents that match a document type. This schema can be overwritten if the XML document itself specifies a schema inside. All the current schema languages are supported DTD, XML Schema, Relax NG, ISO Schematron, ISO NVDL.

Default CSS files

You can specify a set of CSS files, including alternates and default CSS that will be used by <oXygen/> when editing in Author mode.

Custom actions

You can define custom actions for the Author mode that will appear in tool bar, menu or contextual menu. These actions in general add support for inserting XML markup structures, lists, list items, tables, table rows, table columns, etc. in the specific framework the document type describes. <oXygen/> provides a set of operations that can be used to implement most of the actions. If needed you can code your own operations in Java and use them to define your actions.

You can add the actions you already defined to the toolbar. In this screen capture you may see how the DocBook actions were added to the toolbar. You can remove the ones you do not use, while adding new actions that insert for instance the XML document fragments you are using more often.

Document templates

You can specify a folder where you have document templates (XML or not). These templates will be gathered automatically by <oXygen/> and will appear in the new file dialog allowing easy creation of the new documents of the defined document type.

XML catalogs

You can specify XML Catalogs for the document type that resolve remote resources to local copies. This allows a faster access to those resources (schemas, stylesheets, etc.) and also allows to work offline without changing the XML documents to explicitly point to local resources.

Default transformation scenarios

You can specify a set of transformation scenarios to convert the XML documents to different formats like HTML and PDF.