<oXygen/> XML Editor and XSLT Debugger

<oXygen/> is a complete cross platform XML editor providing the tools for XML authoring, XML conversion, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, XPath, XSLT, XQuery debugging, SOAP and WSDL testing.

The integration with the XML document repositories is made through the WebDAV, Subversion and S/FTP protocols. <oXygen/> has also support to browse, manage and query native XML and relational databases.

The <oXygen/> XML editor is also available as an Eclipse IDE plugin, bringing unique XML development features to this widely used Java IDE.

What is new in <oXygen/> XML Editor 9.2

Version 9.2 introduces a new Author edition specially tuned for content authors providing a well designed interface for XML editing by keeping only the relevant authoring features. The major additions in <oXygen/> 9.2 are related to the WYSIWYG-like editing support and in particular to the DITA support. The general visual editing improvements include displaying the resolved content in the editor and navigation through links. With the new DITA features that include a new DITA map editor, an action for inserting conref links, a tight integration with the latest version of the DITA Open Toolkit through <oXygen/>'s normal transformation scenarios mechanism, <oXygen/> becomes the leading DITA editor and the easiest to use. Other improvements include browsing of XML databases using WebDAV connections, better handling of CJK text, support for the Intel^® XML Software Suite and multiple component updates.

The DITA Maps are key components for authoring DITA content. Managing these files and the referenced topics is an important feature for a DITA aware editor.

The new DITA Maps Manager allows viewing and editing of DITA map files. It acts also similar with a project manager allowing you to easily open different topics/concepts for editing. The DITA maps manager is shown each time you open a .ditamap file in <oXygen/> and it will appear as a tab in the same stack as the Project view. A double click on a file reference listed in a DITA map opens that file in the editor. The toolbar, the contextual menu and drag and drop actions allow you to easily edit the map content.

The tool chain for generating output in a multitude of formats (XHTML, PDF, HTML, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help, DocBook, etc.) is ready to use out of the box as <oXygen/> includes the latest version of the DITA-OT.

Power users have also the possibility to fine tune the transformations by using the advanced options like specifying parameters for the ANT build files, filtering content using a DITAVAL file, providing a custom build file, etc.

You can generate high quality PDF output using the PDF2 transformation scenario. It uses the Idiom FO plugin that comes already installed in the DITA Open Toolkit bundled in <oXygen/>. The plugin transforms a DITA map to PDF using the XEP processor - if this is configured in <oXygen/> XML Editor - or the built-in Apache FOP processor.

You can easily insert a conref in a DITA document using the "Insert a DITA Content Reference" action. It allows you to choose the target ID by selecting it from the list of IDs defined in a topic.

The XML content referred with DITA conref is presented in place as a read only block that can be collapsed/expanded. In this way the XML editor shows a picture of the entire XML document with all the XML references resolved.

With the navigation links support it becomes easy to go from a DITA conref to the referred content, from a DocBook link to the target element or from an XInclude reference to the included content, etc. by just a single click.

<oXygen/> XML Editor fully supports the input methods for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) text. The editor displays an on-the-spot popup window with the composed text when the inserted characters belong to the CJK codepages. The composed text is shown in the context of the document that it will eventually belong to, in a style that indicates that the text still needs to be converted or confirmed by the user.

The wrapping of CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) text in the Author mode of <oXygen/> XML Editor takes into account some rules for wrapping at punctuation marks in East Asian languages. For example in CJK text a punctuation mark cannot be the first character of a line.

The Find All Elements action is available in all the XML editor modes: Text, Author and Grid. It represents an easy way to search for XML elements by their tag names, attribute names and values.

It is a lot easy to rename elements in <oXygen/>. When the start tag of an XML element is edited then the matching end tag is automatically changed thus keeping the XML document well formed and saving you a few keystrokes. This behavior is controlled from the user preferences.

XML Schemas contain annotations for providing additional information like documentation or application specific information. For instance a schema can contain documentation for its components in XHTML or can contain Schematron embedded rules. Now it is possible to specify a schema for these annotations and <oXygen/> will use that for providing content completion proposals, thus providing a better editing support.

The XPath 2.0 checks used in an ISO Schematron schema or a Schematron 1.5 schema can be executed optionally with Saxon 9 SA instead of Saxon 9 B in order to access the schema aware features of Saxon 9 SA.

The allow-foreign parameter set for Schematron processing allows XML elements which are outside the ISO Schematron namespace like xsl:function and xsl:import-schema to be used inside an ISO Schematron schema.