[oXygen-user] [ANN] Oxygen XML Editor 4.2

[George Cristian Bina]

I'm glad to let you know that we just made a new release of Oxygen, version
4.2.
The full press release is included below, however I want to point out a
feature that relates with a thread on the list back in January. Then we
prototyped the possibility to use different transparency levels for the
document view depending on how far the text is from the center of the view.
That turned out not to be really useful. Now we got I hope a really useful
feature out of that, please try the Contrast Control action available from
the toolbar. It will apply different transparency levels on either the text
content or the markup in the document. This allows focusing on either
structure or markup respectively.

The press release follows.

Version 4.2 of <oXygen/> XML Editor adds as main feature support for
presenting schema related information while editing or browsing an XML
document.

New in <oXygen/> XML Editor 4.2
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 * Schema Model View
 * Content completion shows schema documentation
 * Annotated XML schemas
 * Contrast control
 * User control over the transformation in progress
 * Improved search support
 * Breakpoint operations enhancements
 * Allow to define XSLT extensions locations
 * Ready to use JSP 1.2 XML editing support

Details...

 * Schema Model View
 The Model View provides schema related information for the document
elements and attributes. The content model, the element type, the
attributes, the attribute type and constraints are presented in a compact
manner giving the user an insight in the document schema while editing or
browsing the document. XML schema annotations are extracted and presented
for both element and attributes thus offering an instant help to the
document author.

 * Content completion shows schema documentation
 The XML Schema documentation is presented by the new content completion
support. The content completion offers now additional information for the
element and attribute proposals. It will lookup the schema annotation and
will make the documentation available to the author in a simple and elegant
manner.

 * Annotated XML schemas
 To take advantage of the schema documentation support oXygen bundles
annotated schemas for XSLT stylesheets and XML schemas.

 * Contrast control
 The contrast control options allow to change the transparency levels for
markup or text. With a smart popup button located on the toolbar the user
can easily change the focus of attention from markup to text and viceversa.
The transparent markup option combined with locking the tags can be used for
instance for safe and easy text only editing.

 * User control over the transformation in progress
 After starting a transformation a new action becomes enabled allowing the
user to stop that transformation. Thus the user is in control and can decide
to stop a time consuming transformation at any time.

 * Improved search support
 Support for finding all occurrences in a file was made available via the
contextual menu and through a configurable shortcut. If no text is selected
then the word at cursor will be automatically detected and searched for.

 * Breakpoint operations enhancements
 Added support to easily add, toggle or remove breakpoints in the
Breakpoints Panel.

 * Allow to define XSLT extensions locations
 The XSLT processor's extensions paths can be specified using a system
property. Please consult the user guide for details.

 * Ready to use JSP 1.2 XML editing support
 A new document template was added to allow easy creation of JSP 1.2
documents and the samples have now a JSP entry.


Best Regards,
George
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