QuotesG. Ken Holman - Crane Softwrights Ltd.In Crane's experience, the <oXygen/> editor has the widest and most complete spectrum
of functionality across multiple ISO and W3C specifications for XML documents. This
comprehensive tool appeals to both our novice and expert clients, from simply editing and
publishing XML documents in a styled angle-bracket-free interface to intricately
diagnosing, debugging and profiling transformations. In particular, the cross-platform
implementation ensures all users have the same functionality. Crane Softwrights Ltd. is
proud to offer different hands-on <oXygen/> training classes where we share with students
our own experiences of using this tool on a day-by-day basis. Crane Softwrights Ltd. - Chief Technology Officer Adam Witwer - O'Reilly Media<oXygen/> is the premier text editor for XML geeks, and an indispensable tool for
O'Reilly's Production group. My team uses <oXygen/> for everything from simple XML
editing to Schema validation and XSLT transformations. The digital production staff
especially loves oXygen's built-in EPUB support, which eliminates a great deal of the
grunt work that is usually entailed in editing EPUB files. The more we use oXygen, the
more realize what a powerful tool it can be in digital and XML-based workflows. O'Reilly Media - Director of Content and Publishing Operations Yiannis Tinis Choosing <oXygen/> XML Editor for worldwide deployment throughout Amdocs was easy:
it's highly versatile, multiplatform and packed-full of features. Since its adoption in
2007 we received positive feedback from our employees, praising its great documentation,
low learning curve, neat interface and a very enthusiastic technical support team. We will
most definitely keep on using this great XML editor in the future. Amdocs Development Limited - Managing Director Wendell Piez Maybe it's time to update the endorsement of oXygen that appears under my name on
your web site, as I've been using the product for considerably longer than six months now.
oXygen still hits a sweet spot -- but a wider one than ever. The feature set, performance
and interfaces get better with every release, while its core virtues remain, including the
portability across platforms and the enlightened licensing (to users, not machines). Bravo
for creating a product that needs no apology. I've been using <oXygen/> for about six weeks now. I really like it. I agree
with Norm Walsh that it hits a sweet spot. I hope it continues to be available on all the
major platforms: that's a key feature long-term, I think. Oxygen user mailing list - <oXygen/> wish-list A recognized expert in the emerging field of Humanities Computing, Wendell Piez
has been working with SGML and XML technologies since 1994. In 1995 he was appointed to
the faculty at the internationally-known Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (at
Rutgers and Princeton Universities), where he worked on developing applications of the TEI
(Text Encoding Initiative) and EAD (Encoded Archival Description) SGML DTDs. Since 1998,
Dr. Piez has worked at Mulberry Technologies Inc., designing and building XML systems both
for clients and to support internal processes. Andy Dent I just wanted to pass on my congratulations on the
very professional way the upgrade letter made it easy for me to see all the ways in which
Oxygen has improved over the last few versions. I appreciated the reminder of features
which I should spend some time exploring. In particular, the DocBook and DITA authoring
will help us with our cross-platform help requirements. I continue to be a very happy
multi-platform user of Oxygen and recommend it to all my clients and contacts who need to
work with XML and particularly XPath or XSLT. Aussie Designed
Software Andy Dent is a freelance designer-developer - C++, C#, Objective-C, Python,
REALbasic, Ruby. Kurt Cagle My favorite XML editor is becoming scary good. I've been an Oxygen convert for a long
time, and every iteration it just seems to get better and better. The Oxygen XML 7.0
Editor has just been released by SyncRO Soft SRL., and already its reached the stage where
I find it very, very difficult to shift back to the older version. Oxygen has been in a
continual state of evolution, since I first encountered it as a 3.0 product, and it seems
like even minor upgrades brings significant improvements to the application. My goal was to produce a user interface that has basic similarities to my current
favorite XML editor, Oxygen (http://www.oxygenxml.com/). I had first encountered Oxygen
when I was playing around with Eclipse, and soon became enamored of it. You can easily
assign schemas or DTDs to XML to get full intellisense functionality, you could customize
the XSLT engine so that it could easily use third party tools such as Saxon (something
that was VERY useful for working with XSLT 2.0), it has a first-class debugger, and it is
quite reasonably priced ($79, last I checked). Moreover, it integrates cleanly with
Oxygen, and is the first XML tool of any quality that works as well in Linux as it does in
Windows. Kurt Cagle's web log Kurt Cagle is an author, software developer, and business analyst specializing
in XML based technologies. He has written or coauthored sixteen books on XML and web
technologies, including SVG Programming and Beginning XML for Wrox (now Wiley). Mr. Cagle
is also the editor of The Metaphorical Web, a newsletter on the state of XML in industry,
education, and government. Eric van der Vlisthttp://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200505/msg00254.html Eric is the founder of Dyomedea, a company focused on XML technologies that
delivers trainings and consulting. Eric is a well known XML expert, author of the O'Reilly
books XML Schema and RELAX NG, member of the ISO DSDL Working Group (http://dsdl.org) and
editor of the RSS 1.0 specification. He is the creator and main editor of XMLfr
(http://xmlfr.org), the main French speaking website dedicated to XML.
David MertzOne tool I have grown quite fond of is the Java-based
XML editor, <oXygen/>. I have reviewed this product in the past, and since then it has
continued to get better. In addition to being one of the first XML editors to incorporate
RELAX NG support, the newest version of <oXygen/> now includes a nice set of TEI
templates -- just select one, and <oXygen/> creates a document skeleton (and assists you
in validation and tag entry as you go along). But most impressive of all, the XSL-FO
stylesheets that also come bundled just work. I was able to create a couple of nice
looking PDFs out of my TEI tests without spending hours configuring tool chains and
reading obscure HOWTO-s. IBM developerWorks article - XML Matters: TEI -- the Text Encoding
Initiative David has published hundreds of articles and column installments with IBM
developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, Webreview.com, and other publishers. David
writes two columns for IBM developerWorks. One on Python topics, called Charming Python
and the other is called XML Matter, and is on matters XML. You may find archived versions
of all of David's writing at http://gnosis.cx/publish. Erik Vlietinck - IT EnquireroXygen XML Editor is an editor that
enables you to develop everything needed for publishing XML documents. It is a complete
platform-independent solution for creating many types of XML documents, validating them,
editing schema, generating HTML documentation, converting one XML type to another, and
much more. http://www.it-enquirer.com IT Enquirer is designed and maintained by an experienced IT-journalist and
consultant, Erik Vlietinck, an ex-lecturer of IT Law. Erik has over 12 years of experience
writing for European IT-magazines, such as Belgian Datanews and EOS Magazine, Dutch
Publish, Computable, Windows 2000 Magazine and Wireless Computing Magazine, P/F Kunstbeeld
(a professional photographer magazine), and British IT Week, New Media Age, MacFormat,
Computer Arts, PC Advisor, and Total Content and Media. Peter Westwood We develop complex XQueries using SAXON, Java
code extensions and Oracle XML DB. oXygen has given us full debugging and profiling
against our data with out custom code and data sources too. Using it saves days of
development effort in every project we undertake. The queries are developed more quickly,
run faster and more reliably as a result. In diagnosis of faults with the live data from
our client sites it has also proved invaluable. The included integrated tools
for XPath construction, XML diff, general editing (XML, XQuery, XPath and Schemas) add
more value and the documentation generation is also a great advantage particularly as we
publish our schemas to external parties. Our technical writers even use oXygen as it has
excellent DocBook integration. Support has been first rate offering prompt help, problem
diagnosis and resolution, and suggestions for productivity improvements. In
short I have no hesitation in recommending oXygen to XML developers at all levels for use
with all XML technology! www.energysys.com Peter is Technical Director of EnergySys, a world leading software company
supplying solutions to the Oil and Gas Industry. His main responsibility in recent years
has been for the architecture of the GAMMA framework, an innovative and world-leading XML
J2EE framework used in the some of the world's largest Energy Companies. An enterprise
software architect by profession and with more than twenty years of experience in design
and development he has a real zest for technology and the tools that enhance the
productivity of the wider team in developing systems that give clients the competitive
edge they need. Nader Salman I am extremely pleased to tell you that the team I
conducted and I are working with documents in XML format. With the increasing popularity
of XML, the number of XML editors is growing exponentially and it can be extremely
difficult to choose the convenient editor that suits NeuroML users. Considering a long
list of criteria we've chosen <oXygen/> for many reasons. The <oXygen/> 7.0
XML editor is an excellent addition to any professional Web programmer's program suite. It
has a very well laid out, aesthetically pleasing GUI and, where certain other programs in
this category have an old look, this program has that up-to-date quality! Odyssee research project Nader is undergraduate Master student in Odyssee research project at INRIA,
Sophia Antipolis (France). He is the creator and main editor of the kraken engine, an
automatic-activity generator using a web XML structure devoted to scientific web site's
creation. He contributed three other students to the FACETS European project through the
realization of the Formalization of the neuro-biological models for spike neurons.
Michael Friedman I wanted to drop a note of thanks for your product, Oxygen, and your company. I
admire that you offer reduced costs and licenses for companies which are actively engaged
in supporting the environment and ecology in varying ways. My wife and I just moved to
Dallas, and they do not do curb-side recycling, so we chose Green Mountain as our
electricity provider -- a company which provides 100% renewable resource energy. So, I
choose and appreciate companies with similar interests. I learned about Oxygen through my
new employer -- Innodata-Isogen. We use Oxygen for a great deal of XML work. I have used
Altova's XML Spy up to this point, but really enjoy the features Oxygen provides and the
lower cost, as well as the focus on our planet. I just purchased a license for the
personal version + 1 year of maintenance -- and glad to do it! Michael Friedman is interested in all things publishing and technology related.
His current favorite topic is automated publishing using XML and associated technologies.
Specifically, he's working on exploring moving from layout-based publishing systems to
standards-based systems from a visual design and technology perspective. When not pursuing
such concepts, he is an advocate of space exploration, nature conservation, and innovation
in general. Michael works as a Design Analyst for Innodata-Isogen, Inc. Paul EverittI've been using XSLT a lot in the last year. There
are several things I like about it. Insanely good documentation leads the list, closely
followed by excellent tool support (I use the Oxygen XML / XSLT / schema editor.) Zope
Dispatches - FileMaker Pro 7 switches to XSLT Paul is the founder of Zope Europe Association and serves as the Product
Leader, defining the strategy, offerings, and marketing for ZEA. Paul is board member of
OSCOM (the international association for Open Source Content Management) and is the
executive director of the Plone Foundation, which started activities in June 2004. Paul
also serves as the president of Zope UK. He participates actively in international
conferences promoting open source and CMS, including keynote presentations and publicity.
Sean McGrathOxygen starts what will (I predict) become a trend -
especially in document centric XML (and you know in your heart that all XML should be
document centric don't you:-) An XML editor with RelaxNG support Sean is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Propylon. He's responsible
for the technical description of the company and providing the technical leadership to the
Propylon team. He also heads up the research arm of Propylon specialising in the eContent
and publishing areas of Propylon's operation. Sean is an industry-recognised XML expert.
He has acted as a strategic advisor to blue-chip corporations such as the Thomson Group
and KPMG and public-sector government agencies such as Reach the Irish Public Services
Broker. He has served as an invited expert on W3C committees and as a main speaker at
numerous worldwide XML events. Sean was previously co-founder of Digitome, where he built
a very successful electronic publishing company, with a strong
client-base. |