Visual - WYSIWYG XHTML Editor

Two Editing Modes

XHTML stands for W3C Extensible HyperText Markup Language. XHTML is aimed to replace HTML. While almost identical to HTML 4.01, XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML. XHTML is HTML defined as an XML application.

<oXygen/> XML Editor offers two modes for editing the XHTML files. One is the Author mode that allows a visual editing, the other being the XML source editor.

Similar to a web browser, renders the XHTML visually. At the top of the editor the toolbar contains the specific XHTML actions. Pressing ENTER shows the available elements that can be inserted at the caret position.

You can edit the XHTML files using the text/source editing mode of <oXygen/> XML Editor. The "as you type" validation and the powerful content completion are always on your side.

HTML Tables

You can create HTML tables, join or split cells, add or remove rows easily. <oXygen/> will create all the column specifications for you.

<oXygen/>can manage table width and column width specifications from the source document both in fixed and proportional dimensions. The tables and columns widths can be visually adjusted by dragging with the mouse their edges.

A HTML table example. The column widths are adjusted.

XHTML Ready

<oXygen/> comes with XHTML catalog and document templates so that you can start creating XHTML documents right away. Also a ready to use sample is provided in the samples project giving you a head start when working with XHTML. <oXygen/> allows a very flexible document creation management through document templates. You can easily create new XHTML document templates from the editor content and you can publish your templates to share them with other users.

Remote Editing

<oXygen/> XML Editor has built-in support for editing documents that are stored on remote servers through the protocols: FTP, SFTP and WebDAV, making it ideal for editing XHTML/HTML pages from your web server.

Import HTML Documents as XHTML

HTML documents can be converted during load (imported) to XML allowing you to benefit from the XML support like XPath queries and XSL transformations for instance. During this process you can also associate an XHTML DTD with the new converted document (either the strict or the transitional XHTML DTD) so the converted document is ready to be validated against the specified DTD.

Visual Content Change Tracking

Change Tracking is a way to keep a history of the changes made to a document. When change tracking is enabled the inserted and deleted content is highlighted in the document allowing to easily identify the affected regions.

Multiple authors support

<oXygen/> supports changes from multiple authors, rendering each author changes with different colors.

For each change <oXygen/> stores the author and the date when that change was performed. The name of the author who is currently making changes and the colors can be customized from the Track Changes preferences page. It is possible to add comments to the changes.

In the above screenshot you can see how various insert/delete changes made by various authors are displayed. The tooltip shows information about the change.

Change management

You can review the changes made by you or other authors and then accept or reject them using the Track Changes toolbar buttons or by using the change management dialog.