Oxygen XML Developer 16.0
May 20, 2014
Related version: 16.1
XSLT development received a productivity burst in Oxygen XML Developer 16 with the addition of Quick Fixes support and improvements to refactoring actions. If you develop XSLT stylesheets to work with Saxon-CE in the browser, Oxygen will assist you with validation and content completion assistance for the Saxon-CE specific extensions.
Querying a set of files with XPath is facilitated by the XPath execution scope setting that can point to a predefined or a user-defined set of files.
If you use Ant to orchestrate build processes then Oxygen will support you with a powerful Ant editor featuring validation, content completion assistance, Outline view, syntax highlight and search, and refactoring actions.
As usual, this version includes many component updates and updated API functionality.
There are changes in:
XSLT
XSLT Quick Fixes
To improve development productivity Oxygen offers rapid fixes for common
errors that appear during XSLT development. Using the Quick Fix support you can resolve
problems such as missing templates, misspelled template names, missing function,s or
references to undeclared variables or parameters.
Improved XSLT Refactoring
XSLT refactoring support has been improved by adding additional refactoring
actions and enhancements to the existing ones. If you want to re-use an XPath expression,
you can use a refactoring action to extract that expression as a variable or parameter.
The Move to another stylesheet refactoring action allows you to move one
or more XSLT global components into a new or existing stylesheet. To make refactoring
actions more accessible the Quick Assist feature displays the refactoring actions relevant
to the current editing context.
Saxon-CE Specific XSLT Development Support
Saxon-CE (Client Edition) provides integrated XSLT 2.0 support in the web
browser. XSLT stylesheets designed to work with Saxon-CE use specific extensions to
integrate with the web browser and to react to user-generated events. Oxygen helps you
develop XSLT stylesheets for Saxon-CE with special validation, content completion
assistance, and syntax highlight support, all aware of Saxon-CE extension functions and
instructions.
XPath
XPath over Multiple Files
You can easily execute XPath expressions over multiple files. You can choose
one of the predefined scopes (Current File, Project, Selected Project Resources, All
Opened Files, Current DITA Map Hierarchy) or define your own collection of
files.
XPath File Filter
You can execute XPath expressions over all the files from the selected scope or
you can define an additional filter that will select the relevant resources from that
scope. The default filter selects all the known XML file types.
Stop XPath Execution
An XPath expression executed over multiple documents may take a long period of
time to complete. During the execution of an XPath expression, the XPath toolbar displays
a Stop button that allows you to stop the processing.
Ant Editor
Oxygen provides a full-fledged Ant build files editor that includes
features such as validation, content completion assistance, Outline view, syntax highlight
and search, and refactoring actions.
Ant Outline View
The Outline view is available for the Ant build files editor, offering you an
overview of the Ant components and the possibility to focus on a specific subset using the
filter box.
Content Completion Assistant
The Content Completion Assistant offers the list of Ant components that can be
inserted in the current context. You can use it to easily insert references to components
or to define new ones.
Searching and Refactoring Actions
You have a wide variety of actions to search and rename IDs, targets and
properties.
Master Files - Contextual Editing
Ant validation, editing (content-completion and Outline view), refactoring and
component search operations work by default in the context of the Ant Master
Files.
Resource Hierarchy / Dependencies View
The relationship between Ant resources can be visualized and understood with
the help of the Resource Hierarchy/Dependencies view.
WebHelp Skin Builder
Component Updates
Other
Extend Framework
You can extend a base document type configuration to add or remove
functionality. When the base is modified and evolves (from one application version to
another, for example) the extension will evolve along with it. This allows the extension
to use the new features/actions added in the base.
Eclipse Author Validation Stripe
The Eclipse Plugin was enhanced to contain a vertical validation stripe in the
Author visual editing mode showing an overview of all reported
validation errors.
Editor Variable for Evaluating XPath 3.0 Expressions
The xpath_eval(expression) editor variable allows you to
evaluate XPath 3.0 expressions either statically, in non-XML contexts, or dynamically,
relative to the current element, in XML contexts. As an example, this gives you access to
all standard XPath functions such as replace(),
substring(), or upper-case() when you compute the
output file name of a transformation.
Better Application Tooltips Styling
The user interface has been improved by using rich HTML for displaying tooltip
information. For example, in the case of a validation error the tooltip may contain a link
to an external web page.
Reference Video Files in EPUB and EPUB 3 Output
You can reference popular image or video media files to be included in EPUB and
EPUB 3
Oxygen API
A detailed list of all changes to the Java API can be found here.
Maven Repository for the Oxygen SDK
Oxygen provides API to extend its functionality and also makes available
components that can be used as part of other applications - all these form the Oxygen
SDK. Starting with version 16 the SDK is available through Maven.
Import Global Options from an XML Document
The API PluginWorkspace.importGlobalOptions(File) allows you to set
fixed options to the application from an exported XML options file.
Get the Document Type of the Currently Open XML Editor
The WSEditorBase.getDocumentTypeInformation() API method allows
you to find details about the document type of the currently open XML
editor.
Get the Build ID of the Current Version
The API method WorkspaceUtilities.getVersionBuildID() can be used to obtain
the build ID of the current version of the application.
Obtain All Registered Editor Listeners
The WSEditor.getEditorListeners() API method allows you to get
the list of all listeners registered on a particular editor.
Obtain All Registered Editor Change Listeners
The PluginWorkspace.getEditorChangeListeners() method allows you
to get the list of all editor change listeners registered in the
application.
Define Scopes for a Plugin's Library
In the plugin.xml plugin configuration file you can contribute
a referenced library to the main application class loader by setting the scope attribute
to one of the following values: global and
globalHighPriority.