XML Editor

• XML Text Editor
• WYSIWYG XML Editor
• XML Grid Editor
• Tree Editor

A powerful text editor specially tuned for XML developers.

A simple to use interface specially suited for content authors.

A spreadsheet-like XML editing interface.

A graphical tree representation of your XML content.

XML Text Editor

The text editing mode offers full control on the XML file content to the XML developer. The context sensitive content assistant coupled with automatic validation help you keep the edited file valid all the time.

Unlike other editors that offer all the available entries, the content assistant of <oXygen/> XML Editor shows only those entries which are valid in the current editing context. In this way the XML document is kept valid most of the time and the user does not have to know about the relations between elements.

WYSIWYG XML Editor (Visual XML editor)

The Author mode of the <oXygen/> XML Editor demonstrates a new productive way of authoring XML documents by non technical authors, similar to a word processor.

This editing mode makes XML document authoring easier than using an unstructured word processing application. The author's focus is on the semantics of the XML content while the formatting and layout is performed automatically by <oXygen/> XML Author, is driven by a CSS stylesheet and is supported by user actions specific for the current document type.

XML Grid Editor

The <oXygen/> XML Grid Editor allows the repetitive XML content to be edited in a table-like fashion, similar to a spreadsheet application. This editor provides table oriented operations like row and column addition and deletion and table sorting. You can organize your XML documents by moving nodes around using drag and drop.

There are two layouts available in the grid editor: the grid layout (tries to find and group the recurring elements in tables) and the tree layout (shows directly the structure of the XML document).

Tree Editor

XML documents can be viewed/edited in a graphical tree. The tree editor is a great help when you are working with very large documents because of its small memory footprint.

For a fast navigation in the document you can use the top navigation panel which is always synchronized with the current path in the document. Each button from the panel gives access to all the XML nodes at the same level.

The Model View shows the detailed information about the element or attribute that you are working on. Element and attributes annotations are also presented here if they are available in the XML Schema of the document.

Detailed features

• WYSIWYG XML Editor (Visual XML editor)
  
  The Author mode of the <oXygen/> XML Editor demonstrates a new productive way of authoring XML documents, similar to a word processor.
• Intelligent XML Editing
  
  The context sensitive content assistant is changing the way you edit documents, helping you create valid content all the time.
• Extensible XML Editor
  
  Starting with version 9 <oXygen/> adds a new concept called Document Type that solves the problem of providing ready to use support for a framework or an XML language. The Document Type concept is used to provide the built in support <oXygen/> has for a number of XML frameworks (DITA, DocBook, TEI) but, more importantly, it can be employed to provide support for a user defined framework that needs to be shared with other users.
• XML Grid Editor
  
  The <oXygen/>'s grid editor allows you to edit repetitive XML content in a special layout similar to a spreadsheet application, without the need to interact with markup.
• XML Outliner
  
  <oXygen/> XML Editor comes along with a powerful outliner which is automatically synchronized with the document changes.
• XInclude Support
  
  <oXygen/> XML Editor supports XInclude which is a standard for building up XML documents from smaller pieces, being a replacement for the external entities.
• XML Validation and Well-Formedness Check
  
  The XML validation can be done by checking the documents against a schema. <oXygen/> XML Editor supports: XML Schema, DTD, Schematron and Relax NG schemas.
• XML Formating and Indentation.
  
  An useful utility is the XML document formatter.
• Unicode and Internationalization
  
  <oXygen/> XML Editor supports a large number of text encodings. Unicode is fully supported.
• <oXygen/> XML Diff
  
  A complete diff and merge solution is now also available as a separate product. It offers both directory and file comparison, six different diff algorithms and multiple levels of comparison.
• XPath support
  
  XPath is a language for addressing specific parts of an XML document. XPath, like the Document Object Model (DOM), models an XML document as a tree of nodes. An XPath expression is a mechanism for navigating through and selecting nodes from the XML document. You can executes XPath queries on opened documents. Both XPath versions 1.0 and 2.0 are supported.
• XML Digital Signature and XML Canonicalization
  
  The digital signature is a requirement when exchanging information in an untrusted network. Since XML is used for content storage it is important to be able to sign the XML files or messages.
• <oXygen/> Tree Editor
  
  XML documents can be viewed/edited in a graphical tree. The tree editor is handy for large size documents.
• Helper Views
  
  There is a set of panels located at the side of the editing area helping the XML editing. They present the model of the edited XML element, the available attributes and entities.