XML Editor

Oxygen XML Editor 16.0

Related Versions: 16.016.1

Oxygen XML Editor 16 increases your productivity for XSLT development with the addition of Quick Fixes and improvements to refactoring actions. Saxon-CE specific extensions are supported and you can apply XPath queries on multiple 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.

Working with conditional content is a lot easier, since you can set different colors and styles for each condition, or focus exclusively on a specific deliverable by hiding all excluded content. You can modify DITA and DocBook tables easily using the table properties action.

You can customize the style of the Oxygen WebHelp output to look exactly as you want using the WebHelp skin builder.

As usual, this version includes many component updates and updated API functionality.

There are changes in:

• XSLT
• XPath
• Ant Editor
• Visual XML Editing
• WebHelp Skin Builder
• DITA Support
• DocBook Support
• Component Updates
• Other
• Oxygen API

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.

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.

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.

Searching and Refactoring Actions

You have a wide variety of actions to search and rename IDs, targets and properties.

Visual XML Editing

Profiling Colors and Styles

Profiling, also known as conditional processing, allows tagging content that will be available only in specific deliverables. This is usually implemented using specific attributes (also called profiling attributes such as product, audience, etc.) and setting values to them. Oxygen helps you quickly identify the profiled sections of a document by allowing you to define colors and styles for each profiling attribute value and to apply them automatically to the profiled parts of the document.

Customizable Profiling Attributes Rendering

The profiling attributes and their values can be made visible and editable directly in the Author visual editing mode. The colors used to render profiling attributes and their values are customizable, you can change the default rendering by setting custom background, border and foreground colors. You can also hide the name of the profiling attribute.

WebHelp Skin Builder

WebHelp Skin Builder

The WebHelp output style can be customized with a CSS that can be passed as a parameter for the transformations from DITA and DocBook to WebHelp. Oxygen provides an online tool that allows non-technical users to easily create these CSS customizations in a visual interface, starting from one of the pre-defined skin templates.

DITA Support

Support for Editing DITA Table Properties

Properties for cells, rows, columns or the entire table can be customized using the contextual Table Properties action. This allows setting vertical and horizontal alignment, column and row separators, conversions between header, body and footer row types or configuring the table frame property. CALS, Simple Table and Choice Table formats are supported.

DocBook Support

Support for Editing DocBook Table Properties

Properties for cells, rows, columns or the entire table can be customized using the contextual Table Properties action. This allows setting vertical and horizontal alignment, column and row separators, conversions between header, body and footer row types or configuring the table frame property. Both CALS and HTML table models are supported.

Component Updates

Other

Oxygen API