Semi-WYSIWYG XML editing?

[Mats]

Hello,

Do you have any plans to implement XML editing with semi-WYSIWYG screen styling similar to XML Mind, Epic Editor, Morphon and the like? Preferably where you can switch on and switch off tags.

Best regards,
Mats Broberg

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

WYSIWYG editing is planned for the long term. In the short term the next version of oXygen will provide a grid editor which allows to edit, expand and collapse the elements of the XML document without seeing the XML tags. You can see a preview here.

Regards,
Sorin

[SpecialAgent]

Hi there,

a WYSIWYG editor would be fantastic! This is what I searched for a long time... But your grid editor would be nice too... which version did you mean? 7.3 or the next major release?

Thanks.

[infinitesteps]

I use Arbortext Editor (formerly known as Epic). It works great for content creation. But it is very writer-oriented application. oXygen has a great XML toolset for those of us interest in the structure. If you added WYSIWYM editing to oXygen you would have a killer application. Arbortext Editor cost more than double oXygen, so keeping it at your current pricepoint would also be ideal

I wanted to clarify that WYSIWYM (mean) is not WYSIWYG (get). WYSIWYG for XML is almost totally useless.

For those of you possibly implementing this feature I highly recommend that you get a copy of Epic Editor. You should borrow some of their UI. They have 9 of the top 10 software companies in the world using their products to make technical documentation. There would be a lot to learn from their interface.

I look forward ot the day when I can do WYSIWYM content generation in oXygen!

-- Dannie

[george]

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback!
We will consider of course WYSIWYM support built on top of the support oXygen has for XML and different schema languages. I would say that this has moved from a long term objective into a closer area .

Regards,
George

[nwhitney]

Any idea when WYSIWYG editing will be an oXygen feature? I am a long time user of oXygen, and love it, but I have a difficult time getting XML newbies past real XML. I am in pursuit of a WYSIWYG XML editor or plug-in to something... browser, oxygen, whatever.