New oXygen User, Was Altova User

[mphare]

First, it took me a couple of days of use to get use to oXygen over XML Spy. But now that I have, I'm ready to dump Altova. Their products have gotten waaaay too expensive and the scaled back offering (Home Version) is almost useless for any real work.

A couple of things that would be nice:

• GUI for updating or using alternate: SAXON, xalan, xerces jars.

• Ability to kick off shell scripts or other applications (I'm using Apache's Forrest which requires a couple of compile steps) Maybe integrate with ANT?

• Can the Eclipse plug-in be made to use the OASIS Catalog?

But Overall A Great Product! Thanks!

[george]

Hi,

A couple of things that would be nice:

• GUI for updating or using alternate: SAXON, xalan, xerces jars.

A new XSLT processor can be configured through JAXP, see the following article for an example that shows how to configure Saxon 7:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ssors.html
It is strongly recommended not to change the Xerces version as oXygen has a strong dependence on Xerces and this may cause unpredictable behavior.

• Ability to kick off shell scripts or other applications (I'm using Apache's Forrest which requires a couple of compile steps) Maybe integrate with ANT?

I guess you can use the External tools support for that. See:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... tools.html

• Can the Eclipse plug-in be made to use the OASIS Catalog?

The standalone version and the Eclipse plugin share the XML Catalog support. See:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... alogs.html

Best Regards,
George