[oXygen-user] UI questions

[Sorin Ristache]

Hello,

Please see my answers below.


Khaled Aly wrote:
> - There probably should be a way to validate *.xsl files since there is 
> an XSL (1.0) DTD. When I try to validate I get an error msg that JAXP 
> isn't installed.
> 
> "The transformer JAXP is not present! Please install it in the folder: 
> file:/C:/Program Files/Oxygen XML Editor 8.2/lib/"

That error message occurs when you select JAXP as the validation engine 
in Options -> Preferences -> XML -> XSLT/FO/XQuery -> XSLT but the JAXP 
engine is not set correctly. Setting a JAXP engine implies setting the 
name of the main Java class of the engine in the Value field in the 
section JAXP XSLT Transformer of the preferences page mentioned above 
and adding the jar file of the engine in the folder specified in the 
error message. As Lars mentioned oXygen validates XSLT stylesheets with 
the engine set in "XSLT 1.0 validate with". XSLT validation implies more 
than checking the syntax of the stylesheet against a DTD and this is why 
an XSLT transformer must be set as validation engine.

> - Anyone has links to multiple output extension XSL elements when Saxon 
> or Xalan are used for transformation to HTML (analogous to the 
> <xt:document)?

In XSLT 2.0 you have the xsl:result-document element. If you must use 
XSLT 1.0 please read about the Saxon output extension:

http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.5/extensions.html#saxon:output

and about the Xalan redirect extensions:

http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensionslib.html#redirect


> - Soren: any plans of introducing a "tagged" view in the next release, 
> in addition to "Text" and "Grid"?

I am not sure what you mean by tagged view. I think the Text mode of the 
XML editor provides a tagged view of an XML document. The next release 
will introduce a CSS-driven tagless editor which you can try in the 
oXygen 9 beta version announced on this list by George several days ago:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/pipermail/oxygen-user/2007-September/001323.html


> - I'm not familiar with Eclipse and I currently use the standalone 
> oXygen version. But I believe Eclipse must have Ant installed, so would 
> this be of help for editing and executing Ant build files for DITA on 
> the same platform? I'm not sure, otherwise, if Oxygen built-in 
> transformers (e.g. Saxon 6.5.5) can be use with a 'standalone' Ant 
> version, or would one in this case need to install the processor separately?

Yes, Eclipse comes with a built-in Ant plugin with support for editing 
build files (an Ant editor with syntax highlight, content completion for 
Ant elements and attributes) and for executing them. If you want to use 
Ant as a standalone tool you can apply a stylesheet with Xalan 
extensions from the build script without any additional configuration as 
Ant comes with Xalan as the engine which executes the "xslt" / "style" 
Ant element. If you want to use Saxon extensions you have to add the 
Saxon 6.5 jar file to the folder [Ant-install-folder]/lib and to specify 
the name of the Saxon's implementation of 
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory (that is 
com.icl.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl) in the "factory" child element of 
the "xslt" element of your Ant build file.

For calling Ant from oXygen as external tool please read the following 
section of the oXygen user manual which includes a complete example:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-standalone/integrating-external-tools.html#integrating-Ant-tool


Regards,
Sorin