Oxygen XML Editor 5.0
October 15, 2004
XSLT 2.0 Editor and Debugger
Oxygen provides complete XSLT 2.0 support including editing, validating and
debugging XSLT 2.0 stylesheets as well as transforming XML documents using XSLT 2.0
stylesheets. Editing XSLT 2.0 stylesheets with Oxygen is easy because each presented
XSLT 2.0 element or attribute in the Content Completion Assistant is accompanied by a
short documentation. The XSLT 2.0 debugger has all the debugging features including
mapping from the transformation output result to the document and stylesheet locations
that produced that output. Both Saxon 8.1B and Saxon 8.1SA are supported for validation
and transformations.
Mapping from the Output Results to Stylesheet and Source Locations
This answers the question: What part of the stylesheet generated this output
and what was the current selected node in the source? Just click on the output and the
corresponding stylesheet and document locations will be highlighted. This feature is
available for Xalan 2.5.1, Saxon 6.5.5 (for XSLT 1.0) and Saxon 8.1B (for XSLT 2.0) in the
XSLT Debugger perspective.
XPath 2.0 Evaluator
The XPath 1.0 support was enhanced to allow evaluation of XPath 2.0
expressions.
XQuery 1.0 Editor
The XQuery Editor provides syntax coloring and content completion assistance
for XQuery keywords, functions and operators. It features validation and transformation
support. The transformations can be configured using transformation scenarios similar with
the ones for XSLT.
Dynamic Content Completion Support for XSLT Editing
Oxygen will detect information previously entered in the stylesheet
document and will use that for offering content completion assistance. For instance, it
will detect current template/@mode values and will offer them when a new template/@mode
attribute is added.
WSDL Editor and SOAP Analyzer
With Oxygen 5.0 you can edit, validate and test WSDL documents. While
editing the Web-Services descriptors you can check their conformance to the WSDL and SOAP
schema. After defining the descriptor you can check it to see if the defined messages are
accepted by the Web Services server. Oxygen is providing two ways of testing, one for
the currently edited WSDL file and other for the remote WSDL files that are published on a
web server. The editor will generate the skeleton for the request. You can edit the
request, eventually attach files to it and send it to the server then watch the server
response in the response area.
Support for DTD Comments as Annotations
Oxygen XML Editor supports DTD comments as annotations together with XML
Schema annotations. Oxygen will extract either all the comments before an element
declaration or comments labeled with "doc:" and use that as documentation in the Model
view and in the pop-up next to the content completion proposals.
Annotated DTD
The DTD for DocBook, XHTML and Formatting Objects from the distribution kit
contain annotations for elements allowing instant help when editing.
Latest DocBook DTD and Stylesheets
Oxygen XML Editor now includes support for the latest version of DocBook
DTD and stylesheets. It also bundles DocBook DTD 4.3 and DocBook XSL 1.62.1.
Default Scenarios for DocBook and TEI
DocBook and TEI documents can be converted to HTML and PDF without the need to
configure anything, just select the corresponding scenario from the default scenarios:
DocBook HTML, DocBook PDF, TEI HTML and TEI PDF.
SVG Viewer
Oxygen XML Editor adds SVG support by using the Batik package. You may use
the Standalone SVG viewer to browse and open any SVG file. The Preview Result pane can
render the result of an XSL transformation that generates SVG documents.
XML Refactoring - Rename Element
The rename element action offers the possibility of renaming the current
element, the current element and the siblings that have the same name with the current
element or all the elements in the document that have the same name with the current
element.
XML Refactoring - Split Element
Split element action has the result of splitting the content of the current
element at cursor position in two identical elements.
XML Refactoring - Join Elements
Join elements is the opposite of the split element action. It combines the
content of two identical elements into one element.
Project Enhancements
The Project view supports drag-and-drop editing, this means that the project
tree can be customised very easily using the mouse only. Actions have been added for
refreshing the project and linked folders, opening the selected files with the system
application and deleting the files/folders.
Batch Validate with External Schema
The project selected files can be validated against a specified schema W3C or
Relax NG schema.
Generate Element Content on Content Completion Proposals
The generation of element content has been relaxed to allow generation of
optional content and to follow first choice models options.
Enhanced Support for XSD-Driven Content Completion Assistance
The Content Completion Assistant handles list and union type values and
presents the annotation documentation for the selected value in a pop-up next to the
Content Completion Assistant.
Enhanced Support for Relax NG-Driven Content Completion Assistant
The Content Completion Assistant now handles anyName and
nsName models, and it is much faster than in previous
versions.
Dynamic Content Completion Support for XML Schema Editing
Oxygen will detect information previously entered in the schema document
and will use that for offering content completion assistance. This covers all the schema
components such as element names, type names, notation names and group names. Also the
Content Completion Assistant displays the built-in schema types.
Present Root Element Annotations on the New XML Dialog Box
When creating a new XML document based on an XML Schema or on a DTD the
annotation for the selected root element will be presented.
Editor Variables in the Parameter Values for Transformations
Editor variables can be used to specify the XSLT parameters values. Supported
variables are: ${home} - user home folder, ${cfd} - current file directory, ${cfdu} -
current file directory URL and ${cfn} - current file name.
External Tools Editor Variables for Debugger Selected Files
When configuring external tools two additional variables are available:
${dbgXML} and ${dbgXSL} that will be resolved to the current selected files in the XSLT
Debugger perspective as XML and XSLT sources respectively.
XPath Evaluation on XSLT Documents
By default when editing an XSLT stylesheet the XPath expressions are applied on
the XML document configured in the current selected transformation scenario. It is now
possible to specify that the XPath expressions should be applied on the XSLT documents
themselves to allow XPath searches.
CSS Editor
Oxygen offers a CSS editor with support for syntax coloring, formatting and
validation.
JavaScript Editor
Oxygen offers a JavaScript editor with support for syntax
coloring.
Highlight the Current Line
While editing the line where the cursor is located is highlighted. The color of
the highlighted line can be customised from the Preferences dialog box.