Oxygen XML Editor 5.1
January 18, 2005
Better Relax NG Support
The Model view has support for Relax NG. When editing a document with an
associated Relax NG schema the Model view will display the current element name,
namespace, model (part of the current pattern) and also information about the element
attributes. The Content Completion Assistant based on a Relax NG schema was reimplemented
to offer support similar with the one based on XML Schema or DTD. The Content Completion
Assistant offers context-sensitive proposals and also handles attribute
values.
Support for XSLTProc and MSXML XSLT Transformers
Oxygen XSLT Editor can perform XSLT transformations using MSXML 3.0/4.0/.NET and XSLTProc transformers. Usually on the Windows platform any Microsoft Office application installs the MSXML 3.0 or 4.0 package. The Oxygen installation kit includes adapters for these transformers.
XSLTProc is part of libxslt (the XSLT C library for GNOME) and is packaged in the Windows, Mac OS X and Linux standalone Oxygen distributions. In case you want to use it from the Eclipse plugin, you have to copy the executable files into the plugin directory.
Scenario-Based XSLT Debugging Session
Oxygen has a powerful transformation support based on reusable scenarios.
The same scenarios can be used for debugging. The XSLT Debugger will be initialized with
the information from the scenario (source or stylesheet location, XSLT processor,
transformation parameters) when the Debug scenario action is executed. This allows to
easily manage and trigger different debugging sessions.
Save the Debug Trace
It is possible to save the element trace obtained from a debug session as XML.
This permits comparing different debug runs.
Alternative Content Completion Assistance Behavior
If CTRL+ENTER is used instead of ENTER to trigger the insertion of a content
completion proposal Oxygen will process it in an alternative way. This is currently
defined for elements and will cause a block indent to appear between the start tag and the
end tag and the cursor will be positioned on the new indented line between the
tags.
Project Improvements
A file from project can be directed into one of the available Oxygen tools:
SVG viewer, Schema documentation, Generate/Convert Schema or WSDL Analyzer using an option
from the contextual menu.
Updated the TEI Framework
Oxygen is shipped with an updated version of the TEI P4 DTDs and XSL
stylesheets thanks to Syd Bauman.
File Properties Dialog Box
Information about the current file can be retrieved using the File / Properties
action. It includes the schema file used for the Content Completion Assistant, the file
encoding, the indent properties and so on.
Saves all the Modified Files Before a Transformation or a Validation
To make sure that a transformation or a validation action peaks all the changes
made in the editor one can turn on this option and thus all the edited files will be saved
before the action is applied.
Better Undo Support
Complex operations, such as Replace All and Indent
Selection, are properly handled by the undo action (a single undo will revert
the document to the state before that operation).
Relax NG Validate Action Handles ID References
By default the parser used to check the validity of XML files using Relax NG
schemas was ignoring the ID references. The validate action will now correctly handle the
ID values.
Fixed the Bidirectional Editing Support
There was a problem displaying the selection and the cursor when editing
documents that had mixed text of different orientations: left to right, such as in English
and right to left such as in Hebrew or Arabic languages.