XML Editor

The spell checking works faster for long documents and for documents that have very long lines (thousands of characters).

Large documents are now loaded up to four times faster.

Content authors often use empty lines to make their XML documents more readable. An option that controls the preservation of the empty lines has been added. It is enabled by default.

An option (enabled by default) controls if the Pretty-Print operation should preserve the original value of the attributes as they were before the operation in the XML source. When this option is disabled the value will be normalized.

Styles from the CSS files can be formatted by indenting the content. Also the style blocks can optionally be separated using new lines.

Available from the Tools menu, this dialog box allows you to select any Unicode character. The selected character may be inserted in the document either directly or as character entity.

By enabling the "Automatic spell check" option from the "Editor/Spelling" the spelling errors from the document are highlighted during typing. The contextual menu on a highlighted word offers a list of correction proposals.

The errors and warnings presented in the vertical ruler have different colors, the warnings are presented in yellow, while the errors in red.

When moving the cursor over an error highlight in the XML source, a tooltip with the error description will be displayed.

If you place the cursor over an attribute, the application will display a tooltip containing the annotation defined for that attribute in the associated document schema.

This allows an easy-to-use and ergonomic search in the current document. It can be triggered with a shortcut, by default CTRL+ALT+F and can be closed by using the Escape key. Being only a toolbar (not a dialog box) saves your working space.

Besides the Replace to end action, now there is also a Replace all action available.

You can search in a directory structure, either recursive through all subdirectories or only in that directory.

Some sections in the Options dialog box have been redesigned.

You can select the next/previous error/result by using CTRL+Period(.) or CTRL+Comma(,) shortcuts.

You can define colors for the tags starting with a certain prefix. More than that, you can choose only the prefix to be colored differently, the name of the element being colored with the default element color.

The tab labels of the dockable views/editors now have the Aqua style.

Along with the bundled XSLT processors, it is possible to configure other XSLT processors, such as Sablotron, Transformiix, XT, Oracle XSLT. See the Options dialog box, section "XSLT/XQuery/FO/XSLT/Custom engines".

For instance, you can define that node axes should appear in the content completion window, but not the XSLT functions. This is the case when editing, for instance, an XPath expression in a stylesheet's "match"/"select" attribute or when directly editing an expression in the XPath toolbar. You can also inhibit all the XPath proposals.

Saxon 8B XSLT processor has been updated to the latest version: 8.7 . Oxygen supports also the Saxon8SA 8.7 (that requires a separate license from Saxonica).

The Xerces parser has been updated to the latest version.

The package allowing the XML document signing and signature check has been updated.