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  • Develop advanced XSLT stylesheets
  • Visually Edit XML Schema
  • Debug XSLT and XQuery files
  • Generate XSD and XSL documentation
  • Connect and manage XML Databases
  • Validate and transform XML files

 

  • Visually edit XML documents
  • Publish in a variety of formats
  • Use DITA, DocBook or other frameworks
  • Collaborate with team members
  • Connect to CMSes, WebDAV and FTP
  • Validate and transform XML files
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<oXygen/> XML Editor version 14.0

Features What is new

<oXygen/> is the best XML editor available, with a large number of users ranging from beginners to XML experts. It is the only XML tool that supports all the XML schema languages. The XSLT and XQuery support is enhanced with powerful debuggers and performance profilers. You can use <oXygen/> XML Editor to work with all XML-based technologies including XML databases, XProc pipelines, and web services.

Specially tuned for content authors, <oXygen/> XML Author comes with a configurable and extensible visual editing mode based on W3C CSS stylesheets with ready-to-use DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML support, making <oXygen/> the ideal XML authoring solution.

<oXygen/> XML Editor is a cross-platform application available on all the major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris) and can be used either standalone or as an Eclipse plugin.

Key features
XML IDE

XML IDE

Different perspectives: XML Editor, XSLT Debugger, XQuery Debugger, XML Databases, XML Tree Viewer/Editor. The views inside the <oXygen/> window are dockable, floating and hideable.
Manage and share transformation scenarios together with the project.Share any of the <oXygen/> XML Editor options together with the project.
Batch validation and batch transformations.Multi-line find and replace support allows regular expressions, is XML aware and can handle multiple files.
Intelligent XML editing

Intelligent XML editing

The best content completion support offering XML elements, attributes, values (handling ID references, enumerations and list values).Edit with ease XML documents consisting of repetitive patterns using the spreadsheet-like XML Grid Editor.
Schema annotations/DTD comments presented next to the content completion proposals.<oXygen/> XML Editor provides editing and validation support for NVDL scripts and for XML documents associated with NVDL scripts.
Context sensitive content assistant driven by XML Schema, Relax NG, NVDL, DTD or by the document structure. XML document wizards and XML code templates (abbreviations).
Tree based XML Outliner synchronized in real time with the edited document.New XML document wizards to easily create XML documents specifying a schema or a DTD.
Source folding support with powerful manipulation actions and persistence.Schema Model View presenting schema information about the current XML element.
Format and indent of XML files.
XML Validation

XML Validation

Validate XML documents with XML Schemas, Relax NG, DTD, NVDL and Schematron schema or embedded Schematron rules.Edit and validate support for XML Schema (visual diagram), Relax NG (visual diagram), NVDL scripts, DTD, Schematron.
Multiple validation engines: Xerces, XSV, LIBXML, MSXML 4.0, MSXML.NET, Saxon EE and SQC XML Validation and Well-Formedness Check with XInclude and XML Catalog support.
Easy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on it, visual markers and overview ruler in the XML editor.Link to the exact location in the specification for XML Schema errors.
XML Schema Modeling

XML Schema Modeling

Visual diagram based XML schema editor, RelaxNG Schema Editor.Refactoring actions.
Include/Import graph.Component dependencies analyzer.
Generate HTML or PDF documentation from W3C XML Schemas.Support for generating large sets of sample XML instances from W3C XML Schema.
XSL/XSLT Support

XSL/XSLT Support

XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XSLT 3.0 editing, validation, transformation, debugging and profiling support.Multiple XSLT processors: Xalan 2.7.1, Saxon 6.5.5, Saxon EE, XSLTProc and MSXML3.0/4.0/.NET 1.0/2.0.
XSLT debugging using multiple built-in processors: Xalan 2.7.1, Saxon 6.5.5, Saxon Home Edition, Saxon Professional Edition as well as the schema-aware Saxon Enterprise Edition.Easy XSLT/XQuery transformation and XML validation management with reusable scenarios.
Powerful XSLT search and refactoring actions working across multiple files.Preview the transformation results as XHTML, XML or in your browser.
XSLT Stylesheet documentation in HTML.
XQuery Support

XQuery Support

Browse, edit or query using XQuery and SQL native XML or relational databases.Mapping from the XSLT or XQuery output result to the source and stylesheet or XQuery file locations.
XQuery 1.0 editing, validation, transformation debugging and profiling support.Integrated XQuery Debugger for the MarkLogic XML Database.
XQuery Profiler.
XPath Support

XPath Support

XPath evaluation and syntax checking, XPath content completion support.Content completion with functions and annotations.
XPath Builder View. XPath functions in content completion in Schematron.
Native XML and Relational Databases

Native XML and Relational Databases

Management support for the relational databases: Oracle 11g R1, IBM DB2 Pure XML, Microsoft SQLServer 2008.Management support for the XML Databases: Documentum xDb, MarkLogic, eXist, Berkeley DB XML.
Import from relational databases and other sources to XML.Browse, edit or query using XQuery and SQL native XML or relational databases.
Single Source XML Publishing

Single Source XML Publishing

Visual WYSIWYG XML editing mode, based on W3C CSS stylesheets.Ready to use visual editing support for DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML.
Visual DITA Maps Manager, closely integrated with DITA Open Toolkit.FO transformations using embedded Apache's FOP to generate PDF or PS files from XML documents.
Support for external Formatting Object Processors.Unicode and Spell-checking with multi-language support: English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Dutch.
<oXygen/> XML Editor includes the DocBook, DITA and TEI documentation frameworks.Support for CALS and HTML tables.
Preconfigured publishing scenarios for: HTML, WebHelp, PDF, Eclipse/Windows help.<oXygen/> provides support for editing, validating and creating EPUB files. Predefined transformation scenarios allow you to publish DITA and DocBook documents to EPUB.
Access to CMSes and Remote Resources

Access to CMSes and Remote Resources

Documentum Content Management System (CMS) IntegrationSupport for editing remote XML files over FTP/SFTP, HTTP/WebDAV and HTTPS/WebDAV.
Any WebDAV enabled CMS
Collaboration

Collaboration

Keep track of the changes you make to a document using the track changes feature. You can examine and merge differences between XML documents using the built-in XML Diff and Merge tool.
Fully-fledged client for the Apache SubversionTM (SVN) versioning system.
Support for Office Documents

Support for Office Documents

Ready to use validation, editing and processing support for Microsoft® Office 2007 - Office Open XML (OOXML).Ready to use validation, editing and processing support for Open Document Format (ODF) and other ZIP-based packages.
Tools

Tools

Conversions from DTD, Relax NG or a set of XML documents to XML Schema, DTD or Relax NG.Canonicalization and digital signature of XML documents.
WSDL SOAP analyzer.Large File Viewer (up to 10 GB).
Contribution to Open Source Projects

Contribution to Open Source Projects

<oXygen/> XML Editor makes available an open source NVDL implementation, oNVDL based on Jing.
Availability

Availability

<oXygen/> XML Editor is available as standalone desktop or Java Web Start application, or as an Eclipse plugin.No platform lock-in, the same license can be used on any platform with any distribution of the XML editor.

What is new in <oXygen/> XML Editor 14.0

June 27, 2012

Version 14 marks a major step forward in the XML development support as it introduces new concepts and functionality that change the way you develop XML and XML-related applications.

The XML authoring competes now with word processors on ease of use and functionality while providing all the benefits of having XML documents as the result of your work - it has never been easier before to create, annotate and review XML content.

The new support for plugin and framework repositories allows <oXygen/> users to discover and install extensions to the standard <oXygen/> functionality and enables the <oXygen/> plugin and framework developers to easily deliver and update their applications to <oXygen/> users.

The new version introduces subscription-based licenses for 1 year and 6 months alongside the existing permanent licensing option.

There are changes in:

XML Development

XPath/XQuery Builder

The new XPath and XQuery builder is a powerful sandbox tool designed to help you in building, reusing and testing XPath and XQuery code snippets. Using the content completion assistant and syntax highlight coloring, you can quickly build queries and you can reuse them either from the history stack or from the favorites list.

CTRL/CMD + Click Navigation

By holding down CTRL (CMD on Mac) in the Text editing mode some components become links that you can follow to get to the definition of those components. For example, in an XML document, an element name becomes a link to that element definition in the associated schema or DTD. In an XSL stylesheet, a variable reference becomes a link to that variable definition, and so on.

In-Place Rename

Refactoring your code is a lot easier with the rename component action that allows you to rename a component and all its occurrences in the current file without showing any dialogs. All the component occurrences are highlighted and changed as you type.<oXygen/> provides a default shortcut to quickly trigger this action: Alt+Shift+R (Alt+Cmd+R on Mac).

XQuery 3.0

The XQuery editor and the new XQuery builder allow you to edit and execute XQuery 3.0 expressions (including schema aware ones). The Saxon 9 XQuery processor is used for execution and validation. The new functions defined in XQuery 3.0 are presented in the content completion assistant.

XPath 3.0

The XSLT 3.0 and XQuery 3.0 specifications are based on XPath 3.0 so <oXygen/> updates its XPath support to cover the new additions in XPath 3.0. The new XPath builder allows you to edit and execute XPath 3.0 expressions.

Master Files    [ read more... ]

<oXygen/> introduces a new innovative concept called Master Files which simplifies the configuration and development of XML projects. Master Files are the roots of import/include tree of modules. They are defined at project level and are automatically used to determine the context for: validation, editing (content-completion and outliner), refactoring and component search operations. This support is available for XSD, XSL and RNG modules.

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XSLT Unit Test    [ read more... ]

<oXygen/> provides XSLT Unit Test support based on XSpec. You can easily create a test for an XSLT stylesheet using the New -> XSLT Unit Test contextual action in the Project View. This action automatically generates an XSpec stub for the templates and functions from the stylesheet that you want to test. Editing XSpec is assisted with content completion and validation, and a default transformation scenario allows to run the tests, generating as output the test report.

XSLT 3.0    [ read more... ]

XSLT 3.0 support is automatically activated for each XSLT stylesheet having the version attribute set to 3.0. <oXygen/> provides content completion for XSLT 3.0 stylesheets, support for transformations and XSLT validation, updated Outline view and search and refactoring actions that handle new additions in the XSLT 3.0 standard.

Authoring

Display Tracked Changes as Callouts

Along with review comments, the changes can be presented as callout boxes (balloons) next to the editing area, thus making it easy to collaborate on document editing and review. You can control what type of changes are displayed as well as the additional information: changed content, date, time and author. To enable the balloons for tracked changes, use the Callouts options page.

Complete DITA 1.2 Implementation in Relax NG

The complete set of DITA 1.2 schemas is available in Relax NG and <oXygen/> provides full support for creating, authoring and publishing DITA documents based on those Relax NG schemas. The DITA support in Relax NG was contributed back to the DITA community as an open source project: DITA-NG.

XPath Filter for Find/Replace in Author Mode

The XPath filter which was available only in Text mode is now available in the visual editing (Author) mode.

Preview conref Target Elements

The insertion of a DITA conref is easier because <oXygen/> shows a preview of the target elements using the visual Author mode.

Partial Support for EPS Images

If the JAI Image I/O Tools libraries are installed in <oXygen/>, TIFF preview images embedded in referenced EPS images are rendered in the Author mode. Note that this is an experimental support.

CSS 3 Substring Matching Attribute Selectors

The Author editing mode supports the CSS 3 "starts-with", "ends-with" and "contains" attribute selectors.

Display Review Comments as Callouts    [ read more... ]

When you annotate your XML documents, the comments are displayed in the Author view as side callouts (balloons) showing also additional information like the author and the comment time.

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Feedback-enabled WebHelp    [ read more... ]

Starting with version 14, <oXygen/> added the ability to transform DITA and DocBook documents into Feedback-Enabled WebHelp systems, being the first XML Single Source Publishing solution which supports this technology. This means that the communication is bidirectional. The users that visit the documentation pages are able to see the added comments and reply to them.

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Column and Row Table Operations    [ read more... ]

By allowing to select entire rows and columns <oXygen/> you can easily copy or move table data using copy/paste and drag and drop operations.

Discontinuous selection    [ read more... ]

You can select multiple text ranges (discontinuous selection) or multiple elements in the Author page and cut/copy/paste them.

Plugins and Frameworks

StratML Framework

Support for Strategy Markup Language Part 1 and Part 2 is default in <oXygen/>, offering default schema association based on the document namespace, built-in XML Catalog for mapping remote StratML schema references to local copies, easy creation of new StratML documents though document templates, visual editing in the Author mode and default transformation to HTML.

Increased Framework Portability

A new editor variable ${framework} that is expanded to the current framework folder allows you to refer to resources like schemas, CSS stylesheets, and so on, in a portable way, that does not depend on the actual framework location.

Localized Frameworks

A framework provides specific support for an XML vocabulary - this is what <oXygen/> uses to provide a default support for DITA, DocBook, TEI, etc. Starting with version 14 the frameworks support internationalization and the main default <oXygen/> frameworks were localized in English, German, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese.

Specific Element Icons

Many of the default <oXygen/> frameworks (DITA, Docbook, TEI, XHTML, XSL and XML Schema) were updated to use the API that allow providing custom icons for elements to provide specific icons, for example to easily distinguish a title, a paragraph, a list, etc. These icons appear in the Outline view and in the content completion list when an element is proposed to be inserted in the document.

Plugin and Framework Repositories    [ read more... ]

As a developer you will be able to distribute your plugins and frameworks to other users by publishing them as add-ons on your website. The users can easily install new plugins and frameworks by just pointing oXygen to a repository URL. They will be able to browse available plugins and frameworks and select the ones they want to install. When an add-on is changed, an update notification is triggered in oXygen.

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Transformation and Validation

Unified Presentation of Transformation Scenarios

All transformation scenarios are presented regardless of their storage: the project file, user preferences, or frameworks. You can easily import and export scenarios, and change their storage location.

Associate Multiple Transformation Scenarios

You can publish to multiple output formats with just one click. For instance, if you associate DITA to PDF and DITA to WebHelp scenarios to a DITA map then the "Apply Transformation" action will perform both transformations.

Unified Presentation of Validation Scenarios

All validation scenarios are presented regardless of their storage: the project file, user preferences, or frameworks. You can easily import and export scenarios, and change their storage location.

Associate Multiple Validation Scenarios

You can associate multiple validation scenarios with your documents.

EPUB

EPUB 3.0

The EPUB support was updated to include validation for EPUB 3.0 files. The support for the files included inside an EPUB was also updated to support the new files referred by the EPUB 3 specification.

Eclipse Plugin

Internationalization Support for the Eclipse Plugin

<oXygen/> is available both as a standalone Java application and as an Eclipse plugin. The internationalization support was available only in the standalone version and now it was extended to cover also the Eclipse plugin. By default the Eclipse plugin is localized in the following languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese.

MathML Editing in the Eclipse Plugin

MathML equations are rendered in the <oXygen/> visual editing (Author) mode. For editing, <oXygen/> provides a simple MathML visual editor that presents the rendered equation and the MathML source side by side and synchronizes the caret position in both views to quickly map from the rendered equation to the source and vice-versa.

MarkLogic

XQuery Validation

The XQuery modules can be validated using the MarkLogic server thus you can spot possible issues quickly, without the need to actually execute that XQuery script. The validation support requires MarkLogic 5 or a later version.

Remote Editing

It is possible to edit a module opened directly from the MarkLogic connection, without the need to go though a file or WebDAV peer connection.

Remote XQuery Debugging on MarkLogic Server    [ read more... ]

The new capabilities of <oXygen/> enable debugging of real applications that use XQuery, for example web applications that trigger XQuery executions. <oXygen/> connects to a MarkLogic server, shows you the running XQuery scripts and allows you to debug them. By setting the server in debug mode you will be able to intercept all the XQuery scripts run on that server.

The remote debugging support allows also collaborative debugging, two or more developers can connect to the same debugging session.

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Other

Find and Replace in Files Improvements

The Find and Replace in files support was updated to support text on multiple lines. Before applying a replace operation, you can also preview the changes that are about to be performed and you can also limit the scope of those changes to specific files.

Search Results Highlighted in Editors

The results of the XPath, Find, Search References/Declarations operations are highlighted in the editor and marked in the side bar, in both Author and Text mode.

Show/Hide Element Names in Outline View

You are able to control the visibility of the element names in the Outline View. Hiding element names allows you to focus more on the document content.

Improved JavaScript/JSON Support

The JavaScript editing experience has been improved with the addition of Content Completion Assistant, synchronized Outline View and syntax validation. The Outline View can also be used when editing JSON files.

Browse Database Resources

In most places where a resource is needed, <oXygen/> uses a component that allows to easily identify what resource to open. This component includes now an action that allows browsing database collections to find the resource to open thus making the resources stored in databases easily accessible in many workflows.

Extended API

Control the Callouts Rendering and Actions in Author Mode

The ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.callouts.AuthorCalloutsController gives you the possibility to specify if the Track Changes insert and delete highlights and the review comment highlights should be rendered as callouts on a side bar in the Author mode.

The controller can be used also to decide the content and styling of the callouts corresponding to the custom persistent highlights. By using the AuthorPersistentHighlighter.setHighlightsActionsProvider(AuthorPersistentHighlightActionsProvider) method you can also provide the actions which are displayed in the popup menu of these callouts.

Handle Special Author Table Operations

You can provide an extension of the ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.table.operations.AuthorTableOperationsHandler class in the ExtensionBundle implementation to handle insert and delete operations which are called when the user performs actions like delete, paste, drop, or move on table columns and rows.

Access to Author Selection Model

This version adds support for multiple selection in the Author mode. The ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.AuthorSelectionModel API provides access to all Author selection intervals and contains methods for adding simple and multiple selections.

Listener for Author Track Changes and Review Comments Actions

The ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.highlights.AuthorPersistentHighlightsListener can be set to receive notifications about persistent highlights triggered by add, remove, or update actions.

Frameworks Internationalization Support

In order to provide a framework which can be used without modifications with multiple user languages, all action names and messages from the document types can be translated. The AuthorAccess.getAuthorResourceBundle() method was added to provide a message bundle that holds all the internationalized messages for a framework.

DITA Map Tree Component Integration

Using this new Author Component API, a DITA Map Tree Component can be integrated in your applet or Java application. The component presents a DITA Map in a tree-like fashion similar to the DITA Maps Manager view of the <oXygen/> XML standalone distribution. The DITA Map Tree Component provider can be obtained from the AuthorComponentFactory.createDITAMapTreeComponentProvider() method.

Provide DITA Key Definitions

The ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.editor.page.ditamap.keys.KeyDefinitionManager can be used to provide information about key definitions which are used as a context for solving conkeyref and keyref references in all opened DITA topics.

In the standalone distribution extensions, the manager can be set by using the PluginWorkspace.setDITAKeyDefinitionManager(KeyDefinitionManager). If you are developing a plugin for <oXygen/> plugin for Eclipse you can create a plugin extension, having the com.oxygenxml.editor.ditaKeyDefinitionManager extension point.

Licensing MathFlow Editor and MathFlow Composer

Now it is possible to set a fixed key for licensing the MathFlow Editor (used for editing embedded MathML equations) and the MathFlow Composer (used for viewing embedded MathML equations). The licensing methods (setMathFlowFixedLicenseKeyForEditor(String) and setMathFlowFixedLicenseKeyForComposer(String)) can be found in both AuthorComponentFactory and StandalonePluginWorkspace.

Plugin Workspace Provider

The ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.PluginWorkspaceProvider singleton provides access to the workspace API of the <oXygen/> editor for plugins developed for both standalone and Eclipse distributions. By using it you can add listeners to editor-related events(for example editor opened, closed, page changed), obtain access to all opened editors, add option listeners, or save custom options.

Execute XPath Expressions against the Content of the Text Page

The execution of XPath expressions against the content of the Text page can be done by using the evaluateXPath(String) and findElementsByXPath(String) methods, added in ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.editor.page.text.xml.WSXMLTextEditorPage class. An instance of WSXMLTextEditorPage is returned by the ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.editor.WSEditor.getCurrentPage(), when the current page is the Text page of an XML document editor.

Map between Text Page Offsets and their Line-Column Coordinate

New methods were added in ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.editor.page.text.WSTextEditorPage to provide the line and column coordinates of a specific offset (getLineOfOffset(int) and getColumnOfOffset(int)) or to get the offset corresponding to a line start or a line end position (getOffsetOfLineStart(int) and getOffsetOfLineEnd(int)).

Set a Default Location for a File Chooser

The new ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.Workspace.chooseFile method allows you to set the default location of a file chooser used for selecting a file.

Updated Components

Saxon Enterprise Edition

The Saxon 9 Enterprise Edition processor from Saxonica for XSLT, XQuery and XML Schema was updated to version 9.4.0.3.

EpubCheck

The EpubCheck was updated to version 3.0b5 to provide validation support for both EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 documents.

Calabash

The Calabash XProc processor was updated to version 1.0.3-94.

Updated DocBook Stylesheets

The DocBook stylesheets were updated to version 1.77.1.

Updated TEI Schemas and Stylesheets

The TEI schemas and stylesheets were updated to version 2.10 of the schemas and version 6.13 of the TEI stylesheets.
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