<oXygen/> User Guide |
Welcome to the Oxygen XML Editor User Manual. This chapter provides an overview of Oxygen's features and benefits and the organization of this book.
The Oxygen XML Editor is a cross-platform application for document development using structured mark-up languages such as XML, XSD, XSL, DTD.
Oxygen offers developers and authors a powerful Integrated Development Environment. Based on proven Java technology the Oxygen XML Editor's intuitive Graphical User Interface is easy-to-use and provides robust functionality for editing, project management and validation of structured mark-up sources. Coupled with XSLT and FOP transformation technologies, Oxygen supports output to multiple target formats, including: PDF, PS, TXT, HTML and XML.
Oxygen is the XML Editor of choice for developers, authors and integrators that demand high-quality output with a flexible and robust, single-source, structured mark-up environment.
The Oxygen XML Editor offers the following key features and benefits.
Multiplatform availability: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris. | Multilanguage support: English, German, French, Italian and Japanese. |
Can be used as standalone desktop application, run through Java Web Start or as an Eclipse plugin. | Non blocking operations, you can perform validation and transformation operations in background. |
Support for XML, XSLT, XML Schema, Relax NG , DTD and NRL schemas. | Ready to use FOP support to generate PDF or PS documents. |
Validate XML Schemas, Relax NG schemas, DTDs and NRL schemas themselves. | Validate XML documents with XML Schemas, Relax NG schemas, DTDs or NRL schemas. |
Outliner. | Bookmark support. |
Support for editing remote files over FTP, HTTP/WebDAV and HTTPS/WebDAV. | Experimental XInclude support. |
Easy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on it. | Spell checking supporting English, German and French including locals. |
Generate HTML documentation from XML Schemas. | Support for document frameworks: Docbook and TEI. |
Conversions from DTD, Relax NG schema or a set of documents to XML Schema, DTD or Relax NG schema. | Context sensitive content assistant driven by XML Schema, DTD or by the edited document structure. |
XML Catalog support. | Unicode support. |
New XML document wizards to easily create documents specifying a schema or a DTD. | Syntax coloring for XML, DTD, Relax NG compact syntax, Java, C++, C, PHP, Perl, etc. |
Pretty-printing of XML files. | Easy configuration for external FOPs. |
Apply XSLT and FOP transformations. | XPath search and evaluation support. |
Preview transformation results as XHTML or XML or in your browser. | Support for document templates to easily create and share documents. |
Drag&drop support. | XML project manager. |
Tree view/edit support for XML documents. | Batch validate selected files in project. |
Configurable external tools. | Configurable actions key bindings. |
Find and replace support allows regular expressions, is XML aware, handle multiple files. | All the usual editor capabilities (cut, copy, paste, find, replace, windows management). |
Associate extensions with oXygen on Windows. | Plugin support. |
Mac OS X ready. | Print documents. |
Import HTML documents. | Multidocument environment. |
Model View. | Text transparency levels adjuster. |