Perspectives

The <oXygen/> interface uses standard interface conventions and components to provide a familiar and intuitive editing environment across all operating systems.

In <oXygen/> you can work with documents in one of the perspectives:

Editor perspective
Editing of documents is supported by specialized and synchronized editors and views.
Debugger perspective
XSLT stylesheets can be debugged by tracing their execution step by step.

<oXygen/> XML perspective

The <oXygen/> XML perspective is used for editing the content of your documents. The space is organized in:

As majority of the work process centers around the Editor panel, other panels can be hidden from view using the expand and collapse controls located on the divider bars.

This perspective organizes the workspace in the following panels:

Figure 3.1.  <oXygen/> XML perspective

<oXygen/> XML perspective

The <oXygen/> custom menu
When the current editor window contains a document associated with <oXygen/> a custom menu is added to the Eclipse menu bar named after the document type: XML, XSL, XSD, RNG, RNC, Schematron, DTD, WSDL, XQuery, CSS.
The <oXygen/> toolbar buttons
The toolbar buttons added by the <oXygen/> plugin provide easy access to common and frequently used functions. Each icon is a button that acts as a shortcut to a related function.
The editor pane

The editor pane is where you edit your documents opened or created by the <oXygen/> Eclipse plugin. You know the document is associated with <oXygen/> from the special icon displayed in the editor's title bar which has the same graphic pattern painted with different colors for different types of documents.

The outline view

The outline view has the following functions: XML document overview, modification follow-up, document structure change, document tag selection.

The <oXygen/> text view
The <oXygen/> text view is automatically showed in the views pane of the Eclipse window to display text output from XSLT transformations, FO processor's info, warning and error messages.
The <oXygen/> Browser view
The <oXygen/> text view is automatically showed in the views pane of the Eclipse window to display HTML output from XSLT transformations.
The <oXygen/> XPath view
The <oXygen/> XPath view is automatically showed in the views pane of the Eclipse window to display XPath results.

Supported editor types

The <oXygen/> Eclipse plugin provides special Eclipse editors identified by the following icons:

  • - The icon for XML documents

  • - The icon for XSL stylesheets

  • - The icon for XML Schema

  • - The icon for Document Type Definition schemas

  • - The icon for RELAX NG full syntax schemas

  • - The icon for RELAX NG compact syntax schemas

  • - The icon for Namespace Routing Language schemas

  • - The icon for XQuery documents

  • - The icon for WSDL documents

<oXygen/> XSLT Debugger perspective

The Debugger perspective is used for detecting problems in a XSLT transformation process by executing the process step by step in a controlled environment and inspecting the informations provided in different special views. The workspace is organized in:

Figure 3.2.  <oXygen/> XSLT Debugger perspective

<oXygen/> XSLT Debugger perspective

  • Source document view - Displays and allows editing of data or document oriented XML files (documents).
  • Stylesheet document view - Displays and allows editing of XSL files(stylesheets).
  • Output document view - Displays the transformed output that results from the input of a selected document (XML) and selected stylesheet (XSL) to the transformer. The result of transformation is dynamically written as the transformation is processed. There are two views for the output: a text view (with XML syntax highlight) and an XHTML view.
  • Control toolbar - Contains all actions needed in order to configure and control the debug process.
  • Information views - Distributed in two panes that are used to display various types of information that can be used to understand the transformation process. For each information type there is a corresponding tab. While running a transformation, relevant events are displayed in the various information views. This enables the developer to obtain a clear view of the transformation progress.