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Welcome to the User Manual of the <oXygen/> XML Editor ! This book explains how to use the 6.2 version of <oXygen/> effectively to develop complex XML applications quickly and easily. Please note that this manual assumes that you are familiar with the basic concepts of XML and its related technologies.
The <oXygen/> XML Editor is a cross-platform application for document development using structured mark-up languages such as XML , XSD, Relax NG, 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 | Non blocking operations, you can perform validation and transformation operations in background |
Support for XML, XML Schema, Relax NG , DTD, NRL schemas, XSLT, XSL:FO, WSDL and XQuery | Ready to use FOP support to generate PDF or PS documents |
Validate XML Schemas, Relax NG schemas, DTDs, Schematron schemas, NRL schemas, WSDL, XQuery and CSS | Validate XML documents with XML Schemas, Relax NG schemas, DTDs, Schematron schemas or NRL schemas |
Visual schema editor with full and logical model views | Outliner |
Batch validate selected files in project | 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 latest versions of 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, Relax NG, DTD or by the edited document structure enhanced with schema annotation presenter |
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, CSS, Python, etc |
Pretty-printing of XML files | Easy configuration for external FO Processors |
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 |
Import data from a database, Excel, HTML or text file | Canonicalize and sign documents |
XSLT Debugger with Backmapping support | XSLT Profiler |
Model View | Attributes View |
XQuery 1.0 support | WSDL Support |
XSLT 2.0 full support | XPath 2.0 support |