Chapter 1. Introduction

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Key Features and Benefits

Welcome to the User Manual of <oXygen/> XML Author 11.1.0 plugin for Eclipse ! This book explains how to use the 11.1.0 version of the <oXygen/> XML Author plugin for Eclipse effectively to author XML documents visually in a WYSIWYG like way quickly and easily.

The <oXygen/> XML Author plugin for Eclipse is a cross-platform application for authors who want to edit XML documents visually without extensive knowledge about XML and XML related technologies. The WYSIWYG like editor is driven by CSS stylesheets associated with the XML documents and offers the option to switch off XML tags completely when editing an XML document.

Key Features and Benefits

The offers the following key features and benefits.

Multiplatform availability: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SolarisNon blocking operations, you can perform validation and transformation operations in background
Visual WYSIWYG XML editing mode based on W3C CSS stylesheets.Visual DITA Map editor
Closely integration of the DITA Open Toolkit for generating DITA outputSupport for latest versions of document frameworks: DocBook and TEI.