Chapter 1. Introduction

Welcome to the User Manual of <oXygen/> XML Author 11.2 ! This book explains how to use the 11.2 version of the <oXygen/> XML Author effectively to author XML documents visually in a WYSIWYG like way quickly and easily.

The <oXygen/> XML Author 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 <oXygen/> XML Author offers the following key features and benefits.

Multiplatform availability: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SolarisMultilanguage support: English, German, French, Italian and Japanese
Visual WYSIWYG XML editing mode based on W3C CSS stylesheets.Visual DITA Map editor
Closely integrate with the DITA Open Toolkit for generating DITA outputSupport for latest versions of document frameworks: DocBook and TEI.
Can be used as standalone desktop application, run through Java Web Start or as an Eclipse pluginNon blocking operations, you can perform validation and transformation operations in background
Support for XML, CSS, XSLT, XSL-FO. 
Multiple built-in validation engines (Xerces, libxml, Saxon SA, MSXML 4.0, MSXML.NET) and support for custom validation engines (XSV, SQC).Multiple built-in XSLT transformers (Saxon 6.5, Saxon B, Saxon SA, Saxon.NET, Xalan, libxslt, MSXML 3.0 / 4.0, Microsoft .NET 1.0, Microsoft .NET 2.0), support for custom JAXP transformers.
Support for latest versions of document frameworks: DocBook and TEI.Compare and merge files and directories
Ready to use FOP support to generate PDF or PS documentsXInclude support
Support for editing remote files over FTP, SFTP, HTTP/WebDAV and HTTPS/WebDAVEasy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on it
New XML document wizards to easily create documents specifying a schema or a DTDContext sensitive content assistant driven by XML Schema, Relax NG, DTD, NVDL or by the edited document structure enhanced with schema annotation presenter
XML Catalog supportUnicode support
Pretty-printing of XML filesEasy configuration for external FO Processors
Apply XSLT and FOP transformationsXPath search and evaluation support
Preview transformation results as XHTML or XML or in your browserSupport for document templates to easily create and share documents
Canonicalize and sign documentsXML project manager
Batch validate selected files in projectFully-fledged client for the Subversion (SVN) versioning system with support for SVN 1.3, SVN 1.4, SVN 1.5 and SVN 1.6 repositories.
Configurable external toolsConfigurable actions key bindings
Multi-line find and replace support allows regular expressions, is XML aware, is incremental, handles multiple filesSpecial viewer for very large files (up to 2 GB file size).
Associate extensions on WindowsBookmark support
Mac OS X readyPrint documents
Model ViewAttributes View
Multidocument environment SVG Viewer
XSLT 2.0 full supportXPath 2.0 execution and debugging support
Dockable views and editorsDocument folding
Spell checking supporting English, German and French including localsCustom protocol plugin support
All the usual editor capabilities (cut, copy, paste, find, replace, windows management)Drag&drop support
Support for editing, modifying and using files directly from ZIP-type archivesOutline view in sync with a non well-formed document