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.
The <oXygen/> XML Author offers the following key features and benefits.
Multiplatform availability: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris | Multilanguage 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 output | Support 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 plugin | Non 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 documents | XInclude support |
Support for editing remote files over FTP, SFTP, HTTP/WebDAV and HTTPS/WebDAV | Easy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on it |
New XML document wizards to easily create documents specifying a schema or a DTD | Context sensitive content assistant driven by XML Schema, Relax NG, DTD, NVDL or by the edited document structure enhanced with schema annotation presenter |
XML Catalog support | Unicode support |
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 |
Canonicalize and sign documents | XML project manager |
Batch validate selected files in project | Fully-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 tools | Configurable actions key bindings |
Multi-line find and replace support allows regular expressions, is XML aware, is incremental, handles multiple files | Special viewer for very large files (up to 2 GB file size). |
Associate extensions on Windows | Bookmark support |
Mac OS X ready | Print documents |
Model View | Attributes View |
Multidocument environment | SVG Viewer |
XSLT 2.0 full support | XPath 2.0 execution and debugging support |
Dockable views and editors | Document folding |
Spell checking supporting English, German and French including locals | Custom 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 archives | Outline view in sync with a non well-formed document |