Creating a New Project

The tree structure occupies most of the view area. In the upper left side of the view, there is a drop-down list that holds all recently used projects and project management actions:

The files are organized in an XML project usually as a collection of folders. They are created and deleted with the usual Eclipse actions.

Creating New Project Items

A series of actions are available in the contextual menu:
  • New > File - Creates a new file and adds it to the project structure.
  • Add Folder - Adds a link to a physical folder, whose name and content mirror a real folder existing in the file system on disk. The icon of this action is different on Mac OS X () as the standard folder icon on Mac OS X is not the usual one from Windows and Unix/Linux systems.
  • New > Logical Folder - Creates a logical folder in the tree structure (the icon is a magenta folder on Mac OS X - ).
  • New > Logical Folders from File System - Replicates the structure of physical folders on disk. The newly created logical folder contains the file structure of the folder it points to.
  • New > Logical Folders from Web - Replicates the structure of a remote folder accessible over FTP/SFTP/WebDAV, as a structure of logical folders. The newly created logical folders contain the file structure of the folder it points to.
  • New > Project - Creates a new project, after closing the current project and all open files.

Managing Project Content

Validate Files

The currently selected files associated to the Oxygen plugin in the Package Explorer view can be validated against a schema of type Schematron, XML Schema, Relax NG, NVDL, or a combination of the later with Schematron with one of the following contextual menu actions:

Applying Transformation Scenarios

The currently selected files associated to the Oxygen plugin in the Package Explorer view can be transformed in one step with one of the actions Apply Transformation, Configure Transformation ... and Transform with... available on the Transformation sub-menu of the right-click menu of the Package Explorer view. This, together with the logical folder support of the project allows you to group your files and transform them very easily.

If the resources from a linked folder in the project have been changed outside the view, you can refresh the content of the folder by using the Refresh action from the contextual menu. The action is also performed when selecting the linked resource and pressing F5 key

You can also use drag and drop to arrange the files in logical folders . Also, dragging and dropping files from the project tree to the editor area results in the files being opened.

Other Context-Dependent Actions

Many of the actions available in the Project view are grouped in a contextual menu. This menu is displayed after selecting a file or folder and then pressing right-click (or Ctrl+Click on Mac OS X)
  • Show in Explorer (or Show in Finder on Mac OS X) - Opens an OS-specific finder/explorer window, with the file or folder in question selected in the finder/explorer window.
  • Open with - Open selected file with one of internal tools: SVG Viewer, Hex Viewer, Large File Viewer, MathML Editor, WSDL/SOAP Analyzer, DITA Maps Manager, Archive Browser.
  • Open All Files - Action available only when at least one folder is selected. Opens in the author view all files contained by the selected resources.