Key Features and Benefits of Oxygen XML Author

Multiplatform availability: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris Non 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 output Support for latest versions of document frameworks: DocBook and TEI.
Support for XML, XML Schema, Relax NG , Schematron, DTD, NVDL schemas, XSLT, XSL:FO, WSDL, XQuery, HTML, CSS Support for XML, CSS, XSLT, XSL-FO.
Multiple built-in validation engines (Xerces, libxml, MSXML 4.0, MSXML.NET) and support for custom validation engines (Saxon SA, XSV, SQC). Multiple built-in XSLT transformers (Saxon 6.5, Saxon 9 Enterprise (schema aware), Xalan, libxslt, MSXML 3.0 / 4.0, Microsoft .NET 1.0, Microsoft .NET 2.0), support for custom JAXP transformers.
Ready to use FOP support to generate PDF or PS documents XInclude support
Context sensitive content assistant driven by XML Schema, Relax NG, DTD, NVDL or by the edited document structure enhanced with schema annotation presenter New XML document wizards to easily create documents specifying a schema or a DTD
XML Catalog support Unicode support
Easy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on it Easy configuration for external FO Processors
Apply XSLT and FOP transformations XPath search, evaluation and debugging support
Preview transformation results as XHTML or XML or in your browser Support for document templates to easily create and share documents
Batch validate selected files in project Canonicalize and sign documents
Configurable actions key bindings Associate extensions with editors provided by the Oxygen plugin.
Model View Attributes View
XSLT 2.0 full support XPath 2.0 execution and debugging support
Document folding Spell checking supporting English, German and French including locals
Pretty-printing of XML files Drag&drop support
Outline view in sync with a non well-formed document