File Types

Oxygen XML Editor offers editing support for a wide variety of file types, but users are free to add new file extensions and associate them with the editor type which fits better. The associations set here between a file extension and the type of editor which opens the file for editing have precedence over the default associations available in the File > New dialog.

The File Types preferences panel is opened from menu Options > Preferences > File Types .

The File Types Preferences Panel

The table columns contain the following data:

You can also decide the files which will be treated as DITA maps when opened in Oxygen. If the files match the pattern that is specified in Treat as DITA Maps files matching you will be prompted to open them in the DITA Maps Manager view.

The files that match the pattern that is specified in will be excluded from the following operations from Project view that will be applied on a set of files: File/Replace in Files, Check Spelling in Files, Validate.