Spell Check Preferences

Oxygen XML Developer plugin provides support for spell checking in the text editing mode. To configure the Spell Check options, open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor > Spell Check.

The following options are available:

Spell checking engine - Oxygen XML Developer plugin ships with two spell check engines, Hunspell and Java spell checker. The two engines come with different dictionaries. When you select an engine here, the list of languages in the Default language option changes based on the available dictionaries for the engine you have chosen.
Automatic Spell Check - This option is disabled by default. When enabled, Oxygen XML Developer plugin automatically checks the spelling as you type and highlights misspelled words in the document.
- Select editors - You can select which editors (and therefore which file types) will be automatically spelled checked. File types for which automatic spell check is generally not useful, such as CSS and DTD, are excluded by default.

Language Options Section

Default language - The default language list allows you to choose the language used by the spell check engine when the language is not specified in the source file. You can add additional dictionaries to the spell check engines.
Use "lang" and "xml:lang" attributes - When this option is selected, the contents of an element with one of the lang or xml:lang attributes is checked in that language. When this option is enabled, choose between the following two options for instances when these attributes are missing:
- Use the default language - If the lang and xml:lang attributes are missing, the selection in the Default language list is used.
- Do not check - If the lang and xml:lang attributes are missing, the element is not checked.

XML Spell Checking in Section

You can choose to check the spelling inside the following XML items:

Comments
Attribute values
Text
CDATA

Options Section

Check capitalization - When selected, the spell checker reports capitalization errors (for example, a word that starts with lowercase after etc. or i.e..
Check punctuation - When selected, the spell checker checks punctuation. Misplaced white space and unusual sequences, like a period following a comma, are highlighted as errors.
Ignore mixed case words - When selected, the spell checker does not check words containing mixed case characters (for example, SpellChecker).
Ignore acronyms - Available only for the Hunspell spell checker. When selected, acronyms are not reported as errors.
Ignore words with digits - When selected, the spell checker does not check words containing digits (for example, b2b).
Ignore duplicates - When selected, the spell checker does not signal two successive identical words as an error.
Ignore URL - When selected, the spell checker ignores words looking like URLs or file names (for example, www.oxygenxml.com or c:\boot.ini).
Allow compounds words - When selected, all words formed by concatenating two legal words with a hyphen (hyphenated compounds) are accepted. If recognized by the language, two words concatenated without hyphen (closed compounds) are also accepted.
Allow general prefixes - Available only for the Java spell checker. When selected, a word formed by concatenating a recognized prefix and a legal word is accepted. For example if mini- is a registered prefix, the spell check engine accepts the word mini-computer.
Allow file extensions - When selected, the spell checker accepts any word ending with recognized file extensions (for example, myfile.txt or index.html).

Ignore Elements Section

You can use the Add and Remove buttons to configure a list of element names or XPath expressions to be ignored by the spell checker. The following restricted set of XPath expressions are supported:

'/' and '//' separators
'*' wildcard

An example of an allowed XPath expression is: /a/*/b.

To change the color used by the spell check engine to highlight spelling errors, go to Window (Eclipse on Mac OSX) and choose Preferences. Then go to General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations > Spell Check Annotation.