Simple Customization Tutorial

The most important elements of a document type customization are represented by an XML Schema to define the XML structure, the CSS to render the information and the XML instance template which links the first two together.

XML Schema
In order to provide as-you-type validation and to compute valid insertion proposals, Oxygen XML Editor needs an XML grammar (XML Schema, DTD, or RelaxNG) associated to the XML. The grammar specifies how the internal structure of the XML is defined.
CSS Stylesheet
A set of rules must be defined for describing how the XML document is to be rendered in Author mode. This is done using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is a language used to describe how an HTML or XML document should be formatted by a browser. CSS is widely used in the majority of websites.
The XML Instance Template
Based on the XML Schema and CSS file Oxygen XML Editor can help the content author in loading, editing, and validating the test reports. An XML file template must be created, which is a kind of skeleton that the users can use as a starting point for creating new test reports. The template must be generic enough and reference the XML Schema file and the CSS stylesheet.

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