Creating a New Project
Oxygen XML Author plugin allows you to organize your XML-related files into projects. This helps you manage and organize your files and also allows you to perform batch operations (such as validation and transformation) over multiple files. Use the Navigator view to manage projects, and the files and folders contained within.
Creating a New Project
To create a new project, select or from the contextual menu or File menu. This opens a dialog box that allows you to create and customize a new project and adds it to the structure of the project in the Navigator view.Adding Items to the Project
To add items to the project, select the desired document type or folder from the New menu of the contextual menu, when invoked from the Navigator view (or from the File menu). You can also create a document from a template by selecting from the contextual menu.Using Linked Folders (Shortcuts)
Another easy way to organize your XML working files is to place them in a directory and then to create a corresponding linked folder in you project. If you add new files to that folder, you can simply use the
Refresh (F5) action from the
toolbar or contextual menu and the Navigator view will display the existing files and subdirectories. If your
files are scattered amongst several folders, but represent the same class of files, you might
find it useful to combine them in a logical folder.You can create linked folders
(shortcuts) by dragging and dropping folders from the Windows Explorer (Mac OS X Finder)
to the project tree, or by using the contextual menu from the location in the project tree
where you want it added and selecting . The linked folders presented in the Navigator view
are marked with a special icon. To create a file inside a linked folder, use the
contextual menu and select (you can use the Advanced button to link to a file
in the local file system).
Note: Files may have multiple instances within the folder
system, but cannot appear twice within the same folder.
For much more information on managing projects and their content, see the Navigator View section.