oXygen XML Editor Academic

What’s new in oXygen XML V15?

• WSDL Outline View - Show an overview of all WSDL and XML Schema components.
• Content Completion - Easily insert references to components or to define new ones.
• Searching and Refactoring Actions - A wide range of search and refactoring features help you organize your code quickly and effectively.
• Master Files - Contextual Editing - WSDL validation, editing, refactoring and component search operations work in the context of WSDL master files.
• Resource Hierarchy / Dependencies View - Visualize and understand relationships between WSDL resources and schemas.
• Mobile-friendly WebHelp - Publish DITA and DocBook content to mobile devices.
• Search in Reviews - Search though comments, insertions, deletions and highlighted content.
• Changes by Author - Easily integrate the reviews made by a specific author.
• Review Markers - Review markers can be presented in a vertical stripe in the left side of the editing area, next to the lines containing changes or comments.
• Automatic Indexing - Indexes automatically update changed files.
• Visible Property Support - Specify whether a Button form control is visible.
• Specialized Dialog to Browse a SharePoint Server - The Open URL dialog offers a specialized layout for browsing resources stored on a SharePoint server.
• User-defined Root Map - Open sub-maps in the DITA Maps Manager while still correctly resolving keys and subject scheme values as they are defined in the selected root map.
• Export DITA Map - Easily obtain all resources in a specified DITA Map.
• Enforce Business Rules and QA Checks - Specify a Schematron schema that can implement your company rules and QA checks.
• Create Key-based Links and Content References - Use the "Paste Special" action to quickly transform copied content to a link or a content reference.
• Smart Quotes - Automatically replace single quotes and double quotes with smart quotes.
• Auto-scale Large Images - Specify the maximum width of an image.
• Move Up/Down Actions - Move elements up or down.
• Promote and Demote Sections - Organize the structure of your DocBook documents using the  promote and demote section actions.
• Styles Property Support - Specify styles for the oxy_label() function using the styles property.
• eXist Simple Connection Wizard - Automatically detect all libraries needed to access eXist servers.
• Validation Phase for Schematron - A Schematron schema can define multiple validation phases. <oXygen/> allows now to set the default phase used for Schematron validation.
• Content Completion Assistant for JQuery - If you use JQuery in your JavaScript file <oXygen/> will assist by presenting JQuery functions though its content completion support.
• Content Completion for File Paths - When you edit a document in Text mode, the Content Completion Assistant is able to propose local file paths when editing URI attribute values.
• Improved Outline View Filtering Options - A new option is available in the Outline view allowing you to find exact matches of the text that you are searching for.

For information on the differences between Enterprise and Professional please see the "oXygen XML Features Matrix" document in the Evals & Downloads section.

Key features

• WYSIWYG XML Editor (Visual XML editor) - The Author mode of the <oXygen/> XML Editor demonstrates a new productive way of editing XML documents, similar to a word processor.
• Intelligent XML Editing - The context sensitive content assistant is changing the way you edit documents, helping you create valid content all the time.
• Extensible XML Editor - Starting with version 9 <oXygen/> adds a new concept called Document Type that solves the problem of providing ready to use support for a framework or an XML language. The Document Type concept is used to provide the built in support <oXygen/> has for a number of XML frameworks (DITA, DocBook, TEI) but, more importantly, it can be employed to provide support for a user defined framework that needs to be shared with other users.
• XML Grid Editor - The <oXygen/>'s grid editor allows you to edit repetitive XML content in a special layout similar to a spreadsheet application, without the need to interact with markup.
• XML Outliner - <oXygen/> XML Editor comes along with an outliner which is automatically synchronized with the document changes.
• XInclude Support - <oXygen/> XML Editor supports XInclude which is a standard for building up XML documents from smaller pieces, being a replacement for the external entities.
• XML Validation and Well-Formedness Check - The XML validation can be done by checking the documents against a schema. <oXygen/> XML Editor supports: XML Schema, DTD, Schematron and Relax NG schemas.
• XML Formating and Indentation - A useful utility is the XML document formatter.
• Unicode and Internationalization - <oXygen/> XML Editor supports a large number of text encodings. Unicode is fully supported.
• XML Diff and Merge Tool - A complete diff and merge solution is available in <oXygen/> XML Editor. It offers both directory and file comparison, six different diff algorithms and multiple levels of comparison.
• XPath support - XPath is a language for addressing specific parts of an XML document. XPath, like the Document Object Model (DOM), models an XML document as a tree of nodes. An XPath expression is a mechanism for navigating through and selecting nodes from the XML document. You can executes XPath queries on opened documents. Both XPath versions 1.0 and 2.0 are supported.
• XML Digital Signature and XML Canonicalization - The digital signature is a requirement when exchanging information in an untrusted network. Since XML is used for content storage it is important to be able to sign the XML files or messages.
• <oXygen/> Tree Editor - XML documents can be viewed/edited in a graphical tree. The tree editor is handy for large size documents.
• Helper Views - There is a set of panels located at the side of the editing area helping the XML editing. They present the model of the edited XML element, the available attributes and entities.
• XML Schema Editor - <oXygen/> XML Editor offers you the possibility to edit different types of schemas: XML Schemas, DTDs, Schematron and Relax NG Schemas.
• XSL / XSLT Editor - Offering a content assistant for the XSL and FO documents and the possibility of selecting from different types of XSLT transformers, including FOP, <oXygen/> is one of the XSLT developers' favorite choice.
• XSL / XSLT Refactoring - <oXygen/> XML Editor offers a wide range of actions designed to refactor/reorganize the content of XSL stylesheets.
• XSL / XSLT Debugger - Making use of two XSLT transformation engines, Saxon and Xalan, the <oXygen/> XML Editor helps you spot the bugs that may be present in your XSL stylesheets. XPath dynamic evaluation, templates and nodes stacks are just a few of the information presented in the debugging perspective.
• XQuery - XQuery is intended for labeling information extracted from multiple structured sources like XML documents, object repositories and relational databases including native XML databases. <oXygen/> offers help with editing, executing and debugging XQuery documents.
• Native XML and Relational Databases - <oXygen/> XML Editor can perform XQuery/XPath queries against a native XML database through a connection to the database server. A dedicated collection of database exploring views are grouped together in a database perspective layout.
• Subversion (SVN) Client - <oXygen/> XML Editor makes easier the document sharing between content authors by including a Subversion (SVN) client. The SVN client allows you to browse repositories, check for changes, commit changes, update your working copy and examine the revision history.
• Other Features - Plugin for Eclipse, various editors for DocBook, TEI, XHTML, XSL:FO, SVG, XQuery, WSDL, remote editing, licensing policy, miscellaneous.