oXygen XML Editor Academic

What's new in <oXygen/> XML Editor 13.2?

• Syntax highlight for mixed content types - Redesigned syntax coloring engine improves performance and accuracy. Different content types mixed in the same file are now highlighted according to color schemes defined for each content type.
• Remote file find/replace - Find / Replace in files support added for remote files, (WebDAV or FTP), that are linked from a project or DITA map.
• Spell check remote files - Spell check support added for remote files, (WebDAV or FTP), that are linked from a project or DITA map.
• Improved open/find resource filter - Look for resources using path fragments.
• Improved BIDI rendering - A number of BIDI-text-related issues have been fixed, leading to improved rendering of bidirectional content documents.
• DITA map metrics added - DITA Maps Metrics Report enriched with the following additional information, conditional processing attributes, number of elements, attributes, words and characters used in the DITA Map structure, information types like number of containing maps, bookmaps, or topics.
• Improved the usage of profiling/conditional text - The usage of Edit Profiling Attributes action is no longer restricted to profiling only entire elements. Now it also works on selections, that can contain  multiple elements.
• Prefixed oxygen CSS properties extensions - Oxygen-specific CSS properties are now prefixed with the -oxy- marker. The old, unprefixed form is now deprecated.
• Browse reference manual action - A new contextual action is available for DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML documents which opens the documentation of the selected XML element in a Web browser.

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.