Customizing the Author Visual Editing Mode

The Author visual editing mode is based on CSS. Besides supporting most of the CSS 3 specification, Oxygen XML Author adds some custom CSS selectors, properties, and functions. Customization possibilities include:

• Use CSS selectors to match XML comments, processing instructions, entities, and CDATA sections.

• Change the tags display mode and tag color for certain elements, mark certain XML elements as not editable, and other customizations using additional CSS properties.

• Use custom CSS functions. For example, the oxy_xpath function allows you to run an XPath search over the document and use that value as static text.

• In custom pseudo-classes, you can match values that can be changed via a custom action.

• There are specific @media types that can be used to mark certain CSS sections for a certain distribution.

• Fonts can be dynamically loaded and used for rendering.