Managing Highlighted Content
While working with XML documents you often have frequent changes to the structure and content. You are often faced with a situation where you need to make a slight change in multiple places in the same document. Oxygen XML Developer includes a feature, Manage Highlighted Content, that is designed to help you achieve this.
When you are in Text mode and you perform a search operation or apply
an XPath that highlights multiple results, you can access the Manage Highlighted
Content submenu by right-clicking any of the highlights in the editing pane. If
the results are displayed only in the Results panel at the bottom of
the screen, you can use the 
Highlight all results in editor button (on the right
side of the Results panel) to display all the highlights in the editor
(then you can access the Manage Highlighted Content submenu from the
contextual menu of any highlight.
The following options are available in the Manage Highlighted Content submenu:
- Modify All
- Use this option to modify (in-place) all the occurrences of the selected content. When
you use this option, a thin rectangle replaces the highlights and allows you to start
editing. If matches with different letter cases are found, a dialog box is displayed
that allows you select whether you want to modify only matches with the same letter case
or all matches.Note: If you select a very large number of highlights that you want to modify using this feature, a dialog box informs you that you may experience performance issues. You have the option to either use the Find/Replace operation, or continue the operation.
- Surround All
- Use this option to surround the highlighted content with a specific tag. This option opens the Tag dialog box. The Specify the tag drop-down menu presents all the available elements that you can choose from.
- Remove All
- Removes all the highlighted content.
If you right-click content in another part of the document, other than a highlight, you have the option to select the following option:
- Modify All Matches
- Use this option to modify (in-place) all the occurrences of the selected content (or the contiguous fragment where the cursor is located). When you use this option, a thin rectangle replaces the highlights and allows you to start editing. If matches with different letter cases are found, a dialog box is displayed that allows you select whether you want to modify only matches with the same letter case or all matches.