XML Editor

The XProc support includes editing, validation and execution through reusable XProc scenarios. Besides editing in source mode, you can edit XProc scripts in the Author mode, rendered with a nice visual representation. Oxygen XML Editor bundles Calabash as built-in engine but other external XProc processors can be easily configured.

Oxygen XML Editor provides an open API to closely integrate an XProc engine, both for XProc transformations and for validation support. The built-in Calabash processor is integrated using this API.

Large XML documents can be opened for editing. For example, a 200MB document can be opened in Oxygen XML Editor using 512MB of memory (note that these figures depend on the complexity of the markup). Oxygen XML Editor will detect large documents and automatically turn off or change the implementation for some editor functions, to reduce the memory usage.

The large file viewer can open files up to 10 GB in read-only mode.

The Author mode has location tooltips and current element highlights that help the user to identify the position in the edited document. By default it turns on a more constrained editing mode that, for instance, avoids inserting text in the elements that do not allow text nodes or inserting elements not allowed by the schema.

When editing with track changes on, it is possible to annotate each change with comments.

Embedded SVG images are now rendered in the XML Author mode.

You can define up to four toolbars containing custom actions at document type level.

Developers can programmatically highlight or find highlighted text regions from the Author mode.

Oxygen XML Editor includes version 1.5 (M19) of DITA OT which supports the DITA 1.2 specification.

Some of the DITA 1.2 features are supported. These include insertion and visualisation in the Author mode of conref ranges and conkeyrefs, insertion and navigation for keyrefs in the context of the current DITA map.

The find and replace operation can scan recursively all the files referenced by a DITA map that is opened in the DITA Maps Manager view. The action is available in contextual menu of the DITA Map Manager View.

The spell checker can scan recursively all the files referenced by a DITA map that is opened in the DITA Maps Manager view. The action is available in contextual menu of the DITA Map Manager view.

MathML equations are rendered in the Author mode. The equations can be edited with the Oxygen built-in MathML editor or with the more complex and powerful MathFlow editor from Design Science. To use the later one, you must have a licensed installation of the MathFlow SDK.

The menus and toolbars were improved. Some actions were added or removed in the menu bar and in the views (Working Copy, Synchronize, Repository, History) so that the most used actions can be accessed faster.

Sometimes a working copy is used with multiple SVN application that may not support the latest working copy format. For compatibility with such applications the working copy format can be specified at checkout: SVN 1.4, SVN 1.5 or SVN 1.6.

If the user does not want to upgrade the working copy format to the latest format he can do that later with the Upgrade action. A downgrade action is available for users who need compatibility with applications that do not support the latest working copy format.

The files and folders available in a WebDAV source can be browsed and opened using the Data Source Explorer view.

There is no dependency between the current edited file and the scenarios available for transformation or validation, thus users can apply any transformation or validation scenario on any file. Moreover, the Project view allows to associate scenarios on a folder or on the selected files.

Besides the validation engine, you can specify also the schema (XML Schema, Relax NG, DTD, NVDL, NRL, Schematron) that should be used from an XML validation scenario.

Spell checking can be applied on multiple files and folders from the Project view.

An XML document can be signed without including the key info in the signed document. The signature of an XML document that does not include key info can be verified.

The location of an XML Schema imported in other schema can be resolved using an XML catalog based only on the schema namespace when the schema location is not specified.

An installation of the Antenna House FOP v4 or v5 can be automatically detected or easily configured for performing FO to PDF transformations and for DITA map transformations executed with DITA OT.

The NVDL implementation from oNVDL was moved to jing-trang and Oxygen XML Editor was updated to use the latest jing-trang version 20090818.

Saxon 9 SA was updated to the latest version Saxon 9.2 Enterprise Edition. Oxygen XML Editor supports also Saxon 9.2 Professional Edition and Home Edition.

The latest version of TEI schemas were added.

The latest version of DocBook XSL stylesheets were added.