oXygen XML Editor

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oXygen XML Editor
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Version: 20.0 updated
Upload Date: 22 Jun 18
Developer: SyncRO Soft Ltd.
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 77

Rating: 3.0/5 (Total Votes: 1)

oXygen XML Editor is a commercial, full featured and cross-platform graphical software implemented in Java and designed from the ground up to provide users with a visual editor of modifying XML files.

With the oXygen XML Editor application, anyone will be able to quickly and easily edit XML documents, as well as to debug and profile XSLT (EXtensible Stylesheet Language) and XQuery code with full Unicode support.

Features at a glance

Key features include an XML IDE (Integrated Development Environment), intelligent XML editing, XML validation, XML schema modeling, support for XSL and XSLT, XQuery support, XPath support, as well as native XML and relational databases support.

Additionally, the application offers support for accessing CMSes (Content Management Systems) and remote resources, supports office documents, supports collaboration and single source XML publishing.

The application includes support for numerous validation engines, including Xerces, SQC, XSV, MSXML 4.0, LIBXML, Saxon EE and MSXML.NET, support for validating XML Schema and Relax NG (visual diagram), DTD, Schematron and NVDL scripts, support for several XSLT processors, including Xalan 2.7.1, MSXML3.0, MSXML4.0, Saxon EE, Saxon 6.5.5, NET 1.0, NET 2.0 and XSLTProc.

Under the hood and supported operating systems

The entire application is written in the Java programming language, which means that it runs on any operating system where the Java Runtime Environment is available, including Linux, UNIX, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It has been successfully tested on computers supporting either of the 32-bit and 64-bit instruction set architectures.

Availability and pricing

For your convenience, the oXygen XML Editor software is available for download as a universal binary archive that can be run on any GNU/Linux platform where JRE is installed, as a Java Web Start application, as well as a plugin for the powerful Eclipse IDE. Pricing starts from 488 USD (394 EUR).

What is new in this release:

  • Fixes for validation issues, such as adding a missing attribute or deleting an unexpected element are offered automatically by the Quick Fixes support.
  • The XSLT support helps you better understand what each XSLT instruction does by presenting associated annotations with the description of the instruction and links to the specification.
  • The XML authoring mode received a number of improvements to the table support, track changes functionality, generic editing, as well as to the DITA specific actions.
  • You can find patterns within an EPUB, OOXML, ODF or any ZIP archive by running XPath queries on all the documents from ZIP-based archives.
  • The Eclipse plugin version of oXygen XML Editor was updated to support Eclipse 4.4, the SVN support was updated to work with Apache Subversion 1.8, and many component libraries were updated to their latest stable versions.

What is new in version :

  • Fixes for validation issues, such as adding a missing attribute or deleting an unexpected element are offered automatically by the Quick Fixes support.
  • The XSLT support helps you better understand what each XSLT instruction does by presenting associated annotations with the description of the instruction and links to the specification.
  • The XML authoring mode received a number of improvements to the table support, track changes functionality, generic editing, as well as to the DITA specific actions.
  • You can find patterns within an EPUB, OOXML, ODF or any ZIP archive by running XPath queries on all the documents from ZIP-based archives.
  • The Eclipse plugin version of oXygen XML Editor was updated to support Eclipse 4.4, the SVN support was updated to work with Apache Subversion 1.8, and many component libraries were updated to their latest stable versions.

What is new in version 15.2:

  • Improves the support for developing Schematron and XML Schema schemas and adds support for working with modules to the Eclipse plugin.
  • Editing XML documents visually is a lot easier in XML Author version 15.2 with the intelligent content completion and paste functionality while new CSS 3 and CSS 4 features allow for creating more interactive and user friendly interfaces.
  • The new version features updated components, debuts the DITA 1.3 support by introducing the troubleshooting specialization and makes available a large number of API additions in response to feedback provided by our partners which integrated the XML authoring technology into their solutions.
  • Editing Schematron Schemas:
  • Improved Schematron Validation and Accurate Error Locations - Validating Schematron schemas is a complex process that involves multiple steps, thus it is not easy to trace errors that can appear at later stages in this complex process back to the initial schema files. improved the error checking by validating the entire schema hierarchy, resolving included schemas and it is the only XML editor that can locate the errors from any processing stage, including errors in the XPath expressions, highlighting them in the editing area.
  • The Content Completion Proposes Components from the Schema Hierarchy - The Content Completion Assistant proposes Schematron components in accordance with the editing context, collected from the entire schema hierarchy. For example, when you edit the active pattern of a phase, the Content Completion Assistant displays all the defined patterns, even if these are defined in an included schema.
  • Editing Schematron Modules in Master Files Context - The Master Files support allows to provide better support when working with modules that are referred from the defined master files. This support includes not only Schematron schemas, allowing to easily determine the master files (top level Schematron files) from a set of files. Once defined the Schematron master files allow you to edit a Schematron module in context, improves validation, content completion, provides the scope for search and refactoring actions, updating references of moved or renamed resources.
  • Hierarchy/Dependencies View - The relationships between Schematron modules can be viewed and analyzed with the help of the Hierarchy/Dependencies view.
  • Renaming or Moving a Schematron Module Updates Its References - When you rename or move a Schematron resource, automatically updates the references to that module. The changes about to be made can be reviewed in the Preview dialog.
  • Search and Refactoring Actions for Schematron Components - allows you to search and modify the names of Schematron components such as patterns, phases or diagnostics, the change being applied in all places where those components are referred. When the caret is placed within a Schematron component, that component declaration and its references are highlighted in the editor and location markers are displayed in the overview ruler at the right of the editor. You can navigate to the declaration of a component using the CTRL/CMD + Click navigation feature - holding the CTRL (CMD on Mac) the component names become links that can be clicked to navigate to the components definitions.
  • Search and Refactoring Actions for Schematron Components - Handle Subject Attribute
  • The default location for an error reported when a Schematron check fails is the context of the Schematron rule that contains that check. However, sometimes that context is different than the actual error location and Schematron provides a way to point to the actual location of the issue, though the subject attribute that specifies an XPath relative to the context node. takes into account the subject attribute available on Schematron assert or report elements when the location of the Schematron message is computed.
  • Custom Schematron Code Templates - Code templates or abbreviations allow you to type a short name and expand that to a code fragment. Schematron specific code templates covering the most frequent code fragments were added so you can take immediate advantage of this functionality to quickly enter Schematron constructs. The templates are displayed by the Content Completion Assistant where you can see the list of specific Schematron code templates, filter them by typing a prefix and select them to get the expanded code fragments.
  • Custom Schematron Code Templates - Default Validation Scenarios for XML Schema or Relax NG with Embedded Schematron Rules
  • When you work with XML Schema or Relax NG documents that have embedded Schematron rules, provides two built-in validation scenarios: "Validate XML Schema with embedded Schematron" for XML schema, and "Validate Relax NG with embedded Schematron" for Relax NG. You can use one of these scenarios to validate also the embedded Schematron rules.
  • Custom Icons for Schematron Outline - The Outline view helps you find Schematron components easily by decorating them with distinct icons.
  • XML Visual Editing - Support for the CALS "colsep" and "rowsep" Attributes
  • The defined row and column separators are rendered in for the cells in CALS tables (a table model used by DocBook, DITA and other XML frameworks) so you can see immediately how the table will be rendered when the document is published. You can also easily edit the values for columns using two check boxes that appear in the column specification area.
  • Text Area Form Control - To be able to create user-friendly interfaces for editing XML provides support for binding text or attribute values to form controls like drop downs, check boxes, lists, etc. A new text area form control is available starting with version 15.2. This is useful for editing larger attribute or element values and you can benefit also of syntax highlight capabilities.
  • Text Area Form Control - Intelligent Schema-aware Paste
  • When you paste content checks if that is valid at the caret position and if that fails then recovery strategies are proposed in order to keep the document valid. Version 15.2 comes with a new strategy that automatically analyses nearby positions to determine a valid location for that content.
  • Content Completion Flexible Insert Location - You can choose to insert an element that is not valid at the current position and will trigger automatically recovery strategies to place that element in a valid location. This removes the requirement to position the caret in the exact location where an element is accepted, you can insert it also if the caret is positioned in a near-by location.
  • PDF Images Support - The Author editing mode in offers support for rendering PDF images by installing a third party library.
  • JPEG with Embedded CMYK Support - The Author editing mode in can properly render JPEG images that have an embedded CMYK profile.
  • CSS Support - Support for CSS Level 3 Structural Pseudo-classes
  • All the CSS Level 3 structural pseudo-classes are now supported: ":root", ":last-child", ":first-child", ":nth-child",":nth-of-type", ":not()", ":empty", etc.
  • Support for the Experimental CSS Level 4 Subject Selector - The experimental subject selector from CSS Level 4 is now supported: it can match an element by taking into account its children - for instance "chapter! > title" will match any chapter that contains at least a title.
  • Support for ":hover" and ":focus" CSS Pseudo-classes - You can style your XML documents depending on the mouse and caret position over the document by using the ":hover" and ":focus" CSS pseudo-classes.
  • Localize Static Content in CSS - You can use constructs like ${i18n(key.name)} directly in the CSS content of a "before:" or "after:" pseudo-element to refer to keys which can be translated to multiple languages through the built-in internationalization support.
  • Pass CSS References Through XML Catalog - Import instructions from CSS documents are passed through the XML catalog URI mappings.
  • Add a Custom CSS to the Predefined Ones Using XML Catalog Mappings
  • By adding a URI mapping to map a specific URI to a CSS file you can contribute a CSS to be used when rendering any XML document in the Author editing mode. This allows you to enforce some specific styles on any XML file without the need to modify the CSS documents which come with existing document type configurations.
  • New CSS Content Properties: "-oxy-append-content" and "-oxy-prepend-content"
  • The content used for the ":before" and ":after" pseudo-elements can be created incrementally from the content specified by these new properties. This reduces the complexity of selectors when the content depends on multiple conditions.
  • New Properties for the "oxy_button" Form Control - Two new boolean properties are available allowing to display the associated action's text and/or icon on the button form control: showText and showIcon.
  • In-place Actions can be Executed Preserving the Current Context - Using the new actionContext property, available on the oxy_button and oxy_button_group form controls, the author actions associated with these form controls can be executed either in the context of the element that contains the form controls or in current context, if that is included in the element that contains the form control. This allows for example placing element specific actions on an element and executing them to perform actions at the caret position, if the care is inside that element.
  • Form Controls Can Edit Attributes from a Specified Namespaces - If the attribute edited through a form control is from a specific namespace then you can specify it in the edit property as a QName. The CSS must contain a namespace declaration mapping the QName prefix to the attribute namespace.
  • XML Schema - Control the XML Schema Version at XML Schema Document Level
  • Now that XML Schema 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation people start to use both XML Schema version 1.0 and XML Schema version 1.1. While provides a default XML Schema version as an option it is useful to be able to control also what version will be used for each XML Schema file. 15.2 supports the use of vc:minVersion and vc:maxVersion attributes on the schema root element, allowing you to set the XML Schema version for that XML Schema document. New document templates are also provided so you can easily create XML Schema 1.0 or XML Schema 1.1 documents.
  • Control the XML Schema Version at XML Schema Document Level - The Flatten Schema operation allows you to flatten an entire hierarchy of XML schemas. Starting with the main XML schema, calculates the schema hierarchy by processing the "xs:include" and "xs:import" statements and then it generates one schema file for each different namespace.
  • Refactoring Highlighted Content - You can easily manage the occurrences of the text found through executing an XPath expression or a find operation, using the new actions that act on all highlights. You have the option to remove all highlighted content, modify or surround the content with a specific tag.
  • Select Attribute in Text Mode - You are able to quickly select an attribute and its value using triple click on the attribute's name in the stand-alone, and double click right before the attributes name in the Eclipse plugin.
  • Automatically Comment a Matching Tag - automatically applies the same action on the matching end tag when you comment a start tag. You can comment one or more start tags and their matching end tags are also commented so the document remains well-formed.
  • DITA Support - Syntax Highlight In Published Code Blocks Sections
  • You can add syntax highlight to the codeblock and pre sections from your published PDF and XHTML-based outputs by setting specific programming language values to the outputclass attribute.
  • Generate Index Page in PDF Using Apache FOP - If you are using index terms in your DITA content, the PDF output generated with the default bundled PDF processor (Apache FOP) will also contain the index page at the end of the PDF.
  • DITA 1.3: Troubleshooting Specialization - You can create new troubleshooting topics based on the included experimental DITA 1.3 Troubleshooting DTD specialization plugin.
  • Edit "codeblock" Sections with Syntax Highlight Support - An alternate CSS was introduced, so you can now edit codeblock sections using the new Text Area form control. Thus, you benefit from syntax highlight for a variety of document types.
  • Edit Program Listings with Syntax Highlight Support - An alternate CSS was introduced, so you can now edit programlistings using the new Text Area form control. Thus, you benefit from syntax highlight for a variety of document types.
  • Accessing Microsoft Office 365 Documents - You can access documents stored on a SharePoint site from your Office 365 account using the "Open URL" action from .
  • Integrating the Author Applet on a SharePoint Site - The Author Component can be embedded in a SharePoint site as a Java applet. This is a simple and convenient way for you to retrieve, open, and save XML and XML related documents stored on your company's SharePoint server, directly from your web browser. You can embed the applet either on a site that is located on a standalone SharePoint server, or on your company's Microsoft Office 365 account.
  • MarkLogic 7 - offers support for MarkLogic 7.
  • Eclipse Plugin:
  • Master Files Support in the Eclipse Plugin - To deal with difficult tasks developers split complex files into multiple modules. Sometimes these modules taken as standalone files are invalid and to be able to work with them you need to take into account the entry point, the master file that includes the modules. allows defining the entry points or master files and automatically provides support for editing modules referred from those master files. Starting with version 15.2, the Eclipse plugin offers full support to work with modular XML, XSLT, XML Schema, WSDL, Schematron and Relax NG files, providing module editing, validation, search and refactoring actions, modules connections overview, etc. - all these in the context of the defined master files.
  • Support for SVN 1.8 Servers - Subversion 1.8 repositories are now supported, excepting FSFS-backed repositories accessed through the "file://" protocol. Working copies having SVN 1.8 format are not yet supported.
  • Copy/Move Operation Improvements - The SVN Client does its best to copy/move items within the working copy. In cases when the operation would not normally work in Subversion, a simple file system copy/move operation is performed. Also, valid destination directories are detected automatically and presented to you.
  • Drag and Drop Improvements in the Working Copy View - The Drag ad Drop support was extended to all the Working Copy view modes. Also, compatibility between the SVN Client and external applications was improved for dragging and dropping items from one to another.
  • Drag and Drop Support in the Repositories View - Copying and moving repository items is made easy through the drag and drop support added in the Repositories view.
  • Component Updates:
  • Calabash 1.0.16 - The Calabash XProc engine was updated to version 1.0.16.
  • TEI XSL Update - TEI XSL was updated to version 7.7.0.
  • Saxon 9.5.1.3 - The bundled Saxon Enterprise Edition XSLT processor from Saxonica was updated to version 9.5.1.3.
  • Other:
  • Bundled Java 7 JRE in the Mac OS X Installation Kit
  • The new installation kit for mac OS X (10.7, 10.8, and 10.9) includes Java 7.
  • Improved Layouts - You can choose to keep a separate layout for each project, thus when you move between projects you get not only the last opened files specific to that project restored but also the exact layout of views, editors and toolbars. In this way when you come back to a project you continue exactly from the state in which you left that project.
  • Maven 4.0 Framework - A new document type configuration is available allowing to create and edit Maven 4.0 POM documents.
  • Distinct Sounds Depending on the Status of the Current Operation
  • Success and failure of the validation or transformation actions can be signaled also with a sound. The beep signal has a higher audio frequency when the operation is successful, and a lower audio frequency when the operation fails.
  • Support for Setting Custom Pseudo-classes - You can set your custom CSS pseudo-classes on the nodes from the AuthorDocument. These are similar to the normal XML attributes, with the important difference that they are not serialized, and by changing them the document does not create undo and redo edits - the document is considered unmodified. You can use custom pseudo-classes for changing the style of an element (and its children) without altering the document.
  • Additional Calls to the Custom URI Resolvers - The custom URI resolvers set with the pre-existing API XMLUtilAccess.addPriorityURIResolver(URIResolver) are now called to resolve image and content references even if the resources are placed on the local drive. This is useful for indirecting the application to resolve resources in other places.
  • Obtain an Existing AuthorDocumentFilter implementation - If you have both a plugin and a framework which need to set an AuthorDocumentFilter, you can obtain the existing filter implementation and wrap it in your own filter implementation using the API AuthorDocumentController.getDocumentFilter().
  • Refresh References in Document Controller
  • Added the API method - AuthorDocumentController.refreshNodeReferences(AuthorNode) to refresh references on a certain node for developers who implement a custom AuthorContentReferencesResolver.
  • Actions Provider Access from DITA Map Editor Page - Added the API method WSDITAMapEditorPage.getActionsProvider() to obtain actions defined in the DITA Map Editor Page and mount them to custom controls.
  • Obtain the Existing Unique Attributes Processor - You can obtain in your extension Java operations the current unique attributes processor in order to check if certain attributes should be removed when copying content using the API AuthorDocumentController.getUniqueAttributesProcessor().
  • API to Show Multiple Files Chooser - The new API method WorkspaceUtilities.chooseFiles(File, String, String[], String) allows you to show a file chooser having multiple selection enabled.
  • API to Create Input Stream over Editor's Content - The new API method WSEditorBase.createContentInputStream() allows you to create an input stream over the contents of the editor. The implementation will take care of using the proper character encoding.
  • Create CSS Alternates Drop-Down in the Author Component - The CSS alternates drop-down button defined in the document type can now be added to the toolbar of an Author Component application using the API WSAuthorComponentEditorPage.createCSSAlternativesToolbar().
  • Save Global Preferences - Usually the application saves its global preferences when it is closed. You can force save the global options to their storage location by calling this new API: PluginWorkspace.saveGlobalOptions().
  • More Context Information for Editing Attribute Values - When the custom InputURLChooserCustomizer gets called to edit an attribute value you can find out more details about the current element and the current edited attribute: AttributeEditingContextDescription.getElementContext().
  • Open an Editor with an Imposed Content Type - If an URL does not have an extension but the developer knows beforehand the type of resource (XML, DITA Map, etc) in order to avoid the application asking the end user what type of resource is being opened this new API can be used instead: ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.Workspace.open(URL, String, String).
  • DITA Map Content Type for an URLConnection - If a DITA Map URL does not have an extension and a custom URL Connection is implemented for it in the application the method URLConnection.getContentType()can return the value application/ditamap to identify it as such.
  • Better Integration for Form Controls with Custom Edit - If a custom form control performs a custom edit, it can pass the Runnable containing the edit to the application in order to integrate better in the editing flow using the new API EditingEvent.customEdit.
  • Operation Capable of Running a Sequence of Other Actions - The ExecuteMultipleActionsOperation can execute a sequence of actions, defined as a list of IDs. The actions must be defined by the corresponding framework, or one of the common actions for all frameworks supplied by . ExecuteMultipleActionsOperation.

What is new in version 15.1:

  • Working with Modular XML Files in the Master Files Context
  • XML Visual Editing
  • Character Map Improvements
  • Author API and Extensibility
  • DITA Support
  • DocBook Support
  • CMS Integration and Connectivity
  • Project View Enhancements
  • MarkLogic Support
  • Eclipse Plugin
  • Syncro SVN Client
  • Component Updates

What is new in version 15:

  • WSDL Support
  • Mobile-friendly WebHelp
  • Review
  • Fast Text Searching
  • Form-based Editing in Author
  • CMS Integration and Connectivity
  • DITA Support
  • Welcome Screen
  • XML Visual Editing
  • DocBook Support
  • XML Diff
  • CSS Support
  • XML Databases
  • Validating Documents
  • Content Completion and Outline
  • Syncro SVN Client
  • Component Updates
  • Extended API
  • Other

What is new in version 14.2:

  • This version supports xml Schema 1.1, generates xml instances and schema documentation, lets highlights help you focus on the content you need to review, presents all the changes, comments, and highlights in a review manager panel so you can quickly inspect and manage them, quickly finds resources in the project by searching in their content or file paths, lets you edit, check in, or check out resources directly on a Microsoft SharePoint server using the Data Source Explorer view, and extends the api.

What is new in version 12.0:

  • Version 12 of oXygen XML improves the existing functionality, adds new features and, most importantly, enhances the user experience. A lot of effort was invested in minimizing memory usage and improving the general performance.

What is new in version 10:

  • One of the most important additions in this version is the bundling of the schema-aware XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor from Saxonica.
  • This version comes with a large number of improvements, including a powerful new XML instance generator, better content completion offering proposals from included or imported XML Schema or XSLT modules, and a better integration of the Intel XML Software Suite.
  • The support for commercial databases was updated to support the latest versions of MarkLogic 4.0, Oracle 11g R1, SQL Server 2008, DB2 9.5, and XHive 8.

Requirements:

  • Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment

Limitations:

  • 30-days free trial

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