oXygen XML Editor 1.2.3

oXygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD and DTD documents. oXygen XML editor shows that Java should be the base of an XML editor; this can be proved by the development dynamics of Oxygen and by the availability on many platforms. It has Unicode support and the interface messages are translated in English, French, German, Italian and Romanian.

The main goal of Oxygen is to be a tool easy to use and to make tasks shorter, thus it offers end tag auto-completion and a powerful code insight that guide the user to write valid XML content. The code insight can follow a DTD structure, an XML schema structure or even can detect the structure of a partial edited document allowing the rest of the document to be created about 5 times faster than before.


A very important thing is manipulating XML content and XSLT is the normal way to this, thus XML and XSL documents can be easily associated one with the other and the transformation results can be viewed through different views like text, XML, HTML.
An XPath console is present to assist the user in testing the results of XPath expressions. Oxygen validates XML, XSL and XSD content, reporting eventual errors with description and line number information. More documents can be logically organized in projects. To open a file in Oxygen you can also drag and drop it on top of the editor or on Windows it can be associated with file extensions. The syntax highlight allows a nice view of the XML documents and the colors can be customized. If the indentation is not right then the pretty print facility will solve this. The multiple document interface was put in the form of tabbed panels allowing a more robust behavior compared with the classic MDI interfaces.



New in oXygen XML Editor 1.2.3

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* Detect file changes outside the editor

If a file is opened in oXygen and edited with some other tool then when the user comes back to oXygen the content is automatically reloaded if there is no conflict or the user is asked to decide what should be kept.



* Find support for regular expressions

Regular expressions can be used for find



* Search in path support

The user is not limited anymore to the current file for searches.



* Codeinsight on request using CTRL+Space on a partial element or attribute name.

If the code insight window is closed by mistake then it can be easily reactivated by pressing CTRL+Space.



* New XML wizard

The user can choose a schema or DTD and all the possible root elements are automatically identified.



* Comment and CDATA in the codeinsight list.



* Add automatically the doctype declaration for learn and save .

The user can choose to automatically add a DOCTYPE pointing to the inferred DTD after a learn and save document structure operation.



* Open documents when clicking in ResultPane on an item that refers to a document not currently opened.

If an XML is validated for instance and there is an error in the DTD or in some other file, when the user click on the error in the result pane that document is opened if it is not already opened, otherwise it is just made active and the line causing the problem is selected.



* Remember the dimension and the position of the editor window between runs.

The editor will start again in the same position and will have the same dimension as it has last time when it was closed.



* Escape the selection

The XML entities are automatically escaped when choosing "escape selection" option in the contextual menu.



* Remove from project the files that no longer exist.

The file that were removed from disk are also removed automatically from the project when a project is opened.



* Print with colors.

The printing works now with colors, so the syntax highlighted documents are properly rendered.



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Requirements:	A Pentium class system with 64 MB of RAM and 50 MB free disk space is recommended.
Release Date:	September 10, 2002
Install Support:	Install and Uninstall
Platforms:	Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 3.x, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Unix, Linux
Keyword:	Apply Stylesheet,  Code-insight,  Dtd,  Fo,  Fop,  Validator,  Xml,  Xml Editor,  Xsl
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