Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

Features and Benefits
What's new in oXygen XML Editor 2.0.2
About the oXygen Handbook

Welcome to the oXygen XML Editor User Manual. This chapter provides an overview of oXygen its features and benefits and the organization of this book.

The oXygen XML Editor is a cross-platform application for document development using structured mark-up languages such as XML, XSD, XSL, DTD.

oXygen offers developers and authors a powerful Integrated Development Environment. Based on proven Java technology the oXygen XML Editors' intuitive Graphical User Interface is easy-to-use and provides robust functionality for editing, project management and validation of structured mark-up sources. Coupled with XSLT and FOP transformation technologies, oXygen supports output to multiple target formats, including: PDF, PS, TXT, HTML and XML.

oXygen is the XML Editor of choice for developers, authors and integrators that demand high-quality output with a flexible and robust, single-source, structured mark- up environment.

Features and Benefits

The oXygen XML Editor offers the following key features and benefits.

Cross Platform: Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac-OS-X.Support for XML, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG Schema, XSL, XHTML and TXT documents.
XPath console to query XML content.Preview transformation results as XHTML and/or XML.
Check for valid documents while allowing editing.Easy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on it.
Well formed document checking.XML project manager.
Intelligent Code-Insight driven by XML Schema, DTD or by the current document structure.Associate extensions with oXygen on Windows.
End Tag Auto-Completion.Automatic DTD generation from a sample XML document.
Syntax highlight.Tree view/edit support.
Auto-generation of tags in a new document.Spell checking.
XML Catalog support.Configurable external tools.
Wizard for XML.Drag and drop support.
Multi-document environment.Pretty-printing of XML files.
Unicode support.Find support - regular expressions, XML aware, multiple files.
Multi language support.All the usual editor capabilities (cut, copy, paste, find, replace, windows management).
FOP support both for generating PDF, PS, etc. documents.Can be used as desktop application, as an Applet or run through Java Web Start.
Apply transformations support - stylesheets, FOP, XEP.Plug-in support
Includes Docbook DTD and stylesheets - The editor is shipped with the latest Docbook stylesheets. Both the DTD and stylesheets can be found in the "docbook" directory of the installation.Includes TEI DTDs, stylesheets and templates - The editor is shipped with the TEI DTDs and stylesheets version P4. Both DTDs and stylesheets can be found in the "tei" directory of the installation. Special templates have been added that are useful when creating new TEI documents.
Print documents.