
<oXygen/> XML as the name suggests, is basically a cross platform XML editor that facilitates the user with tools for XML authoring, XML Schema, XML conversion, Relax NG and Schematron development, DTD, XPath, XQuery debugging, XSLT, SOAP, as well as WSDL testing. The application also offers support to browse, manage and query the native XML, as well relational databases, and its XML editor is also available as an Eclipse IDE plug-in, featuring some unique XML development functionalities.
The program has loads of features to offer to the user and the prominent ones include Visual WYSIWYG XML editing mode, based on W3C CSS style sheets, Visual DITA Maps Manager, closely integrated with DITA Open Toolkit, management support for the relational databases, such as Oracle 10g R2, IBM DB2 Pure XML, Microsoft SQLServer 2005.
The XML Editor in the application provides the user with editing and validation support for NVDL scripts, and XML documents pertaining to the NVDL scripts. The program also offers multi linguistic support from English, French, Japanese, Italian, German, and Dutch.
<oXygen/> XML supports the Unicode coding format and works with wide varieties of Operating Systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and even Eclipse.
v14.2 [Feb 14, 2013]
On the XML development side, completes the set of XML Schema 1.1 related features with full schema editing support and capabilities to generate XML instances and schema documentation in accordance with this new W3C standard.
On the XML Authoring side, streamlines XML reviewing by adding support for highlights and a Review manager panel. Highlights help you focus on the content you need to review and the Review manager panel presents all the changes, comments and highlights from a document so you can quickly inspect and manage them.
Improvements were made for quickly finding resources in the project by searching in their content or file paths. offers these advanced search capabilities by adding a dedicated view that supports complex text search expressions, such as: multiple words, boolean operators, group searches, etc. as well as XML-aware filters.
Documents from a Microsoft SharePoint server can now be accessed using the Data Source Explorer view, where you can edit, check-in, or check-out resources directly.
As usual, XML updates many components to their latest versions, and extends the API available to third party applications.