
<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.
v20.1 [Jul 2, 2018]
Version 20.1 of the Oxygen XML Editor includes productivity improvements for DITA, XSLT, and new editing features, and validation support for JSON documents. DITA publishing was updated to make the WebHelp output compliant with the Section 508 accessibility standard, making it accessible for people with disabilities, and publishing DITA maps to PDF using CSS styles can be applied on HTML5 as intermediate format, thus reusing the HTML5 WebHelp publishing CSS styles. As usual, this version also contains numerous new add-ons, API, and component updates.