<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.
v23.1
Version 23.1 of Oxygen XML Editor expands upon the substantial list of features that were recently added in Version 23.0 with further improvements, along with various brand new enhancements, fixes, and updates.
Dealing with errors and warnings is easier now with the new functionality that allows you to ignore validation problems, option offered by Quick Fix actions available in various places where the validation issues are presented.
DITA users benefit of the updated DITA-OT engine, version 3.6, that provides reduced publishing times, a new refactoring action to generate unique IDs for specified elements and the DITA to PDF transformation now has the possibility of displaying SVG syntax diagrams in the PDF output. You can visually customize both the PDF and the web help HTML output using Oxygen Styles Basket, a free web-based visual tool that helps you fine-tune the CSS that is used by Oxygen PDF Chemistry to produce PDF or by Oxygen XML WebHelp to produce web help output.
On the development side, the JSON Schema Documentation Generator tool was enhanced with new filtering options, syntax highlights, and options for splitting the output into multiple files or showing the location of the source schema. A specialized YAML editor was added with various editing features including automatic validation, batch validation, syntax highlights, automatic indenting, tools for converting between YAML and JSON, and more. Various updates and improvements were also integrated for users working with XSLT, XQuery, HTML, and CSS.
The SharePoint integration in Oxygen (available in the Enterprise edition only) was redesigned to use the SharePoint REST API v2 to offer authentication using the OAuth protocol. This means that you now have access to a new SharePoint Online type of connection, the various UI components that display the connection details (SharePoint Browser View, Data Source Explorer View, and the Browse for Remote File mechanism in the Open URL dialog box) were redesigned for better consistency and productivity, and quick actions were added in the SharePoint Browser View to make it easier to connect.
Some of the most popular Oxygen add-ons continued to be improved between release cycles. The Git Client add-on is even more robust with additional actions and options, as well as various UI and performance enhancements. Various new conversion possibilities were added in the Batch Converter add-on (e.g. convert between JSON and YAML or convert multiple Markdown/HTML headings into DITA maps with referenced topics), while the DITA References view add-on and the Oxygen Emmet Plugin received various improvements, and the XSpec Helper view add-on was updated.
Other highlights for this version include improvements to the shortcuts, they can now be assigned to show side-views contributed by plugins, editor variables can now be expanded in project resources created as part of a project template, and as always, this release includes new APIs, various bug fixes, and component updates.
The published WebHelp from DITA can be used together with the Oxygen Feedback 1.4 block-level comments functionality to form a flexible review solution, allowing users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page where block elements appear. The Feedback Comments Manager plugin for Oxygen XML Editor/Author integrates also the block-level comments functionality, making it easier to locate the exact content source referenced by a particular comment and streamlines the process of making changes to the source document in response to the provided comments.
Some functionality available in Oxygen was made available for automation outside of Oxygen, for example in a continuous integration server, with a separate Oxygen Scripting license. Starting with version 23.1 you can take advantage of new command-line scripts for comparing files or directories and for executing XML refactoring operations. Also, the Batch Converter script now supports converting between JSON and YAML and various arguments were added to existing scripts to offer even more configuration options.
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