Specially tuned for content authors, <oXygen/> XML Author comes with a configurable and extensible visual editing mode based on W3C CSS stylesheets with ready-to-use DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML support, making <oXygen/> the ideal XML authoring solution.

<oXygen/> XML Editor is a cross-platform application available on all the major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris) and can be used either standalone or as an Eclipse plugin.

Key features

XML IDE

• Different perspectives: XML Editor, XSLT Debugger, XQuery Debugger, XML Databases, XML Tree Viewer/Editor.
• The views inside the <oXygen/> XML Editor window are dockable, floating and hideable.
• Share any of the <oXygen/> XML Editor options together with the project.
• Manage and share transformation scenarios together with the project.
• Batch validation and batch transformations.
• Multi-line find and replace support allows regular expressions, is XML aware and can handle multiple files.

Intelligent XML editing

• The best content completion support offering XML elements, attributes, values (handling ID references, enumerations and list values).
• Edit with ease XML documents consisting of repetitive patterns using the spreadsheet-like XML Grid Editor.
• Schema annotations/DTD comments presented next to the content completion proposals.
• <oXygen/> XML Editor provides editing and validation support for NVDL scripts and for XML documents associated with NVDL scripts.
• Context sensitive content assistant driven by XML Schema, Relax NG, NVDL, DTD or by the document structure.
• XML document wizards and XML code templates (abbreviations).
• Tree based XML Outliner synchronized in real time with the edited document.
• New XML document wizards to easily create XML documents specifying a schema or a DTD.
• Source folding support with powerful manipulation actions and persistence.
• Schema Model View presenting schema information about the current XML element.
• Format and indent of XML files.

XML Validation

• Validate XML documents with XML Schemas, Relax NG, DTD, NVDL and Schematron schema or embedded Schematron rules.
• Edit and validate support for XML Schema (visual diagram), Relax NG (visual diagram), NVDL scripts, DTD, Schematron.
• Multiple validation engines: Xerces, XSV, LIBXML, MSXML 4.0, MSXML.NET, Saxon EE and SQC
• XML Validation and Well-Formedness Check with XInclude and XML Catalog support.
• Easy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on it, visual markers and overview ruler in the XML editor.
• Link to the exact location in the specification for XML Schema errors.

XML Schema Modeling

• Visual diagram based XML schema editor, RelaxNG Schema Editor.
• Refactoring actions.
• Include/Import graph.
• Component dependencies analyzer.
• Generate HTML or PDF documentation from W3C XML Schemas.
• Support for generating large sets of sample XML instances from W3C XML Schema.

XSL/XSLT Support

• XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XSLT 3.0 editing, validation, transformation, debugging and profiling support.
• Multiple XSLT processors: Xalan 2.7.1, Saxon 6.5.5, Saxon EE, XSLTProc and MSXML3.0/4.0/.NET 1.0/2.0.
• XSLT debugging using multiple built-in processors: Xalan 2.7.1, Saxon 6.5.5, Saxon Home Edition, Saxon Professional Edition as well as the schema-aware Saxon Enterprise Edition.
• Easy XSLT/XQuery transformation and XML validation management with reusable scenarios.
• Powerful XSLT search and refactoring actions working across multiple files.
• Preview the transformation results as XHTML, XML or in your browser.
• XSLT Stylesheet documentation in HTML.

XQuery Support

• Browse, edit or query using XQuery and SQL native XML or relational databases.
• Mapping from the XSLT or XQuery output result to the source and stylesheet or XQuery file locations.
• XQuery 1.0 editing, validation, transformation debugging and profiling support.
• Integrated XQuery Debugger for the MarkLogic XML Database.
• XQuery Profiler.

XPath Support

• XPath evaluation and syntax checking, XPath content completion support.
• Content completion with functions and annotations.
• XPath Builder View.
• XPath functions in content completion in Schematron.

Native XML and Relational Databases

• Management support for the relational databases: Oracle 11g R1, IBM DB2 Pure XML, Microsoft SQLServer 2008.
• Management support for the XML Databases: Documentum xDb, MarkLogic, eXist, Berkeley DB XML.
• Import from relational databases and other sources to XML.
• Browse, edit or query using XQuery and SQL native XML or relational databases.

Single Source XML Publishing

• Visual WYSIWYG XML editing mode, based on W3C CSS stylesheets.
• Ready to use visual editing support for DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML.
• Visual DITA Maps Manager, closely integrated with DITA Open Toolkit.
• FO transformations using embedded Apache's FOP to generate PDF or PS files from XML documents.
• Support for external Formatting Object Processors.
• <oXygen/> is a complete solution for editing documents in both left to right and right to left scripts, offering full Unicode and Multi-lingual editing support.
• <oXygen/> XML Editor includes the DocBook, DITA and TEI documentation frameworks.
• Support for CALS and HTML tables.
• Preconfigured publishing scenarios for: HTML, WebHelp, PDF, Eclipse/Windows help.
• <oXygen/> XML Editor provides support for editing, validating and creating EPUB files. Predefined transformation scenarios allow you to publish DITA and DocBook documents to EPUB.

Access to CMSes and Remote Resources

• Documentum Content Management System (CMS) Integration
• Support for editing remote XML files over FTP/SFTP, HTTP/WebDAV and HTTPS/WebDAV.
• Any WebDAV enabled CMS

Collaboration

• Keep track of the changes you make to a document using the track changes feature.
• You can examine and merge differences between XML documents using the built-in XML Diff and Merge tool.
• Fully-fledged client for the Apache SubversionTM (SVN) versioning system.

Support for Office Documents

• Ready to use validation, editing and processing support for Microsoft? Office 2007 - Office Open XML (OOXML).
• Ready to use validation, editing and processing support for Open Document Format (ODF) and other ZIP-based packages.

Tools

• Conversions from DTD, Relax NG or a set of XML documents to XML Schema, DTD or Relax NG.
• Canonicalization and digital signature of XML documents.
• WSDL SOAP analyzer.
• Large File Viewer (up to 10 GB).

Contribution to Open Source Projects

• <oXygen/> XML Editor makes available an open source NVDL implementation, oNVDL based on Jing.
• <oXygen/> XML Editor contributes patches, fix suggestions and improvement requests to open source projects it uses.

Availability

• <oXygen/> XML Editor is available as standalone desktop or Java Web Start application, or as an Eclipse plugin.
• No platform lock-in, the same license can be used on any platform with any distribution of the XML editor.