XML Editor

The action "Show only the selected component" is available in the schema diagram panel for both XML Schema and Relax NG. When enabled the diagram will show the current component that contains the cursor instead of showing the whole schema diagram. This allows to easily focus on the diagram for the current component and not to be distracted by the other schema components diagram.

Editing actions are available in the contextual menu of the Full Model diagram view, allowing the addition of new elements. The attributes of the selected diagram component can be also edited in a table that is displayed on double-click.

The action "Show Definition" opens the schema associated to the edited XML document and moves the cursor to the definition of the selected element. The support is available for the following associated schemas: XML Schema, Relax NG and DTD.

To facilitate the editing of XML Schema documents that contain Schematron embedded rules the XML Schema editor offers through content completion elements and attributes allowed by the Schematron 1.5 schema.

The default schema association supports not NRL, thus it is possible to have an external (not inside the document) association between a document an NRL schema.

The Content Completion Assistant is able to use an NRL schema to offer proposals. This makes it possible to edit documents with complex structures that contain multiple languages defined by different schemas (for instance, XHTML with embedded XForms).

With this refactoring action you can select a result element from an XSLT stylesheet and replace all of its attributes with xsl:attribute instructions.

More XQuery keywords are presented in the content completion list depending on the current editing context.

The schema diagram images generated in the HTML documentation of an XML Schema contain clickable areas, linked to the definitions of the selected type or element.

The documentation of a definition includes a "Used By" section with links to the other definitions that reference it. Navigation is possible in both directions between a schema and the included/imported ones.

You can specify the path to a custom CSS file to be used in the generated HTML documentation.

Include the annotations of the elements and attributes defined locally inside global definition.

The Java classes and jars which can be configured as extensions for an XSLT/XQuery transformation are loaded when the transformation is performed and released when the transformation is finished. A change in an extension does not require restarting Oxygen.

Custom engines for running XSLT transformations and XQuery transformations can be configured in Preferences.

Beside the transformation support, the stylesheets can be validated with MSXML 4.0 and .NET transformers, so you can easily check if your stylesheets are valid and compatible with Internet Explorer or other Microsoft tools.

An option for the Format and Indent action was added, allowing the preservation of the text nodes values.

The "Preserve space elements" and "Strip space elements" lists in Pretty-Print preferences allow entering XPath-like expressions. The expressions must be simple node tests, with no predicates.

The XML Catalogs are used when the XPath expressions are evaluated in the XPath toolbar and in the XPath Builder.

The files and folders listed in the Project tree can be filtered by specifying patterns for both files which should be displayed and files which should be hidden.

The scratch buffer editor can be used as temporary storage and as editable clipboard for copy-and-paste operations.

The policy for handling characters which cannot be represented in the declared encoding for an XML document is now configurable. You can choose to replace them with a default character, report the error or simply ignore them. By default Oxygen will report the error.

The built-in FTP client supports the UTF-8 encoding for communicating with the server. If the server supports UTF-8 then the client will use it.

A search filter is available in the Preferences dialog box for displaying only the preferences panels containing the matched words.

The help content is available in a dockable view called Dynamic Help. This changes its content automatically to the relevant help page for the focused editor, view, or dialog box.

The syntax highlight scheme for each type of document allows you to configure the background color for the tokens.

Saxon 8B XSLT processor has been updated to the latest version: 8.7.1. Oxygen supports also the Saxon8SA 8.7.1 (that requires a separate license from Saxonica).

The DTD and XML Schema schemas for working with XHTML 1.1 documents are shipped with Oxygen.

The DocBook XSL stylesheets have been updated to the latest version: 1.70.1.