2002
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Version 1.0 - April the 15th, 2002
Version 1.1 - May the 15th, 2002
Version 1.1.5 - May the 20th, 2002
Version 1.1.6 - May the 24th, 2002
Version 1.1.7 - May the 27th, 2002
Version 1.1.8 - June the 5th, 2002
Version 1.1.9 - June the 15th, 2002
Version 1.2 - June the 27th, 2002
Version 1.2.1 - September the 27th, 2002
Version 1.2.2 - October the 22nd, 2002
Version 1.2.3 - November the 27th, 2002
Version 1.2.4 - December the 17th, 2002
2003
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Version 2.0 - April the 2nd, 2003
Version 2.0.1 - May the 15th, 2003
Version 2.0.2 - June the 9th, 2003
Version 2.0.3 - August the 14th, 2003
Version 2.0.4 - September the 19th, 2003
2004
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Version 3.0 - January the 14th, 2004
Version 3.1 - February the 6th, 2004
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Version 4.0 - April the 30th, 2004
Version 4.1 - June the 10th, 2004
Version 4.2 - July the 15th, 2004
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Version 5.0 - October the 15th, 2004
Version 5.1 - January the 18th, 2005
2005
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Version 6.0 - May the 22nd, 2005
Version 6.1 - July the 19th, 2005
Version 6.2 - September the 19th, 2005
2006
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Version 7.0 - January the 13th, 2006
Version 7.1 - March the 2nd, 2006
Version 7.2 - June the 6th, 2006
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Version 8.0 - November 20th, 2006
Version 8.1 - January 25th, 2007
Version 8.2 - May 7th, 2007
2007
9
Version 9.0 - November 2nd, 2007
Version 9.1 - December 18, 2007
Version 9.2 - May 9, 2008
Version 9.3 - July 2, 2008
2008
10
Version 10.0 - October 23, 2008
2009
10.1
Version 10.1 - February 25, 2009
10.2
Version 10.2 - April 15, 2009
10.3
Version 10.3 - June 29, 2009
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Version 11.0 - October 9, 2009
11.1
Version 11.1 - December 17, 2009
2010
11.2
Version 11.2 - March 16, 2010
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Version 12.0 - September 14, 2010
2011
12.1
Version 12.1 - January 12, 2011
12.2
Version 12.2 - May 19, 2011
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Version 13.0 - August 29th, 2011
13.1
Version 13.1 - October 26th, 2011
2012
13.2
Version 13.2 - January 12th, 2012
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Version 14.0 - June 27, 2012
14.1
Version 14.1 - October 19, 2012
2013
14.2
Version 14.2 - February 13, 2013
What was new in <oXygen/> XML Editor 9.0
Version: 9.0
November 2nd, 2007
There are changes in:
WYSIWYG like XML editing
XML Element folding
You can indicate the elements that can be folded using a <oXygen/> CSS
property extension: "foldable".
Based on W3C standards [read more...] As always, <oXygen/> does not try to reinvent the wheel and
does not lock users into custom formats. The WYSIWYG like rendering is driven by CSS
stylesheets conforming with the W3C CSS 2.1 specification. Some enhancements
introduced by the W3C CSS 3 working draft like CSS XML namespaces and the
attr function are also supported. | ![]() |
Ready to use support for major XML document frameworks [read more...] The tagless editor comes with ready to use support for largely
used XML frameworks: DITA, DocBook 4 /
DocBook 5, TEI P4 / TEI P5,
XHTML. This support includes document templates for easily creating
new XML instances, CSS for WYSIWYG like editing, interface actions for creating and
editing lists, tables and marking up specific content, XML Catalogs for faster access
to resources, schema files for validation, transformation scenarios to convert from
XML to HTML and/or PDF. | ![]() |
CALS and HTML table support [read more...]
The CALS Table Model is a standard for representing tables in
SGML/XML. The editor supports the CALS table model for DocBook and DITA. The HTML
table model is supported for XHTML and DocBook.
Full XML markup control [read more...]
<oXygen/> combines the easy way of working in a visual WYSIWYG
like XML editor with the full power of XML source editing. Also, the
Outline view, which is synchronized with the edited XML document,
shows the entire markup structure.
Drag and drop editing [read more...]
The Author mode allows drag and drop editing. You can select
the XML content then drag and drop it in the desired location to move or copy that
content.
Know where you are when editing [read more...]
Hiding the XML markup can have the disadvantage of losing the
visual markers (the element tags) between text nodes. Fortunately, <oXygen/> has a
solution for this: the location tooltip combined with the marks from the XML outliner
and with the location bar allows you to know at each moment what is the current
location in the document. Additionally, there are several levels of display for XML
element tags ranging from no tags to full tags.
Full integration with <oXygen/> XML Editor [read more...]
The WYSIWYG like editor was closely integrated in <oXygen/> as
an editor tab called Author next to the Text and
Grid editing modes. All <oXygen/>'s powerful editing actions are
also available in the Author mode. These include: spell checking (on request and as
you type), XML validation (continuous, on request), search and replace, XPath
execution, etc. Also all side views that <oXygen/> provides are offering information
when editing in Author mode.
Extensibility: The Document Types
Starting with version 9 <oXygen/>
XML Editor adds a new concept called Document Type that solves the problem of providing
ready to use support for a framework or an XML language. The Document Type concept is
used to provide the built in support <oXygen/> XML Editor has for a number of XML
frameworks (DITA, DocBook, TEI) but, more importantly, it can be employed to provide
support for a user defined framework that needs to be shared with other
users.
Default schema [read more...]
You can specify the default schema to be used for validation
and content completion for the documents that match a document type. This schema can
be overwritten if the XML document itself specifies a schema inside. All the current
schema languages are supported DTD, XML Schema, Relax NG, ISO Schematron, ISO NVDL.
Default CSS files [read more...]
You can specify a set of CSS files, including alternates and
default CSS that will be used by <oXygen/> when editing in Author mode.
Custom actions [read more...]
You can define custom actions for the Author mode that will
appear in tool bar, menu or contextual menu. These actions in general add support for
inserting XML markup structures, lists, list items, tables, table rows, table columns,
etc. in the specific framework the document type describes. <oXygen/> provides a set
of operations that can be used to implement most of the actions. If needed you can
code your own operations in Java and use them to define your actions.
Document templates [read more...]
You can specify a folder where you have document templates
(XML or not). These templates will be gathered automatically by <oXygen/> and will
appear in the new file dialog allowing easy creation of the new documents of the
defined document type.
XML catalogs [read more...]
You can specify XML Catalogs for the document type that resolve
remote resources to local copies. This allows a faster access to those resources
(schemas, stylesheets, etc.) and also allows to work off-line without changing the XML
documents to explicitly point to local resources.
New side views for editing help
Elements View [read more...]
Shows the XML elements defined by the schema that can be
inserted at the current position in the document.
When editing in the Author visual editing mode
you can add elements before or after the element where the caret is located.
Sortable CSS Outline view [read more...]
The overall structure of a CSS stylesheet edited in the CSS
Editor is available in the Outline view similar with the Outline view of the XML
Editor. You can sort the CSS rules alphabetically either by the entire selector or by
the last component of the selector.
Improved validation error reporting
Better error reporting for XML validation against Relax NG schemas
Incomplete error reports like "required attributes missing", "required
elements missing" or "unfinished element" are now updated to report exactly what
XML attributes or elements are missing and what is expected to finish the element.
Better error reporting for Relax NG schema validation
The errors about overlapping names inside interleave are reporting now
specifying the actual names that are overlapping.
Component Updates
Integrated TEI P5
TEI P5 0.9 schemas and the TEI XSL 5.7 stylesheets are included in the
installation kit.
Updated DocBook
Updated to the version 1.73.2 of the XSL Stylesheets and DocBook 5.0 RC
7 XML Schemas.
Updated FOP
Updated FOP to the latest version 0.94.
Other features
Improved the Content Completion on Eclipse
You can turn on the "learn words" option in the <oXygen/> Eclipse
plugin. In this way, using the CTRL-SPACE shortcut you can insert a word from the
ones you already used in the document by typing its prefix.
Spell checking sensitive to the xml:lang attribute
The spell checking takes into account the value of the xml:lang
attribute and switches the dictionary automatically when you run the spell
checking on a file.
PDF/A-1b Support
You can generate PDF/A-1b files using the built-in FO
processor.
Move up or down the selection
Using the ALT-UP/DOWN key combination you can move the currently
selected lines in the XML document source.
Support URN syntax for XML Schema location when creating a new XML
document
The XML Schema location can be specified using URN syntax. The URN is
then mapped using the XML catalogs "system" entries to the actual
schema.
Version: 9.1
December 18, 2007
There are changes in:
WYSIWYG-like XML editor improvements
In place editing for XML attributes with completion support
When visually editing XML documents it is always a challenge to easily
edit XML attributes. <oXygen/> XML Editor solves this problem by allowing a quick
and easy way with the new in place editing for XML attributes. The in place
editing popup can be triggered with a configurable shortcut (by default that is
Alt+Enter). Both XML attribute names and possible values can be quickly selected
by typing in a prefix.
Bookmarks support
The visual Author mode from <oXygen/> XML Editor was enhanced with
support for bookmarks. These allow quick positioning in large documents and
working in multiple locations of multiple documents.
Transform a DITA Map to PDF and HTML
A new pre-configured scenario was added for the default DITA
configuration for transforming a DITA Map document to HTML. The already existing
DITA to PDF scenario can handle now also DITA map files so you can use that to
convert a DITA map to PDF.
New editing actions
The following actions are introduced: Remove All Markup (removes all
the XML markup from the selected element and keeps the text content), Remove Text
(removes the text content and keeps the XML markup in the selected element),
double click in Elements view to surround the current selection with the XML tags
of the double clicked element name.
Increase and decrease the font size
The font size of the WYSIWYG-like XML editor can be increased or
decreased using CTRL + NumPad+ and CTRL + NumPad- or the CTRL key combined with
the mouse wheel.
The CSS property not-foldable-child accepts a list of element names
The custom CSS property not-foldable-child now accepts a list of comma
separated element names. When a section is folded in the XML editor visual Author
mode the first child element from the XML document that appears in the list of
element names will be identified as the not foldable child and
displayed.
Improved HTTP/WebDAV support
WebDAV locking support
You can decide to lock a WebDAV resource when you open it. This ensures
that only you can modify that resource on the WebDAV server. If another user tries
to edit a locked resource he will receive a warning message containing the name of
the lock owner. The lock is released automatically when the resource is closed.
GZIP compression handling
GZIP compressed content received from a HTTP/WebDAV server is handled
correctly. The server is notified when the connection is established that GZIP
compressed streams are accepted.
Read proxy server settings from the operating system
A new option is introduced for using the proxy server set in the
operating system when making HTTP/WebDAV connections. For example on Windows the
proxy system settings are configured in Control Panel and used automatically in
Internet Explorer.
Other features
SOAP 1.2 support
The SOAP version is detected from the WSDL definition file and the
appropriate headers are set in the SOAP request. The SOAP 1.2 envelope is
validated against a SOAP 1.2 XML Schema.
The custom protocol plugin was extended to add resource locking
support
The custom protocol plugin facilitates the connection with different
repositories like content management systems, <oXygen/> XML Editor being able to
browse, edit and save these resources as normal files. The new support allows the
custom protocol plugin to manage resource locking to avoid conflicts with other
users trying to access the same resources.
Component Updates
Updated TEI P5
<oXygen/> XML Editor ships with the latest TEI P5 1.0
schemas.
Updated Saxon XSLT 2.0 processor
Updated the Saxon B XSLT 2.0 processor to the latest version 9.0.0.2.
The support for Saxon SA was also updated to support the latest Saxon SA version
9.0.0.2 (note that you need a separate license from Saxonica in order to use Saxon
SA).
Updated DITA Open Toolkit
The DITA Open Toolkit was updated in the <oXygen/> XML editor DITA
authoring framework to the latest version 1.4.1.
Version: 9.2
May 9, 2008
There are changes in:
<oXygen/> XML Author - New Product!
Special version suited for authoring
The new <oXygen/> XML Author
is
available both as a separate product (standalone and Eclipse plugin) and
also as a part of <oXygen/> XML Editor. It keeps only the relevant authoring
features of <oXygen/> XML Editor enhancing the authors productivity by providing
a clean and easy to use interface specially suited for content authors. The exact
features included in <oXygen/> XML Author are described in the
feature matrix.
DITA Editor
Integrated the Idiom FO plugin for DITA Open Toolkit
You can generate high quality PDF output using the PDF2
transformation scenario. It uses the Idiom FO plugin that comes already
installed in the DITA Open Toolkit bundled in <oXygen/>. The plugin transforms
a DITA map to PDF using the XEP or Antenna House processors - depending on which
of them is configured in <oXygen/> XML Editor - or the built-in Apache FOP
processor.
DITA Maps Manager [read more...] The DITA Maps are key components for authoring DITA content.
Managing these files and the referenced topics is an important feature for a DITA
aware editor. The DITA Maps Manager allows viewing and editing of DITA map
files. It acts also similar with a project manager allowing you to easily open
different topics/concepts for editing. The DITA maps manager is shown each time you
open a .ditamap file in <oXygen/> and it will appear as a tab in the
same stack as the Project view. A double click on a file reference listed in a DITA
map opens that file in the editor. | ![]() |
Integration of the DITA Open Toolkit for generating different outputs [read more...]
The tool chain to generate output in a multitude of formats
(XHTML, PDF, HTML, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help, DocBook, etc.) is ready to use out of the
box as <oXygen/> includes the latest version of the DITA-OT. Also, <oXygen/> adds a
new format, called WebHelp, which provides a navigable table of contents and
searchable content.
Power users have also the possibility to fine tune the
transformations by using the advanced options like specifying parameters for the ANT
build files, filtering content using a DITAVAL file or a Profiling Condition Set,
providing a custom build file, etc.
Support for creation of conref links [read more...] Content referencing (conref) is a convenient
DITA mechanism for reuse of content from other topics or maps. You can easily insert a
conref in a DITA document using the "Insert a DITA Content Reference" action. It
allows you to choose the target ID by selecting it from the list of IDs defined in a
topic. <oXygen/> supports the new DITA 1.2 indirect referencing based
on key references and key definitions (keyref and
conkeyref ) to increase reusability of content. There is also
support for inserting and rendering of content referred through the pair of attributes
conref / conrefend. | ![]() |
WYSIWYG XML Editor
In-place view of the included XML content
Similar to the DITA conref support, the XML content included using
XInclude or XML entities is presented in place as a read only block that can be
collapsed/expanded.
New presentation modes for XML tags
Two new presentation modes for the XML tags were added to the Author
editor. One mode displays both the start tag and the end tag of each XML element
including the attributes using small graphical symbols. The other mode displays
the start tag and the end tag of the inline XML elements but hides the tags of
block elements.
Content completion for element values
When the content model of an XML element allows a specific set of
values defined with an enumeration type then the content completion list includes
those enumeration values.
Control how to combine the CSS specified in the document with the default CSS
of the document type
Now the developer of a document type can decide if the CSS stylesheets
specified inside a document (using xml-stylesheet processing instructions) will
replace the default CSS stylesheets or will be merged with them. This is useful
for XML documents where it is needed to change only the styles for several
elements, and leave the default styles for the rest, like the XHTML documents for
instance.
New CSS functions
For allowing greater flexibility in presenting the generated content in
the visual mode <oXygen/> provides a set of new CSS functions. The
replace function allows to replace all occurrences of a string
with another (regular expressions are supported), the
document-url function returns the full URL of the document and
the parent-url function returns the parent directory URL of
another URL.
Extend selection to the ancestor XML elements
The action Select Content applied repeatedly starts with selecting the
XML element from the cursor position and extends the selection to the ancestor XML
elements. Each execution of the action extends the current selection to the
surrounding element.
Enhancement for foldable elements
When a foldable element is collapsed it is possible to show a title of
that collapsed element. This new enhancement makes possible to have the title
content extracted from an attribute value rather than using only an element value.
If the CSS stylesheet sets the custom foldable property of an XML element but it
does not set the custom not-foldable-child property then at the time the element
is collapsed only the before pseudo element is visible in the Author mode of
<oXygen/> XML Editor.
Document Navigation Using Links [read more...]
With the navigation links support it becomes easy to go from a
DITA conref to the referred content, from a DocBook link to the target element or from
an XInclude reference to the included content, etc. by just a single click.
Support for inserting CJK text [read more...]
<oXygen/> XML Editor fully supports the input methods for CJK
(Chinese, Japanese, Korean) text. The editor displays an on-the-spot popup window with
the composed text when the inserted characters belong to the CJK codepages. The
composed text is shown in the context of the document that it will eventually belong
to, in a style that indicates that the text still needs to be converted or confirmed
by the user.
Wrapping of CJK text [read more...]
The wrapping of CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) text in the
Author mode of <oXygen/> XML Editor takes into account some rules for wrapping at
punctuation marks in East Asian languages. For example in CJK text a punctuation mark
cannot be the first character of a line.
Find All Elements Action [read more...]
The Find All Elements action is available in
all the XML editor modes: Text, Author and
Grid. It represents an easy way to search for XML elements by their
tag names, attribute names and values.
Text editing Mode of the XML Editor
Better drag and drop support
Now the drag and drop actions can be executed also on a selection
including multiple nodes of a tree. Available for DITA Maps Manager, SVN Working
Copy and Outline View.
Option for preserving the formatting of embedded JavaScript or CSS
code
Embedded scripts or CSS styles are automatically formatted by specific
JavaScript and CSS formatters. Sometimes it is desired to keep the original
formatting of these embedded scripts or CSS styles. An option was added for
preserving the formatting.
Automatic editing of the matching end tag [read more...]
It is a lot easy to rename elements in <oXygen/>. When the
start tag of an XML element is edited then the matching end tag is automatically
changed thus keeping the XML document well formed and saving you a few keystrokes.
This behavior is controlled from the user preferences.
Database support
Database access through WebDAV
A database connection can be set up to browse the database collections
and access the data in read/write mode through WebDAV. Any database with a WebDAV
interface can be accessed in <oXygen/> XML Editor, for example MarkLogic and
Tamino.
Select the initial XML eXist collection or the initial Tamino
database
When a database connection is set up the user can choose the initial
XML collection which will be accessed through that connection. This support is
offered only for the Tamino and eXist databases.
XML Schema improvements
Custom schema for XML Schema annotations [read more...]
XML Schemas contain annotations for providing additional
information like documentation or application specific information. For instance a
schema can contain documentation for its components in XHTML or can contain Schematron
embedded rules. You can specify a schema for these annotations and <oXygen/> will use
that for providing content completion proposals, thus facilitating the editing
support.
Schematron improvements
Option for using Saxon EE (Schema Aware) for Schematron [read more...]
The XPath 2.0 checks used in an ISO Schematron schema or a
Schematron 1.5 schema can be executed optionally with Saxon EE instead of Saxon B in
order to access the schema aware features of Saxon EE. The Saxon EE processor is an
extension of the Saxon B one and is bundled with <oXygen/>.
Other improvements
Stop an external tool
When the execution of an external tool is too long you can stop its
execution.
Check references to XML Schema elements in WSDL messages
When a WSDL document is validated there is an additional verification:
the references to the XML elements used in the defined messages are checked to see
if they point to valid XML elements defined in the types section of the WSDL
document.
NTLM authentication
<oXygen/> supports NTLM authentication.
Component Updates
Updated the Saxon 9 XSLT / XQuery processor
The Saxon 9 XSLT and XQuery processor was updated to the latest
version: 9.0.0.4. Both Saxon 9 Basic and Schema Aware versions are supported,
including XSLT and XQuery debugging and profiling, and schema validation. For the
Schema Aware version you need a separate license from Saxonica.
Updated the DocBook XML framework
The OASIS DocBook XML schemas were updated to the version 5.0. The
DocBook XSL stylesheets were updated to the version 1.73.2 which is namespace
aware.
Updated DITA Open Toolkit
The DITA Open Toolkit was updated in the <oXygen/> XML editor DITA
authoring framework to the latest version 1.4.2.1
Support for latest version of Berkeley DB XML
Version 2.4.11 of the Berkeley DB XML native XML database is now
supported.
Updated the XQuery documentation tool
The version 1.6 of the XQDoc tool can be used for generating HTML
documentation for XQuery documents.
Updated the XML security component
The Apache XML security library was updated to the version 1.4.1. It is
used for the canonicalization of XML documents and for digital signatures of XML
documents.
Version: 9.3
July 2, 2008
There are changes in:
OOXML, ODF and other ZIP-based packages support
Edit/Process files directly from ZIP-based packages
Now you can transform (using XSLT 1.0, 2.0, XQuery), validate and
perform many other operations on files inside archives.
Comparing files and directories from ZIP-based archives
You can seamlessly
compare and merge files in ZIP archives (like OOXML, ODF, JAR and
others) using the Compare Directories tool. You can examine and merge differences
in files from ZIP archives in the Compare Files tool.
Open Document Format (ODF) [read more...]
<oXygen/> XML Editor allows you to extract, validate, edit and process the XML data
stored in OpenDocument files and any other ZIP-based archive. These capabilities allow
developers to use data from ODF documents together with validation and transformations
(using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats.
Improvements in the visual Author mode
Support for images referenced by an entity name
The Author mode can display images referenced by the name of an
external entity which specifies the physical location of the image
file.
Support for multiple selection in the Author Outliner
You can drag-and-drop, cut, copy, paste or delete multiple nodes in the
Author Outliner.
Improvements in the DITA Map editor
Easier addition of topic references in DITA Maps
You can insert multiple topic references repeatedly without closing the
insertion dialog. The dialog also has an integrated file navigator for easier
topic references browsing. Using the contextual menu you can also easily insert a
topic reference to the current edited topic.
Support for using URI's in topic references
If a topic reference contains a URI value it will be solved through the
<oXygen/> configured catalogs before being displayed in the DITA
Map.
Generate bookmarks in PDF transformations with DITA Open Toolkit
The XSLT stylesheets of DITA Open Toolkit for PDF output were patched
for generating correct PDF bookmarks and a Table of Contents.
Improvements in the Text editor
Improved attributes editing support
You can quickly find and insert an attribute without having to edit
directly in the attributes table using the enhanced attributes editor. You can
also choose a file path as an attribute value. This support is available in the
Attributes, Outline and Schema Diagram views.
Selection plugins can be applied to non XML documents
A selection plugin can be applied now to non XML documents. In previous
versions it could be applied only to an XML document.
Other features
Show/Hide Processing Instructions and Comments in the Text/Author
Outliner
You can use a toggle button in the Outliner view to easily show/hide
Processing Instructions and Comments in the Outliner tree.
Easier generation of XML Schema Documentation from an external
process
You can export the settings of the Schema Documentation dialog to an
XML file. With the exported settings file you can generate the same HTML
documentation from the command line by running the script schemaDocumentation.bat
(on Windows) / schemaDocumentation.sh (on Mac OS X / Unix / Linux) located in the
<oXygen/> XML Editor installation folder.
More detailed errors in digital signature verification
When the verification of a digital signature fails, the error messages
offer more details when they are available. This is the case when the signature
hash value does not match the signed content or the public key is
invalid.
More flexible options when creating detached signatures
Now you can set options like Transformation type, XPath or ID even when
creating a detached signature.
Drag and drop in the Project linked folders
The structure of the project tree can be changed by drag and drop
actions also when the tree contains linked folders.
Built-in support for validation and content completion in MathML
documents
<oXygen/> includes the Math 2.0 DTD's allowing validation and content
completion in MathML XML documents.
Support for post-validation in LIBXML
The --postvalid flag is set as default allowing LIBXML
to validate correctly the main document even if the XInclude fragments contain
IDREFS to ID's located in other fragments.
Component Updates
Support for eXist database 1.2.2
The eXist database support was updated to eXist version
1.2.2.
Updated the Saxon 9 XSLT / XQuery processor
The Saxon 9 XSLT and XQuery processor was updated to the latest
version: 9.0.0.6. Both Saxon 9 Basic and Schema Aware versions are supported,
including XSLT and XQuery debugging and profiling, and schema validation. For the
Schema Aware version you need a separate license from Saxonica.
Updated the Xalan processor
The Apache XSLT 1.0 processor was updated to version 2.7.1. Xalan can
be used for running XSLT transformations in both the Editor perspective and the
XSLT Debugger one and for validating XSLT stylesheets.
Updated the NekoHTML parser
The Apache NekoHTML parser was updated to version 1.9.7. The NekoHTML
parser is used for parsing HTML documents and making them valid XHTML
documents.
