XML Editor

The new Project view features a simplified tool-bar, an intuitive contextual menu and a mechanism that synchronizes the selection with the currently edited document. In addition to this, project modifications are automatically saved.

The 'New' file dialog box combines templates and file types in a single presentation layout for increased usability.

Invalid attributes and invalid attribute values are highlighted with a red color in the Attributes view.

The XML code templates (snippets) are available through the Content Completion Assistant and also in the Author mode. They can be configured in the Editor/Templates/Code Templates options page.

A link to an image or to a file can be quickly inserted when editing in the Author mode by dragging the file into the opened document, or by pasting it. Pasting an image data (copied from another application) in the editor creates an image file on disk, and then creates an XML reference to that file: for DocBook it creates a figure element, for DITA an image element, while for other documents it inserts the file path. The behavior can be controlled/extended using the Author API.

An annotation can be associated with a section of the Author content without modifying or deleting the content. Annotations can highlight virtually any content from your document, except read-only text. Such comments are marked in Author mode with a configurable background color.

The CSS property called text-transform is now supported in the Author mode, allowing you to render text as lower-case, upper-case, or capitalized.

The content completion support offers the defined keys as proposals for entering keyrefs values. New document templates were added to easily create new General Task topics and Subject Scheme maps.

The Author API provides support for adding custom persistent highlights to the Author content. For example, this can be used to implement text comments.

You can query the change tracking data at a specified position in the edited document. If there is a change tracking marker or a comment marker at that point, you get an object describing: the author name, the change comment, the date, the start offset, the end offset.

A listener can be set through the Author API to be notified when files are dropped or pasted in the Author mode.

You can open a URL in the associated application with an Author API call.

You can get the balanced selection range of Author editing mode: that is the selection interval is extended to include also the start tags or end tags that are necessary for making the fragment XML "well-formed".

A custom pop-up menu can be displayed from an Author extension.

An Author API call is available for showing (bring to front) a view or a toolbar from an Author extension.

This is a complete API that allows other Eclipse plugins to access editing pages from the opened Oxygen editors. You can use this API to access the Author mode and further use the classic Author API to interact with the document, but you can also access other pages, such as the Text mode, and alter their content. You can find an archive with the API and the Javadoc at http://www.oxygenxml.com/developer.html#oXygen_Eclipse_plugin

In case of complex transformations, inspecting the entire stack of XSLT templates, that were active at the time the output fragment was generated, speeds up the debugging process. Just enable the Output to Source Mapping on the debugger toolbar, and click an area of the output text to see the templates stack in the Output Mapping Stack view.

The breakpoints and the break conditions were merged into a single breakpoints view. A breakpoint having a condition set on it stops the XSLT processor only when the condition evaluates to true.

The Content Completion Assistant for XPath expressions is also available when entering expressions in the XPath Watch view.

Sequence/node set values are previewed directly in the Variables or the XWatch views. For big lists of values, you still need to use the Nodes/Values Set.

Editor variables can be used to specify parameter values in XProc scenarios.

Oxygen version 12 includes the latest Syncro SVN Client improvements. For details please see: the Syncro SVN Client website.

Oxygen now supports the Berkeley DB XML Database version 2.5.16. XQuery scripts are executed as transactions using the transaction support of the database. Validation of XQuery scripts is done using the Berkeley DB engine.

Oxygen supports the upcoming eXist 1.5 Database Server.

Saxon XSLT, XQuery and XML Schema processor was updated to version 9.2.1.2.

DITA Open Toolkit was updated to version 1.5.1.

Apache FOP processor was updated to version 1.0.

TEI P5 schemas were updated to version 1.7.0. The TEI XSL stylesheets were updated to version 5.40.

Calabash XProc connector was updated to version 0.9.23.