[xsl] [ANN] <oXygen/> XML Editor 1.2.4

[Mihai Ionescu <mihai@xxxxxxx>]

We are glad to announce a new release of <oXygen/> XML Editor.

This release improves most of the oXygen features and adds new ones like
configurable document templates and plugins.

The editor can be freely evaluated for 30 days
http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html and it costs $65 ($25 for academic
use).

New in <oXygen/> XML Editor 1.2.4
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 * Support for document templates
 * Auto-completion of closing tags
 * Smart indenting
 * XPath supports both location paths and expressions
 * Support for both tab and spaces for formatting
 * Add a directory to project
 * Improved error reporting for XSLT transformations
 * The code-insight on XSL presents also the result document tags as
substitutes for xsl:element
 * Completely new graphics for the interface
 * GUI updates
 * Converter plugin
 * Language tool plugin
 * Open files associated with a project
 * Enhance search in file with regexp and replace support

Details...

 * Support for document templates
   Support for document templates allows the user to define partial
documents and store them associated with a description. When a new document
is wanted the user can choose on of these partial documents as a starting
point. The editor comes with a set of standard templates and on
www.oxygenxml.com site there are available up to date templates one can use.

 * Auto-completion of closing tags
   Hitting </ will automatically autocomplete the closing tag.

 * Smart indenting
   Auto-indent : enter an opening tag and hit enter will indent the next
line one more level. Auto-un-indent: enter a closing tag as the first
non-whitespace on a line and hit enter and indentation of closing tag
becomes same as indentation of opening tag.

 * XPath supports both location paths and expressions
   It is now possible to evaluate any XPath expression using the XPath
support. If the result is a node list then clicking on a hit will highlight
that node in the editor, if the file is not opened it will be automatically
opened. Also associated with a node hit a part of the test child of that
node if any is shown in the results panel.

 * Support for both tab and spaces for formatting
   The user can select what should be used for indenting either a number of
spaces or one tab character. This choice is also used when the document is
automatically formatted (pretty print).

 * Add a directory to project
   The user can add a file system directory to a project and the directory
structure will be reproduced as project logical folders and the files will
be added to each corresponding folder.

 * Improved error reporting for XSLT transformations
   The stylesheet errors and transformation runtime errors are reported
with system ID and line number information so that the problems and reasons
for failure are easily found.

 * The code-insight on XSL presents also the result document tags as
substitutes for xsl:element
   If the user wants to edit a transformation to get an XHTML document for
instance the XHTML tags will be presented by the code insight whenever the
xsl:element is presented. The user can choose the XMLScema or DTD of the
result and the tags from that XML Schema/DTD will be presented, for user
convenience the FOP schema and XHTML DTD are built in.

 * Completely new graphics for the interface
   All the application icons and figures were redesigned.

 * GUI updates
   Small problems were fixes like button order on Mac versus
Windows/Linux/Solaris, added icons on tabs, added context menu on tabs,
change cursor shape to reflect editor state, make sure all dialogs have
default buttons, etc.

 * Converter plugin
   Sample plugin for converting between different systems. Having an XML
configuration file the users can add/remove from the standard configuration
that contains a subset of US system and metric system.

 * Language tool plugin
   Allows users to use Google Language Tool to translate text from/to
different languages.

 * Open files associated with a project
   If there are some opened files when a project is closed when the project
is opened at a later time those files are opened.

 * Enhance search in file with regexp and replace support
   Now the user can use regexp for search in files and also can replace
occurrences in multiple files.

Best Regards, 
Mihai


Mihai Ionescu
Software Engineer
SyncRO Soft Ltd
http://www.oxygenxml.com






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