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oXygen beta 6 Visual Relax NG editor chokes on large schemas
by David Sewell 12 May '05

12 May '05

Probably a mistake, but the first document I opened with oXygen 6 beta was the Relax NG schema for the OASIS OpenDocument format: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/11680/office-schema-1.0-c… That is a long (530KB) and complex schema, and on my system it made oXygen freeze for all practical purposes--extremely long wait times for screen rewrites, etc. (I'm running the standalone Mac OS X version on a dual G4 867MHz PowerMac). Is this something that optimization can help with before the final release? If not, is there a way to turn off the visual schema editor in the Preferences so that it won't start when a file is loaded? David -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell(a)virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://www.ei.virginia.edu/

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modified flag cleared by Undo (feedback on Oxygen 6.0 beta)
by Lars Huttar 12 May '05

12 May '05

Dear Oxygen people, One thing I would like to see in Oxygen is a feature that's present in many editors: when you open a file, make a change, and Undo that change, it would be nice to have the modification flag (shown by an asterisk) cleared. Regards, Lars

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oXygen 6 beta
by George Cristian Bina 11 May '05

11 May '05

Hello everybody, The *best version of <oXygen/> ever* is ready for a first run :). We just uploaded a beta build of the new oXygen 6 at the URLs below [1]. Please give it a try and let us know your feedback. The first main new feature is the *schema visual diagram*. Strong points are: - support for both *XML Schemas* and *Relax NG schemas* - side by side source and diagram presentation - source and diagram are synchronized in *real time* (no background parsing) - print and save as image support Another important feature is the *diff and merge* support (available only from the standalone distributions). It is in fact a *complete diff and merge solution featuring - 6 diff algorithms (*XML Accurate*, *XML Fast*, *Syntax Aware*, *Line* level, *Word* level and *Character* level) - both *file and directory* comparison and merging - a nice GUI presentation of the diff results with *change guide lines* and *synchronized scrolling* - support for automatic selection of the diff algorithm - the possibility to *go into details* at word or character level on the found modifications - *editing* any of the documents directly in the diff GUI - easy invocation of the diff from the project panel and more. The third main feature is the import support from a number of external data sources like - any JDBC enabled database - comma, space, tab, semicolon separated text files - Excel sheets Of course there are a lot of other features, like XML Signature support (sign and verify), XML Canonicalization support, the possibility to define proxy namespace mappings for the XPath evaluations, support for the latest Saxon 8.4 for XSLT 2.0, improvements in the performance and in the user interaction and more. Enjoy, and do not forget to send us feedback ;) ! Hmm... I was about to forget that you need a v6 license key to use it, you can find it at the end of the message [2] [1] installation kits Windows (Includes Java VM) http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstDataRC60/Windows/VM/oxygen.exe Windows http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstDataRC60/Windows/NoVM/oxygen.exe Mac OS X http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstDataRC60/MacOSX/oxygen.tar.gz Linux http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstDataRC60/Linux/NoVM/oxygen.bin All (Linux, Unix,etc.) http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstDataRC60/All/oxygen.tar.gz Java Web Start distribution http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstDataRC60/Javawebstart/oxygenJWS.zip Eclipse 3.0 Plugin zip distribution http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstDataRC60/Eclipse/com.oxygenxml.editor_5.1.0.zip [2] license key --- START LICENSE KEY --- Registration_Name=oxygen-user-v6-beta Company= Category=Professional Component=XML-Editor, XSLT-Debugger Version=6, 6 Number_of_Licenses=1 Date=05-05-2005 Duration=31 SGN=MCwCFGM0LBedJ73PDzgnqtS2kuB0xR0iAhQXdXzbOrF7tkMGiWjM0HTqpva0tg\=\= --- END LICENSE KEY --- Best Regards, George --------------------------------------------------------------------- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com

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Beta 6
by Sean Wheller 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, Great job on beta 6. Just been playing with it a bit today. Especially interested in the comparison tools. Now the only thing missing is diff against a vcs. One quick way to implement this may be to work as a front end to cvs, svn, tla or baz. I think it would be safe to assume that any person wanting to make diffs would have one or more of these applications installed. It should therefor be possible to enable an Oxygen user to create a diff against the repository and view it before doing a commit. The next step from this is to implement the ability for a user to view patches, merge them and then commit them. What do you think? Can you get this in before release? -- Sean Wheller sean(a)enbaya.co.za http://www.enbaya.co.za

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Feedback on oXygen V6 Beta
by Eliot Kimber 10 May '05

10 May '05

I'm in the middle of a project where we are developing XSLT 2 transforms and using complex XSD schemas, so the new features in V6 were quite welcome (we had been using Turbo XML for Schema viewing by oXygen for XSLT and schema editing--we get Turbo for free with our licenses of Epic Editor). I like the schema viewer but there are a few things that I think would make it more effective to work with (in rough order of priority) (this is for the full model view--I haven't fully explored the logical view, but it might address some of my comments below): 1. Ability to control collapsing of entire tree, e.g. "collapse children/expand children). When you're dealing with a large schema with lots of top-level elements and types and you want to focus on just one part it's tedious to collapse everything. It would probably help to also have the default be to have all the children of the root initially collapsed. Epic Editor's XML tree view has a neat feature that I've never seen anywhere else: if you triple click on a tree item it will collapse the children of that item--this makes it really quick to collapse a long list of children. 2. Option to view just the element/type hierarchy without all the details of reference, refinement, extension, etc. As it is, it can be a little difficult to navigate down through a hierarchy of element types because the tree can get pretty wide, so there's a lot of scrolling, especially if you've used long names for types (as I tend to do). One of the nice things about Turbo's view is that it is pretty quick to navigate down the tree. 3. Provide a "where used" view, that is, when you click on an element type, show what other element or type contexts it's allowed in, from which you can navigate to those types. 4. In the logcal model view, also synchronize with the source, including providing the option to open the containing XSD file if it's not already open. Things I really like: - The list of types, elements, and groups. Very handy for getting a view over how the schema is organized from a coding standpoint. - The synchronization of the tree view with the markup view. Really handy. Will save much time now spent doing searches for specific entries in the schema. - The showing of enumerations for element content. - For the logical model view, the grouping of types by their namespace. Cheers, Eliot -- W. Eliot Kimber Professional Services Innodata Isogen 9390 Research Blvd, #410 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 372-8155 ekimber(a)innodata-isogen.com www.innodata-isogen.com

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[Feature Request] rename a file?
by T Reaves 07 May '05

07 May '05

I'd like the ability to rename a file in the context menu of the project browser window.

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FOP and image width
by lists＠userdox.com 06 May '05

06 May '05

Hi, Thanks for all your assistance so far - its all part of the learning curve... I'm trying to ensure there are no content overflows when creating PDFs so that my memory usage problems don't return as my document increases in size. This means I am trying to create images of the correct size and specify their sizes in my xml/xsl files. I would like to have some of my images at page width, and others within the flow on indented text. My body text is set by: <xsl:param name="body.start.indent" select="'5.9cm'"/> All my tables are appearing as full page width (which is a different problem to be solved), but all my images are contained within the indented text region, approximately 9.7cm. This is too small for my entity relationship diagrams so I would like them to be at the full page width. I've followed the instructions at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ImageSizing.html without success. Am I being too ambitious for FOP 0.20.5 or am I doing things the wrong way? Cheers, Geoff docbookxsl-1.68.1 oXygen 5.1 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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FOP and image problems - solved
by lists＠userdox.com 05 May '05

05 May '05

>>The error occurs when the FO processor is launched for the final step of >>the PDF transformation. Try to execute the same transformation scenario >>on a simple document - for example >>[oXygen-install-dir]/samples/docbook/sampleXInclude.xml. You get the >>same error, the PDF result is generated correctly ? >> >>Best regards, >>Sorin > > > Thanks for your help. I transformed the sampleXInclude.xml successfully. > Further testing shows that the problem is occuring with images (and FOP). I'll > do some more playing and post the results back here for the archive. > > Cheers, > > Geoff > > Hi, I've solved the problem - it was memory related. I increased the page file size on my WinXP laptop and then set the memory available to the built-in FOP in <oXygen /> to 1000MB => success http://xml.apache.org/fop/running.html#memory describes a few things that may help others with the same problem. Geoff ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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xfc rtf fo integration
by Raymond 04 May '05

04 May '05

Downloaded and installed xfc rtf fo processor. How does one integrate this fop into oXygen 5.1? Urgently need to generate a msWord compatible document. Raymond

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