March 2006 - oXygen-user - www.oxygenxml.com

Controlling the style of generated schema documentation
by Christopher Smith 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi there, I was wondering if there is a place in the oxygen preferences, or a stylesheet, that is used when generating the schema documentation. I'd like to be able to change the default colors (for instance) used for the generated documentation. I noticed that there is CSS information in the head of the generated documentation, but I was wondering if I can change this for all documentation that I generate, without needed to resort to post- generation editing or scripting. Thanks, -- Chris

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macro to insert element
by Shawn McKenzie 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

I am wondering if it is possible to define macros to insert elements. For instance, I would like to be able to have authors easily insert something like <keyword conref="../common/vars.xml#prod"/> all at once without them having to insert the element, insert the attribute and then type the value of the attribute. Any way to automate this with oXygen?

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Re: [oXygen-user] Help Search highlighting
by Sorin Ristache 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hello Lars, Finally we succeeded to find a workaround for the JavaHelp search highlight problem. We had to make modifications to the HTML files displayed in the help viewer before they are indexed because the JavaHelp indexer computes wrong indexes. We inserted already a fixup step in the automated pipeline which produces the help archive. You can download a corrected version of the help archive for <oXygen/> 7.1 here: http://www.oxygenxml.com/update/helpFixed7.1/help.zip Just replace [oXygen-install-folder]/lib/help.zip with the downloaded file and restart <oXygen/> to see the search matches highlighted correctly. Best regards, Sorin http://www.oxygenxml.com/ Lars Huttar wrote: > Sorin Ristache wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We know about the wrong highlights and we were not able to find a fix >> until now. We think it is caused by bugs in the Swing view used by the >> JavaHelp system to display HTML content because <oXygen/> does not >> implement a custom search mechanism. It provides the search control of >> the JavaHelp system. The problem is worse if you run <oXygen/> with a >> Java 1.4 virtual machine: the highlights do not match the word >> correctly even at the beginning of the page on the right. That means >> the Swing view works better in later versions of the Sun's JVM >> (1.5.0_x) but some bugs still exist. We still try to find a solution. >> >> Starting with version 7.2 the Help will be presented in a separate >> window, with usual platform-dependent decorations (on Windows, by >> default a window has minimize, maximize and close buttons) and a >> separate taskbar button. It will behave as a normal window, with the >> only restriction that closing the main frame of the application will >> close also the Help window. It is already implemented in the >> development stream but there is a problem with the focus when F1 is >> pressed in a type of dockable views, bringing the main frame on top of >> the help window at a very short time after F1 is pressed and the help >> window is displayed. We work on this too. >> >> >> Best regards, >> Sorin > > Thanks again for your responsiveness. I'll say again that this is one of > the big reasons why I stay with Oxygen. > Lars

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Re: xQuery comments not supported?
by David Sewell 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Exclamation points also cause problems for XQuery syntax highlighting on oXygen 7.1. Try: (: this comment and the next line are highlighted properly :) declare variable $foo := "foo"; (: the next lines are highlighted with comment color! :) for $n in 1 to 3 return $n Remove the '!' from the comment restores the correct highlighting. -- 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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Help Search highlighting
by Lars Huttar 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hello, Seeing once again your responsiveness to bug reports prompted me to report one that has been a minor irritation for quite a while. In the Help window (User Manual), I click on the Search icon. Then I type a word in the Find text field, e.g. "associate", and press Return. A list of chapters where matches are found is shown below the Find field, and the content of one of them is shown on the right. In the content pane, the searched-for keyword is highlighted. At first, this highlighting works fine, but as we get lower down in the chapter, it begins to deviate from the search terms. Near the middle of a long chapter, the highlights are not even close to the word "associate", so it's hard to find the search terms. (There's also no "next occurrence" button.) This is happening to me in Oxygen 7.1, but I remember this behavior since at least v6. I'm using Windows XP; my coworker with Mac OSX sees the same behavior. While I'm on the topic, I'd like to put in a couple of other UI requests for the Help window... - The usual title bar icons (minimize, maximize, restore) are missing. - The Help window is always on top, yet is not modal (you can still type in the main Oxygen window). Seems to me always-on-top goes with being modal. My preference would be that the Help window does not have to stay on top. Thanks, Lars

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xQuery comments not supported?
by Jonas Lundberg 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

In xQuery, I frequently use comments like the following: (: http://localhost:8080/cocoon/ladda_in?id=cocoon&page=index/webdesign&locati… :) If I do that in oXygen, syntax highlighting does not work. Is there a good reason for this? (I have now evaluated oXygen for xQuery for a while. It seems oXygen *almost* supports working with xQyery) Best regards Hans

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Re: Using oXygen in IBM Rational Application Developer
by Alexander Voss 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Hi, thanks for the info. I'm not committed to RAD and could chose an alternative but it needs to be very low cost (get RAD for free through IBM's academic initiative) and it would have to support WYSIWYG editing of the user interface parts. Any suggestions? Especially ones where oXygen is know to work? How about myeclipse? Cheers, Alex oxygen-user-request(a)oxygenxml.com wrote: > Send oXygen-user mailing list submissions to > oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > oxygen-user-request(a)oxygenxml.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > oxygen-user-owner(a)oxygenxml.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of oXygen-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Using oXygen in IBM Rational Application Developer > (Timothy Reaves) > 2. Re: Using oXygen in IBM Rational Application Developer > (Sorin Ristache) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:23:00 -0500 > From: Timothy Reaves <treaves(a)silverfieldstech.com> > Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Using oXygen in IBM Rational Application > Developer > To: oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > Message-ID: > <96F5F32D-423D-4479-B83C-AD7CC7F5C83F(a)silverfieldstech.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Alexander Voss wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am in the process of switching from a pure Eclipse >> environment to IBM's Rational Application Developer >> and was wondering if it is possible to use the >> current version of oXygen in this environment. The >> download page suggests that oXygen only runs with >> Eclipse 3.1 but IBM RAD is based on 3.0. Does that >> mean that I would have to downgrade to oXygen 6.1 >> (last one that was eclipse 3.0 based) or is there >> another solution? I guess one would be using it >> stand-alone but that's not really what I'm looking >> for. Any ideas? > > > > The latest version of oXygen does not work in RAD. > > As an aside, fight very hard to stay as far away as possible from RAD. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:49:11 +0200 > From: Sorin Ristache <sorin(a)oxygenxml.com> > Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Using oXygen in IBM Rational Application > Developer > To: oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > Message-ID: <441FCC17.8030602(a)oxygenxml.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Hello, > > As stated on the Download page and in the User Manual the Eclipse plugin > distribution only supports the latest Eclipse version available at the > release date. Usually the plugin also works in other Eclipse versions > but when the Eclipse team introduces changes in the API accessed by the > <oXygen/> plugin some features of the plugin stop working. The next > version of <oXygen/> adapts to the API changes but the versions already > released are left supporting what was available at the release date. > > That means the API changes introduced between the stable Eclipse > versions 3.0 and 3.1 limit you to the version 6.1 of the plugin. > > > Best regards, > Sorin > > > Timothy Reaves wrote: >> On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Alexander Voss wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am in the process of switching from a pure Eclipse >>> environment to IBM's Rational Application Developer >>> and was wondering if it is possible to use the >>> current version of oXygen in this environment. The >>> download page suggests that oXygen only runs with >>> Eclipse 3.1 but IBM RAD is based on 3.0. Does that >>> mean that I would have to downgrade to oXygen 6.1 >>> (last one that was eclipse 3.0 based) or is there >>> another solution? I guess one would be using it >>> stand-alone but that's not really what I'm looking >>> for. Any ideas? >> >> >> >> The latest version of oXygen does not work in RAD. >> >> As an aside, fight very hard to stay as far away as possible from RAD. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user > > > End of oXygen-user Digest, Vol 30, Issue 9 > ****************************************** -- Alexander Voss, Research Associate School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 1 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW Office +44 131 650 4412 Lab +44 131 650 8288 NTRAC +44 131 537 3363 Email avoss(a)inf.ed.ac.uk Homepage http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/avoss

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Automating XML Document Chaining and Piplining
by Ray Miller 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

oXygen-7.0.0 (eclipse-3.1.2 plugin) Transforming a WordML document into Docbook involves "chaining" the XML document through a "pipeline" of XSL stylesheets. There are four XSL <http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL> stylesheets involved: wordml-normalise.xsl, wordml-sections.xsl, wordml-blocks.xsl and wordml-final.xsl. Example usage: xsltproc -o normalised.xml wordml-normalise.xsl my-word.xml xsltproc -o sections.xml wordml-sections.xsl normalised.xml xsltproc -o blocks.xml wordml-blocks.xsl sections.xml xsltproc -o my-docbook.xml wordml-final.xsl blocks.xml How does one configure oXygen to automate this process ??? Ray

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Highlight matching brackets in xQuery?
by Jonas Lundberg 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

I am trying out the oXygen editor, but I was surprised that bracket matching does not seem to be supported. At least it is not enabled initially. If I have for instance the following xQuery fragment: if($mall/stream[@include="subsections"]) Then, if I select the "(" then I expect the matching ")" to be highlighted. Is this supported in oXygen? If so, how do I enable it? I found no description in the manual (although maybe I missed it). Regards Hans

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Using oXygen in IBM Rational Application Developer
by Alexander Voss 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hi, I am in the process of switching from a pure Eclipse environment to IBM's Rational Application Developer and was wondering if it is possible to use the current version of oXygen in this environment. The download page suggests that oXygen only runs with Eclipse 3.1 but IBM RAD is based on 3.0. Does that mean that I would have to downgrade to oXygen 6.1 (last one that was eclipse 3.0 based) or is there another solution? I guess one would be using it stand-alone but that's not really what I'm looking for. Any ideas? Cheers, Alex -- Alexander Voss, Research Associate School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 1 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW Office +44 131 650 4412 Lab +44 131 650 8288 NTRAC +44 131 537 3363 Email avoss(a)inf.ed.ac.uk Homepage http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/avoss

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