August 2007 - oXygen-user - www.oxygenxml.com

Format and Indent Problem
by Jeff Sese 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi, As I have read on previous posts, oXygen classifies mixed content based on the current contents of an element, is this correct? If so, is it possible for oXygen to classify elements based on the declarations made in the DTD or Schema it is associated to? I know that the work around for this is to specify the pattern of elements that you want to preserve the whitespace in the preferences or to manually insert an xml:space="preserve" attributes for these elements, but if an XML is associated with a DTD or a Schema then you can tell whether whitespace in that element is ignorable or not. Currently what I've been doing is for every project I have to specify in the pattern listing all the mixed content elements that are defined in the DTD/Schema so that when I do a pretty print the whitespace is preserved and this method is very troublesome. Is there anymore workaround for this other than the ones I mentioned above? Or can this be considered as an added feature for a future version of the product? Thanks, Jeff

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Ajax-like content completion list in oXygen?
by David Sewell 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

I'm wondering how the following might be accomplished in oXygen. Suppose I have an index of terms stored in an XML file, call it "index.xml". The file looks like this: <index> <entry>cats : and dogs</entry> <entry>cats : and mice</entry>  <index> I am editing an XML file, call it "doc.xml", in which I want to insert index terms contained in the index file, like so: <p>In 2006 Felix the cat caught over 200 mice.<index><term>cats: and mice</term></index></p> While editing doc.xml, after I type "<term>", I want to access a list of possible entries drawn from index.xml. Ideally this would be implemented in the manner of popular Ajax-based form entry, so that typing the first few letters would call up a window containing a list of all index entries beginning with those letters. Because index.xml could contain thousands of entries, this goes beyond what oXygen content completion or code templates are designed to do. Would this task require writing a plug-in for oXygen? Or are there off-the-shelf Ajax tools that would work with the Eclipse version of oXygen to enable this kind of interaction? DS -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 801079, 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://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/

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Problem with Eclipse 3.3 plugin and XSL editor on Linux
by Owen Rees 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

I recently upgraded my Linux Eclipse installation to the Eclipse Europa package "Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers" and added the Oxygen Eclipse 3.3 plugin. The XML editor seems to be fine but whenever I try to start the XSL editor it says: An SWT error has occurred. [stuff about exiting] Unhandled event loop exception (Time...) Reason: Cannot initialize Drop I have a similar installation on Windows but that seems to be working. Any ideas about what the problem might be? -- Owen Rees ======================================================== Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN

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create XML document from xsd - choose target namespace?
by Linus Kamb 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

I have a schema, that starts out with: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" version="1.0" targetNamespace="http://portal.earthscope.org" xmlns:esdp="http://portal.earthscope.org" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"> <xs:import namespace="http://www.opengis.net/gml" schemaLocation="http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/3.1.1/base/feature.xsd"> </xs:import> <xs:import namespace="http://www.opengis.net/ogc" schemaLocation="http://schemas.opengis.net/filter/1.1.0/filter.xsd"> </xs:import> ... When I try to create a new XML document and select this schema file, the create doc wizard chooses the ogc namespace, and therefore offers up as root element all the elements defined in the imported ogc schema. I would like to get the elements defined in *this* schema under the target namespace. I can't seem to change the offered namespace. >> How do I get the create XML document wizard to choose the targetNamespace and the elements defined in this schema document? Running Oxygen 8.2 on Mac OSX 10.4 Thanks, Linus

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Using Catalogs with Saxon8B XQuery Processor
by Eliot Kimber 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

I'm trying to use Saxon through Oxygen to query documents that require a catalog for DTD resolution (the DTD system ID is an absolute URI that isn't a real location). I've configured Oxygen's catalog setup to use my catalogs and that works fine. When I try to doc a query like this: Let $docs := collection(iri-to-uri("mydocsdir&recurse=yes;select=*.xml")) I get a "404 Not Found for: {URI of DTD} I didn't see any obvious option for specifying the catalog. Since I'm using Saxon's built-in catalog resolver I'm not sure what to do to make it work with my catalogs. Thanks, Eliot ---- W. Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect Really Strategies, Inc. 512 554 9368

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3-way merge?
by lars 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Hello, The XML Diff/Merge tool that comes with Oxygen looks pretty nice. However there doesn't seem to be provision for a 3-way merge (using a common ancestor). This kind of merge is a common requirement when a repository of XML documents is continually modified by a distributed team or company; users need to keep merging others' changes to documents with their own changes before committing modified documents to the repository. This would tie in well with the Synchro SVN client, which allows you to perform merges in exactly this situation, but apparently without the benefit of common-ancestor-awareness (?), or at least without XML-awareness and common-ancestor-awareness at the same time. Are there any plans to incorporate 3-way (common ancestor) merge into Oxygen Diff/Merge tool? Regards, Lars

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DocBook 5 rng-based documents
by Khaled Aly 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi oXygen 8.2 supports both DocBook 4.4 and 5.0. According to Norm Welsh DockBook5 Definitive Guide [quote/unquote]: "The normative schema for DocBook V5.0 is the RELAX NG Grammar with its Schematron annotations. The only reason to use a DTD with DocBook V5.0 is if your editing environment (or other tool) requires one, for example, for syntax directed editing." The sample provided with oXygen 8.2 has this declaration: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V5.0//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/docbook.dtd"> Anyone knows what should be the proper DOCTYPE declaration if the document is to be based on the RNG. And is there any specific impact on transformation functions in that case? Thanks for help. ka

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PDF Transformation
by Miller, Ray (Centech) 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

xep-4.10 docbook-rng-5.0cr5 xsl-1.73.0 oxygen-8.2.0 (eclipse-3.3 plugin) Receive the following PDF transformation error: [error] Fatal parse error: file:/C:/Documents and Settings/foo/workspace/fooSOP/fooSOPxml/InternalSOPs/trunk/xmlFlowReview .xml_fo: line 2, column 121: Invalid URL C:\Documents and Settings\foo\My Documents\foo\Docbook\docbook-xml\dtd\docbook.dtd (unknown protocol: c) Ray

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by Dimitri Baeli 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

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XSLT coping xsi:schemaLocation?
by Timothy Reaves 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

O.K., I think I'm down to the last issue. When I run my transform, my root elements xsi:schemaLocation attribute is not copied over however. As I need to process the root elements children, I have to use copy. I tried using the same technique I use for other attributes, but I can't specify an attribute name with xsi: in the name. Anyone know how to get the location to copy over? I still need it in place to validate the transformed element. I'd even settle for being able to hard-code the value in the XSL file. Thanks.

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