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

oxygen hangs when saving to URL
by Christian Wittern 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Dear oXygen users and developers, When using oXygen to access files on the eXist database, I frequently encounter a situation where oXygen hangs and stops responding to any input. This occurs when saving to URL, especially, (although I am not 100% sure, since this is difficult to test efficiently) but not always, when saving a new file. I wonder what might cause this problem and how to avoid it. For your information, this happens on both Intel and PPC Macs with the latest OS X installed (but I seem to recall having this also experienced with a Windows XP machine), eXist is a recent SVN build. All the best, Christian Wittern -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

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Generating "hot" reports
by Wendell Piez 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Hi, One nice feature in oXygen is that you can wire in External Tools, and oXygen will capture their outputs in a Command Results panel. Another is, of course, that you can link directly from reports generated by validators, XPath queries and the like -- which also appear in Command Results panels. Can these two features be combined? In other words, would it be possible for me to generate a report in an external tool which, once oXygen picked it up in its panel, would allow me to link directly to locations named in the report? I'm familiar with the "SystemID", "Location", "Description" format oXygen saves out from command results, but apparently (unless I'm missing something) what I want to do here isn't quite as simple as creating this format. Is this a feature request, or should I be able to accomplish what I want already? Regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================

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debugger questions
by James Don 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hello, Just wanted to send some feed back on the tool regarding the xsl debugger: - Why do breakpoints not set ? There are 2 "add break point"s in the right click menu ... only 1 seems to add break points ... the other just changes the colour of the break point. - Watched variables don't update as you step in the debugger ... unless of course you click around in the gui to force a refresh ... this makes debugging pretty annoying ... - Can't break on variable definitions ... i keep getting an error msg that says "Breakpoints can only be created on a line containing the end of a start tag" ? - Inside some looping constructs it seems watches on certain xpaths return null ... even though variables dependent on the same xpath are set ... Cheers, Jim

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Editing & Processing DITA on 8.2
by Khaled Aly 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hello Sorin / oXygen users Can anyone provide some guidelines/clues on using DITA 1.0 on oXygen 8.2 (while it does not yet incorporate DITA's Open Toolkit), provided the right DTDs are referenced. I got below some specific issues: - Filename extensions: although DITA's topic or map markup is well-formed XML and should validate against the corresponding DTD, DITA uses the file name extensions: *.dita and *.ditamap. As far as editing and validating, they seem to validate well with these extensions. - Now for OT processors that are available in O2 current version: Saxon 6.5.5 and FOP, can we set transformation scenarios, based on OT supplied XSLT sheets and process them to generate PDF out of a topic file or a map file? - This is probably for oXygen support. Siren: is the direction to strictly follow the processing tools and scenarios specified by OT (since they are part of the standard), or can we expect oXygen as an independent vendor to provide further transform scenarios beyond those specified by the OT. There is a bit of fuzziness of whether DITA is perceived as an XML application or as a tool. I tend to think of it as an application, but if it is fully dependent on the OT for processing, then it is more like a tool without a specific realization. Appreciate your feedback . Khaled ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oxygen XML Editor support" <support(a)oxygenxml.com> To: "Khaled Aly" <ka.aly(a)luxsci.net> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:20 AM Subject: Re: DITA? > Hello, > > The next version of oXygen will include DITA support and will be released > in a couple of months. > > > Best regards, > Sorin > > http://www.oxygenxml.com >

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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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