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oXygen wish-list
by Wendell Piez 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi Oxygenites, I've been using oXygen for about six weeks now. I really like it. I agree with Norm Walsh that it hits a sweet spot. I hope it continues to be available on all the major platforms: that's a key feature long-term, I think. I upgraded the RAM on my Win2K machine so I could run it happily (for a long time I had been laboring every time I ran a serious Java application), and have found it all in all to be an excellent investment. What I particularly like is that oXygen is actually a file editor, although with many of the features one likes in a structured editor. (The code-insight feature is great!) This means that it's very flexible and forgiving with not-quite-yet-XML, which I find very useful. (I believe there's also still room in the market for a strong structured editor, especially since Corel's product seems to have taken a wrong turn, but that's a different kind of application in my view.) I am also a big fan of RelaxNG (though old-fashioned DTDs also have their virtues), and I like to oXygen's support for it. I've been collecting a list of things I'd personally like to see, though I can't say they amount to anything substantial. They're mostly user interface things that I have liked in other tools. (Remember it took me six weeks to think of all these!) * Operate a stylesheet with the "-a" flag (Saxon) or Xalan equivalent (that is, reading xml-stylesheet PI from document). * Set up a scenario with output file name or other parameters provided at runtime (with replacement expressions such as $Basename to use the source file's basename) * Add xslt to recognized extensions (or set your own). * Show me Saxon's error messages!? (Maybe I haven't got this set * Macros / tagging clips (eg paste in custom tag structure) * Enhanced outline views (oh you're working on this) * Improvements to Find/Replace dialogs o reposition and pin o using checkbox for "from top" is a pain, I'd prefer file wrap (or have it in addition) o a "replace all" button? (I am getting used to a two-screen- deep "replace" and like it for case-by-case, but also like a replace all in front) * Enhancements to Project interface o context menu "open in browser" o context menu "copy file name to clipboard" ...which all in all, ought to be enough requests from one user -- Congratulations on a fine tool! 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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Re: [oXygen-user] Comments about a possible new feature
by Richard Folwell 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

>> I would like to ask you how you feel about adding the possibility to fade >> the lines that are not in the center of the attention in the editing area. I like it a lot. It provides extra cues to focus on the part of the document you are working on, without losing the context. However I would want to see how it behaves in the face of rapid scrolling - when you want to move your point of attention to a different part of the document manually, rather than searching. It almost gives the impression that the text is wrapped around a large drum, with the nearest lines being most visible. I also like the idea suggested by someone else, that it be switchable (presumably it can be switched off for those people who don't like it) to provide focus not by number of lines, but by the current document element. (It is hard to know which is going to be best without being able to try it out). Richard

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I can't resist :)
by George Cristian Bina 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

http://norman.walsh.name/2004/01/22/oxygen Best Regards, George ------------------------------------------------------- George Cristian Bina mailto:george@oxygenxml.com <oXygen/> XML Editor - http://www.oxygenxml.com/

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question
by Ricardo Pietrobon 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hi, I am using the brand new version 3.0 on a Fedora Core box and I just love it. The outline box is great and the ability to save configuration scenarios is very useful. However, I am running into some problems with the latter. Here is what i did: I saved two scenarios to transform from docbook to pdf and html, where the output file is always saved to either a file called html_delete.html or pdf_deleteme.pdf in my home directory, no matter where the original xml file is. This works perfectly for pdf files, but for html i keep getting this error message: Cannot rename temporary file: /mnt/lite/rpietro/ur/impact/cog_med_brazil/stat_vs_phys/stat_vs_phys.xml_xslt to: /home/rpietro/html_deleteme.html I went back and deleted both the .xml_xslt and the original html file but it still didn't work. If I try to save the transformed html file to the directory where the original xml file is, it will do it without a problem, but then the purpose of saving all files to a single location is defeated since I would have to change the configuration scenario all the time Any suggestions? thanks, Rick

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Interesting Observation
by Sean Wheller 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hi, Some may recall that I was having problems transforming a large document to PDF using FOP-0.20.5 in the pre-release of version 3.0. As V3.0 pre-release was shipped with FOP-0.20.4 I configured FOP-0.20.5 as an External FO Processor. To my dismay I could not get the transform to work. Now, with the official release, the same document, perhaps a little larger [500 pages], is transforming to PDF without problems. I'm not sure for the reason. But there you goes technology for you. -- Sean Wheller

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How to avoid .
by Sean Wheller 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hi, How can I avoid having the value of a glossary element wrap. The problem is that when the value wraps the glossary cannot find the entry in the database. This is because of the whitespace that is created by line wrap, it think. So I will get messages such as this: There's no entry for Common Object Request Broker Architecture in resources/glossary.xml There's no entry for Remote Method Invocation in resources/glossary.xml There's no entry for Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol in resources/glossary.xml There's no entry for Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Architecture in resources/glossary.xml There's no entry for Extensible Markup Language in resources/glossary.xml Yet when I check resources/glossary.xml a glossentry does exist. Sean Wheller __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Creating Just FO
by Sean Wheller 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hello, Sounds like a stupid question. But how do I just create a fo file? :-) -- Sean Wheller

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custom layers
by Sean Wheller 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hi George, Attached are my custom layers -- Sean Wheller

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Configure External tools
by Peter Charles 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hello, In the command line options of the external tools configuration, the ${cf} macro retrieves a window version of the current file path, (example: C:\Some Directory\filedir\filename }) is there a way to get this in a java acceptable format (example: C:/Some Directory/filedir/filename}) Thanks

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DTD generation in Oxygen 3.0
by Annick FRON 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

I have tried to generate DTD and Schema for the Cdcatalog example from w3schools (http://www.w3schools.com) I got the schema OK, but a Sax -1 exception for the DTD. "Approximating datatype content by #PCDATA" Annick Fron http://www.essi.fr/~fron

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Howto chunk in general
by Sean Wheller 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

How can I setup a transformation so that it will chunk. When I specify chunk.xsl directly I get errors: E Failed to compile stylesheet. 8 errors detected. E Variable filename-prefix has not been declared E Variable autolayout-file has not been declared E Variable autolayout-file has not been declared E Variable website.database.document has not been declared E Variable website.database.document has not been declared E Variable website.database.document has not been declared E No template exists named chunk-element-content E No template exists named chunk-element-content -- Sean Wheller

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html-customization layer and chunk.xsl
by Sean Wheller 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

Hello, I want to chunk my document to HTML using html/chunk.xsl from the Docbook Stylesheets bundled with Oxygen 3.0. I have created a customization layer (html-cust.xsl) that does an xsl:import of chunk.xsl and xsl:include of customizations that are common to HTML and FO (common-cust.xsl). The part we're interested in looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">    <xsl:import href="/home/sean/apps/oxygen/docbook/xsl/html/chunk.xsl"/> <xsl:include href="common-cust.xsl"/> When I validate this xsl file I get the following error: F javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: ElemTemplateElement error: chunk-element-content Yet when I replace chunk.xsl with html/docbook.xsl the xsl is valid. Any ideas anyone? -- Sean Wheller

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Congratulations on the release of <oXygen/> 3.0
by Sean Wheller 15 Jan '04

15 Jan '04

Hi, Just a note to say congratulations on the release of version 3.0. It works just fine and is certainly the best release to date. -- Sean Wheller

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Re(2): [oXygen-user] oXygen 3.0 tag insight problem
by Sylvain Perchaud 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Le lundi 12 janvier 2004, à 22:45, Sean Wheller a écrit: >Hi Sylvian, > >This seems to work fine on Linux with version 3.0. > >--- start ><chapter> > <chapterinfo> > <authorgroup> > <author> > <firstname> Sylvain </firstname> > <surname>Perchaud</surname> > <affiliation> > <shortaffil> ... </shortaffil> > <jobtitle>...</jobtitle> > <orgname>&es;</orgname> > <address> ... </address> > </affiliation> > </author> > </authorgroup> > </chapterinfo> > <title>The Chapter Title</title> > <sect1> > <title>The first section title</title> > <para>Text</para> > </sect1> ></chapter> > >--- end > >Things you can check: >1. The PUBLIC and SYSTEM identifiers are correct. Those informations are in my main project file and are correct. >2. The document is valid. Yes it is. >3. Your xml catalog variable is defined correctly. I've never modified the default setting (and don't have modified the files in the docbook distribution shipped with oXygen 3.0). It seems that the problem comes from placing an entity in the <orgname> element. When I don't place &es; or any other entity in the orgname element (for example <orgname>Europe Shareware</orgnamme>), everything goes well. This problem also occurs inside the other elements I tested. -- Sylvain Perchaud Tel : +33 (0) 674 758 551 http://www.europe-shareware.org

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oXygen 3.0 tag insight problem
by Sylvain Perchaud 11 Jan '04

11 Jan '04

Hello, I'm currently testing oXygen 3.0 and I'm still facing a problem with Tag Insight. My system: Mac OS 10.3.2 Java runtime 1.4.1 When I create a new document, the DocBook DTD being the default DTD to use in the Tag Insight Preferences, Tag Insight behaves strangely with the following code: --- Start --- <chapter> <chapterinfo> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname> Sylvain </firstname> <surname>Perchaud</surname> <affiliation><orgname>&es;</orgname></affiliation> </author> </authorgroup> </chapterinfo> </chapter> --- End --- (&es; is here an entity defined in my main project file) It seems that Tag Insight doesn't understand that the <orgname> element is closed, since when I want to add another element after </author> it only allows me the </orgname> tag or elements available inside <orgname>. -- Sylvain Perchaud Tel : +33 (0) 674 758 551 http://www.europe-shareware.org

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
by Sean Wheller 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Does anyone know if JAI may help to eleviate the problem of the "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError". Of course with FOP 0.20.5. Sean Wheller __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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revisited: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
by Sean Wheller 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Hi, once more, even though I have plenty of memory and FOP limit is set to 800 I am getting the message Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError Process ended with exit code: 1 Sean Wheller __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Re: [oXygen-user] Early access to <oXygen/> 3.0
by Sean Wheller 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hello Chinedu, This is not George, its Sean. I have included your message back to the user group with this response. The problem is that the edition is for all platforms. It is a unix tarball (tar.gz). On windows should be able to extract it using Winzip. There is no install, you just copy the folder to where you want to run the program and the execute the oxygen.bat file. If you have a license, then paste it when prompted. The program should run fine assuming that you have java already installed. Hope this helps, Sean Wheller --- Chinedu Uchechukwu <neduchi(a)netscape.net> wrote: Hallo George, I do not know what could be the problem, but I could not install thedownloaded file: http://www.oxygenxml.com/george/test/oxygenAll.tar.gz I thought I would just click it to install (as in previous windowsversions of oxygen), but the system would report that the program is not recognized, and ask whether I wantit to check on the internet bla bla bla! What should I do to install it in windows xp, just like the otherversions? Chinedu... seanwhe(a)yahoo.com wrote: Chinedu,I can confirm that the link does work. On Linux I canretrieve the file using wget and under the Konquerorweb browser.Sean Wheller--- George Cristian Bina <george(a)oxygenxml.com> wrote: Hi Chinedu,What do you mean the link did not work for you ?Both links should workfine.Happy New Year!George ------------------------------------------------------------- George Cristian Bina mailto:george@oxygenxml.com<oXygen/> XML Editor - http://www.oxygenxml.com/----- Original Message -----From: "Chinedu Uchechukwu" <neduchi(a)netscape.net>To: <oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:04 PMSubject: [oXygen-user] Early access to <oXygen/> 3.0 Hello George,The link below did not work for me (windows professional xp). What do Ido? I like using the "learn structure" to introduce the forming of dtd's tostudents, so I shall keep on using the 2. series of oxygen to do that.Least I forget: A Happy new year to you all!Chinedu..----------------------------------------------Hi,In case you want to give oXygen 3.0 a try please find below informationabout where to get it from and how to set up thelicense. All platforms http://www.oxygenxml.com/george/test/oxygenAll.tar.gz Mac OS X http://www.oxygenxml.com/george/test/oxygenMacOSX.tar.gz Please paste the following lines when it asks for license: _______________________________________________oXygen-user mailing listoXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user _______________________________________________oXygen-user mailing listoXygen-user@oxygenxml.comhttp://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user __________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakeshttp://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Early access to <oXygen/> 3.0
by Chinedu Uchechukwu 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hello George, The link below did not work for me (windows professional xp). What do I do? I like using the "learn structure" to introduce the forming of dtd's to students, so I shall keep on using the 2. series of oxygen to do that. Least I forget: A Happy new year to you all! Chinedu.. ---------------------------------------------- Hi, In case you want to give oXygen 3.0 a try please find below information about where to get it from and how to set up the license. All platforms http://www.oxygenxml.com/george/test/oxygenAll.tar.gz Mac OS X http://www.oxygenxml.com/george/test/oxygenMacOSX.tar.gz Please paste the following lines when it asks for license:

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None
by Sean Wheller 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hi when I transform using Saxon or Xalan and Apache FOP 0.20.5 I get the following message, repeated a number of tiimes. What does it mean, how can I avaoid it? [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] FOP 0.20.5 [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] building formatting object tree [INFO] setting up fonts [ERROR] Unknown enumerated value for property 'relative-align': baseline [ERROR] Error in relative-align property value 'baseline': org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: No conversion defined Sean Wheller __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003

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Save As DTD
by Sean Wheller 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hey, I just noticed that the feature to save a learn structure to DTD is not there. How do i do it now? Sean Wheller __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003

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colwidth not processed for fo
by Sean Wheller 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Hi, I've seen several postings in the docbook-app archives on the colwidth problem, I cannot seem to make it work. Platform: SuSE 9.0 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-b28) Tool Chain: Saxon 6.5.3 Apache FOP 0.20.5 XSL 1.62.4 *Extension for Saxon in /lib = saxon651.jar Cust layer imports fo/docbook.xsl: <xsl:import href="./xsl/fo/docbook.xsl"/> Cust layer enables extensions: <xsl:param name="use.extensions" select="1"/> <xsl:param name="tablecolumns.extension" select="1"/> <xsl:param name="saxon.tablecolumns" select="1"/> Table: <table id="1"> �<title>A Title</title> �<tgroup cols="2"> �<colspec colnum="1" colwidth="1.00*"/> �<colspec colnum="2" colwidth="3.00*"/> �<thead> ��... When transforming I get: [ERROR] Error in column-width property value '25%': org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: No conversion defined [ERROR] Error in column-width property value '75%': org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: No conversion defined Table transforms to 50% for colnum 1 & 2. What could the problem be? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003

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Oxygen 3.0 - What is
by Sean Wheller 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

Hi, Browsing around Oxygen 3.0 I came across the XSL Transformer options under Preferences. What is it used for? Also I noticed the inclusion of JAXP. How is this used? When I select it as a processor I get back the message "Provider not found". BTW, they new interface and the cool new features, like the outline view, are really slick and makes editing a pleasure. I have also found this version to be very stable. I particularly appreciate your adding the ability to set the Internal FOP memory to 1000. I now have a new machine with 1000 MB DRAM and a P4 processor. FOP transformations happen in the blink of an eye running on SuSE 9.0 Professional. The Preserve Space Elements and Strip Space Elements features on the Editor/ Format are really a blessing. I no longer have to so many CDATA's :-) I did pickup a small usability problem with the Spell Checking. The problem is that when you are doing a spell check, you cannot interact with the editor. So you have to close the editor, make the modification you wanted and then restart the spell check. Which of course takes you back to the beginning of the document. It would be more streamlined if either of the following were enabled: - editing is possible while running the spell check. - resume spell from cursor or last position. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone. Sean Wheller

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Re: [oXygen-user] Suggestion concerning indentation
by Sean Wheller 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

Hi Sylvain, We meet once again:-) Oxygen V3.0 has taken account for this with a feature called "Preserve space elements". This feature is part of the Format preferences. It allows you to add or remove elements to which you want to preserve the space. Hope that helps, Sean Wheller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvain Perchaud" <sylvain(a)europe-shareware.org> To: "Oxygen User List" <oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:11 PM Subject: [oXygen-user] Suggestion concerning indentation > Buna, > > I'm using the <literallayout> element for a DocBook document. > When I work, I use the "indent the document" button before saving a file. > > Unfortunately this function also indents what's inside the > <literallayout> element. > > Would it be feasible to modify the "indent the document" function so that > it takes into account the <literallayout> element (and other "verbatim" > elements) ? > > > I'm using oXygen 2.0.4 > > -- > Sylvain Perchaud > Tel : +33 (0) 674 758 551 > http://www.europe-shareware.org > > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/

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Suggestion concerning indentation
by Sylvain Perchaud 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

Buna, I'm using the <literallayout> element for a DocBook document. When I work, I use the "indent the document" button before saving a file. Unfortunately this function also indents what's inside the <literallayout> element. Would it be feasible to modify the "indent the document" function so that it takes into account the <literallayout> element (and other "verbatim" elements) ? I'm using oXygen 2.0.4 -- Sylvain Perchaud Tel : +33 (0) 674 758 551 http://www.europe-shareware.org

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