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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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