This did not get through to the oxygen-user due to a config problem of my send mail server. Regards, George -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Validation and data entry Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:07:46 +0200 From: George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com> To: António Mota <amsmota@gmail.com> CC: oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com References: <2fa55447050110075114e01532@mail.gmail.com> Hi Antonio, Oxygen will present in the content completion only the elements that keep the document valid. If you make the model view visible (you can find it in a tabbed pane together with the project view) you will be able to see also the content model for the current element as well as the information about the current element attributes. If you annotate your schemas oXygen will present the xs:annotation/xs:documentation next to the content completion proposals as the users edit the document, thus you can tell/explain the user the meaning of each element, attribute or value and that will be present exactly when the user needs it. You can see this in action if you edit an XML Schema or an XSLT stylesheet (they use annotated XML Schemas for content completion). Oxygen handles not only simple restriction types when it presents values in the content completion, it follows down the simple types until it gets the enumerations, thus we can handle also union types for instance. More it has support for list type values, after a value is inserted it will offer content completion for the following values. From 5.1 it has support for content completion also for elements with simple types, presenting the values as in case of attributes and it will handle also xs:IDREF and xs:IDREFS types presenting the xs:ID values collected in the last validation action. There is no real time validation support, but if the users will follow the content completion proposals and helped by the model view and by the schema annotations they should not really need that. Also in 5.1 oXygen added Schematron support. You can use that to create a standalone Schematron schema or to embed Schematron rules in your XML Schema and validate with both XML Schema and Schematron on a single action. This will let you apply very powerful checks on your instance documents as Schematron basically specifies XPath checks that are executed in specified contexts, so you have the full XPath power. Thus you can assert for instance that the sum of price elements from a list of products should be less than 500. Best Regards, George --------------------------------------------------------------------- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com António Mota wrote:

Hello:

I'm new in here, i'm evaluating oXygen (among others) in order to buy some licences to our company (nothing big, 4-5 licenses only).

Until now i'm using 5.0, i like what i see so far, but i've a big concern. The idea is to have the editor to our XML/XSL guy (me) do the design/test/implementation, along with our Javascript guy (me) and the CSS guy (me) cause the first project will be client-side tranforms, and also with our Java guy (well, me) for other XML projects (based on the XUI project).

However after all these people :) do their work it will be the need for some other people, probably with no or little understandig of XML, to pick up the definitions and "write" a lot of XML files for application use.

Until now i'm testing Schema validation on data entry, but i can only validate the data after their inclusion. Isn't a way to do some "on-the-fly" real-time validation?

Also, using 5.0, it seems the data introduction modes are very poor. I've installed 5.1 just now. Is there some improvements on this?

Excuse me also for my bad english writing...

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