
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 ======================================================================

Hi Wendell, Thank you for your feedback, we added your requests on our bugzilla. We plan for the beginning of next week the first oXygen 3 maintenance release. As you noticed, along with some fixes, it will improve the outliner to show the value of the first attribute and some of the text content of the element. Best Regards, George

Hi George, At 07:41 AM 1/30/2004, you wrote:
Hi Wendell,
Thank you for your feedback, we added your requests on our bugzilla.
Excellent, thanks!
We plan for the beginning of next week the first oXygen 3 maintenance release. As you noticed, along with some fixes, it will improve the outliner to show the value of the first attribute and some of the text content of the element.
That'll be great. Long-term it would be nice to be able to configure exactly what's shown in the outline view (maybe by assigning relative XPath location paths to element types?), but this'll be a big help if only to show template match patterns in XSLT. I'll continue to collect little it-would-be-nice-if items, and spam you with them from time to time. Cheers, 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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