<oXygen/> XML Editor User Manual SyncRO Soft Ltd. Contributor: Sean Wheller <oXygen/> XML Editor User Manual SyncRO Soft Ltd. Contributor: Sean Wheller Copyright © 2002-2007 SyncRO Soft Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and SyncRO Soft Ltd., was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in caps or initial caps. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. Third party software components are distributed in the <oXygen/> installation packages, including the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), DocBook DTD and stylesheets. This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org [http://www.apache.org]): the Apache FOP, Xerces XML Parser and Xalan XSLT . These products are not the property of SyncRO Soft Ltd.. To the best knowledge of SyncRO Soft Ltd. owners of the aforesaid products granted permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software and its documents under the terms of the Apache Software License, Version 1.1. Other packages are used under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Users are advised that the JRE is provided as a free software, but in accordance with the licensing requirements of Sun Microsystems. Users are advised that SyncRO Soft Ltd. assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of <oXygen/> and the aforesaid third party software. Nor does SyncRO Soft Ltd. assume any responsibility for licensing of the aforesaid software, should the relevant vendors change their terms. By using <oXygen/> the user accepts responsibility to maintain any licenses required by SyncRO Soft Ltd. or third party vendors. Unless SyncRO Soft Ltd. declares in writing that the <oXygen/> license is inclusive of third party licensing. Table of Contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Key Features and Benefits ............................................................................................. 1 About the <oXygen/> User Manual ................................................................................. 2 2. Installation ...................................................................................................................... 4 Installation Requirements .............................................................................................. 4 Platform Requirements ......................................................................................... 4 Operating System, Tools and Environment Requirements ............................................ 4 Operating System ........................................................................................ 4 Tools ......................................................................................................... 4 Environment Prerequisites ............................................................................. 4 Installation Instructions ................................................................................................. 5 Unattended installation ......................................................................................... 7 Setting a parameter in the startup script .................................................................... 8 Starting the application ................................................................................................. 9 Obtaining and registering a license key ............................................................................ 9 Named User license registration ............................................................................ 10 How floating (concurrent) licenses work ................................................................. 11 How to install the <oXygen/> license server as a Windows service ...................... 12 How to release a floating license ................................................................... 13 License registration with an activation code ............................................................ 13 Unregistering the license key ........................................................................................ 13 Upgrading the <oXygen/> application ............................................................................ 13 Checking for new versions ........................................................................................... 14 Uninstalling the application ......................................................................................... 14 Unattended uninstallation .................................................................................... 14 Performance problems ................................................................................................ 15 Large documents ................................................................................................ 15 Display problems on Linux/Solaris ........................................................................ 15 3. Getting started ............................................................................................................... 16 Supported types of documents ...................................................................................... 16 Getting help .............................................................................................................. 16 Perspectives .............................................................................................................. 18 Editor perspective .............................................................................................. 19 XSLT Debugger Perspective ................................................................................ 20 XQuery Debugger Perspective .............................................................................. 21 Database perspective .......................................................................................... 22 Tree Editor perspective ....................................................................................... 24 Dockable views and editors .......................................................................................... 25 4. Editing documents .......................................................................................................... 27 Working with Unicode ................................................................................................ 27 Opening and saving Unicode documents ................................................................. 27 The Unicode toolbar ........................................................................................... 28 Opening and closing documents .................................................................................... 29 Creating new documents ..................................................................................... 29 The New dialog ......................................................................................... 29 Creating Documents based on Templates ........................................................ 35 Saving documents .............................................................................................. 36 Opening existing documents ................................................................................ 36 Opening and Saving Remote Documents via FTP/SFTP/WebDAV ............................... 38 Changing file permissions on a remote FTP server ........................................... 40 WebDAV over HTTPS ................................................................................ 41 iii <oXygen/> XML Editor User Manual Opening the current document in a Web browser ...................................................... 42 Closing documents ............................................................................................. 43 Viewing file properties ........................................................................................ 43 Editing XML documents ............................................................................................. 43 Associate a schema to a document ......................................................................... 43 Setting a schema for the Content Completion .................................................. 43 Setting a default schema ...................................................................... 44 Adding a Processing Instruction ............................................................ 44 Learning document structure ........................................................................ 45 Streamline with Content Completion ..................................................................... 46 Code templates .......................................................................................... 49 Content Completion helper panels ................................................................. 49 The Model panel ................................................................................ 49 The Element Structure panel ........................................................ 50 The Annotation panel .................................................................. 51 The Attributes panel ..........................................................................