OXygen

Synopsis
 is a high-powered, cross-platform, graphical XML editor with built-in support for TEI.

Features
Supports most features typical of a high-end XML editor, including:
 * syntax coloring
 * context-sensitive content assistant
 * built-in validation and well-formedness checking
 * built-in XSLT engines
 * Unicode support
 * formatting and indentation
 * folding
 * outline view (shows document structure)
 * model view (shows element content model)
 * XPath support
 * XSLT debugger
 * DTD/schema editor
 * Text, Grid, and Author (tagless) editing modes

See also http://www.oxygenxml.com/features.html.

User commentary
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I have found this program to be affordable, easy to use, and pre-loaded with TEI capabilities. Also, the platform gets upgraded on a regular basis. -- Greg Moses (Austin, TeiXas!)

System requirements
Runs under Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. Requires a Java VM (virtual machine).

(One of the download options for Windows users is an installer that includes the Java VM, eliminating the need to download and install Java separately.)

For detailed requirements, see http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html.

Source code and licensing
Closed source. Academic licenses available for $48 per person, allowing you to install for your own use on many computers and use with the current major version number. A discount is available for TEI subscribers and individuals from TEI member institutions; the discount code may be found by logging in to http://members.tei-c.org/MemberInfo. Free 30-day trial license available.

Support for TEI
As of Version 9.0 build 2007110615, &lt;oXygen&gt; has TEI P5 1.0 schemas and the TEI XSL 5.7 stylesheets included in the installation kit.

Comes with TEI schemas and Sebastian Rahtz's stylesheet library, ready to work out of the box. If you are not using the  Debian package (for which a package manager will provide automatic updates for new versions of the stylesheet library), you can upgrade your copy of the stylesheet library without needing to download a new version of &lt;oXygen/&gt; doing doing either of the following:


 * Use oxygen-tei, the open-source TEI framework built into &lt;oXygen/&gt;. To install this, look in your Oxygen folder for a "frameworks" directory that contains a directory called "tei". That's where the contents of the zip would go, replacing the old contents of that directory. Note that this is not the same thing as the   Debian package!


 * With version 14.2 or later of &lt;oXygen/&gt;, "subscribe" to the framework according to these instructions, but note that step a is not required as of &lt;oXygen/&gt; version 14.2. Some post 14.2 instructions are also available at http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/jamesc/2014/04/02/auto-update-your-tei-framework-in-oxygen/

If you work with historical documents, you might use HisTEI, a framework designed to make historical documents easier to transcribe in &lt;'s XML Author mode.

Plugins
&lt;oXygen/&gt; allows third-party plugins and frameworks. The following are of possible interest to TEI users:

Severin
Severin is an image viewer plugin, by Kilian Schmidtner and Stefan Krause, that can be used to see images as you browse though documents. It is an open source project (MIT license), and on the project page you can find a video presentation that uses a TEI document as example.

TEI-Facsimile-Plugin
TEI-Facsimile-Plugin "provides support for working with Digital Facsimiles in Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) vocabulary. The plugin contributes a new View in which the user can load an image and draw shapes. These shapes are then converted into TEI "zone" elements. All the existing "zone" elements from the document are also rendered over the image."

Language(s)
Interface available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Dutch.

Documentation available in English.

Documentation
http://www.oxygenxml.com/documentation.html

Tech support
http://www.oxygenxml.com/techSupport.html

Can buy maintenance and support pack, providing free upgrades and tech support.

User community

 * http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user/
 * http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/

Current version number and date of release
16.1 (2014-10-09)

History of versions
See http://www.oxygenxml.com/software_archive.html.

How to download or buy
http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html

If you use Debian or Ubuntu, you should instead install the tei-oxygen package at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/. (More information below.)

Additional notes
David Sewell wrote:

Because the schema files distributed with oXygen sometimes lag behind the latest TEI releases, kind souls like Syd Bauman have from time to time packaged new schema files so that they can be unpacked to replace part of the oXygen frameworks hierarchy. You could also go to

http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/

and grab the files there to replace the ones in a local oXygen directory.

Sebastian Rahtz added that if you use Debian or Ubuntu, you should instead install the  package. He explained that "this replaces the oXygen TEI package with a link to one installed by the tei-p5-schema package, which is kept up to date. This means you have only one set of TEI files on your machine." It's available at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/.

Marcus Bingenheimer: If you edit ODD files you need to validate the ODD against tei_odds. tei_all will not catch all mistakes and gives and error whenever elements in the RNG or other namespaces are used within