OXygen

Synopsis

<oXygen/> 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. Discount available for TEI subscribers and individuals from TEI member institutions: contact info@tei-c.org for information. Free 30-day trial license available.

Support for TEI

As of Version 9.0 build 2007110615, oXygen 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.

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

9.2 (2008-05-09)

History of versions

See http://www.oxygenxml.com/software_archive.html .

How to download or buy

http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html

Additional notes

David Sewell wrote ( http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804&L=TEI-L&T=0&O=D&P=4227 ):

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 tei-oxygen 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 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 give errors whenever elements from other namespaces are involved. As usual you can associate the tei_odds with a oxygen specific processing command similar to this: <?oxygen RNGSchema="{your oxygen folder}/frameworks/tei/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_odds.rng" type="xml"?>