When editing XML documents in Text mode, Oxygen XML Editor provides the following actions in the contextual menu (many of them also appear in the submenus of the Document menu):
Cut,
Copy,
Paste- Executes the typical editing actions on the currently selected content.
- Copy XPath
- Copies the XPath expression of the current element or attribute from the current editor to the clipboard.
Toggle
Comment (Ctrl
Shift Comma (Meta Shift M on OS X))- Comments the current selection of the current editor. If the selection already contains a comment the action removes the comment from around the selection. If there is no selection in the current editor and the cursor is not positioned inside a comment the current line is commented. If the cursor is positioned inside a comment then the commented text is uncommented.
- Go to submenu
- This submenu includes the following actions:
Go to
Matching Tag (Ctrl Shift
G)- Moves the cursor to the end tag that matches the start tag, or vice versa.
- Go after Next Tag (Ctrl Close Bracket (Meta Close Bracket on OS X))
- Moves the cursor to the end of the next tag.
- Go after Previous Tag (Ctrl Open Bracket (Meta Open Bracket on OS X))
- Moves the cursor to the end of the previous tag.
- Select submenu
- This submenu allows you to select the following:
- Element
- Selects the entire element at the current cursor position.
- Content
- Selects the entire content of the element at the current cursor position, excluding the start and end tag. Performing this action repeatedly will result in the selection of the content of the ancestor of the currently selected element content.
- Attributes
- Selects all the attributes of the element at the current cursor position.
- Parent
- Selects the parent of the element at the current cursor position.
- Source submenu
- This submenu includes the following actions:
Shift
Right (Tab)- Shifts the currently selected block to the right.
Shift
Left (Shift
Tab)- Shifts the currently selected block to the left.
Indent selection (Ctrl I (Meta I on OS
X))- Corrects the indentation of the selected block of lines if it does not follow the current indenting preferences.
Escape Selection- Escapes a range of characters by replacing them with the corresponding character entities.
Unescape Selection- Replaces the character entities with the corresponding characters.
Format and
Indent Element (Ctrl Shift I
(Meta Shift I on OS X))- Pretty prints the element that surrounds the current cursor position.
- To Upper Case
- Converts the content selection to upper case characters.
- To Lower Case
- Converts the content selection to lower case characters.
- Capitalize Lines
- It capitalizes the first letter found on every new line that is selected. Only the first letter is affected, the rest of the line remains the same. If the first character on the new line is not a letter then no changes are made.
- Convert Hexadecimal Sequence to Character (Alt X (Meta Shift X on OS X))
-
Converts a sequence of hexadecimal characters to the corresponding Unicode character. A valid hexadecimal sequence can be composed of 2 to 4 hexadecimal characters, preceded or not by the 0x or 0X prefix. Examples of valid sequences: 0x0045, 0X0125, 1253, 265, 43.
To convert a hexadecimal sequence to a character, do one of the following:- place the cursor at the right side of a valid hexadecimal sequence, then press Alt X (Meta Shift X on OS X) on your keyboard
- select a valid hexadecimal sequence, then press Alt X (Meta Shift X on OS X) on your keyboard
- Join and Normalize Lines (Ctrl J (Meta J on OS X))
- For the current selection, this action joins the lines by replacing the line separator with a single space character. It also normalizes the whitespaces by replacing a sequence of such characters with a single space.
- Insert new line after (Ctrl Alt Enter (Meta Alt Enter on OS X))
- This action has the same result as moving the cursor to the end of the current line and pressing the ENTER key.
Insert
XInclude- Displays a dialog box that allows you to browse and select the content to be
included and automatically generates the corresponding XInclude instruction.
Note: In the Author mode, this dialog box presents a preview of the inserted document as an author page in the preview tab and as a text page in the Source tab. In the Text mode, the Source tab is presented.
Import
entities list- Displays a dialog box that allows you to select a list of files as sources for
external DTD entities. The internal subset of the DOCTYPE declaration of your
document will be updated with the chosen entities. For instance, choosing the files
chapter1.xml and chapter2.xml inserts
the following section in the DOCTYPE:
<!ENTITY chapter1 SYSTEM "chapter1.xml"> <!ENTITY chapter2 SYSTEM "chapter2.xml">
Lock / Unlock
the XML Tags- Disables or enables the ability to edit XML tags.
- Canonicalize
- Opens the Canonicalize dialog box that allows you to select a canonicalization algorithm to standardize the format of the document.
- Sign
- Opens the Sign dialog box that allows you to configure a digital signature for the document.
- Verify Signature
- Allows you to specify the location of a file to verify its digital signature.
- Manage Highlighted Content submenu
- This submenu is available from the contextual menu when it is invoked from a highlight
after you perform a search operation or apply an XPath expression that highlights more
than one result. The following options are available in this submenu:
- Modify All
- Allows you to modify (in-place) all the occurrences of the selected content. A thin rectangle replaces the highlights and allows you to start editing. If matches with different letter cases are found, a dialog box is displayed that allows you select whether you want to modify only matches with the same letter case or all matches.
- Surround All
- Surround the highlighted content with a specific tag. This option opens the Tag dialog box. The Specify the tag drop-down menu presents all the available elements that you can choose from.
- Remove All
- Removes all the highlighted content.
- Modify All Matches
- Use this option to modify (in-place) all the occurrences of the selected content (or the contiguous fragment in which the cursor is located). When you use this option, a thin rectangle replaces the highlights and allows you to start editing. If matches with different letter cases are found, a dialog box is displayed that allows you select whether you want to modify only matches with the same letter case or all matches.
Show
Definition (Ctrl
Shift Enter)- Moves the cursor to the definition of the current element or attribute in the schema (DTD, XML Schema, Relax NG schema) associated with the edited XML document. If the current attribute is a "type" belonging to the "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" namespace, the cursor is moved in the XML schema to the definition of the type referenced in the value of the attribute.
- Refactoring submenu
- This submenu includes the following actions:
Rename
Element- The element from the cursor position, and any elements with the same name, can be renamed according with the options from the Rename dialog box.
Rename
Prefix (Alt Shift
P)- The prefix of the element from the cursor position, and any elements with the same
prefix, can be renamed according with the options from the
Rename dialog box.
- If you select the Rename current element prefix option,
the application will recursively traverse the current element and all its
children.Note: For example, to change the xmlns:p1="ns1" association in the current element to xmlns:p5="ns1", if the xmlns:p1="ns1" association is applied on the parent element, then Oxygen XML Editor will introduce xmlns:p5="ns1" as a new declaration in the current element and will change the prefix from p1 to p5. If p5 is already associated with another namespace in the current element, then the conflict will be displayed in a dialog box. By pressing OK, the prefix is modified from p1 to p5 without inserting a new declaration.
- If you select the Rename current prefix in all document option, the application will apply the change on the entire document.
- To also apply the action inside attribute values, check the Rename also attribute values that start with the same prefix checkbox.
- If you select the Rename current element prefix option,
the application will recursively traverse the current element and all its
children.
Surround with submenu- Presents a drop-down menu that allows you to choose a tag to surround a selected portion of content.
- Surround with Tags (Ctrl E (Meta E on OS
X) )
- Allows you to choose a tag that encloses a selected portion of content. If there
is no selection, the start and end tags are inserted at the cursor position.
- If the Cursor position between tags option is enabled in the Content Completion Preferences page, the cursor is placed between the start and end tag.
- If the Cursor position between tags option is disabled in the Content Completion Preferences page, the cursor is placed at the end of the start tag, in an insert-attribute position.
- Surround with ((Ctrl
/))
- Surround the selected content with the last tag used.
Delete element tags (Alt Shift X
(Meta Alt X on OS X))- Deletes the start and end tag of the current element.
Split
element
(Alt Shift D
(Ctrl Alt D on OS X))- Split the element from the cursor position into two identical elements. The cursor must be inside the element.
Join
elements (Alt Shift J
(Meta Alt J on OS X))- Joins the left and right elements relative to the current cursor position. The elements must have the same name, attributes, and attributes values.
- Attributes submenu
- Contains predefined XML refactoring operations that pertain to attributes. Oxygen XML Editor considers the editing context to get the names and namespaces of the element or attribute for which the contextual menu was invoked, and uses this information to preconfigure some of the parameter values for the selected refactoring operation.
- Elements submenu
- Contains predefined XML refactoring operations that pertain to elements. Oxygen XML Editor considers the editing context to get the names and namespaces of the element or attribute for which the contextual menu was invoked, and uses this information to preconfigure some of the parameter values for the selected refactoring operation.
- Fragments submenu
- Contains predefined XML refactoring operations that pertain to XML fragments. Oxygen XML Editor considers the editing context to get the names and namespaces of the element or attribute for which the contextual menu was invoked, and uses this information to preconfigure some of the parameter values for the selected refactoring operation.
- Manage IDs submenu
- This submenu is available for XML documents that have an associated DTD, XML Schema, or
Relax NG schema. It includes the following actions:
Rename in- Renames the ID and all its occurrences. Selecting this action opens the Rename XML ID dialog box. This dialog box lets you insert the new ID value and choose the scope of the rename operation. For a preview of the changes you are about to make, click Preview. This opens the Preview dialog box, which presents a list with the files that contain changes and a preview zone of these changes.
- Rename in File
- Renames the ID you are editing and all its occurrences from the current file.
Search
References- Searches for the references of the ID. By default, the scope of this action is the current project. If you configure a scope using the Select the scope for the Search and Refactor operations dialog box, this scope will be used instead.
- Search References in
- Searches for the references of the ID. Selecting this action opens the Select the scope for the Search and Refactor operations.
Search Declarations- Searches for the declaration of the ID reference. By default, the scope of this action is the current project. If you configure a scope using the Select the scope for the Search and Refactor operations dialog box, this scope will be used instead.
- Search Declarations in
- Searches for the declaration of the ID reference. Selecting this action opens the Select the scope for the Search and Refactor operations.
Search Occurrences in file- Searches for the declaration an references of the ID in the current document.
- Quick Assist (Alt 1 (Meta Alt 1 on OS X))
- Available when the cursor is inside an ID or IDREF, this action opens the Quick Assist window that allows you to select some search and refactoring actions for the selected ID or IDREF.
- Open submenu
- The following actions are available in this submenu:
- Open File at Cursor
- Opens the file at the cursor position in a new panel. If the file path represents a directory path, it will be opened in system file browser. If the file at the specified location does not exist, an error dialog box is displayed and it includes a Create new file button that starts the New document wizard. This allows you to choose the type or the template for the file. If the action succeeds, the file is created with the referenced location and name and is opened in a new editor panel.
- Open File at Cursor in System Application
- Opens the file (identified by its link) or web page (identified by a web link) found at cursor position. The target is opened in the default system application associated with that file type.
- Compare
- Opens the current file in the Compare Files tool.
- Resource Hierarchy
- Opens the Resource Hierarchy/Dependencies view that allows you to see the resource hierarchy for an XML document.
- Resource Dependencies
- Opens the Resource Hierarchy/Dependencies view that allows you to see the resource dependencies for an XML document.