Editor Perspective

To edit the content of your documents, use the Editor perspective (Window > Open perspective > Editor).

When two or more views are displayed, the application provides divider bars. Divider bars can be dragged to a new position increasing the space occupied by one panel while decreasing it for the other.

As the majority of the work process centers around the Editor area, other views can be hidden using the controls located on the views headers.

This perspective organizes the workspace in the following sections:

• Main menu - Provides menu driven access to all the features and functions available in Oxygen XML Editor.
• Main toolbar - Provides easy access to common and frequently used functions. Each icon is a button that acts as a shortcut to a related function.
• Editor area - The place where you spend most of your time, reading, editing, applying markup and validating your documents.
• Outline view - It provides an XML document overview and offers functions such as modifications follow-up, document structure change, document tag selection, elements filtering.
• Model view - Presents the current edited element structure model and additional documentation as defined in the schema.
• Results view - Displays result messages obtained by performing user operations like search (the results of the Find All action applied to the current file or the results of a find action applied on a set of files), validation, transformation and spell check. The following actions are available in a vertical toolbar on the right side of the view:

  Grouping options

  Allows you to choose grouping criteria, which reflects into a flat or tree-like presentation of the results. To display the results in a flat layout, you can either uncheck all selected criteria or press the Ungroup all button. All these actions are also available in the table header contextual menu.

  Highlight all results in editor

  Displays or hides all the highlights.

  Remove selected

  Removes the currently selected messages from the list.

  Remove all

  Clears the message list.

  A contextual menu available on the table grid allows you to:

  • Navigate to previous and next message. As alternative, you can use the default shortcut keys: Ctrl Shift ] (Command Shift ] on OS X) for navigating to the next and Ctrl Shift [ (Command Shift [ on OS X) for navigating to the previous message.
  • Print the results or save them either in text or XML format.
  • Expand or collapse all displayed items (with the shortcuts Alt Shift PageUp for the Expand All action and Alt Shift PageDown for the Collapse All action).
  • Restore default grouping criteria and table column widths.
• Project view - Enables the definition of projects and logical management of the documents they contain.
• Attributes view - Presents all possible attributes of the current element
• Elements view - Presents a list of all defined elements that you can insert at the current caret position according to the document's schema.
• Entities view - Displays a list with all entities declared in the current document as well as built-in ones.
• Transformation Scenarios view - Displays a list with all currently configured transformation scenarios.

1. The Results View