Smart Paste Support

You can paste content from various sources, such as web pages and office-type documents, and paste it into DITA, TEI, DocBook, and XHTML documents. Oxygen XML Editor keeps the original text styling (like bold, italics) and formatting (like lists, tables, paragraphs), and helps you make the resulting document valid.

You can paste content from the following:

Office applications (Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org Writer and OpenOffice.org Calc).
Web browsers.
The Oxygen XML Editor Data Source Explorer view (where resources are available from WebDAV or CMS servers).

The following document types have smart paste support:

The styles and general layout of the pasted content are transformed to the equivalent XML markup of the target document type.

Tables pasted in a DocBook file are automatically converted to CALS. If you want to overwrite this behaviour and instruct Oxygen XML Editor to convert them to HTML tables, set the docbook.html.table parameter to 1. You can find this parameter in:

[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks/docbook/resources/xhtml2db5Driver.xsl stylesheet, for DocBook 5
[OXYGEN_DIR]/frameworks\docbook\resources\xhtml2db4Driver.xsl stylesheet, for DocBook 4

You can disable smart paste by deselecting Convert external content on paste in the Schema Aware preferences.

If you paste the content in a location where the resulting XML would not be valid, Oxygen XML Editor will attempt to place it in a valid location, and may prompt you with one or more choices for where to place it.

You can disable this location selection feature by deselecting Smart paste and drag and drop option, available in the Schema Aware preferences.

To watch our video demonstration about the Smart Paste support, go to http://oxygenxml.com/demo/Smart_Paste_Copy_Paste_from_Web_Office_Documents_to_DITA_DocBook_TEI_XHTML_Documents.html.