The <oXygen/> interface uses standard interface conventions and
components to provide a familiar and intuitive editing environment across all
operating systems.
The Editor perspective
is
used for editing the content of your documents. The space is organized in:
When two or more panels are displayed, <oXygen/>
provides divider bars. By selecting a divider bar, it can be dragged to a new
position, therefore increasing the space occupied by one panel while decreasing
it for the other.
As majority of the work process centers around the Editor panel,
other panels can be hidden from view using the expand and collapse controls
located on the divider bars.
This perspective organizes the workspace in the following panels:
- Main menu
- Provides menu driven access to all the features and
functions available within <oXygen/>.
- 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 panel
- The place where you spend most of your time,
reading, editing, applying markup and checking the validity and form
of your documents.
- Outliner panel
- Provides the following functions: XML document
overview, modification follow-up, document structure change,
document tag selection.
- Model view panel
- Presents the structure of the current edited tag and
additional tag documentation.
- Message panel
- Displays messages returned from user operations.
- Project panel
- Enables the definition of projects and logical
management of the documents it contains.
The Debugger perspective is used for detecting problems in a XSLT
transformation process by executing the process step by step in a controlled
environment and inspecting the informations provided in different special views.
The workspace is organized in:
- Source document view - Displays and allows editing of
data or document oriented XML files (documents).
- Stylesheet document view - Displays and allows editing
of XSL files(stylesheets).
- Output document view -
Displays the transformed output that results from the input of a
selected document (XML) and selected stylesheet (XSL) to the
transformer. The result of transformation is dynamically written as the
transformation is processed. There are two views for the output: a text
view (with XML syntax highlight) and an XHTML view.
- Control toolbar - Contains all actions needed in order
to configure and control the debug process.
- Information views - Distributed in two panes that are used
to display various types of information that can be used to understand
the transformation process. For each information type there is a
corresponding tab. While running a transformation, relevant events are
displayed in the various information views. This enables the developer
to obtain a clear view of the transformation progress.