Re: Best practices for Oxygen

[M Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

I've been using Oxygen for several months now but I don't know if I 
can give you any best practices for it. I use it mainly for coding 
XSLT and XSL-FO, and secondly for editing regular XML files. Its 
editor has many useful features for editing XML. I use its spellcheck 
a lot. I use its structure tree a lot. I also use its XML-aware diff 
tool, which I find very useful in merging versions of XML files. I 
have set it up so I can do XSLT transforms with a keystroke.

The Jeni Tennison XSLT books (Beginning XSLT, Beginning XSLT 2.0) 
give a lot of good tutorial-type info on XPath, but it is in relation 
to using it with XSLT. I have not taken the time yet to figure out 
how to use the Oxygen XPath tools. I had already written extensive 
XPath manually before using Oxygen.

Regards,
Mark Giffin

At 05:51 PM 4/23/2007, Rob Hudson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've chosen Oxygen (I think) as my XML tool of choice for doing
>content editing and such. I'm hoping that it will help me with DITA.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1) What are your best practices with Oxygen?
>2) Can you recommend a good xPath tutorial that will help me mine my
>XML using Oxygen?
>
>If another tool is better for the purpose, please let me know. I've
>looked into XML Spy and it seems rather pricey.
>
>
>--
>Rob Hudson
>Business Writing Instructor
>Software Developer
>Towson University, MD
>www.iteachwriting.com


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