Project Support

<oXygen/> XML Editor helps you organize your XML related files into projects. In this way you can perform batch operations like validation and transformation over sets of files. Another feature of the project is that allows you to share your project settings and transformation scenarios with your coworkers.

Project Folders: Logical Folders and Linked Folders

The most simple way to organize your XML working files is to place them in a directory on disk, and then to create a corresponding linked folder into the project. If you add new files to that folder, you simply press refresh and the project panel will display the existing files and subdirectories.

If your files are scattered between several folders, but represent the same class of files, you may find useful to join them in a logical folder. For instance having XSL stylesheet files distributed in several folders, it may be a good idea to add them in the logical folder "XSL".

The operations available on the files and folders in the projects include validation, well-form check and XSL transformation.

Project Level Options

You can specify almost all of the <oXygen/> settings at project level. This makes possible to pass along with the project XML Catalogs settings, transformation scenarios, formatting options, validation options, editor layout, etc.

Let us take a real world example. You are creating a set of XML Schema files and XSL stylesheets for editing and publishing a book. You choose to set in the project options the paths to the XML catalogs, the transformation scenarios, the XML formatting settings, the XML parser and XSLT transformer settings. Your colleagues will simply checkout the project from the source repository, and start working immediately. None of them will spend time configuring the editor.

In the next image you can see that the Saxon 6 options are project settings.

Checking the "Project Scenario" radio button moves the current scenario to the project level: