Download XML Author 10.3 User Manual for Eclipse

Table of Contents
1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1
Key Features and Benefits ............................................................................................................. 1
2. Installation ...................................................................................................................................... 2
Installation Requirements .............................................................................................................. 2
Platform Requirements ......................................................................................................... 2
Operating System, Tools and Environment Requirements ............................................................ 2
Operating System ........................................................................................................ 2
Tools ......................................................................................................................... 2
Environment Prerequisites ............................................................................................. 2
Installation Instructions ................................................................................................................. 3
Starting <oXygen/> XML Author plugin .......................................................................................... 4
Obtaining and registering a license key ............................................................................................ 4
Named User license registration ............................................................................................. 4
How floating (concurrent) licenses work .................................................................................. 5
How to install the <oXygen/> XML Author license server as a Windows service ...................... 7
How to release a floating license ..................................................................................... 8
License registration with a registration code .............................................................................. 8
Unregistering the license key ......................................................................................................... 8
Upgrading the <oXygen/> XML Author application ........................................................................... 9
Uninstalling the Eclipse plugin ....................................................................................................... 9
Performance problems ................................................................................................................ 10
Large documents ................................................................................................................ 10
External processes .............................................................................................................. 10
3. Getting started ............................................................................................................................... 11
Supported types of documents ...................................................................................................... 11
Getting help .............................................................................................................................. 11
Perspectives .............................................................................................................................. 11
<oXygen/> XML perspective ............................................................................................... 11
The <oXygen/> custom menu ....................................................................................... 12
The <oXygen/> toolbar buttons .................................................................................... 12
The editor pane .......................................................................................................... 12
The Outline view ....................................................................................................... 13
The <oXygen/> Text view ........................................................................................... 13
The <oXygen/> Browser view ...................................................................................... 13
The <oXygen/> XPath Results view .............................................................................. 14
Supported editor types ................................................................................................ 14
<oXygen/> Database perspective ......................................................................................... 14
4. Editing documents .......................................................................................................................... 17
Working with Unicode ................................................................................................................ 17
Opening and saving Unicode documents ................................................................................. 17
Opening and closing documents .................................................................................................... 17
Creating new documents ..................................................................................................... 18
<oXygen/> plugin wizards ........................................................................................... 18
Creating Documents based on Templates ........................................................................ 23
Saving documents .............................................................................................................. 24
Opening and Saving Remote Documents via FTP/SFTP ............................................................ 24
Changing file permissions on a remote FTP server ........................................................... 26
Opening the current document in a Web browser ...................................................................... 27
Closing documents ............................................................................................................. 27
Viewing file properties ........................................................................................................ 27
Editing XML documents ............................................................................................................. 28
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