Version 9 of the <oXygen/> XML Editor now has comprehensive DITA support.

The main feature of version 9.0 is a CSS-based visual XML editor allowing WYSIWYG-like editing of XML documents. <oXygen/> allows you to work with XML frameworks (DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML, etc) easier than ever before. Version 9 adds a new concept called Document Type that allows you to provide ready-to-use support for a framework or an XML language and share it with other users. This version also brings improved error reporting for validation, additional side view helpers, some component updates and a number of other features.

<oXygen/> is a complete cross-platform XML editor providing the tools for XML authoring, XML conversion, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, XPath, XSLT, XQuery debugging, SOAP and WSDL testing. It has visual editing support for DocBook, DITA, TEI, and XHTML.

The integration with the XML document repositories is made through the WebDAV, Subversion and S/FTP protocols. We are excited about WebDAV access because DITA Users workspace folders can now be WebDAV enabled via HTTPS. <oXygen/> also can browse, manage and query native XML and relational databases.

The <oXygen/> XML editor is also available as an Eclipse IDE plugin, a unique XML development feature. With Eclipse tools for DITA like the Task Modeler, and Eclipse Help as our tool to create the DITA Infocenter, we are enthusiastic about <oXygen/> and Eclipse.