![]() Oxygen XML Editor Eclipse plugin installation In this tutorial we are going to use Eclipse Kepler 4.3, but the installation process is pretty standard for most versions. We are going to show you how to install Oxygen XML Editor in Eclipse, and a glimpse of how you can use it.Virtually anyone working with XML files in the context of the Digital Humanities, and especially in the context of scholarly digital editing, knows the oXygen XML editor. ![]() It is mature and packed with useful features, and yet every new version brings even more features and improvements. ![]() In fact, it is an editing ecosystem rather than an editor. It entertains a close connection to the community that exists around the TEI and has, for instance, the TEI’s latest default schemas nicely integrated into the editor. Of course, there is a price to pay for all of this. And that price is the fact that oXygen requires a paid licence for any extended use. Oxygen xml editor 12 software#ĭon’t get me wrong: producing a great software product and licencing it at a reasonable price to users who benefit greatly from its use is of course perfectly fine. And in many large-scale, long-term editing projects, the licence fee is certainly dwarfed by the staff costs the project involves, so no problem there either. (And if you are looking for an editor for your fully-funded, 12-year historical-critical edition project, read no further.) However, in some contexts, a licence fee is a problem: for instance, in small ad-hoc projects, in projects located in low-income countries, and in most teaching contexts, whether in the framework of a local curriculum or in workshop settings. In teaching contexts, in particular, I don’t like to recommend and teach tools that students won’t be able to install on as many devices as they care to, and more importantly, tools that students won’t be able to continue using for free once they leave the university. This is one of the reasons why we recommend and teach Zotero rather than Citavi, when it comes to bibliographical reference managers, despite the fact that my university has a campus licence for Citavi. And this is the motivation that has driven me to find a suitable replacement for oXygen when dealing with XML-TEI files in the Digital Humanities. Another motivation has been that oXygen is actually rather more daunting, complex and feature-packed than what we need, whether in smaller editing projects or when teaching the fundamentals of XML markup. Quite a few years ago, I used XML Copy Editor for teaching XML. It did a few things rather well and was decidedly minimalistic a little too minimalistic, maybe. More recently, I moved on to the more versatile jEdit editor, a general-purpose text editor (useful to learn how to use anyways) that has a pretty convenient plugin ecosystem that also features several XML-related plugins, even XSL transformations.
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