Oxygen XML Author plugin 13.2.0

Authoring in the Visual Editor | 79The framework set-up by the developer is called document type and defines a type of XML documents by specifyingall the details needed for editing the content of XML documents in tagless mode:• the CSS stylesheet which drives the tagless visual rendering of the document;• the rules for associating an XML schema with the document which is needed for content completion and validationof the document;• transformation scenarios for the document;• XML catalogs;• custom actions available as buttons on the toolbar.The tagless editor comes with some ready to use predefined document types for XML frameworks largely used todaylike DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML.General Author PresentationA content author edits the content of XML documents in tagless mode disregarding the XML tags as they are not visiblein the editor. If he edits documents conforming to one of the predefined types he does not need to configure anythingas the predefined document types are already configured when the application is installed. Otherwise he must plug theconfiguration of the document type into the application. This is as easy as unzipping an archive directly in the[Oxygen-install-folder]/frameworks folder.In case the edited XML document does not belong to one of the document types set up in Preferences you can specifythe CSS stylesheets to be used by inserting an xml-stylesheet processing instructions. You can insert the processinginstruction by editing the document or by using theThe syntax of such a processing instruction is:Associate XSLT/CSS stylesheet action.You can read more about associating a CSS to a document in the section about customizing the CSS of a document type.When the document has no CSS association or the referred stylesheet files cannot be loaded, a default one is used. Awarning message is also displayed at the beginning of the document presenting the reason why the CSS cannot be loaded.Figure 38: Document with no CSS association default rendering