Content Completion Preferences

Oxygen XML Author plugin provides a Content Completion Assistant that provides a list of available options at any point in a document and can auto-complete structures, elements, and attributes. To configure the Content Completion preferences, open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor ⇒ Content Completion. These options control how the Content Completion Assistant works.

The following options are available:

Auto close the last opened tag

When enabled, Oxygen XML Author plugin automatically closes the last open tag when you type </.

Automatically rename/delete/comment matching tags

If you rename, delete, or comment out a start tag, Oxygen XML Author plugin automatically renames, deletes, or comments out the matching end tag.

Note

If you select Toggle comment for multiple starting tags and the matching end tags are on the same line as other start tags, the end tags are not commented.

Enable content completion

Toggles the content completion feature on or off.

Close the inserted element

When you choose an entry from the Content Completion Assistant list of proposals, Oxygen XML Author plugin inserts both start and end tags. The following additional options are available in regards to closing the element:

• If it has no matching tag - The end tag of the inserted element is automatically added only if it is not already present in the document.
• Add element content - Oxygen XML Author plugin inserts the required elements specified in the DTD, XML Schema, or RELAX NG schema that is associated with the edited XML document.
  • Add optional content - If enabled, Oxygen XML Author plugin inserts the optional elements specified in the DTD, XML Schema, or RELAX NG schema.
  • Add first Choice particle - If enabled, Oxygen XML Author plugin inserts the first choice particle specified in the DTD, XML Schema, or RELAX NG schema.

Case sensitive search

When enabled, the search in the Content Completion Assistant is case-sensitive when you type a character ('a' and 'A' are different characters).

Note

This option is ignored when the current language itself is not case sensitive. For example, the case is ignored in the CSS language.

Position cursor between tags

When enabled, Oxygen XML Author plugin automatically moves the cursor between the start and end tag after inserting the element. This only applies to:

• Elements with only optional attributes or no attributes at all.
• Elements with required attributes, but only when the Insert the required attributes option is disabled.

Show all entities

Oxygen XML Author plugin displays a list with all the internal and external entities declared in the current document when you type the start character of an entity reference (for example, &).

Insert the required attributes

Oxygen XML Author plugin inserts automatically the required attributes taken from the DTD or XML Schema.

Insert the fixed attributes

If enabled, Oxygen XML Author plugin automatically inserts any FIXED attributes from the DTD or XML Schema for an element inserted with the help of the Content Completion Assistant.

Show recently used items

When enabled, Oxygen XML Author plugin remembers the last inserted items from the Content Completion Assistant window. The number of items to be remembered is limited by the Maximum number of recent items shown list box. These most frequently used items are displayed on the top of the content completion window and their icons are decorated with a small red square..

Maximum number of recent items shown

Specifies the limit for the number of recently used items presented at the top of the Content Completion Assistant window.

Learn attributes values

When enabled, Oxygen XML Author plugin learns the attribute values used in a document.

Learn on open document

Oxygen XML Author plugin automatically learns the document structure when the document is opened.

Learn words (Dynamic Abbreviations, available on CTRL-SPACE (COMMAND-SPACE on OS X))

When enabled, Oxygen XML Author plugin learns the typed words and makes them available in a content completion fashion by pressing Ctrl + Space (Command + Space on OS X) on your keyboard;

Note

In order to be learned, the words need to be separated by space characters.

Activation delay of the proposals window (ms)

Delay in milliseconds from last key press until the Content Completion Assistant is displayed.