Spell Check Preferences

Oxygen XML Editor plugin provides support for spell checking in the Text and Author editing modes. To configure the Spell Check options, open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor ⇒ Spell Check.

The following options are available:

Automatic spell check

This option is disabled by default. When enabled, Oxygen XML Editor plugin automatically checks the spelling as you type and highlights misspelled words in the document.

• Select editors - You can select which editors (and therefore which file types) will be automatically spelled checked. File types (such as CSS and DTD), in which automatic spell checking is not usually helpful, are excluded by default.

Language options section

This section includes the following language options:

Default language

The default language list allows you to choose the language used by the spell check engine when the language is not specified in the source file. You can add additional dictionaries to the spell check engines.

Use "lang" and "xml:lang" attributes

When this option is selected, the contents of an element with one of the lang or xml:lang attributes is checked in that language. Choose between the following two options for instances when these attributes are missing:

• Use the default language - If the lang and xml:lang attributes are missing, the selection in the Default language list is used.
• Do not check - If the lang and xml:lang attributes are missing, the element is not checked.

XML spell checking in section

You can choose to check the spelling inside the following XML items:

• Comments
• Attribute values
• Text
• CDATA

Options section

This section includes the following other options:

Check capitalization

When selected, the spell checker reports capitalization errors (for example, a word that starts with lowercase after etc. or i.e.).

Check punctuation

When selected, the spell checker checks punctuation. Misplaced white space and unusual sequences, such as a period following a comma, are highlighted as errors.

Ignore mixed case words

When selected, the spell checker does not check words containing mixed case characters (for example, SpellChecker).

Ignore acronyms

Available only for the Hunspell spell checker. When selected, acronyms are not reported as errors.

Ignore words with digits

When selected, the spell checker does not check words containing digits (for example, b2b).

Ignore duplicates

When selected, the spell checker does not signal two successive identical words as an error.

Ignore URL

When selected, the spell checker ignores words recognized as URLs or file names (for example, www.oxygenxml.com or c:\boot.ini).

Allow compounds words

When selected, all words formed by concatenating two legal words with a hyphen (hyphenated compounds) are accepted. If recognized by the language, two words concatenated without hyphen (closed compounds) are also accepted.

Allow file extensions

When selected, the spell checker accepts any word ending with recognized file extensions (for example, myfile.txt or index.html).

Ignore elements section

You can use the Add and Remove buttons to configure a list of element names or XPath expressions to be ignored by the spell checker. The following restricted set of XPath expressions are supported:

• '/' and '//' separators
• '*' wildcard

An example of an allowed XPath expression is: /a/*/b.

AutoCorrect options link

Use this link to navigate to the AutoCorrect preferences page.

To change the color used by the spell check engine to highlight spelling errors, go to Window (Eclipse on Mac OSX) and choose Preferences. Then go to General ⇒ Editors ⇒ Text Editors ⇒ Annotations and change the color in the Spell Check Annotation option.