The G2 on Oxygen XML Editor

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)

Validated Reviewer

Verified Current User

Review source: G2 invite

Incentivized Review

10/5/2023

"Efficient and feature extensive"

What do you like best about Oxygen XML Editor?

Best part about the editor is the ability to leverage xslt transformation, something unavailable on a lot of other existing editors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oxygen XML Editor?

Clunky UI which can definitely be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oxygen XML Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Schema validation and xslt transformation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)

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Review source: Organic

8/8/2023

"OXYGEN XML AUTHOR REVIEW"

What do you like best about Oxygen XML Editor?

It has so many usefull functions, can be customized to your liking (both visually and functionally). I love that the tool enables me to do so much more than other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oxygen XML Editor?

Apart from the search/replace function not working properly sometimes, there is nothing that comes to my mind really. Personally, I think the tool is really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oxygen XML Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Enables us to effectively create new content for our manuals. The tool is intuitive, simple and use and abundant in features that make our wok easier. Our work would be a lot harder without oxygen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Parul M.

Senior Technical Writer

Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

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Verified Current User

Review source: Organic

8/25/2022

"Oxygen XML Editor is Powerful Tool for Technical Writers"

What do you like best about Oxygen XML Editor?

It's ability to convert a document into multiple outputs with just a click.

The tool is DITA based to gives the ease of working along with xml.

Gives easy collaboration features.

The editor has three views: text, grid, and author. The text view seems to be the most helpful for showing where you are within the file as it highlights your position in blue and shows the overall structure of the XML file. The author view displays the individual tags well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oxygen XML Editor?

Of the three working views for the editor (text, grid, and author), I did not see much use for the grid view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oxygen XML Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving the issue of writing documents again and again. Documents made in oxygen are woven up using small topics. These topics cam be independently used n number of times in n number of documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Priyanka U.

Senior Lead Technical Writer

Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)

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Verified Current User

Review source: Organic

3/31/2022

"Oxygen XML Editor: a wonderful tool for structured Help"

What do you like best about Oxygen XML Editor?

Oxygen has plenty of beautiful features. To name a few:

It is XML-based, so easy and precise code troubleshooting.

It has substantial editable output format options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oxygen XML Editor?

Oxygen has some disliked features:

There isn't any help available on the internet.

The dropdown list of individual featured tabs is long and complex.

The interface categorizing projects and files is not modern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oxygen XML Editor:

Oxygen XML Editor brings with itself excellent features but it also lags due to some of the challenges.

If you are someone who is looking at cost-effectiveness and ease of use, the Oxygen XML editor is the one. With its extensive features and ability to hold multiple projects under one product, it also offers a huge list of the possible output format. It also works towards satisfying your bent towards XML editing: this one makes troubleshooting way easy.

On the other hand, if you are looking at cloud enablement, feel free to explore other tools in the documentation market. Also, for DX writers, Oxygen XML editor may not be the one as you will have to dig and design the unstructured content all by yourself.

Automation is one big functionality where the tool scores none.

So before going in for the purchase step, I recommend one can evaluate the tool as the trial version and explore it.

TIP: You can go for multiple evaluation copies using unique email addresses to buy the time you might need to explore it completely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oxygen XML Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being a technical writer, I have worked with Framemaker, Oxygen XML editor has solved problems like:

Cost-effectiveness

Handling extensive projects parallelly.

Multiple output formats and collaboration with shell commander. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dhaval K.

Software Engineer

Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)

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Review source: G2 invite

Incentivized Review

5/31/2022

"Workday Integration Consultant"

What do you like best about Oxygen XML Editor?

It's very easy and user friendly. I am u Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oxygen XML Editor?

As far as I don't think so I ever felt any drawbacks. Even though I'm nontechnical background but still found it easy to use with my requirements and change settings. One thing I can mention is that, after opening the XML file, I need to do indents but it should be default as it's XML file and if one XML tag has a long string then it automatically inserts enter and splits long string into a multiline string which impacts on XSLT transformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oxygen XML Editor:

Nothing, just it's fantastic and makes life easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oxygen XML Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's very user-friendly and easy. I am using it for the last 5 years. Software is provided by my client but I always choose Oxygen only. Even though I used XML Spy editor, Ultra editor etc but I felt Oxygen is best. It gives suggestions, Auto XPath generator. Additionally, we get other software like compare files etc. I am using it to write XSLT, Identify XPaths and also sometimes XML. It can also easily open XML File. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jean K.

Solution Architect, Publishing Platform Backend Systems

Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)

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Review source: Organic

9/24/2022

"Oxygen XML Editor and Oxygen XML Web Author"

What do you like best about Oxygen XML Editor?

It's the industry standard for writing structured XML content and supports most, if not all, of the major XML authoring specifications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oxygen XML Editor?

Oxygen XML Web Author and Desktop don't have 100% feature parity and there is little documentation to say what's missing from OWA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oxygen XML Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consolidating authoring tools for multiple business lines while continuing to support specific content models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vishnu H.

Senior Technical Writer

Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)

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Review source: G2 invite

Incentivized Review

3/18/2022

"Better than ATX (arbortext edited)"

What do you like best about Oxygen XML Editor?

It's more easy to use the elements as it appears as we right and easily customisable. Lots of add-on possibilities. Cms integration is great. Compared to arbortext epic editor it is much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oxygen XML Editor?

Even after decade the ai to identify contents from cms is not included. Still lots of automation can be done. And printing out an output is a headache. Can also add previews using DTD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oxygen XML Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reusing of the existing topics significantly helps to reduce lot of time and space. Book maling made easier and updating to multiple contents are so much easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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