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Michele,

You can triple click an element to select its contents.� I'm not really sure about the other features you have described since I haven't used XMetaL, but oXygen is only $70 for the academic license.� The enterprise edition is $450, so it certainly doesn't lack features (most of which I never use).�

Ethan

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
OK, this is a stupid question I'm sure, but I can't seem to figure it out.

In XMetaL, when I'm in the "Tags On" view, if I hit the "Enter" key the current element splits right where my cursor is. �This is handy when you're entering several paragraphs, or when you want a new <subject> element, etc. �Also in this view, if I click on the opening tag, it automatically selects the entire element and all its contents. �There are a few other things that are pretty easy to do in this view, in which the elements are treated as indivisible units.

Is there an analogous view in oxygen? �So far as I can discover, Oxygen appears to always treat all the tags as just text strings -- it allows me to add a return in the middle of an element name, for example, and selecting an entire element requires a right-click > menu choice rather than a single click on the opening tag. �(Basically it's analogous to XMetaL's "Plain Text" view.)

Of course Oxygen is $70 and XMetaL is something like $600, so maybe that's my answer...

Thanks --

Michele

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