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• Desktop application w2x-app has now a setup assistant (AKA “wizard” style dialog box) making it quick and easy creating w2x option files.

  This new setup assistant has a screen which may be used to map MS-Word character and paragraph styles (e.g. p-CodeSample) to XML elements possibly having attributes (e.g. DITA pre outputclass="code-sample").

• New “semantic” output formats:
  • Multi-page “semantic” XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.1, XHTML 5;
  • Web Help containing “semantic” XHTML 1.0 Strict XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.1, XHTML 5;
  • EPUB 2 containing “semantic” XHTML 1.1.
• MS-Word math (that is, OpenXML math) is now automatically converted to MathML.

XMLmind is happy to announce three new products: XMLmind DITA Editor, XMLmind DocBook Editor, XMLmind XHTML Editor. These products are attractively priced, “special editions” of XMLmind XML Editor. Because they focus on a single class of documents, these specialized editors are slightly faster and simpler to use than XMLmind XML Editor. More information in "Which editor to choose?".

A Personal License is now available for XMLmind XML Editor, XMLmind DITA Editor, XMLmind DocBook Editor and XMLmind XHTML Editor. This makes our four editors free to use by many persons and organizations. More information in "Which license to choose?".

The Personal Editions of XMLmind XML Editor, XMLmind DITA Editor, XMLmind DocBook Editor and XMLmind XHTML Editor may be freely downloaded from this page.

This new version also has substantial enhancements and a number of bug fixes. All these enhancements aim to make our XML editors simpler and more straightforward to use.

• Major overhaul of the "Edit source" add-on (installed by default).
• Replaced menu item "Tools|Open Navigation Pane" by checkbox "Tools|Use as Master Document".
• New "View|Multiple Views" submenu.
• Made option "Automatically reopen last opened documents" much more useful.

• XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server: updated several software components Apache FOP 2.1, DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.79.1, XMLmind DITA Converter v2.6, etc.

  Latest version of XMLmind DITA Converter adds partial DITA 1.3 support to XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server. Full DITA 1.3 support is planned for year 2016. More information in "About DITA support in XMLmind DITA Converter".

• XMLmind XSL-FO Converter engine: better support of East Asian (CJK) fonts. See "Special support for East Asian fonts".

• Partial DITA 1.3 support. (Full DITA 1.3 support is planned for year 2016.) More information in "XMLmind XML Editor - DITA Support".
• Enhanced "DocBook v5.1 configuration (Release Candidate)" add-on.
• Improved XInclude 1.1 support in DocBook v5 and v5.1 configurations.
• Drag&drop of document tabs and tool tabs.

In order to generate these new formats, we need to automatically split the source DOCX document into parts. A new part is created each time a paragraph having an outline level less than or equal to specified split-before-level parameter is found in the source. An outline level is an integer between 0 (e.g. style Heading 1) and 8 (e.g. style Heading 9). The default value of parameter split-before-level is 0, which means: for each Heading 1, create a new page starting with this Heading 1.

New free online conversion services: Convert DOCX to Multi-page Styled HTML, Convert DOCX to Web Help, Convert DOCX to EPUB.

• New "Options|Customize Configuration|Customize CSS Stylesheet" menu item may be selected to quickly and easily customize the CSS stylesheet used to render an XML document on screen. The dialog box displayed by this new menu item has an "Add Style for Selected Element" button which does not require the user to know CSS in order to customize the style of the element being selected.
• Many other enhancements, most of them related to XHTML support and to the "Easy Profiling" add-on.

• New implementation of XMLmind XSL-FO Converter for .NET no longer requires installing Microsoft Visual J#® 2.0 Redistributable Package. It just requires a .NET 4.0+ framework on Windows or Mono 3.8+ on Linux.
• XMLmind XSL Utility and controlapp (desktop application allowing to easily configure and control XMLmind XSL server) now works fine on computers having very high resolution (HiDPI) screens.
• XMLmind XSL Utility is now available as a Mac OS X native .dmg distribution including a private Java™ 1.8.0_66 runtime.

• Text runs aligned on tab stops are now processed when generating XHTML+CSS and optionally, also when generating “semantic” XML.
• DOCX files using the "Strict Open XML Document" format are now supported.
• Desktop application w2x-app now works fine on computers having very high resolution (HiDPI) screens.

If your computer has a HiDPI screen or more simply if you use XXE on the Mac, it is strongly recommended to upgrade to version 6.5.

• XXE now works fine on computers having very high resolution (HiDPI) screens. For example, it now works fine on a Mac having a Retina® screen and a Windows computer having an UHD (“4K”) screen.

  On a Linux computer having a HiDPI screen, HiDPI is not automatically detected. You'll have to use the new "Display scaling" controls found in the General section of the Preferences dialog box. These controls may be used to change the size of all the items comprising the user interface of XXE. This new facility may be useful even if you don't have a HiDPI screen.

• XXE is now officially supported on Windows 10 and on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).

• Better support for the revisions of a document:
  • New option "Tools|Revisions|Store All Revisions in the Document" allows to store all the revisions of a document in the XML file containing this document.
  • New menu item "Tools|Revisions|Open Revision" displays a dialog box listing all the revisions of a document for which option "Store All Revisions in the Document" has been turned on. This dialog box allows to select one or more revisions in order to open or compare these revisions.
  • The Compare tool made more convenient to use.

  Tutorial Reviewing changes using the Compare tool has been updated in order to show a typical use case for these new facilities.

• Updated several software components used to implement add-ons.
• A few bug fixes.

• It's now possible to add a watermark to the pages generated by XFC.
• WML format only: identical images are no longer duplicated in the generated file.
• Updated important software components (FOP, Batik, ditac, etc) in XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server.
• Bug fixes.

• It's now possible to add a watermark (e.g. "DRAFT", "CONFIDENTIAL") to a document generated by ditac.
• Completed the implementation of DITAVAL feature <revprop changebar="change bar styles"/>. Documented the implementation in "Flagging contents", a new section of the manual.

You can test it right away by using our free online DOCX conversion service.

• Preliminary support for DocBook 5.1, which introduces new topic and assembly elements.

  This support is packaged as a new add-on called "DocBook v5.1 configuration (Release Candidate)". This add-on is not included by default in XXE distributions. If you want to experiment with DocBook 5.1 assemblies and topics, please use menu item "Options|Install Add-ons" and select the add-on in order to download and install it.

  New resources related to DocBook 5.1:

  • New tutorial: DocBook Assemblies and Topics for the Impatient.
  • New documentation: XMLmind XML Editor - Support of DocBook 5.1 Assemblies.
  • New open source software: XMLmind Assembly Processor.
• Upgraded Apache Batik (SVG support) to version 1.8. Upgraded Apache FOP (PDF generator) to version 2.0.
• Several other enhancements (e.g. menu item "DocBook|Convert to Module") and a few bug fixes.

• New graphical application w2x-app.
• New "Word To XML" add-on for XMLmind XML Editor. This add-on adds an "Import DOCX" item to the File menu.

• XHTML, DITA, DocBook configurations: using toolbar button "Add table" to insert a table in the document now displays a dialog box allowing to quickly specify the number of rows and the number of columns of the new table.
• Major upgrade of the "Easy Profiling" add-on (v2.0; installed by default). This new version greatly improves the usability of the add-on and truly makes it easy implementing conditional processing (also called profiling) in your DITA or DocBook documents.

  A tutorial on the "Easy Profiling" add-on, including a screencast, is found in Conditional processing made easy.