XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment

XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment

Hussein Shafie

XMLmind Software

35 rue Louis Leblanc,
78120 Rambouillet,
France,
Phone: +33 (0)9 52 80 80 37,
Web: www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor
Email: <xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com> (public mailing list)

October 8, 2025

Abstract

This document describes how to customize and deploy XXE.

Table of Contents

I. Configuration guide

1. Introduction

2. Writing a configuration file for XXE

1. What is a configuration?

2. A configuration for the "Simple Section" document type.

3. Before writing your first configuration

4. Anatomy of a configuration file

5. Specifying which configuration to use for a given document type

6. Associating a schema to the opened document

7. XML catalogs

8. Document templates

9. CSS stylesheets

9.1. Styling images
9.2. Styling tables

10. A specific tool bar

10.1. Text style toggles

11. Element templates

12. A specific menu

12.1. About the table editing command

13. Specific keyboard shortcuts

13.1. About macro commands

14. Interactively resizing an image

15. Miscellaneous configuration elements

16. Converting an XML document to other formats

16.1. About process commands

17. Packaging your configuration for XXE add-on manager

3. Using HTML4 tables or CALS tables in your own custom schema

1. HTML4 tables

1.1. HTML4 table editor command

2. CALS tables

2.1. CALS table editor command

4. Customizing mouse and key bindings used by XXE

1. Bindings specific to a document type
2. Generic bindings

5. Customizing an existing configuration

1. Adding a custom document template
2. Replacing an existing document template
3. Removing an existing document template
4. Adding a custom CSS style sheet
5. Replacing an existing CSS style sheet
6. Removing an existing CSS style sheet
7. Adding buttons to the tool bar
8. Adding items to the menu
9. Parametrizing the XSLT style sheets used in the Convert Document submenu
10. Customizing the XSLT style sheets used in the Convert Document submenu
11. Using a custom CSS style sheet to style the HTML files generated by the Convert Document submenu

II. Configuration reference

6. Configuration elements

1. attributeEditor

2. attributeVisibility

4.1. About command names

5. configuration

9. directionalityFinder

9.1. HTMLDirectionalityFinder, a configurable implementation of DirectionalityFinder

10. documentResources

11. documentSetFactory

11.1. Bean properties

12. elementTemplate

12.1. Adding empty text nodes to your element templates
12.2. Specificities of selectable="override"

13. elementVisibility

15. imageToolkit

16. include

17. inclusionScheme

18. linkType

18.1. Using linkType to implement link navigation
18.2. Using linkType to implement link validation
18.3. Using linkType to define custom, specialized, attribute editors

19.1. Customizing a menu or a toolBar without redefining it from scratch
19.2. Multiple menus

20. newElementContent

21. nodePathAttributes

22. property

23. parameterGroup

24. preserveSpace

25. relaxng

26. saveOptions

28. schematron

28.1. Relationship between schematron and validateHook

29. spellCheckOptions

30. template

31. toolBar

31.1. Custom controls

31.1.1. The TextStyleMenu custom control
31.1.2. The TextStyleToggle custom control
31.1.3. The ListTypeMenu custom control

31.2. Multiple tool bars

31.3. Adding configuration specific tool bar buttons to the XXE GUI

31.3.1. How does it work?
31.3.2. Why specify div and span elements in a toolBar configuration element?

32. translation

33. validate

34. validateHook

35. viewSettings

36. Custom configuration elements

A. A simple preprocessor for .xxe configuration files and .xxe_gui GUI specification files

III. Deploying XXE

7. The XXE desktop application

1. Dynamic discovery of add-ons

1.1. Additional or alternative addon/ directories

List of Figures

2.1. The "Simple Section" tool bar
2.2. The "Simple Section" menu
2.3. Resize handles around an image
6.1. Ribbon of the XXE desktop application when no document is being edited
6.2. Ribbon of the XXE desktop application when a DITA map is being edited

List of Tables

6.1. Properties of the XInclude scheme
6.2. TextStyleMenu properties
6.3. TextStyleToggle properties

List of Examples

6.1. DocBook 4 example
6.2. Dynamic element template
6.3. Convert EPS and PDF to PNG using Ghostscript
6.4. Convert WMF and EMF pictures to SVG or PNG using Inkscape
6.5. Simplest TextStyleMenu custom control
6.6. Customizable TextStyleMenu custom control
6.7. Simplest TextStyleToggle custom control
6.8. “Active” TextStyleToggle custom control
6.9. “Active” TextStyleToggle custom control showing a label in addition to an icon
6.10. Simplest ListTypeMenu; may be used in the DITA Topic configuration
6.11. DocBook 5 ListTypeMenu
6.12. XHTML 1.0 Strict ListTypeMenu; most complex specification because the type of the list must be specified using a CSS style


		Part I. Configuration guide