Documentation of XMLmind XML Editor

The Home Page of XMLmind XML Editor (XXE for short) is xmlmind.com/xmleditor/.

The history of changes is found in xmlmind.com/xmleditor/changes.html.

A comprehensive tutorial is found in xmlmind.com/xmleditor/tutorial.html.

The icon signals the documentation of an add-on. If you need the functions described in the document, then you may have to install the corresponding add-on. This is done using menu item "Options|Install Add-ons".

Documentation for the end user

Reference

XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help: This online help contains, in addition to a minimal tutorial, the reference manual of all the menus, tool bars and dialog boxes of XMLmind XML Editor (XXE for short). [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - DITA Support: This document describes the commands which are specific to DITA topics and maps. [ EPUB 3.0] [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - DocBook Support: This document describes the commands which are specific to DocBook v4 and v5. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of DocBook 5.1+ Assemblies: This document describes the commands which are specific to DocBook 5.1+ assemblies . [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - XHTML Support: This document describes the commands which are specific to XHTML. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of MathML 2.0: This document describes everything you need to know to add equations to your XML documents. [ PDF]
The xxeconvert command-line utility: This document is the reference manual of the xxeconvert command-line utility. This tool is based on the XMLmind XML Editor desktop application, but without a graphical user interface (GUI). It can be used to convert XML documents to other formats (HTML, PDF, RTF, etc) from within a script or a makefile.
This utility, like all the other command-line utilities, is found in XXE_install_dir/bin/. [ PDF]
Quick reference cards: Quick reference cards in PDF format: A4, Letter, Mac/A4, Mac/Letter. (Everything needed to generate these quick reference cards is found here.)

User guides

XMLmind XML Editor - Easy Profiling: The "Easy Profiling" add-on makes it convenient and easy working with conditional processing profiles in XMLmind XML Editor. This document explains how to use the facilities added by this add-on to XXE. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Creating an Ebook out of a Set of HTML Pages: This document explains how you can use XXE to turn a set of HTML pages into a self-contained ebook (EPUB , Web Help, PDF, DOCX, etc). This ebook could be a novel or a large, complex, reference manual. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Creating a TEI Lite Document: This document explains how you can use XXE to create and modify TEI Lite documents. This user guide assumes that you know TEI and XML, but that you don't not know anything about XXE. [ EPUB] [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Bidirectional Script Support: This document explains how to use XXE as effectively as possible in order to create documents mixing right-to-left (RTL; like Arabic and Hebrew) and left-to-right (LTR; like English and French) scripts. [ PDF]

Documentation for the XML consultant

XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment: This document describes how to customize and deploy XXE. [ Web Help containing HTML 5] [ EPUB 2.0] [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Commands: This documents contains the reference of all native XXE commands and explains how to write custom macro-commands. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of XPath 1.0: XPath 1.0 is used everywhere in XXE: to configure the editor, to script commands and even in CSS stylesheets. This document contains the reference for all the XPath 1.0 extension functions supported by XXE.
This document also contains the reference for XED, a very small, very simple scripting language based on XPath 1.0. Because XED allows to modify in place the document being edited, it can be used to script advanced macro-commands. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of Cascading Style Sheets (W3C CSS): This document describes the subset of CSS2 supported by XXE, as well as advanced “proprietary extensions” needed to style complex XML documents. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Customizing the User Interface: This document describes how to customize the user interface of XXE by writing a GUI specification (.xxe_gui XML files) and by deploying it. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of RELAX NG Schemas: This document describes how RELAX NG schemas are supported by XMLmind XML Editor. [ PDF]
The xmltool command-line utility: This document is the reference manual of the xmltool command-line utility. The xmltool command-line utility can be used to validate and pretty-print (i.e. indent) XML documents and also to automatically generate a reference manual in HTML format for a schema.
This utility, like all the other command-line utilities, is found in XXE_install_dir/bin/. [ PDF]
Translating the messages of XMLmind XML Editor: This document explains how to translate the messages (menu labels, button labels, error messages, etc) of XXE using XXE itself. [ PDF]

Documentation for the Java™ programmer

Note that the dev/ and api/directories are initially empty. You need to download xxe-devdocs-* from www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/developer.shtml and unzip the downloaded archive in the directory where you have installed XXE (e.g. C:\Program Files\XMLmind_XML_Editor\) in order to populate these directories.

XMLmind XML Editor - Developer's Guide: XXE can be customized/extended substantially without having to write a single line of code. However there are some cases where programming against the Java™ API of XXE becomes inevitable. This document covers all the extension points of XXE, from writing commands to extending the GUI of XXE. For experienced Java™ programmers only. [ PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor Java™ API: Documentation generated using Javadoc™.

Useful links

DocBook: The Definitive Guide by Norman Walsh and Leonard Muellner.
DocBook 5.0: The Definitive Guide by Norman Walsh. DocBook V5.0 The Transition Guide by Jirka Kosek & al.
DocBook 5.1: The Definitive Guide by Norman Walsh. DocBook 5.2: The Definitive Guide by Norman Walsh.
Tutorial: DocBook Assemblies and Topics for the Impatient.
DocBook XSL Stylesheet Reference Documentation by Norman Walsh. DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide by Bob Stayton.
HTML 4.01. XHTML 1.0. HTML Living Standard (AKA HTML5).
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 Part 2: Technical Content Edition (OASIS specification).
Tutorial: DITA for the Impatient.
DITA Open Toolkit, the de facto reference implementation of DITA.
XMLmind DITA Converter, the alternative to the DITA Open Toolkit which is integrated in XXE.
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (W3C recommendation).
Tutorial: MathML Presentation Markup for the Impatient.

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