XMLmind XML Editor v5 Primer
The FileFolder submenu is hidden by default. You
need to enable it by checking "Enable the 'File|Folder' Submenu" in
OptionsPreferences,
Features section. The
FileDocument Set submenu is
hidden by default. You need to enable it by checking "Enable the
'File|Document Set' Submenu" in OptionsPreferences, Features
section.XMLmind XML Editor v5 aims to be a good tool for authoring highly modular documents: DITA maps, today's DocBook modular books and tomorrow's DocBook 5.1 assemblies, Web sites comprising a large number of XHTML pages, etc.
In order to attain this goal, we have added 3 new interactive tools to XXE:
- The "Browse Files" tool
- This tool is similar to the file manager applications which are
native to all operating systems: Windows Explorer, Mac OS X
Finder, Linux/KDE Nautilus, etc. The main advantages of
using one or more "Browse Files" tools over the native
counterparts are:
- Tightly integrated in XMLmind XML Editor.
- Does not use much screen real estate.
- Makes use of all XXE plug-ins. For example, if you install the "JEuclid image toolkit plug-in" add-on, you'll be able to preview MathML equations.
- Last but not least, if you install the "WebDAV virtual drive plug-in" add-on and/or the "FTP virtual drive plug-in" add-on, you'll be able to manage files stored on all sorts of remote servers.
- The "Search Files" tool
- This tool allows to search files by their names (e.g.
"foo*.dita*") and/or by their XML contents.
A simple query such as "Hello world!" (without the quotes) means: find all XML files containing an element whose direct textual content contains substring "hello world!" (case-insensitive).
The "Search Files" tool is not limited to simple text searches. You can use it to perform more elaborate searches. For example: find all documents containing an element whose id attribute starts with "topic". The corresponding query is: "@id =~ ^topic" (without the quotes). Fortunately, you don't need to learn the syntax of “advanced queries”. Suffice to click on the
"Create or edit an
advanced query" button to display a query editor dialog
box. - The "Document Set" tool
- The "Document Set" tool is a convenient, interactive, navigational
tool, generally looking like a Table of Contents. However the
most important part of its job is done behind the scene, because
opening a document
set in XXE automatically modifies the behavior of the
Validity tool and the
Attributes tool:
- The diagnostics issued by the Validity tool about cross-reference errors will take into account the fact that the document being checked is a member of a set.
- The target of a link is almost always specified as an attribute value (XHTML example: the href attribute of the a element). That's why the Attributes tool, through its auto-completion feature, will suggest, not only link targets found within the document being edited, but also link targets found in the other members of the set.
