| 3.8 (April 4, 2008)XMLmind XML Editor Professional Edition now natively supports MathML 2 presentation
markup. MathML support is packaged as an add-on which: - allows to create standalone MathML documents,
- tightly integrates MathML with DocBook 5.
Native support means that MathML elements are treated like any other
element. That is, XMLmind XML Editor does not embed a specialized
math editor. On the contrary, all commands, all kinds of selection, work
fine with MathML elements. However, using the generic commands requires
you to learn MathML. If you don't want to do that, for example, because
you just want to type a couple of equations, then simply use the new
MathML tool which is installed by the add-on just below the
Edit tool, at the top/right of the main window. More information in "XMLmind XML Editor - Support of
MathML 2". Other enhancements: - Added menu View|Text Size. The items of this menu make
it easy changing the base font size of the active
styled document view. Moreover, using the mouse wheel while
pressing Ctrl (Cmd on the Mac) is a handy alternative
to selecting an item in the Text Size menu.
Using this menu or
the mouse wheel is almost unavoidable when editing MathML equations
because, in such case, font sizes (e.g. subscripts) tend to become very
small. Do not attempt to use this facility in the general case, when
editing medium to large documents, you'll find it slow to the point of
being unusable. - Made command insertCharByName more flexible and clarified
its documentation.
- Added a number of elements to
cfg:spellCheckOptions/@skippedElements in both DocBook 4 and
DocBook 5 configurations. This attribute is used to specify which
elements should automatically be skipped by the spell checker.
- Added an url attribute to the parameter
configuration element. Example of use:
<parameterGroup name="docb.toPS.FOPParameters">
<parameter name="configuration" url="true">fop.xconf</parameter>
</parameterGroup> - Upgraded the XMLmind
FO Converter plug-in to version 4.2p1.
- Upgraded the JEuclid
image toolkit plug-in to version 3.0.3.
Bug fixes: - Find next element having an attribute containing "foo" was
translated by the "Find Element" dialog box to:
(descendant::*|following::*)[contains(@*,'bar')][1] when
it should have been translated to: (descendant::*|following::*)[./@*[contains(.,'bar')]][1] - On Windows 2000/XP, the user preferences directory is supposed to be
"%APPDATA%\XMLmind\XMLEditor\". In fact, it is always
"%SystemDrive%\Documents and
Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\XMLmind\XMLEditor\".
The bug is that, for example, "Application Data" is called
"Datos de programma" on a Spanish machine.
This bug cannot be
easily fixed in XXE v3.x. It will be fixed in XXE v4. - XML-style empty elements (e.g. <img src=foo.gif"/>)
caused the JavadocTM format plug-in to fail to load the
".java" file.
Possible incompatibilities: - XMLmind XML Editor is no longer officially supported on
JavaTM 1.4. Note that v3.8 still runs using a
JavaTM runtime 1.4.1+. But this will no longer be the case of
v4 (scheduled for this summer).
3.7.1 (January 18, 2008)Enhancements: - Now, if for example, you want to replace "editor" by
"modeller", "Editor" by "Modeller" and
"EDITOR" by "MODELLER", simply use the
Search/Replace tool, specify both "editor" and
"modeller" in lower-case and make sure to check the "Ignore
Case" checkbox.
- The Search/Replace tool now has a "Wrap search"
checkbox. Turning on this option allows to restart the search from the
beginning of the document when the end of the document has been
reached.
- The Spell tool now has a "Start from caret" checkbox.
Turning on this option allows to start spell-checking from the current
caret position rather than from the beginning of the document.
- Starting from the version which will follow this one, when you'll
upgrade XXE and start the newly installed copy, XXE will suggest to also
upgrade the add-ons. Clicking OK will automatically upgrade all
the add-ons that were installed before you upgraded XXE. That is, this
includes the add-ons previously installed in the
XXE_install_dir/addons/ directory that were deleted when you
uninstalled your old version of XXE.
This facility also works in
v3.7.1, but less optimally, because it will not upgrade the add-ons that
were installed in XXE_install_dir/addons/, but only the add-ons
installed in XXE_user_preferences_dir/addons/. Note that
you can automatically upgrade all the add-ons at any time by holding the
Shift key and clicking on Options|Install
Add-ons. - Double-clicking on a ``collapser button'', whether in a styled view
or a tree view, is equivalent to right-clicking on this button and
selecting "Collapse All" (or "Expand All" depending on the
state of the button) from the popup menu.
- Unless option -online has been specified, the
deploywebstart command-line utility now inserts
<offline-allowed/> in the xxe.jnlp file it
generates.
- Upgraded the XMLmind
FO Converter plug-in to version 4.2.
- Upgraded the JEuclid
image toolkit plug-in to version 3.0.2.
- DITA add-on: upgraded the bundled copy of the DITA Open Toolkit to version
1.4.1. DITA Open Toolkit v1.4.1 requires a JavaTM
1.5 or newer runtime.
Bug fixes: - The behavior of XXE was not easy to understand when a user having no
write permissions on the XXE_install_dir/addon/ directory
attempted to install add-ons.
- Using a third-party application (Tools|Helper
Application) to edit a document opened in XXE changed the document
tab index and/or split screen position when the modified document needed
to be reopened in XXE. More generally, reopening a document already
opened in XXE no longer changes its tab index and/or split screen
position.
- Removed all the references to configuration.xsd found in
XXE configuration files (example:
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/configuration
../xxe_configuration_config/xsd/configuration.xsd"). Such
references made it impossible opening configuration files in XXE without
installing the add-on called "A configuration for specifying XMLmind XML
Editor configurations". Also removed all the references to
gui.xsd found .xxe_gui files.
- NTLM authentication uses an empty string as its prompt. This empty
prompt was not properly saved in the preferences file of the user.
- The convertdoc command-line utility didn't clearly report
that it cannot work with free Personal Edition.
- The -t custom_XSLT_style_sheet option of the
convertdoc command-line utility didn't have priority over the
profiling style sheets selected using Options|Customize
Configuration|Document Conversion Preferences, "Use the
profiling style sheets" check box.
- The background color of generated content objects such as
file-name-field, date-time-picker, etc, was not
correctly rendered.
- The "Slides configuration" add-on contained XSL style sheets
which were not consistent with the bundled DocBook XSL style
sheets.
- Pre-release versions of JavaTM such as
1.6.0_10-ea-b07 were not properly detected.
3.7.0 (November 15, 2007)Enhancements: - The DITA
add-on for XMLmind XML Editor now fully supports the DITA DTD 1.1. It
includes its own minimal copy of DITA Open Toolkit version
1.4. If you need this add-on, please install it using
Options|Install Add-ons.
- New Tools|Helper Application sub-menu. This menu
contains entries allowing to use third-party applications to view or
edit part or all of the document being edited. Examples:
- Use your web browser to open the page referenced in the
url attribute of the (DocBook 4) ulink
element.
- Use GIMP to edit the image
file referenced in the src attribute of the (XHTML)
img element.
- Use Inkscape to edit the
svg:svg element contained in an (DocBook 5)
imagedata element.
- Use your web browser to preview the XHTML document being
edited.
- Use your favorite text editor to perform some low-level
modifications on the XML document being edited.
- New date/time picker dialog box. This dialog box is used by
- the Attribute Tool when the type of the attribute
being edited derives from xs:dateTime, xs:date or
xs:time,
- the putAttribute and addAttribute commands in
similar circumstances,
- new form controls called date-time-picker,
date-picker, time-picker (see Content objects in
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of Cascading Style Sheets).
- Features which are not useful in the general case are now
hidden by default. Currently these features are:
- The Include tool.
- The integrated spreadsheet engine.
- Some developers tools (e.g. a menu item allowing to reload all
configurations without having to restart XXE).
If you need any of these features, simply use
Options|Preferences, Features section, check the
box corresponding to the feature and then restart XXE. - Added the ends-with and serialize XPath extension
functions. See Extension functions,
XPath functions in XMLmind XML Editor - Commands.
- Upgraded the DocBook 5 RELAX NG and Schematron schemas to latest
version V5.0CR7.
Bug fixes: - By dropping an image file onto a DocBook imagedata element
for example, and by selecting "Copy to" (instead of "Reference
as"), it was possible to attempt to copy an image file to itself.
Not only this caused a false image format error to be displayed in the
document view in lieu of the image, but worse, this emptied out the
image file.
- Added rules to the DocBook 5 CSS style sheet in order to style
elements related to EBNF (production, lhs, etc). Note
that support for html:* form elements is still missing from the
DocBook 5 CSS style sheet.
- The integrated spreadsheet engine is now automatically activated
when you paste any XML fragment containing one or more spreadsheet
formulas (i.e. <?xxe-formula...?> processing
instructions). Previously, you had to insert a formula by hand (using
Tools|Spreadsheet|Insert/Edit Formula or
Ctrl+Shift-I) in order to activate the integrated spreadsheet
engine.
- xsc.jar, the JavaTM archive containing the
XMLmind Spell Checker engine was digitally signed. This prevented easy
deployment using JavaTM Web Start.
- The convertdoc command line utility can now be used to
convert XML documents stored on remote server (e.g. WebDAV or FTP
servers). Its documentation describes
how to solve the user authentication problem.
Possible incompatibilities:
3.6.2 (September 7, 2007)Enhancements: - New overwrite mode: typing a character replaces the character found
at caret position by the typed character. If the caret is positioned at
the very end of a text (or comment or processing-instruction) node, then
typed characters are simply inserted there.
The shortcut associated to
the new INS/OVR button, found in the status bar, is by
default Esc Insert (press Esc, release
Esc, then press Insert). - XXE no longer requests a user to save a document when all the
changes made since last save time have been canceled (by repeatedly
invoking Undo).
- Added a tool-tip parameter to all types of buttons created
by CSS generated content. Example:
link:after {
content: set-attribute-button(attribute, linkend,
icon, icon(right),
tool-tip,
'Change the "linkend" attribute');
} - JavaTM developers: "XMLmind XML Editor - Developer's
Guide" (unbundled, part of xxe-devdocs-NNN.zip,
download it from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml)
now comes with a graphical wizard which should give you a quick start if
you want to create XXE extensions (command, document hook, image toolkit
plug-in, action, tool, etc). This wizard may be used to create Ant and/or Eclipse projects.
- Command insertCharByName allows to insert a character
specified using its entity name. When options [DocBook] or
[DocBookIfNone] were used, this command displayed a dialog box
listing the names of the character entities defined in the DocBook
4.2 DTD. Now this command uses the character entities defined
in the DocBook 4.4+ DTD, that is, the entities defined in XML Entity Declarations for
Characters.
- Made command insertCharByName more flexible to use when the
configuration associated to the document being edited is based on a
schema rather than on a DTD.
- A configuration for DocBook 5 (called "DocBook v5+") is now bundled
with XXE. Previously, the user had to use Options|Install
Add-ons to install the corresponding add-on.
If you have installed the now obsolete add-ons called "DocBook5
configuration" or "DocBook5+XInclude configuration", please use
Options|Install Add-ons to uninstall them. Failing to do so is harmless but will cause XXE to report
warnings about these obsolete configurations each time it is
started.
- Upgraded JavaHelp to
version 2.0_05.
- Upgraded XML
Commons Resolver to version 1.2.
- Upgraded the XMLmind
FO Converter plug-in to XFC v4.1. This version has a much improved
image support.
- Upgraded the Apache
FOP plug-in to version 0.94.
- Upgraded DocBook XSL style
sheets to version 1.73.1 (then applied patch 1.73.2).
Bug fixes: - When a ``large'' XML document was opened in XXE running on a
``slow'' machine and when the automatic spell checker was turned on,
moving the caret by keeping the left, right, down or up arrow pressed
was very slow.
- A Schematron rule such as:
<sch:assert diagnostics="mime-type"
test="document('mime-types.xml')/mime-types/mime-type[text()=current()]">
Unknown MIME type.
</sch:assert>didn't work because document() failed to
resolve the "mime-types.xml" URI against the URI of the file
containing the rule. Moreover, the documents loaded by
document() were not cached, which caused this function to be
nearly unusable by a Schematron. - An error such as this one:
<foo xmlns="http://www.acme.com/ns/foo"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.acme.com/ns/foo
not_found/foo.xsd">was not reported
by XXE when the configuration corresponding to the above class of
documents contained a schema configuration element similar to
the following one: <schema>
<location>http://www.acme.com/ns/foo foo.xsd</location>
</schema> - The generic, parametrizable, table editor command (used for example
to edit DITA simpletables) didn't use the row and cell element
templates marked (selectable="override") as being replacements
for the elements automatically generated by XXE.
- Options|Install Add-ons reported false "invalid
date element: Unparseable date YYYY-MM-DD" errors when
running on machines having exotic locales.
- W3C XML Schema: executing "xsdvalid -s foo.xsd -s bar.xsd"
caused xsdvalid to raise a NullPointerException. In
fact, its is not possible to specify several schemas using the
-s option. In such case, the -ss option must be used
instead.
Possible incompatibilities: - The non-breaking space character (nbsp = 160 =
0xa0 = 0240) is no longer automatically saved as
" " or as " ". If you liked this
feature and want to restore it, please do so using
Options|Preferences, Save section, Always save
these characters as entity references text field.
- Keyboard shortcut Esc Insert is now used to switch
between insert mode and overwrite mode.
- It is no longer possible to specify a dtd configuration
element in conjunction with schema or relaxng
configuration elements. Previously doing this allowed to specify an
implicit set of character entities. The problem was that
documents created this way by XXE cannot be parsed by other XML
processors.
- The "GenericInclusion" inclusion processor has been removed
from XMLmind XML Editor.
- Allowed the JavaTM runtime to use up to 512Mb of memory
(that is, specified -Xmx512m is xxe,xxe.bat,
xxe.jstart). This was needed because it seems that more and
more users tend to open in XXE large documents containing a lot of
images.
- The MathML add-on previously called "JEuclid MathML / ODF image
plug-in" and maintained by Max Berger is now called "JEuclid image
toolkit plug-in" and is maintained by XMLmind.
- The replacement for the obsolete add-on called "DocBook 5 + XInclude
configuration" works differently than in the preceding version of XXE
due to the fact that the configuration for DocBook 5 is now
bundled.
The new add-on, called "Customization of the DocBook 5
configuration allowing to edit <xi:include> elements by
hand", simply customizes the stock DocBook 5 configuration. Previously,
the add-on called "DocBook 5 configuration" and the add-on called
"DocBook 5 + XInclude configuration" were mutually exclusive. In a
nutshell, if you want to be able to edit xi:include elements by
hand like any ordinary element, then install this add-on. If after that,
you want to work normally (that is, you want xi:include
elements to be transcluded), then uninstall this add-on. - Even when this is needed, the XMLmind XSL-FO converter (XFC) plug-in
no longer scales the images contained in the RTF, WordprocessingML,
OpenDocument and Open XML files it generates. Instead, the XFC plug-in
embeds the original image in the output file along with instructions
specifying to MS-Word or OpenOffice.org how to scale it. This gives a
high-quality output (especially when the document is printed using the
word processor) at the expense of possibly large output files.
3.6.1 (June 21, 2007)Enhancements: - Professional Edition only: when you convert DocBook documents to
other formats, you'll often want to:
- generate XHTML rather than HTML,
- and/or use the profiling XSL stylesheets.
It is now very easy to specify these preferences: simply use
the dialog box displayed by menu item Options|Customize
Configuration|Document Conversion Preferences. This new
menu item is available when editing DocBook 4, DocBook 5 or Simplified
DocBook documents. - Upgraded the XMLmind
FO Converter plug-in to XFC v4.0.0_01. This allows Professional
Edition users to convert their XML documents to the Office
Open XML format, which is the native format of MS-Word 2007.
- Ctrl-Shift-A is the keyboard shortcut
used to display the history of repeatable commands. The dialog box
displayed by Edit|Command History is often used to
alternate between the last two executed commands.
Example: you want to
convert all XHTML b elements to strong elements. This
can be done by: - Using Esc g (Select|Find
Element) to find the b element following current
node.
- Using Ctrl-T strong
(Edit|Convert) to replace selected b element
by a strong element.
- Using Ctrl-Shift-A to repeat find and
convert commands as long as you find b elements.
The problem in step #3 was that selecting a command in the
history was not quick enough: you needed to use the arrow keys to select
the right command and then to press Enter. This problem
is now solved by automatically binding usable commands displayed by the
Command History dialog box to the F1, F2, ...,
F9 function keys. Therefore step #3 now merely consists in
pressing Ctrl-Shift-A F1,
Ctrl-Shift-A F2,
Ctrl-Shift-A F1,
Ctrl-Shift-A F2, etc. - Added "Find following current node (including descendants)"
and "Find preceding current node (including ancestors)" to the
Select|Find Element dialog box.
"Find following
current node" and "Find preceding current node" are still
available. However these search operations which strictly use the
following:: and preceding:: XPath axes often give
surprising results. - Keyboard shortcut Esc w (press and release Esc and
then type letter w) makes it easy pasting as paragraphs text
copied from external applications (Web browser, word processor, etc).
This new keyboard shortcut is available for all major document types:
DocBook, DocBook 5, DITA, XHTML, etc.
- Made the Include tool more convenient to use by allowing to
add, select and remove documents containing ``XML variables'' at any
time.
Previously, this had to be done after selecting one of the four
Edit|Reference operations (e.g.
Edit|Reference|Insert Reference) because otherwise
the buttons allowing to act on documents containing ``XML variables''
were grayed. - [User Request] Change in the semantics of XPath variables (used to
write macros): $selected now always denotes the node in the
node selection which is the first one in document order and
$selected2 now always denotes the node in the node selection
which is the last one in document order. Previously, $selected
was the node in the node selection which was first selected by the user
and $selected2 was the node in the node selection which was
last selected by the user.
- [User Request] CSS generated content open-quote and
close-quote now support much more languages than before (thanks
to the author of http://acjs.net/weblog/2005/06/10/language_specific_styling_quotation_marks/).
Note that nested quotes styled using open-quote and
close-quote are still not properly supported.
- [User Request] added a rootElementAttribute child element
to the detect configuration element. This allows to detect
which configuration to use based on the presence and/or the value of an
attribute of the root element of a document.
- [User Request] If you double-click on images in the document view, a
dialog box is displayed allowing you to choose, and also possibly copy,
a graphics file. This dialog box has a Home button which allows
to browse the home directory of the user. Previously, clicking on the
Home button always opened the home directory in the standard file
chooser dialog box. Now, the file chooser dialog box displays the last
visited directory (which is not necessarily the home directory).
- Much improved Unix-style pathname pattern expansion (AKA
glob) in process commands. Previously, a pattern such as
"../*/*.gif" was not expanded (only simple patterns such as
"*.gif" or "foo/*.gif" were supported) and prefixes
such as "~" or "~john" were ignored.
- Modified the copy of Apache FOP 0.93
included in the add-on called "Apache FOP 1.x XSL-FO processor
plug-in" in order to make it honor the source-resolution
configuration option. Moreover, when FOP is run within XXE, the default
value of this resolution is now 120DPI (like in RenderX XEP). Previously, the value
of this resolution was hardwired to be 72DPI.
Bug fixes: - CSS bug:
vertical adjoining margins were not collapsed when the boxes having
these margins were nested.
- Whitespace was always preserved in pasted text and this, even when
the paste target was not a space-preserving node.
Now if you paste
some text anywhere inside an XHTML p for example, newline
characters are replaced by space characters. If you paste some text
anywhere inside an XHTML pre for example (or inside a comment
or inside a processing-instruction), whitespace is left
untouched. - When the tree and styled views were displayed side by side, using
Copy As Reference (Ctrl+Shift-C) then Paste
(Ctrl-V), Paste After (Ctrl-W) or Paste
Before (Ctrl-U) in the tree view, did not render the pasted
nodes with a blue gray background (that is, the background color
showing that pasted nodes are not editable) in the styled
view.
- Command "convertCase capital" acted only on the first
letter of a word. It converted "foo" to "Foo" but did
not convert "FOO" to "Foo".
- Fixed the following bug in Options|Customize
Configuration|Change Document Conversion Parameters:
specifying parameters for one document conversion (e.g. Convert to
RTF) deleted all the parameters specified by the user for the other
document conversions (e.g. Convert to PDF, Convert to
HTML, etc). Note that these parameters were deleted in the file
containing the customization of the configuration, and not in memory.
Therefore XXE had to be restarted for this bug to show up.
- Fixed a bug in James Clark's XP, the XML parser used by XXE. The
line numbers reported for an XML file where the encoding was other than
UTF-8, UTF-16 and ISO-8859-1 (e.g. Windows-1252) and containing
DOS-style end of lines (e.g. "\r\n") were incorrect. For
example, a parse error found at line 67 actually occurred at line
67/2=34.
- With a JavaTM 1.5+ runtime, XXE didn't configure proxy
servers exactly the same way the very first time it was started (that
is, without any
XXE_user_preferences_dir/preferences.properties) and the
second time it was started (that is, with a ``plain vanilla''
XXE_user_preferences_dir/preferences.properties).
Possible incompatibilities: - The way vertical margins are rendered has changed: see above bug fix. You may have to slightly
adapt your custom style sheets. Note that we had to change nothing at
all in the CSS style sheets written by XMLmind.
3.6.0 (April 23, 2007)Standard Edition has been replaced by Personal Edition. Personal
Edition is free of charge, is functionally identical to Standard Edition
(that is, has fewer features than Professional Edition), but is restricted
to non-commercial use. More
information. Enhancements: - Professional Edition only: added a Customize Configuration
menu to the Options menu which allows end-users (i.e.
non-experts) to customize the configuration associated to the document
being edited.
This new menu allows to: - Save the document being edited as a named template. This named
template is then displayed in the File|New dialog
box.
- Save the selected element as a named template. This named
template may then be suggested by the Edit tool, depending on
the operation to be performed and if this is allowed by the
schema.
Optionally, the element template defined this way may
replace the default, automatically generally, one. Example: by
default, when you insert an ul in a XHTML document, XXE
inserts <ul><li></li></ul> and you
would prefer XXE to insert by default
<ul><li><p></p><li><p></p></li></ul>. - Save the current layout of views (e.g. styled view in the
middle, tree view at the left, structure view at the bottom —
see View|Add) as the default one.
- Add keyboard shortcuts. In other terms, bind up to two
keystrokes (example: "F2 u" to a command (example:
"moveElement up[implicitElement]").
- Change the XSL style sheet parameters (e.g.
paper.type=USLetter) used when converting the
document being edited to other formats (e.g. HTML, PDF, etc).
Note that end-user customization of configurations by the
means of this menu also works when XMLmind XML Editor is deployed using
JavaTM Web Start. - Added new option "Automatically reopen last opened document"
(Options|Preferences, General section). This option
is examined just after XXE is started, when no documents to be opened
have been explicitly specified (e.g. by double-clicking on an XML file
or by using command line options). When turned on, this option forces
XXE to reopen the last document opened during the preceding editing
session.
- Add command line option -last which forces XXE to reopen
the last document opened during the preceding editing session (no matter
the value of option "Automatically reopen last opened document"
described above).
- Add new option "Ensure that a save filename has an extension"
(Options|Preferences, Save section). By default,
this option is turned on.
- Added command insertCharSequence which makes it easy and
intuitive inserting special characters by typing the same ordinary
character two or three times in a row. Example:
<binding>
<charTyped char="-" />
<command name="insertCharSequence" parameter="- ndash mdash" />
</binding> - Command viewObject will now use the default viewer (assumed
to be a Web browser) to display the contents of URLs starting with
"http://" and "https://". DocBook example: this is
handy for displaying something like
<ulink url="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/"/>.
- On Linux, XXE will now try to guess which Web browser you prefer by
searching environment variable PATH for a number of well-known
browsers (currently, Firefox and Opera).
Note that in order to make
Firefox convenient to use when invoked by external applications such as
XXE, you need to change its settings. For this, use
Edit|Preferences and check "New pages should be opened
in a new tab", then check "When I open a link in a new tab,
switch to it immediately" - Added menu item "Convert to Eclipse Help" to
DocBook|Convert Document.
Note that the
eclipse.plugin.name, eclipse.plugin.id,
eclipse.plugin.provider XSL style sheet parameters must be
specified using the new Options|Customize
Configuration|Change Document Conversion Parameters
facility. - Upgraded XMLmind
Spell Checker to version 1.3.
This implies that the German
dictionary is now supposed to only contain words which are compliant
with the German spelling reform. Note that an alternate German
dictionary (the name of the corresponding add-on is "German (Deutsch)
dictionary - traditional spelling") has been created for those who
still need to use the traditional spelling. - DITA add-on: upgraded the bundled copy of the DITA Open Toolkit to version
1.3.1.
- DocBook 5 add-on: upgraded the bundled RELAX NG and Schematron
schemas to V5CR3.
Bug fixes: - A command like "putAttribute xml:lang fr" didn't work
because xml:lang was not recognized as being
{http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace}lang. Now
xml:local_part is accepted wherever notation
{http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace}local_part is
accepted too.
- Configuration elements inclusionProcessor and
preserveSpace were not taken into account unless the
configuration also contained a dtd, schema or
relaxng element.
- The popup menu items specified using the menu child element
of the binding and command configuration elements may
have icons (the XXE configuration schema allows this). The bug was that
such icons were not displayed.
- Element templates intended to replace the default, automatically
generated, element template (that is, declared
selectable="override") and having an xsi:type
attribute were ignored.
Possible incompatibilities:
3.5.2 (February 19, 2007)Enhancements: - Professional Edition has a new Include tool which should make
it quick and easy inserting ``XML variables'' (that is, references to
often used XHTML spans, DocBook phrases, etc) in a
document.
Note that Copy as Reference/Paste is still the
recommended way to create modular documents in the general case. But in
the special case of ``XML variables'', the new Include tool is
hard to beat. - Standard CSS counters, that is, counter-reset,
counter-increment, counter() and counters()
are now fully supported.
These standard CSS counters have been used to
support the continuation="continues" and
inheritnum="inherit" attribute values of DocBook
orderedlists. This is the only place where standard CSS
counters are used. Our proprietary counters (that is, something like
counter(nnn-), without having to specify counter-reset
or counter-increment) are used everywhere else. They have
simply been renamed to simple-counter() and
simple-counters(). The reason for keeping
simple-counter() and simple-counters() is that they
are much faster and slightly easier to use than standard CSS
counters. - The DocBook|Convert Document menu has two new
items.
- Convert to HTML Help
- Converts the document being edited to a .chm file.
- Convert to Java Help
- Converts the document being edited to a .jar file for
use by the JavaTM Help system.
For these menu items to work properly, two helper
applications: hhc.exe, the HTML Help compiler, and
jhindexer, the JavaTM Help indexer, must have been
declared using the Options dialog box, Helper Applications
section. - Added a new preferences sheet to the Options dialog box
called Helper Applications. This pane allows to associate helper
applications, viewers or editors, to file types. For example, it allows
to associate Adobe
Acrobat Reader to PDF files, Inkscape to SVG files, etc.
- The run and start commands, as well as the
shell element of a process command, may make use of
the helper applications declared in the Options dialog box,
Helper Applications section.
For this, the parameter string of
these commands must contain substrings following this syntax:
"helper(spec) path". Example: "helper(text/plain)
"%D"". - Added commands viewObject and editObject. These
commands may be used to view or edit an ``object'' contained or
referenced in the document being edited. To do that, these commands will
pick the proper helper application if such application has been declared
in the Options dialog box, Helper Applications
section.
Examples: viewObject may be used to open in Adobe
Acrobat Reader a reference to a PDF file found in an attribute.
Command editObject may be used to open in The Gimp an image encoded in base 64
embedded in an element or to open in Inkscape an svg:svg element
contained in the document. These commands, which normally guess
what to do, work best with strongly typed documents conforming to a W3C
XML Schema or to a RELAX NG schema. - Despite the fact that XXE exclusively uses standard
mechanisms (XIncludes
and, to a very limited extent, references to external
entities), naively creating modular documents may lead to
interchange problems with third-party applications.
We would like to
avoid this kind of problems by all means, that why: - We have changed the DocBook4 and XHTML document templates to
make this interchange problem less likely to happen. (Note that
there is no such problems with DITA and with documents conforming to
schemas other than DTDs.)
- The tutorial now includes a section called "Creating
modular documents which are highly interchangeable with other
applications" which describes the problem and suggests best
practices.
- All commands displaying a dialog box supporting autocompletion
(pick, insertCharByName, etc) now behave like the
Edit tool: suffice to type the first few letters of an item in
the list and press Enter to choose this item. That is, in most
case, there is no need to explicitly trigger the autocompletion, for
example by pressing the space bar.
- Added an optional title parameter to the selectFile and
selectConvertedFile commands.
- Commands XXE.new, XXE.openAsTemplate and
XXE.openCopy, that is, commands used to create new documents,
can now be parametrized to prompt the user for a save filename.
- XPath extension function property() now supports the
"read-only" and "editable" pseudo-properties.
- property("read-only") returns string "true" if
the context node has been marked as being read-only. Otherwise, it
returns string "false".
- property("editable") returns string "true"
unless the context node has been marked as being read-only or has an
ancestor which has been marked as being read-only. Otherwise, it
returns string "false".
- Macro commands now support the "%C" and "%c"
variables just like the process commands.
- "xxe -open doc.xml" and "xxe -print doc.xml" are
now equivalent to "xxe doc.xml". This may be useful when XXE is
started by JavaTM Web Start. Example: "javaws
http://www.acme.com/xxe/xxe.jnlp -open /docs/doc.xml".
- Environment variable/system property XXE_USER_PREFERENCES
allows to specify an alternative to
XXE_user_preferences_dir/preferences.properties. The
hierarchy of directories containing this alternate user preferences
property file is now created by XXE when it does not already exist.
- Upgraded the Apache
FOP plug-in to version 0.93.
- Upgraded the XMLmind
FO Converter plug-in to version 3.1.
Bug fixes: - The "%c" variable had no value when the process command was
loaded from an XXE configuration file contained in a jar. This typically
happened when XXE was deployed using JavaTM Web Start.
- CSS content like counter(nnn, lower-alpha) generated
"cba.." instead of generating "a.b.c".
- After changing the IDs of some elements in the document being
edited, menu item Select|Find Element (that is, command
xpathSearch) failed to find the edited elements by their
IDs.
- In a process command, using a subProcess element without a
parameter attribute caused XXE to raise a
NullPointerException.
Possible incompatibilities: - Process commands are no longer systematically disabled in Standard
Edition. However, if, in Standard Edition, a process command contains
one or more of the following elements: convertImage,
processFO, upload, print, zip,
jar, post, it will be silently disabled. The idea here
is to allow using process commands in Standard Edition in order to write
sophisticated macros.
- Suppressed the Use dialog box rather than Edit tab option
from Options|Options, Edit section.
- Disabled the include command in Standard Edition.
- Changed the API of low-level object
com.xmlmind.xmledit.stylesheet.StyleValue. Therefore, custom
style sheet extensions (like the implementation of interface
com.xmlmind.xmledit.stylesheet.StyleSpecs used as an example in
XMLmind XML Editor - Developer's Guide) probably need to be
recompiled after making a few minor changes.
- Renamed command setImage to setObject and command
extractImage to extractObject.
- Suppressed command viewHTML and its associated property
XXE_HTML_PREVIEW_COMMAND.
The default viewer application is
now specified in the Options dialog box, Helper
Applications section, Default viewer field. This default
viewer may be started simply by using command start with a
parameter like "helper(defaultViewer)
filename_or_URL". - In order not to break CSS style sheets written by our customers,
counter(n), counter(nn-, lower-alpha), counters(n,
".", lower-roman), etc, are all understood to be
simple-counters. The reason for this that the names of the
above counters only contain 'n' and '-'
characters.
However if you use in your custom CSS style sheets counter
names containing characters other than 'n' and '-',
e.g. counter(xxx-), the above hack will not work for
you. In all cases, if you use our simple, declarative, fast but
proprietary, counters, do not forget to rename them to
simple-counter() and simple-counters().
3.5.1 (December 27, 2006)The differences between Standard Edition and Professional Edition
have radically changed. These differences are now much easier to
understand because a feature is either fully functional or totally absent
in Standard Edition. - Standard Edition no longer has restrictions in terms of schema. DTD,
W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG schema and Schematron are all fully
supported.
- The following features are totally absent, which means that they are
not only disabled, but also that you'll not find them in the menus, tool
bars and dialog boxes of new Standard Edition:
- Process commands (used to transform part or all of the document
being edited using the integrated XSLT engine).
This means that
all "Convert Document" menus have disappeared from new
Standard Edition. This also means that the command line
utility convertdoc, which may be used to execute process
commands outside XXE (useful in scripts and makefiles), will not
work. - Automatic spell checker (which underlines misspelled words as
they are typed). Of course, the traditional, on demand, spell
checker still works.
- Macro recorder. Hand-written macros are of course still
supported.
- Integrated spreadsheet.
- Editing documents stored on remote (WebDAV, FTP) or virtual
(Zip) filesystems.
- It is no longer possible to customize the GUI of Standard Edition
(e.g. by the means of customize.xxe_gui files).
- Standard Edition still cannot be deployed using JavaTM
Web Start.
It is now possible to evaluate Professional Edition. To do this,
you'll have to download an evaluation key from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/evaluate.html.
After installing this evaluation key in Standard Edition using menu item
Help|Install Evaluation Key and restarting the application,
you'll get an Evaluation Edition which is functionally equivalent
to Professional Edition but which will last only 7 days. Enhancements: - XXE can now lock the file containing the document being edited.
Previously this was only possible when this file was stored on a WebDAV
server supporting locking. Now this is also possible when the file is
stored on the local filesystem.
By default this option is turned off.
In order to lock the file being edited, please use
Options|Options, Open section and check "Lock
documents stored on the local filesystem". - The configuration for DocBook 5 (RELAX NG based; available as an
add-on) is now as functional as the bundled, DTD-based, configuration
for DocBook 4.
- DocBook 4.5 is now the version of the DocBook DTD which is used by
default.
- Upgraded DocBook XSL style
sheets to version 1.71.1.
- DITA: upgraded the bundled copy of the DITA Open Toolkit to version
1.3.0.
- DITA: it is now possible to create a map, to populate it
with topicrefs and then to use F2 e to visit the
referenced topic if it already exists or to create it if it
doesn't.
- Added command XXE.new which can be used to create a new
document by specifying the name of a document template.
- Commands XXE.new, XXE.openCopy,
XXE.openAsTemplate, which all may be used to create new
documents, now accept a save file name as their last, optional,
argument. By using this optional argument, you may force these commands
to immediately save the newly created document at the specified
location.
XXE.new has been used for example to make
ditamap.editTopic, bound to keystroke F2 e, slightly
smarter: <sequence>
<get context="$selectedElement/@href" expression="resolve-uri(.)" />
<choice>
<command name="XXE.edit" parameter="%_" />
<command name="XXE.new" parameter="- - '%_'" />
</choice>
</sequence> - Out of the box, the File|New dialog box now just
allows to create DocBook 4 and XHTML documents. That's why, a "Add
more document templates" ``link'' has been added to this dialog box.
This ``link'' simply closes the dialog box and triggers the
Options|Install Add-ons action. The
Options|Install Add-ons action allows to add support for
more document types: DITA, DocBook 5, Slides, W3C XML Schema, etc.
- Batik image toolkit plug-in:
- Command search now works as expected. Example:
<cfg:macro>
<cfg:choice>
<cfg:command name="search" parameter="Hello"/>
<cfg:command name="alert" parameter="'Hello' not found" />
</cfg:choice>
</cfg:macro>If string "Hello" cannot be found after
caret location then command search cannot be executed and in
such case, the dialog box of command alert is displayed.
Previously, unless the document contained no text at all, command
search always claimed to be executable and this, whatever the
searched string. - Added support for converting DocBook 4 and 5 documents containing
<textdata fileref="XXX"/> elements to other
formats. A text file, using txt, text, htm,
html, xml, h, c, cpp,
java, js, tcl, py, pl or
rb as its file name extension, referenced in a
textdata element, is now properly processed. Previously, the
process command failed with a "Cannot read
file:/tmp/xxeNNN/resources/TEXT_FILE_NAME.png" error
message.
- The results of the calculations of the spreadsheet formulas are now
independent of the locale of the computer used to run XMLmind XML
Editor. The locale needed to parse and format numbers and dates is now
determined using the language of the document being edited. This
language is typically specified using the standard xml:lang attribute.
But as always with XXE, this can be configured
(languageAttribute and defaultLanguage attributes of
the spellCheckOptions configuration element — see
XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment).
Bug fixes: Possible incompatibilities: - The release of the alternative DITA configuration based on a W3C XML
Schema rather than a DTD has been discontinued. However, if there is
sufficient interest, we could resurrect this alternative
configuration.
- The configuration which allows to use XXE to author W3C XML Schema
and to document them in XHTML has been unbundled. If you need this
configuration, you'll have to download and install the corresponding
add-on using Options|Install Add-ons.
- Support for the following DocBook 4.x modules: EBNF, HTML Forms,
MathML, SVG, has been dropped. If you need to embed SVG
graphics in DocBook, please switch to DocBook 5 (unbundled; use
Options|Install Add-ons install it).
- By default, user-contributed add-ons are now downloaded from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_usercontrib/list.xxe_addon.
Previously, user-contributed add-ons were mixed with add-ons coming from
XMLmind.
That's why we had to change the preference key for the
download URLs from addonLocations to addonServers. In
practice, this means that the preferences related to these download URLs
have been reset to their default values and that these preferences may
need to be specified again using Options|Options,
Install Add-ons section. - It is now possible to add an ``interactive gray margin'' at the left
side of a styled view, at its right side or at both sides. This option
is specified using Options|Options, Edit section,
"Add interactive margin to the styled view" toggles.
That's why
we had to change the preference key for this option. This key is now
called addInteractiveMargin and its value is none,
left, right or both. - The results of the calculations of the spreadsheet formulas are now
independent of the locale of the computer used to run XMLmind XML
Editor. In practice, this means:
- If a locale is explicitly specified in all the spreadsheet
formulas parsing or formatting numbers or dates, there is nothing
special to do.
- Otherwise, please add a proper xml:lang (or
lang attribute, depending on the type of the document) to
the root element of the document making use of the integrated
spreadsheet.
- Removed command resizeSVG. This command was needed by
document types such as DocBook+SVG. It is no longer needed by DocBook 5
where the svg:svg element may be a descendant of
db5:imagedata.
If you need to resize SVG graphics, please do
so using your favorite vector graphics editor (latest Inkscape recommended).
3.5 (October 3, 2006)Enhancements: - XMLmind XML Editor now supports Schematron, an ISO
standard, which we view as a simple mean to add business rules
to your XML documents. Example: the authors in your organization must
write articles conforming to the DocBook grammar. Fine, but how to
enforce this business rule: first section must have a "Introduction"
title and last section must have a "Conclusion" title? The simple
and elegant answer is called Schematron.
- XXE supports both ISO Schematron and Schematron 1.5.
- Schematron elements may be embedded in other schemas (typically
RELAX NG, but not with the compact syntax).
- A new command-line tool called schvalid may be used to
validate Schematron schemas, to validate documents against
schematrons and to a certain extent, to convert Schematron 1.5 to
ISO Schematron.
- The use of Schematron has been restricted in XMLmind XML Editor
Standard Edition.
- Added two new bindings: Ctrl-Delete deletes word following
caret position and Ctrl-Backspace deletes word preceding caret
position. These bindings use new command deleteWord.
- A quick reference card in PDF format is available in four different
flavors: A4,
Letter,
for the
Mac/A4, for the
Mac/Letter.
- The add-on manager (i.e. Options|Install Add-ons) now
handles dependencies between add-ons. For example, it will no let you
install both the "DocBook 5 configuration" and "DocBook 5 +
XInclude configuration" add-ons. Other example, if you want to
install the configuration for DITA, it will force you to also install
the FOP 0.20.5 plug-in and all its dependant add-ons (Batik image
toolkit, Jimi image toolkit) too.
- Previously there was no way to customize a tool bar such as the
XHTML tool bar by inserting one or more buttons at a given
position or to customize a menu such as the DocBook menu by
inserting one or more items at a given position. This is now possible by
using the new insert attribute common to the toolBar
and the menu configuration elements.
The old way of extending
a tool bar or a menu: using an insert child element, is of
course still available as it is handy in many common cases. - A similar insert attribute has been added to the following
XXE GUI specification elements: menu, menuBar,
statusBar, toolBar, preferencesSheets,
topToolBars, bottomToolBars, leftToolBars,
rightToolBars, leftPanes, rightPanes.
- DITA: F2.z is now bound to a macro which toggles the
transclusion state of selected element. Previously, this keystroke was
bound to a command which just replaced the transcluded content by the
original conref source. That was useful but less handy than the new
macro.
- The dialog box displayed by command pick now supports
autocompletion. This implies that the items of the pick list are
automatically sorted by their labels.
- The dialog box displayed by the insertCharByName command
now shows not only the name of the character entity but also its
glyph.
- The size of the font used by the tree view is now 2pt less than the
base font size of the GUI (an option which can be changed using
Options|Options, General section, Font
size). Previously, the size of the font used by the tree view was
fixed to 10pt.
- Added the following XPath functions in order to fully support
Schematron: key(), generate-id(),
function-available(), element-available(),
unparsed-entity-uri().
- XPath function system-property() now supports
xsl:version, xsl:vendor, xsl:vendor-url.
- RELAX NG: command line utilities rngvalid and
rngdoc have been merged. The new command line utility is called
rngvalid and allows to:
- validate a schema (including the compatibility of the schema
with attribute default values as specified in RELAX NG
DTD Compatibility),
- validate instances against a schema,
- automatically generate a documentation out of a schema.
Just like new command line utility schvalid,
rngvalid has been made part of the XMLmind Validation
Toolset (A set of utilities also available separately from XMLmind
XML Editor. See XMLmind
Resources.) - Setting system property XXE_DAV_TRACE to any value now
causes XXE internal WebDAV client to print DAV requests and responses on
the console.
- Upgraded the Simplified DocBook DTD from V1.0.0 to V1.1.0. The
Simplified DocBook DTD V1.1.0 supports CALS tables as well as HTML
tables.
Note that the support for the Simplified DocBook DTD has been
unbundled. See possible incompatibilities
below. - Upgraded the Slides DTD from V3.3.0 to V3.4.0. The Slides DTD V3.4.0
is based on the Simplified DocBook DTD V1.1.0.
Note that the support
for the Slides DTD has been unbundled. See possible incompatibilities
below. - Upgraded the XMLmind
FO Converter plug-in to XFC v3.0. This allows Professional Edition
users to convert their XML documents to the OpenDocument
format (native format of OpenOffice.org 2).
Bug fixes: - Learned words were not shared by spell checking sessions. Now, when
a spell checking session is started, it automatically knows all the
words learned during past and current spell checking sessions.
A
``spell checking session'' is started each time: - You click the Start button of the Spell tool.
- You open a document and auto spell checking is turned on for
this document.
- Auto spell checking was turned off and you manually turn it on
for the document being edited. This is done for example, by clicking
the "Automatic Spell Checker" button found at the left of the
status bar (only in Professional Edition).
Limitations: - DITA: it was possible to successfully change an existing conref
target using dita.setConref but this change did not persist in
the saved document.
- DITA: the dita.setConref dialog box displayed this hint:
"if path is a relative path, it is relative to: base",
where base was the URL of the document containing the conref
target. The correct base is the URL of the document being edited
(which contains the conref source).
- DITA: a saved document containing conref source elements often had
superfluous whitespace.
- The XML catalogs of XXE were not used by the XSLT processor (Saxon)
to resolve the public ID found in the <!DOCTYPE> of a
document loaded using XSLT function document().
- Unlike Professional Edition, Standard Edition does not support
automatic, check-as-you-type, spell checking. Despite this limitation,
the GUI of Standard Edition contained a tool bar button, a menu item and
a preferences sheet allowing to control this feature. These controls,
which were always disabled, have been removed from the GUI of XMLmind
XML Editor Standard Edition.
- Command Copy As Reference only worked in documents for which
XXE detected a configuration.
- The Print PostScript menu item found in the XHTML,
DocBook, etc, menu failed to send generated PostScript to a
printer having space characters in its name.
- RELAX NG: XXE switched to lenient mode when confronted to this
content model:
element person {
(attribute firstName { non-empty-token } &
attribute lastName { non-empty-token }) |
(element firstName { non-empty-token } &
element lastName { non-empty-token }) |
(attribute firstName { non-empty-token } &
element lastName { non-empty-token }) |
(element firstName { non-empty-token } &
attribute lastName { non-empty-token })
}but had no problem at all with this (better written) one: element person {
(firstName-attribute &
lastName-attribute) |
(firstName-element &
lastName-element) |
(firstName-attribute &
lastName-element) |
(firstName-element &
lastName-attribute)
}This inconsistent behavior has been suppressed: XXE no longer have
problems coping with the first content model. - The URL chooser dialog box raised a NullPointerException
when used to browse a Bluestream WebDAV server.
Possible
incompatibilities: - Support for the Simplified DocBook DTD and for the Slides DTD has
been unbundled. If you need these document types, you'll have to
download and install the corresponding add-ons using
Options|Install Add-ons.
- Ctrl-Delete (delete word), Ctrl-Backspace (delete
word backwards), Esc g (find element) are now part of the
default bindings.
- By default, any add-on which depend on a specific version of XXE is
installed in XXE_install_dir/addon/. Previously only
plug-ins (e.g. an XSL-FO processor plug-in) were installed in
XXE_install_dir/addon/.
Example: the DITA
configuration includes several custom commands written in
JavaTM. Therefore this configuration depends on the version
of XXE which was used to compile these commands. By default, the DITA
configuration is to be installed in
XXE_install_dir/addon/. - XXE running on Linux/Unix JavaTM 1.4 no longer uses the
Kunststoff Look&Feel. It now
uses the standard Metal Look&Feel.
If you want something nice,
you'll have to upgrade to Java 1.5TM: its Ocean Metal
Look&Feel looks good and supports anti-aliasing. Moreover Java
1.5TM is substantially faster than JavaTM
1.4. - Command line utilities rngvalid and rngdoc have
been merged. Therefore the options of new rngvalid are
different from those of the old rngvalid (which was just a
different name for Jing).
- Command selectPrinter and the print child element
of a process element now use this syntax for specifying a
printer: "printer_name->format".
- XXE GUI specification files xxe-gui:app/default.xxe_gui and
xxe-gui:app/simple.xxe_gui have been replaced by:
- xxe-gui:app/Standard.xxe_gui
- Specifies the default user interface of XMLmind XML Editor
Standard Edition.
- xxe-gui:app/Professional.xxe_gui
- Specifies the default user interface of XMLmind XML Editor
Professional Edition. Professional.xxe_gui includes
Standard.xxe_gui.
- xxe-gui:app/NoToolTabs.xxe_gui
- Specifies an alternate user interface with no tool tabs at the
right of the document views. NoToolTabs.xxe_gui includes
Professional.xxe_gui.
3.4 (July 28, 2006)Major enhancements: - XMLmind XML Editor now has an automatic spell checker (AKA
on-the-fly spell checker, which underlines misspelled words as they are
typed). Available only in Professional Edition.
- Spell checking, both automatic and ``traditional'', can now be
configured on a per document type basis. Using new configuration element
spellCheckOptions, it is now possible to specify for each
document type:
- whether the automatic spell checker should be activated when a
document of that type is opened;
- which is the attribute specifying the language of an element
(e.g. "xml:lang");
- which is the default language of such documents (rarely
used);
- which attributes should be checked for spelling (e.g.
"img/@alt table/@summary @title");
- which elements should be automatically skipped (e.g. "pre
script style").
Such specifications have been added in the XHTML, DocBook,
DITA, etc, configurations. - A plug-in has been developed for Apache FOP 0.92beta. This
XSL-FO processor seems very promising: it already works much better than
previous version 0.20.5. Note that the plug-in for Apache FOP 0.20.5 is
still available. (Of course, do not install both.)
- The DITA configuration for XMLmind XML Editor now comes with its own
(minimal) copy of the DITA
Open Toolkit 1.2.2. Therefore there is no need to separately install
the Toolkit if you want to convert your DITA topics and maps to HTML,
PDF, etc.
You'll need to install this configuration in conjunction
with the plug-in for Apache FOP 0.20.5 (will not work with new
0.92beta). Doing this will allow you to convert your DITA topics and map
to PDF, even when using free Standard Edition. More information in XMLmind XML Editor - DITA
Support.
Other enhancements: - Added support for composite document templates, that is,
templates referencing graphics files and/or including modules.
- Added new option "Immediately save newly created document"
(Options|Options, New section).
When a new
document is created using File|New, File|Open as
Template or File|Open Copy and this toggle is checked,
XXE will immediately prompt the user for a save file name. This save
file name is used to actually create on disk the file corresponding to
the new document. Note that even when this toggle is not checked,
XXE may immediately prompt the user for a save file name. This will
happen for the above mentioned composite document templates. - Added item "Print Selected Element" to the File menu.
File|Print now always prints the whole document, no matter
what is being selected.
- The popup menu displayed when right-clicking on the attribute table
now has a Cut item. For example, this menu item is useful to
quickly and easily move an ID attribute from the title of a section to
the section itself.
- JavaTM 1.6 only: when option "Text anti-aliasing"
(Options|Options, General section) has been turned
on:
- Text anti-aliasing is used not only for the document view, but
also for the GUI. Previously this didn't work on some platforms
(e.g. Linux with a desktop other than Gnome).
- The text anti-aliasing algorithm used for the document view is
now always the same as the one used for the GUI.
- By default, the overall list of available add-ons is now obtained by
merging two lists:
- http://www.xmlmind.net/xmleditor/_download/list-${XXE_VERSION}.xxe_addon
- Allows to get all the add-ons compatible with the running
instance of XXE, no matter the version of XXE, if such add-ons are
still found on XMLmind servers.
Note that XMLmind only keeps the
last two versions on its servers. That is, you'll find everything
needed for v3.4 and v3.3, but not much for v3.2, v3.1, etc. - http://www.xmlmind.net/xmleditor/_download/list.xxe_addon
- Allows to get the subset of latest add-ons which are
compatible with the running instance of XXE.
- Previously customizing the GUI of XMLmind XML Editor meant creating
a single GUI specification file called custom.xxe_gui.
This file was dynamically discovered by XXE during its start-up.
There
was no way to have several custom.xxe_gui files coexist: the
first GUI specification discovered by XXE would have hidden the others.
This prevented creating self-contained add-ons customizing the GUI of
XXE for their own, often modest (add a menu item here, add a pane there,
etc), needs. Custom.xxe_gui files are no longer
supported. Instead, GUI customizations should be contained in files
called customize.xxe_gui. Such files are dynamically discovered
by XXE during its start-up. If during its start-up, XXE finds
several customize.xxe_gui files, it will merge their contents
with the base GUI specification (by default,
xxe-gui:app/default.xxe_gui, which is a resource contained in
xxe_app.jar). - In an .xxe_gui file, the <insert/> element,
which is used to extend a previously defined GUI part, now really
specifies where the previous definition should be inserted. Previously,
the <insert/> element was required to be the first or the
last child of its parent element.
- System property XXE_USER_PREFERENCES (generally set using
environment variable XXE_USER_PREFERENCES, i.e. 'java
-DXXE_USER_PREFERENCES="%XXE_USER_PREFERENCES%"') may be used to
specify the location of a user preferences property file different from
the default one:
XXE_user_preferences_dir/preferences.property.
This
alternate user preferences property file is created (if needed to)/read
from/written to by XXE exactly like the default
one. XXE_user_preferences_dir/preferences.property. - New xxe command-line option
-putprefs property_file may be more convenient than
specifying several -putpref key value,
-putpref key value, ...,
putpref key value.
- A process command has now a debug attribute which,
when specified as "true", prevents the command from deleting
its work directory (/tmp/xxeNNNN/) at the end of the
processing. This is useful if, for example, you need to look at the
XSL-FO file generated by the transform element of the
process command.
The convertdoc command-line utility
(useful to run process commands without launching XXE) has a
new -d option which sets the debug attribute of a
process command to value "true". - Added new command XXE.saveAll.
- Upgraded the Apache
Batik image toolkit plug-in (provides SVG support) to version
1.6.
Bug fixes: - Using "Edit|Document Reference|Edit Referencing
Document" many times on modular documents including many modules
caused File|Save to fail silently. For example,
attempting to save foo.xml did not overwrite the original file
at all and left a save file called foo.xmlNNNNNN (where
NNNNNN is a random sequence of letters and digits) in
the save directory. (In fact, this was JavaTM bug #6213298,
related to java.io.File.renameTo, for which we have added two
workarounds.)
- Windows only: get rid of Save As or Convert errors
saying something stupid like "'file:/c:/Foo%20bar/gee.xml',
unexpected destination URL (unrelated to first destination URL
'file:/c:/Foo%20bar/gee.xml')".
- Autocompletion|Append mode: Automatic (see
Options|Options, Edit section) made it difficult to
insert a p element in an XHTML document. After typing
"p" in the Edit tool, the text field of this tool contained
"pre" (with "re" being highlighted).
- Inserting the first formula in a document did not cause all the
items of the Tools|Spreadsheet menu to be enabled.
Possible incompatibilities:
3.3 (June 15, 2006)Most enhancements are related to the support of modular
documents: - Commands Copy, Cut and Paste now preserve
references to elements contained in external documents (included
elements), no matter the mechanism used to create these references
(external entities, XInclude, DITA conref, etc).
- Command Copy As Reference now works when one or more elements
are selected. A selected element may be a normal element or a reference
to an element.
- Navigation inside a modular document using Edit|Document
Reference|Edit Referenced Document and Edit Referencing
Document is smoother because these commands will attempt to preserve
the selection.
Example: open modular document book.xml,
select word "foo" inside included element contained in
chapter.xml, use Edit Referenced Document to visit
chapter.xml. Document chapter.xml is opened in XXE and
word "foo" is selected in this document. - New option "Filter duplicate ID errors found in modular
documents" (on by default; see Options|Options,
Tools|Validate section) discards ``false'' duplicate ID
errors caused by pasting in a document two references to the same
element.
- It is now possible (using XInclude; but this is
transparent for the user)
- to paste a reference to an element into the document containing
the original element;
- to paste in document A, a reference to an element contained in
document B, which in turns includes elements contained in document
A.
- Using new configuration element inclusionProcessor, it is
now possible to attach one or more specific inclusion processors to a
type of document.
By default, the "XInclude" inclusion
processor is used by all types of documents. But configuration element
inclusionProcessor also allows to disable inclusion processors
which otherwise, would have been used for this type of
document. Example 1: the "DITA "and "DITA Map" configurations
disable the "XInclude" inclusion processor and instead, declare
the "Conref" inclusion processor. Example 2: the new
"DocBook 5 + XInclude" configuration disables the
"XInclude" inclusion processor. This is possible because this
configuration uses a variant of the DocBook 5 RELAX NG grammar which
allows most elements to contain xi:include elements. For such
grammar, it does not make sense to transclude xi:include
elements, as this is the case for the ``regular'' "DocBook 5"
configuration. - DITA conref attribute is fully supported. That is, in XXE,
it is treated on par with XInclude.
Command Copy As Reference
is disabled in DITA documents because this command requires the presence
of the "XInclude" inclusion processor (but Edit Referenced
Document, Edit Referencing Document and all other
features related to modular documents work fine). Instead of using
Copy As Reference/Paste, the author of a DITA document
needs to use the Conref buttons found in the DITA toolbar. More
information in XMLmind XML Editor
- DITA Support. - A generic, extensible, inclusion processor called
"GenericInclusion" has been developed. By executing an external
command (shell script) or an ``internal command'' (JavaTM
class implementing interface
com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.genericincl.Processor), it allows to
include in the document being edited one or more elements generated on
the fly.
For example, using this inclusion processor, it is possible
to execute a shell script (or .bat file) which queries a
database, which converts what has been returned by the query to
row elements and which adds these row elements to the
tbody of a DocBook table. Like any other included
element, the row elements included this way are made read-only,
are automatically refreshed each time the document is reopened, may be
refreshed by hand by using View|Redraw (Ctrl-L),
etc. A new command called "genericInclude" allows to
insert or replace elements managed by the "GenericInclusion"
inclusion processor. This command can be used out of the box, except for
the dialog box it displays to let the user specify which command is to
be executed to generate the included elements. The standard dialog box
is too generic and too low-level and, for production use, needs to be
replaced by one or more user-friendly, specialized, dialog boxes. (How
to do this is explained in XMLmind
XML Editor - Developer's Guide.) However, techies may use this
facility right away by declaring the "GenericInclusion"
inclusion processor and the "genericInclude" command in the XXE
configuration they use. For example, for that, they could include genericincl.incl
in docbook.xxe. The "GenericInclusion" inclusion
processor comes with two command processors: - ShellExec
- which allows to execute shell scripts or .bat
files.
- Verbatim
- which allows to include all or part of text files.
For
example, typing "!! programlisting -f /main(/-1 -l 422
doIt.cpp" in the dialog box displayed by command
"genericInclude" allows to include a
programlisting element containing the part of file
doIt.cpp starting one line before the line containing
string "main(" and ending at line 422.
(How to develop custom command processors is explained in XMLmind XML Editor - Developer's
Guide.)
Other enhancements: - Added DocBook-specific commands Promote (shortcut
F2 Left) and Demote (shortcut F2 Right). These
commands are found in the DocBook menu. They replace commands
Decrease Section Level and Increase Section Level. The new
commands are at the same time more powerful and more intuitive to use
than the old ones.
- In addition to new commands Promote and Demote, the
DocBook menu now also contains new commands Move Up
(shortcut F2 Up) and Move Down (shortcut
F2 Down).
In practice, when the CSS style sheet called "Document structure"
is applied to a DocBook document (View|Document
Structure), new commands Promote, Demote,
Move Up and Move Down may be seen as a simple outline
mode for DocBook.
- The popup menu displayed when right-clicking on the attribute table
now has a Paste item. This item is especially handy for pasting
URLs copied from the Web browser.
- Added option "Wrap words wider than available space" to the
View section of the Options dialog box. This option, which
slightly modifies the behavior of word wrap in both the tree view and in
the styled view, is useful to deal with long URLs and with languages
such as Japanese or Chinese which do not use spaces between words.
- CSS support: property display can now be inherited (by
specifying display: inherit;).
- CSS support: it is now possible to style application properties
(INCLUSION_MARK, LOCATION_INFO, etc) more accurately
by using the three-argument form of the (proprietary)
:property() pseudo-class.
- RELAX NG: vastly improved the way XXE makes a difference between two
child elements having the same name and having different content models
(e.g. DocBook V5 info, indexterm and
imagedata). Therefore, seeing XXE automatically switch to its
lenient (and uncomfortable to use) editing mode should happen much less
often than before.
- The following bindings are now defined by default, because it was
found that the macro recording facility is almost unusable without them.
Previously, these bindings were defined in the add-on called "A
sample customize.xxe".
| Esc m | Starts recording a macro-command,if a macro-command is not
already being recorded. Otherwise, stops recording the macro. | Esc M
(means type Esc
then type
Shift-m) | Cancels the recording of a macro-command. | | Esc p | Replays the recorded macro-command. | | Esc s | Displays a simple ``Find Text'' dialog box which is especially
useful when recording macro-commands. | | Esc x | Executes an XXE command by specifying its name and its
parameter. Useful for commands which don't have a key
binding. |
- Upgraded DocBook XSL style
sheets to version 1.70.1.
- Mac only: The JavaApplicationStub launcher included in the
.dmg distribution is now a Universal Binary (tested on MacOS X
10.3 and 10.4). This means that the .dmg distribution is now as
effective on Intel®-powered Macs as it is on PowerPC-powered Macs.
- Added new demo document:
XXE_install_dir/demo/form-sampler.xml. It shows how
standard controls such as buttons, check boxes, combo boxes, text
fields, etc, can be embedded in the styled view.
Bug fixes: - Clicking on the dashed line of a document tab allows to split the
document tab area in two parts. Therefore this makes possible closing a
document which is not the current, active, document (the current,
active, document being contained in the ``other part'' of the document
tab area). Attempting to close such document sometimes caused XXE to
raise an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
- The table editor did not work for XHTML tables containing a
thead or tfoot and trs. That is, it did not
work for tables containing a thead or tfoot
and no tbody.
- RELAX NG: XXE failed to reopen modular documents referencing
external elements by their IDs. Note that unless IDs are specified using
the standard xml:id attribute
(like in DocBook V5), XXE still fails to reopen modular documents
referencing external elements by their IDs.
- RELAX NG: XXE switched to lenient mode for any element containing an
indexterm (db.indexterm.singular). This bug was found using the
DocBook V5 RELAX NG grammar, but is absolutely not specific to DocBook
V5.
- RELAX NG: Help|Show Content Model (Shift-F1) didn't
use the namespace prefixes found in the opened document to display
qualified names. Instead, it kept using ns, ns2,
ns3, etc.
- RELAX NG: using attribute default values
(a:defaultValue="xxx") with patterns such as
attribute a|b|c {} or element a|b|c {} caused XXE to
raise a ClassCastException.
- CSS3 selector :empty did not match an element just
containing an empty text node.
- When customizing the XXE GUI using contextual actions,
editingContextSensitive="true" was ignored. The consequence of
this bug was that the corresponding contextual actions were never
enabled (``grayed'' menu items).
- Command Undo had a bug which may have caused XXE to throw an
IllegalArgumentException with message "removed not a
child". This exception was never thrown by undoing any of the
commands developed by XMLmind, but the situation may have been different
for commands developed by third-party programmers.
Miscellaneous technical information: - Added the following commands: copyInclusionEnabled,
moveElement.
- Added option [checkIsOpened] to command
XXE.open.
- Added the following XPath extension functions:
property.
Possible incompatibilities: - The following bindings are now expected to be used when recording a
macro: Esc m, Esc M, Esc p, Esc s, Esc x.
- Removed commands decrSectionLevel and
incrSectionLevel.
- The value of CSS property display of comments, processing
instructions and non-transcluded xi:include elements is now
inherited. (This property is specified in resource
builtin.css, the very short built-in CSS style sheet used by
XXE. Everything defined in builtin.css may of course be
redefined at will in user style sheets.)
- In configuration element
command/process/copyDocument, attributes
preserveEntityRefs and preserveXIncludes have been
replaced by attribute preserveInclusions.
3.2 (April 03, 2006)A configuration for DITA
can be downloaded and installed using Options|Install
Add-ons. (This first release has two important limitations,
therefore please take the time to read the description of the add-on
before installing and using it.) In order to support DITA simply and elegantly, XMLmind XML Editor had
to be made more generic and more powerful: - XXE has a more powerful table editor allowing to insert, copy, cut,
paste, delete columns and rows, and allowing to increment or decrement
the number of columns and the number of rows spanned by a cell (these
operations are often called merge and split).
Specialized versions of
this table editor are used for XHTML, DocBook and DITA. A generic,
parametrizable, version of this table editor is available for use in
custom schemas having HTML-like tables. - It is now possible to bind a command to the drag action (drag the
mouse while keeping the left button and the Alt key pressed) as
well as to the drop action. For example, using this new facility, it is
possible to drag a DITA topic and drop it in a DITA
map in order to create the corresponding
topicref.
- A number of enhancements are related to the CSS support in XXE. See
technical information below.
Other enhancements: - Command Edit|Document Reference|Editing Referencing
Document now properly refreshes book.xml in the following
case: book.xml references part or all of chapter.xml,
chapter.xml references part or all of sect.xml and
sect.xml has been modified.
- Added the following shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift-E for command
Edit|Document Reference|Editing Referenced
Document, Ctrl+Shift-B for command Edit|Document
Reference|Editing Referencing Document.
- Moved command Select|Redraw (Ctrl-L) to menu
View.
- Command View|Redraw now always rebuilds the view of
the whole document, no matter which text or nodes are selected.
Like
command Edit Referencing Document, this command also has the
side-effect of automatically refreshing the referencing document after
modifications made to the referenced documents. For example, if document
book.xml references chap1.xml and if
chap1.xml has been modified, this command will refresh what has
been included from chap1.xml before rebuilding the view of
book.xml. All in all, this command now works as
expected. - Upgraded to Saxon
6.5.5.
- Upgraded the XMLmind
FO Converter plug-in to XFC v2.3p1.
Bug fixes: - The bug occurred after a spellchecker dictionary other than the
English one was used during a session. After restarting XXE, the
Language combobox found in the Check Spelling tool did not
reflect last used dictionary. This combobox always displayed
English, even if in fact, a French dictionary for example, was
actually in use.
- In single instance mode, it was not possible to start in a row two
instances of XXE having no command-line arguments.
- CSS support: selector p[lang|="CA"] could be used to match
<p lang="fr-CA"/>. ([lang|="CA"] does not make
sense. [lang|="fr"] means: match lang attribute
starting with "fr" or "fr-", like
"fr", "fr-BE", "fr-CH", "fr-CA",
etc.)
- Having more than one @extension construct in a CSS style
sheet caused an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
- When some text is selected using the mouse, and when the mouse is
dragged outside the document view, this document view did not scroll
automatically. Note that the mouse still needs to be moved continuously
otherwise the automatic scrolling stops.
- Large proportional values in the colwidth attributes of
colspec elements (e.g. unusual values like "121*" and
"76*", instead of more usual values like "2*" and
"1*") caused the CALS tables to be rendered with incorrect
column widths.
- Only on the Mac: added a workaround for a keyboard focus transfer
problem between the Edit tool and the document view.
- When command putAttribute is used to specify an ID
attribute for an element, the dialog box displayed by this command no
longer allows to specify an ID which is already in use by another
element.
- W3C XML Schema: this case (found in Dublin Core's
dcterms.xsd) was wrongly detected as being an error: a
complexType having simpleContent which is the
restriction of a base complexType having a mixed content and an
emptiable particle.
Technical information: - CSS support: it is no longer necessary to manually redraw the view
of an element styled using one or more of the following pseudo-classes:
:first-child, :last-child, :first-of-type,
:last-of-type, :empty. The view of such element is now
automatically rebuilt each time sibling elements are inserted or
deleted.
- CSS support: added support for the CSS3 :root and
:empty pseudo-classes.
- CSS support: XXE now supports display: list-item and the
list-style-type, list-style-position and
list-style-image properties. This simply makes it easier
styling lists. Previously, one needed to explicitly create marker boxes
using generated content.
- CSS support: the font-family property is less inflexible
than before.
Font-family is expected to contain
serif, sans-serif or monospace. Example:
"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;". However a
few well-know font families are mapped to the corresponding generic font
families. Example: "font-family: verdana;" is understood to be
sans-serif. All other cases will cause the serif
font family to be used. Example: "font-family: 'Nimbus
Sans';". - CSS support: rules which use extensions specific to XMLmind XML
Editor may be specified in @media XMLmind-XML-Editor constructs
(identifier XMLmind-XML-Editor being case-insensitive).
Example:
@media XMLmind-XML-Editor {
img {
content: image(attr(src));
}
} - CSS support: it is now possible to force attribute selectors to
consider default attribute values defined in the DTD, W3C XML Schema or
RELAX NG schema. To do this, simply add
"@use-default-attribute-values;" at the top of the CSS
file.
DITA example: @use-default-attribute-values;
*[class~="topic/body"] {
display: block;
margin-left: 12pt;
} - CSS support: added the drag-source generated content
object. The file-drop-site generated content object has been
replaced by the more generic drop-site generated content
object.
- Added the following commands: ensureSelectionAt.
- Added the following XPath extension functions:
index-of-node, uri-or-file-name.
- The newElementContent configuration element has two new
options: addChildElements="noChoice" and
addChildElements="elementOnlyContentNotEmpty".
- James Clark's XP, the XML parser used by XXE
now supports "ASCII" as an alias of the "US-ASCII"
encoding.
Possible incompatibilities:
3.1.0 (January 30, 2006)Enhancements: - New add-on manager (menu item Options|Install Add-ons)
allows to easily and safely download and install all sorts of add-ons
(configuration, translation, dictionary, XSL-FO processor plug-in, image
toolkit plug-in, etc) and this, not only from XMLmind web sites, but
also from third-party web sites.
This add-on manager can also be used
to easily and safely uninstall or upgrade installed add-ons. The
add-on manager is not available if XXE has been deployed using
JavaTM Web Start. - The Options dialog box now has a section for configuring
proxy servers (because, in many companies, this is really needed to get
a functioning add-on manager).
The magical checkbox "Use system
settings" only works with JavaTM 1.5+. - A new type of plug-in has been created: Virtual Drive
Plug-Ins.
A virtual drive allows XMLmind XML Editor to edit
documents stored in places other than ordinary, local, file systems.
This is done by emulating a hierarchical file system. For example,
the new Zip virtual drive plug-in allows to edit documents contained in
a Zip archive. - The URL chooser dialog box has been completely rewritten. It is now,
at the same time, simpler, more generic and more powerful.
This new
URL chooser dialog box automatically uses all installed virtual drive
plug-ins to let the user browse remote/virtual file systems. - Command "Edit|Document Reference|Edit Referencing
Document" now has the side-effect of automatically updating the
(read-only, displayed with a light gray background) views of the element
references found in the referencing document. For example, if document
A references a table element contained in document B and
if document B is modified, "Edit Referencing Document"
will not only bring the window of document A to front but it will
also update the view of the table.
- Command "Edit|Cut" is now reference-enabled. That is,
cut (Ctrl-X) and paste (Ctrl-V) can now be used to move a reference to
an element contained in an external document from one place of the
document being edited to another place in this document.
- Added a "Text anti-aliasing" checkbox to the General
section of the Options dialog box. By default this option is
turned off because it noticeably slows down XXE.
Note that
turning on this option is not needed on the Mac where anti-aliasing is
part of the Aqua Look&Feel. Also note that when used with
JavaTM 1.5 (recommended), the whole GUI of XXE is
anti-aliased. When used with JavaTM 1.4, only the text of the
document views is anti-aliased. - The GUI of XXE is now updated in real-time when an external
application changes the contents of the system clipboard. This always
works when using JavaTM 1.5 and only works to a certain
extent when using JavaTM 1.4.
Technical information: - Commands run and start can now be executed
conditionally depending on the platform. Example:
<choice>
<command name="run" parameter='[Windows] notepad "%D"' />
<command name="run" parameter='[Unix] emacs "%D"' />
</choice> - Command insertCharByName has a new [DocBookIfNone]
option. When this option is used, the dialog box displayed by this
command lists the names of the character entities defined in the DocBook
4.2 DTD, but only if the DTD/Schema of the document being edited does
not define its own character entities.
- Command cutInclusionEnabled is available under both
"cut" and "cutInclusionEnabled" names. Simple cut
command (i.e. The one which is not reference-enabled) is still available
under the "plainCut" name.
Similarly, command
pasteInclusionEnabled is available under both "paste"
and "pasteInclusionEnabled" names. Simple paste command (i.e.
The one which is not reference-enabled) is still available under the
"plainPaste" name.
Bug fixes: - Commands incrSectionLevel and decrSectionLevel
were not disabled when the element being edited (e.g. The chapter
containing the sections) was marked as being read-only.
- CSS property background-color is now automatically
inherited when an ancestor style has property display: inline.
The CSS spec does not mandate this. This is just a workaround for a
limitation in our implementation.
- Localizations of XXE configuration (.xxe) files and of XXE
GUI (.xxe_gui) files did not work when XXE was deployed using
Java Web Start.
- After switching from a CSS style sheet to another (or to no style
sheet at all) using the View menu, the document was not properly
scrolled to make the selection (selected node, caret, etc) visible.
Possible incompatibilities: - Translations to languages other than English and spell checker
dictionaries other than the English one must now be downloaded and
installed separately using XXE integrated add-on manager (that is, menu
item Options|Install Add-ons).
- Support of WebDAV and support of FTP have been unbundled. From now,
you'll have to download and install the following add-ons if you need
the ability to edit document stored on a WebDAV and/or an FTP server
(Professional Edition only):
- WebDAV virtual drive plug-in
- FTP virtual drive plug-in
- The APT format
plug-in and the RenderX XEP 3.7
(not 4+) XSL-FO processor plug-in are no longer available.
- Configurations for creating XXE configurations and XXE GUIs have
been unbundled. If you need them, you'll have to download and install
the corresponding add-ons.
- Persons distributing custom configurations for XXE are strongly
urged to package them as add-ons.
Custom configurations not
packaged as add-ons should still work fine without any change, but
they will be ignored by the new add-on manager. That is, the user will
not be able to use Options|Install Add-ons to
install/uninstall/upgrade these unpackaged custom
configurations. Packaging any type of add-on (configuration, translation,
dictionary, XSL-FO processor plug-in, etc) for use by XXE integrated
add-on manager is simple: - Put all your files in a common directory. Example:
my_config/acme.xxe, my_config/acme.dtd,
my_config/acme.css, my_config/acme.xml.
- Add an add-on descriptor to this directory. Example:
my_config/my_config.xxe_addon.
An add-on descriptor is
a very simple XML file having a .xxe-addon extension and
conforming to the RELAX NG schema contained in the add-on called
"A configuration for specifying XMLmind XML Editor
add-ons". Example of minimal add-on descriptor: <a:addon location="my_config.zip"
xmlns:a="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/addon">
<a:category><a:configuration /></a:category>
<a:name>A configuration for creating ACME documents</a:name>
<a:version>1.0.0</a:version>
</a:addon> - Zip this common directory (using 7-Zip or Info-Zip for example).
Example: my_config.zip.
Topmost directory
my_config/ should be included in the .zip
file. - Put the .zip file, along with a copy of your add-on
descriptor (pointing to the .zip file as shown in the
above example), on a public web site of yours. Example:
http://www.acme.com/pub/my_config.zip and
http://www.acme.com/pub/my_config.xxe_addon.
- Tell your users to drag and drop URL
http://www.acme.com/pub/my_config.xxe_addon onto the list
displayed by XXE Options dialog box
(Options|Options, Install add-ons section).
This step is done once for all, as user preferences are persistent
in XXE.
V3.0 Patch 1 (December 2, 2005)Enhancements: - DocBook 4.4 is now the version of the DocBook DTD which is used by
default.
- XXE_install_dir/doc/rnsupport/config/docbook5/ now
contains a ready-to-use configuration for DocBook V5.0b1. Previously,
this directory contained a configuration which could be used to create
documents conforming to DocBook NG, the "Lillet"
release.
Remainder: do not use this configuration for
serious work (even if it is almost as usable as the normal, DTD-based,
configuration). This configuration has mainly been created to test the
support of RELAX NG in XXE. - Upgraded
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