Documentation for XML authors

(Documentation for XML consultants and Java™ developers is found here.)

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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.

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]

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.
• 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.
• W3C recommendations: HTML 4.01. XHTML 1.0. HTML 5.x.
• Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (W3C recommendation).

  Tutorial: MathML Presentation Markup for the Impatient.