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This documentation is about XMLmind XML Editor Professional Edition. However, in all the following documents, features missing, disabled or on the contrary, specific to Editions other than the Professional one are marked using this icon .

Documentation for the end user

XMLmind XML Editor - User's Guide

This guide contains information about the installation of XXE, the contents of its distribution, and a comprehensive tutorial.

This guide is available in several formats, all generated within XXE using the DocBook|Convert Document menu:

Format	File	XSL-FO processor used to generate the file
DocBook	userguide.xml	N/A. You may want to open this file in XXE (drag the link and drop it in XXE).
PDF	userguide.pdf	RenderX XEP 4.16 (http://www.renderx.com/)
RTF	userguide.rtf	XMLmind XSL-FO Converter 4.3.1 (http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/)
WordprocessingML (MS-Word 2003)	userguide.word.xml	XMLmind XSL-FO Converter
Office Open Document (MS-Word 2007)	userguide.docx	XMLmind XSL-FO Converter
OpenDocument (OpenOffice.org 2)	userguide.odt	XMLmind XSL-FO Converter

Quick reference cards

Quick reference cards in PDF format: A4, Letter, Mac/A4, Mac/Letter.

XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help

This online help contains, in addition to a short tutorial, the reference manual of all the menus, tool bars and dialog boxes of XXE. [PDF]

XMLmind XML Editor - Using the Integrated Spreadsheet Engine

This guide contains everything you need to know to use the spreadsheet engine integrated in XXE. This document starts with an easy-to-follow tutorial. [PDF]

XMLmind XML Editor - DocBook Support

This document, which is also available using the online help system of XXE, describes the commands which are specific to DocBook, Simplified DocBook and Slides. [PDF]

XMLmind XML Editor - XHTML Support

This document, which is also available using the online help system of XXE, describes the commands which are specific to XHTML. [PDF]

XMLmind XML Editor - DITA Support

This document, which is also available using the online help system of XXE, describes the commands which are specific to DITA. [PDF]

XMLmind XML Editor - Support of MathML 2

This document, which is also available using the online help system of XXE, describes everything you need to know to add equations to your XML documents. [PDF]

Documentation for the local guru

XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment

This document describes how to customize and deploy XXE. [PDF]

Personal Edition users, please remember that support to consultants/power users customizing and/or extending XMLmind XML Editor is reserved to the customers of Professional Edition.

XMLmind XML Editor - Commands

This documents contains the reference of all native XXE commands and explains how to write custom macro-commands. [PDF]

XMLmind XML Editor - Support of Cascading Style Sheets (W3C CSS)

This document describes the subset of CSS2 supported by XXE, as well as advanced ``proprietary extensions'' needed to style complex XML documents. [PDF]

XMLmind XML Editor - Customizing the User Interface

This document describes how to customize the user interface of XXE by writing a GUI specification (.xxe_gui XML files) and by deploying it. [PDF]

XMLmind XML Editor - Support of RELAX NG Schemas

This document describes how RELAX NG schemas are supported by XMLmind XML Editor. [PDF]

The xmltool command-line utility

This document is the reference manual of the xmltool command-line utility. This utility, like all the other command-line utilities, is found in XXE_install_dir/bin/. [PDF]

Using translatexxe

This document describes how to use translatexxe, a command-line utility which can be used to translate messages (menu labels, button labels, error messages, etc) contained in XMLmind XML Editor. [PDF]

Documentation for the Java^TM programmer

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

XMLmind XML Editor - Developer's Guide

This guide describes how to embed an XML editor based on XXE components into another application, how to write a command, a document hook, a style sheet extension, a format plug-in, etc. For experienced Java^TM programmers only. [PDF]

As of XXE v3.6.2, this guide comes with a graphical wizard which makes it easy creating Ant and/or Eclipse projects. Start this wizard by executing "java -jar createproject.jar" in a terminal. (JavaTM archive createproject.jar is found in the directory containing the Developer's Guide.)

Personal Edition users, please remember that support to developers is reserved to the customers of Professional Edition .

XMLmind XML Editor Java^TM API

Documentation generated using Javadoc^TM.

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.
• DocBook XSL Stylesheet Reference Documentation by Norman Walsh. DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide by Bob Stayton.
• Simplified DocBook. The Slides Document Type.
• XHTML (W3C recommendation). HTML 4.01 (W3C recommendation).
• DITA Language Specification v1.1 (OASIS specification). DITA Architectural Specification v1.1 (OASIS specification). DITA Open Toolkit.

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