Documentation

Documentation for the end user 

Documentation for the XML consultant

Documentation for the Java^TM programmer

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This documentation is about XMLmind XML Editor Professional Edition (XXE for short). 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 - 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. [Web Help] [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 - 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 - 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 - 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]

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]

Quick reference cards

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

Documentation for the XML consultant  

XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment

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

Personal Edition users, please remember that support to XML 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. It also explains how to extend XXE, that is, how to write a command, a validation hook, a style sheet extension, an image toolkit plug-in, etc. For experienced Java^TM programmers only. [PDF]

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.
• Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.2 (OASIS specification).
• DITA Language Specification v1.1 (OASIS specification). DITA Architectural Specification v1.1 (OASIS specification).
• DITA Open Toolkit, the reference implementation of DITA.
• XMLmind DITA Converter, the alternative to the DITA Open Toolkit which is integrated in XXE.
• XHTML (W3C recommendation). HTML 4.01 (W3C recommendation).
• XMLmind XML Editor Tutorial.
• Tutorial: DITA for the Impatient.
• Tutorial: MathML Presentation Markup for the Impatient.

Download the tutorial  

File	Size in bytes	Date	Description
xxe_tutorial.zip Same from alternate site	73,851,395	November 15, 2011 06:20:00	XMLmind XML Editor Tutorial in source form (.zip archive containing .html, .png, .swf, etc, files).
xxe_tutorial.pdf Same from alternate site	913,450	November 15, 2011 06:20:00	XMLmind XML Editor Tutorial in PDF format.
xxe_tutorial.docx Same from alternate site	986,521	November 15, 2011 06:20:00	XMLmind XML Editor Tutorial in Office Open XML format (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+).
xxe_tutorial.odt Same from alternate site	969,797	November 15, 2011 06:20:00	XMLmind XML Editor Tutorial in OpenOffice format (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice.org 2+).

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