How To

Q: How can I view in the XML source of my document?

A: XMLmind XML Editor has a tree view, a styled view but no source view. Therefore, you need to use a third party tool, for example a text editor, for that.

As of XXE v3.7, the Tools menu has two entries allowing to do just that:

Open Document in Help Application

Use this entry if you simply need to view the document, not to edit it.

Edit Document in Help Application

Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift-D. Use this entry if you want to edit the document and then, if modified, to automatically reload it in XXE.

Alternatively, you can drop the icon looking like a bookmark, found in the node path bar, directly on the text editor.

A helper application allowing to edit plain text file "helper(text/plain)" is declared by default. You can change this default text editor (e.g. notepad on Windows) by modifying the "text/plain" item in the Preferences dialog box, Helper Applications section, File types list.

Using the same dialog box, you can also associate a specialized editor to the filename extension of your XML document. For example, you can specify to always use Inkscape to open and edit XML documents having a ".svg" extension.