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What is XMLmind XML Editor?

XMLmind XML Editor is a strictly validating, near WYSIWYG, DocBook editor, DITA editor, MathML editor, XHTML 5 editor, XML editor (screenshots Open in a new window). Because XMLmind XML Editor is highly extensible, it may be also be used to create documents conforming to your own custom schema. Its users are generally technical writers who need to author large, complex, modular, documents. More ğ

XMLmind XML Editor running on Windows 8

(In the above video, notice that the author uses almost exclusively the keyboard to create a sample DocBook article. Of course, it is possible to accomplish the same tasks using the mouse, the tool bar, the node path bar, etc.)
v5.6 (April 2, 2013): Highlights:
  • Several enhancements making it easier to work with images.
  • It is now possible to convert DITA documents, possibly containing rich media, to XHTML 5, Web Help containing XHTML 5, EPUB 3.
  • Important internal changes related to the clipboard and to CSS support.
v5.5 (January 21, 2013): The following changes should make XMLmind XML Editor at the same time more powerful and easier to use:
  • The XHTML, DITA and DocBook tool bars now start with a number of “text style” toggles.
  • New Go back and Go forward buttons coupled to a new automatic bookmarking facility.
  • Pressing Enter, Delete or Backspace now works as expected inside paragraphs and list items.
  • The right-click menu is now contextual. Example: it has "Follow Link" and "Set Link Target" entries when you right-click inside a link element.
v5.4.1 (November 6, 2012): Hunspell, the spell checker used by a number of major open source and proprietary software, is now available as an alternative to XMLmind Spell Checker. Several other, minor yet useful, enhancements.
v5.4 (September 17, 2012): Major enhancements:
  • An image can be resized interactively by dragging one of the “handles” displayed around it.
  • Dragging a separator found between two table columns allows to resize these columns.
  • When converting a DITA or DocBook document to an output format such as HTML, Web Help, PDF, RTF, etc, it's now possible to automatically colorize the source code contained in pre, codeblock, programlisting, etc, elements.

Changes in the distributions of XMLmind XML Editor:

  • XMLmind XML Editor, whether Professional Edition or Evaluation Edition, is now distributed with most features preselected and most add-ons pre-installed.
  • Free Personal Edition has been suppressed.
v5.3 (June 21, 2012): Highlights:
  • The combination of new menu item "Options|Customize Configuration|Customize Document Conversion Stylesheets" and new specialized editor XMLmind XSL Customizer allow to extensively customize the deliverables (HTML, EPUB, PDF, RTF, etc) which are generated by the "Convert Document" menus, without modifying configuration files by hand and without prior knowledge of XSLT.
  • Substantially enhanced the MathML tool.
v5.2.1 (May 9, 2012): New "Easy Selection Mode" (primer; screencast). Several other enhancements (sort table rows, preview converted document, etc) and also some bug fixes.
v5.2 (March 14, 2012): Overhauled XHTML support, now including support for XHTML 5:
  • Robust, self-contained, W3C XML Schema for XHTML 5 which is as faithful to W3C Working Draft 25 May 2011 as an W3C XML Schema can be.
  • New CSS stylesheets.

    When the "Emulate Web Browser" stylesheet has been selected, XXE will dynamically apply to the styled view all the CSS styles found in style attributes, style elements and link elements pointing to CSS stylesheets.

  • New XSLT 2 stylesheets allow to convert XHTML 1.0, 1.1 and 5.0 documents to PostScript, PDF, RTF, WordprocessingML, Office Open XML (.docx) and OpenOffice (.odt).

    By default, the CSS styles specified in XHTML style attributes, style and link elements also apply to the XSL-FO file generated by these XSLT 2 stylesheets.