Personal Edition

Product description

XMLmind XML Editor Personal Edition is a very powerful authoring tool which has all the features needed to edit any XML document, whether conforming to a standard schema (DocBook, DITA, XHTML, etc) or to a proprietary one.

Personal Edition has no restrictions in terms of schema. DTD, W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG schema and Schematron are all fully supported.

See features for a thorough description of XMLmind XML Editor Personal Edition.

Personal Edition can be freely downloaded from this page.

Differences between Personal Edition and Professional Edition

• Personal Edition is free of charge, but comes with a license which restricts it to non-commercial use.
• Process commands (used to transform part or all of the document being edited using the integrated XSLT engine) are strongly restricted in Personal Edition.

  This means that "Convert Document" menus are absent in Personal Edition.

  This also means that the command line utility convertdoc, which may be used to execute process commands outside XXE (useful in scripts and makefiles), will not work.

• The following features are totally absent, which means that they are not only disabled, but also that you'll not find them in the menus, tool bars and dialog boxes of Personal Edition:
  • The automatic spell checker (which underlines misspelled words as they are typed).
  • Editing documents stored on remote filesystems (WebDAV, FTP, FTPS, SFTP).
  • The Compare tool (which shows the differences existing between two revisions of an initial document and which allows to accept or reject some or all the changes).
  • The Options|Customize Configuration menu (which allows end-users, that is non-experts, to customize an existing configuration by the means of simple dialog boxes).
  • The integrated spreadsheet engine.
• The GUI of Personal Edition cannot be customized (e.g. by the means of customize.xxe_gui files).
• Personal Edition cannot be deployed using Java^TM Web Start or as an applet.
• Support is limited to bug reports.

Why use Personal Edition?

Personal Edition is a good choice, at least in the following cases:

• You want to learn structured authoring, DocBook, DITA, XHTML, etc.
• You teach XML, W3C XML schema, RELAX NG, Schematron, DocBook, DITA, XHTML, etc, and need an XML editor which supports all these standards.
• You are an Open Source developer and want to write the documentation of your product in DocBook, DITA, XHTML, etc.
• Your are a member of a non-profit organization and want to write documents for this organization in DocBook, DITA, XHTML, etc.
• You are a student and want to write your thesis in DocBook, DITA, XHTML, etc.
• You want to evaluate XMLmind XML Editor.