XMLmind XML Editor - Commands

XMLmind XML Editor - Commands

Hussein Shafie

XMLmind Software

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78120 Rambouillet,
France,
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Email: <xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com> (public mailing list)

March 3, 2026

Abstract

This document contains the reference of all native XXE commands and explains how to write custom macro-commands.

Table of Contents

1. What is a command?

2. Writing macro-commands

1. How commands are executed
2. A sequence of commands
3. Alternative commands
4. Testing if a command can be executed
5. The "%_" variable
6. Macro-variables
7. Simple use of named variables
8. General use of get
9. Variables mapped to the selection in XXE
10. Contextual commands

II. Reference

3. Menu commands

1. Reference
2. Redefining or extending the right-click, contextual, popup menu

4. Macro commands

1. Reference

1.1. Pass and fail cheat sheet

1.2. Macro-variables

1.3. XPath variables

1.3.1. User variables
1.3.2. Predefined variables

2. Running XED scripts in a macro

3. Examples

5. Process commands

1. Reference

1.1. Attributes

1.2. Element copyDocument

1.2.1. Attributes
1.2.2. Element extract
1.2.3. Element resources

1.3. Element convertImage

1.3.1. Parameters supported by the built-in Java image toolkit

1.4. Element copyProcessResources

1.5. Element transform

1.5.1. Using a custom XSLT style sheet

1.6. Element processFO

1.7. Element upload

1.8. Element post

1.9. Element read

1.10. Element mkdir

1.11. Element rmdir

1.12. Element delete

1.13. Element copy

1.14. Element zip

1.15. Element jar

1.16. Element shell

1.17. Element invoke

1.18. Element subProcess

1.19. Process variables

2. Commented examples

2.1. Convert explicitly or implicitly selected para to a formalpara
2.2. Convert a DocBook document to RTF
2.3. Convert ImageDemo document to HTML

6. Commands written in the Java™ programming language

3. addAttribute

4. addBlockInFlow

5. autoSpellChecker

7. cancelSelection

9. checkExternalRefs

10. checkValidity

11. commentOut

12. confirm

13. contextualMenu

14. convert

15. convertCase

17. copyAsInclusion

18. copyChars

19. copyImage

20. countWords

22. declareNamespace

23. demoteListItem

23.1. Configuring the promoteListItem and demoteListItem commands

25. deleteChar

26. deleteSelectionOrDeleteChar

27. deleteSelectionOrJoinBlockOrDeleteChar

28. deleteWord

29. diffSupport

32. editAttribute

33. editAttributes

34. editObject

35. editPITarget

36. editMediaInfo

37. ensureSelectionAt

38. execute

39. executeMenuItem

40. extendSelectionAt

41. extractObject

43. formatTextAs

43.1. Specifying an element template for use by command formatTextAs
43.2. Filtering the text pasted in the document

45. insertCharByName

46. insertCharSequence

47. insertControlChar

48. insertNewlineOrSplitBlock

49. insertNode

50. insertOrOverwriteString

51. insertSpecialChars

52. insertSameBlock

52.1. Specifying splittable blocks

53. insertString

54. insertTextOrMoveDot

56. listAnchors

57. listBindings

58. listRepeatable

59. moveDotTo

60. moveElement

61. normalizeWhiteSpacePre

62. overwriteMode

63. overwriteString

66. pasteAs

67. pasteImageAs

68. pasteSystemSelection

70. preview

71. promoteListItem

73. putAttribute

74. recordMacro

76. refresh

77. reinclude

79. removeAttribute

81. replace

82. resizeImage

83. resizeTableTemplate

84. resizeCALSTableTemplate

87. searchReplace

88. searchReplaceElement

89. selectAt

90. selectFile

91. selectConvertedFile

92. selectLink

93. selectNode

93.1. List of element names or node types
93.2. OrNone, OrNode, OrElement modifiers

94. selectNodeAt

95. selectText

96. selectTo

97. setProperty

98. setReadOnly

99. setObject

100. showContentModel

101. showElementReference

102. showMatchingChar

103. spellCheck

106. status

107. toggleCollapsed

108. toggleTextStyle

109. unmarkdown

111. uninclude

112. updateInclusions

113. viewObject

114. webSearch

114.1. Declaring search engines

116. xIncludeText

117. xpathSearch

118. XXE.close

119. XXE.compare

120. XXE.edit

121. XXE.editInclusion

122. XXE.masterDocumentControl

123. XXE.new

124. XXE.open

125. XXE.save

126. XXE.saveAll

127. XXE.setReadOnly

128. XXE.saveAs

129. A generic, parameterizable, table editor command

A. Description of the XML differencing algorithm implemented by the Compare tool

1. Comparison with other approaches
2. Elements are given serial numbers
3. A simple XML differencing algorithm

B. Format of the revision history

List of Figures

6.1. The "Document conversion parameters" panel once expanded

List of Examples

3.1. Whatever the configuration, add extra menu items to the right-click, contextual, popup menu
3.2. DITA topic configuration: when an image is selected, allow to edit it using a helper application
3.3. Any of the two XHTML 1.0 configurations: when some text is selected, display a special, simpler, popup menu
4.1. Using sequence and choice
4.2. Macro-variables
4.3. The "%_" macro-variable
4.4. Using the fail construct
4.5. Using the XPath-based constructs match and set
4.6. A contextual drop
4.7. Insert nodes copied from another document
4.8. Convert a DocBook 5 para to a formalpara
6.1. XHTML example
6.2. TEI example
6.3. XHTML checkExternalRefs property
6.4. DITA checkExternalRefs property
6.5. TEI Lite checkExternalRefs property
6.6. DocBook 5+ checkExternalRefs property
6.7. XHTML listItemSpecification
6.8. DITA listItemSpecification
6.9. DocBook 5 listItemSpecification
6.10. TEI listItemSpecification
6.11. LwDITA listItemSpecification
6.12. Implementing a “click to follow link” facility using executeMenuItem
6.13. MathML example
6.14. DocBook 4 Markdown mapping
6.15. XHTML Markdown mapping


		Part I. Guide