XMLmind XML Editor V2.3 can be downloaded from
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml
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XMLmind XML Editor V2.3 (May 07, 2003)
Enhancements:
* Standard controls such as buttons, menus,
check boxes, combo boxes, lists, etc, can be
embedded in the styled document view. Buttons
and menus are used to execute commands such as
insert element, replace element, etc. Other
controls are used to edit attribute or element
values. These controls are specified as
generated content in the CSS style sheet. With
this feature, XXE can be used to edit XML
data, XML documents or a mix of both content
types.
New demo file
XXE_distrib_dir/demo/bugreport.xml shows this
feature in action for a mix of XML data (bug
report fields) and XML document (descriptive
fields contain styled XHTML).
* A generic style sheet called xmldata.css can
be used to style any data-oriented XML file.
It is now used by default to style XML-Shemas
and XXE configuration files.
This very short style sheet makes heavy use of
a pseudo-function called value-editor(). This
specification instructs XXE to examine the DTD
or XML-Schema to find which controls to embed
in the document view. For example,
value-editor() will automatically create two
radio buttons to edit an attribute having
strings yes and no as its possible values.
This style sheet can easily create thousands
of controls. Note that in fact what you see is
thousands of ``control images'' and not actual
controls. A document view contains at most a
single actual control. This control replaces
its ``image'' when you click on it or when you
``tab'' to give it keyboard focus.
* XXE is much nicer to use for editing documents
not constrained by a DTD or a XML-Schema.
New option Simulate a document type
(Options|Options, Open tab), turned on by
default, may be used to simulate a document
type for DTD-less documents.
The pseudo document type simply remembers all
attributes and child elements added to each
element during the editing session. Thanks to
this pseudo document type, the pick lists of
the Edit and Attributes tools are always
filled with sensible values.
* Command enhancements (mainly useful to write
macros):
+ Added command XXE.open which loads a
document into XXE and command XXE.save
which saves the document being edited in
XXE.
+ Added command get which evaluates a
simple XPath query in the context of
selected element.
+ Enhanced command run (%DU, %DF
substituted variables). Added command
start, similar to run but which executes
an external command asynchronously (like
Windows start or Unix &).
+ Enhanced commands selectNode (self,
preceding, precedingOrSelf, following,
followingOrSelf options).
+ Added new commands addAttribute and
removeAttribute and enhanced command
putAttribute ([empty], [dummy], [id]
options).
For example these enhancements now allow to
automate the following tasks:
+ Open image referenced in document being
edited in an external image viewer (see
XXE_distrib_dir/docs/poweruser/
samples2/mydocbook.xxe).
+ Open URL referenced in document being
edited in a Web browser.
+ Load document being edited in an external
text editor, modify it using this text
editor and reload modified document in
XXE (see XXE_distrib_dir/docs/poweruser/
samples2/defaultbindings.xxe).
* CSS enhancements (all related to generated
content):
+ Root element can now have generated
content.
+ In addition to rows(), row(), cell(), new
constructs division(), paragraph(),
content() can be used to structure and
layout generated content.
+ The image() pseudo-function has a new
optional parameter which specifies which
fallback image to use when the image to
be displayed is not found or cannot be
loaded.
+ gadget("com.xmlmind.xmledit.form.Collapser")
can now be specified as collapser()
and the way the parameters of this toggle
button are specified has changed.
+ If, for example, pseudo function
element-name() displays the name of an
element as cfg:documentResources, new
pseudo-function element-label() displays
it as "Document resources".
* Configuration element "include" now has a
boolean "system" attribute which can be used to
include a configuration file located in XXE
distribution directory (that is, a system wide
configuration file) without having to
explicitly specify the location of this
directory.
This attribute is very useful for a user
wishing to override, say the bundled DocBook
configuration, by a personal, customized, one
(see XXE_distrib_dir/docs/poweruser/
samples2/mydocbook.xxe).
* Added a ID/IDREF navigation button to the
toolbars specified in XXE configuration files.
* Ctrl-Click-3 on the node path bar copies the
displayed path to the clipboard.
Bug fixes:
* Extending text selection to previous word
(shortcut Ctrl+Shift-Left) did not behave as
expected.
* Dictionaries other than en.dar, fr.dar, de.dar
and es.dar were not found by XXE.
* Command selectFile returned a URL instead of a
file name when used with parameter openFile,
saveFile, openDirectory or saveDirectory.
* Options Guess ignorable whitespace and Ignore
<?xml-stylesheet?> (Options|Options, Open tab)
required XXE to be restarted in order to be
effective.
* Default namespace specified by user using
Tools|Declare Namespace was not saved as such
by XXE (example:
xmlns="http://www.acme.com/my/default/ns";) if
the namespace was not used by elements or
attributes in the document. This was
especially annoying for XML-Schemas created
using XXE.
* XML Schema only: a false error was reported in
the following case: an element is supposed to
contain data (example: xs:int), is empty but
has a default value (example: 0). Note that
this error can only occur with XXE. It cannot
occur with xsdvalid.
