I should have said so in my first mail, but better late than never: XXE 2
looks  VERY good. I have a few minor gripes about the GUI (still too
mouse-dependent for me), but I imagine that I will be able to get round much
of that with customizations when the more detailed doc turns up.

I use XXE to edit documents based on our own DTDs, and I'm trying to make
use of the catalog functionality to point to these DTDs. I have the
following questions/comments:

As far as I can see, if I specify a relative path to a DTD in a catalog
file, then that path is interpreted relative to XXE's config catalog, and
not relative to the actual location of the catalog file. Is that correct?

It would seem to me to be more useful if it were relative to the catalog
location. I have all my documents and the DTDs they use located in a CVS
tree that is mounted with different paths by different people. If paths were
interpreted relative to the catalog file location, then I could place a
catalog file at the top of this tree. All users then have to do would be to
point XXE to the catalog file. As it is, they will need to have their own
catalog file that specifies absolute paths to each DTD (I think).

What about access to a similarly centralized CSS file (for display in
Ayuda)? Will each user have to set the <cfg:css> element in their XXE config
file themselves, or is there some way of using the catalog for CSS file
references  as well?

Or would I be better off ignoring the catalog and config files, and relying
on the fact that the new XXE seems to leave relative paths alone?

I see that use of schema is restricted in the free version of XXE. Am I
correct in assuming that means that if I want to convert my DTDs to XSDs and
use XXE for editing documents based on them, then I need to buy the
commercial version?

More generally, it would be nice to know in detail now what the differences
between the free and commercial versions of XXE are going to be, and what
the commercial version is going to cost. I see decision time approaching....

Best regards
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Kevin Flynn 
Birdstep Technology www.birdstep.com 
Mobile: +47 93433942

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