XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help

Hussein Shafie

Pixware

91 rue Gambetta,
78120 Rambouillet,
France,
Phone: +33 (0)1 30 59 81 44,
Web: www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor
Email:  (public mailing list)

September 29, 2011

Abstract

This online help contains, in addition to a short tutorial, the reference manual of all the menus, tool bars and dialog boxes of XMLmind XML Editor (XXE for short).


Table of Contents

I. Getting started
1. Install
1. Installing XXE
1.1. Requirements
1.2. Install on Linux (or manual install on the Mac)
1.3. Manual install on Windows
2. Contents of the installation directory
3. Acknowledgments
2. Getting started with XMLmind XML Editor
II. Reference
3. Menus
1. File menu
1.1. "Document Set" menu
1.2. Folder menu
2. Select menu
2.1. The selection in XXE
2.1.1. Text selection
2.1.2. Node selection
2.1.3. Implicit element selection
2.2. Menu items
3. Edit menu
3.1. Comment menu
3.2. Processing instruction menu
3.3. Reference menu
4. Search menu
4.1. Bookmark menu
5. View menu
6. Tools menu
6.1. Helper Application menu
6.2. Spreadsheet menu
6.3. "Record Macro" menu
7. XML menu
8. Options menu
8.1. "Customize Configuration" menu
9. Window menu
10. Help menu
4. The document view area
5. Main tool bar
6. The node selection bar
1. The node path bar
1.1. Non-editable nodes
1.2. Elements which are in non-validating mode
2. Navigation tool bar
7. Tools
1. Edit tool
2. Include tool
2.1. Working with ``XML variables''
2.2. Using the Include tool
3. Attributes tool
3.1. Using the attribute table
3.2. Using the attribute form
4. Search tool
5. Spell tool
6. Character tool
6.1. The “Favorites” palette
7. Validity tool
8. The "Document Set" tool
8.1. What is a document set?
8.2. How to open a document set in XXE?
8.3. The "Document Set" tool
8.4. Using the "Document Set" tool
9. The "Browse Files" tool
10. The "Search Files" tool
10.1. The "Create or edit an advanced query" dialog box
10.2. Syntax of search queries
8. Status bar
1. Validity state
2. Document cache indicator
3. Status messages
4. Automatic spell checker
5. Overwrite mode
6. Clipboard utilities
6.1. Clipboard content
9. Dialog boxes
1. The URL chooser dialog box
2. The "Find Element" dialog box
2.1. The "Simple" tab
2.2. The "Advanced" tab
3. The "Declare Namespace" dialog box
4. The spreadsheet formula editor
5. The "Preferences" dialog box
5.1. New options
5.2. Open options
5.3. Save options
5.4. Print options
5.5. Edit options
5.6. View options
5.6.1. "CSS stylesheet defaults" subsection
5.6.2. "Tree view settings" subsection
5.7. Tools options
5.7.1. Validate options
5.7.2. Document Set options
5.7.3. Spell options
5.7.4. Helper applications options
5.7.5. Spreadsheet options
5.8. Window options
5.9. Install add-ons options
5.10. General options
5.10.1. Features Options
5.11. Advanced options
5.11.1. Cached data options
5.11.2. Proxies options
6. The "Tree view fonts and colors" dialog box
7. The "Helper Application Editor" dialog box
8. The "Install Add-ons" dialog box
9. The "Save Document As Template" dialog box
9.1. Organizing the content of the FileNew dialog box
9.2. Removing a previously defined document template
10. The "Save Selected Element as Template" dialog box
10.1. Advanced options
10.2. Removing a previously defined element template
11. The "Add Keyboard Shortcut" dialog box
11.1. Removing a previously defined keyboard shortcut
12. The "Change Document Conversion Parameters" dialog box
12.1. The "Parameter Set Chooser" dialog box
A. Command line options
1. Command line
2. Preference keys
3. Environment variables
4. System properties

List of Figures

2.1. A newly created chapter
2.2. The node path bar
2.3. The text selection
2.4. The "Convert to emphasis" toolbar button
2.5. The Edit tool
2.6. Explicitly selected section
2.7. The "Add table" toolbar button
2.8. The Clipboard tool
2.9. Before pressing the Ins key
2.10. After pressing the Ins key
2.11. The Attributes tool
2.12. A modular book including a chapter found in a separate document
3.1. The "Helper Application Not Found" dialog box
4.1. Tab corresponding to the active document
4.2. Tab corresponding to the active document when it is in read-only mode
7.1. A document set specified by a DITA map and 3 topic members opened in XXE
7.2. A document set specified by a modular DocBook book and 3 chapter or section members opened in XXE
7.3. A document set specified by a glob pattern and 3 XHTML page members opened in XXE
7.4. The "Document Set" tool showing the document set corresponding to the map of our DITA tutorial
7.5. The "Browse Files" tool showing the source files of our DITA tutorial
7.6. Search our DITA tutorial for topic files (*.dita) containing substring "link"
7.7. The "Create or edit an advanced query" dialog box
9.1. Composition area displayed below the caret
9.2. The "Parameter Set Chooser" dialog box

List of Tables

2.1. Edit tool commands
9.1. Lock Types
9.2. XHTML examples
9.3. Substituted Variables

List of Examples

3.1. A use case for command Force Deletion
3.2. Example: book referencing chapters
7.1. Default language versus actual language example
7.2. A simple use case