This preference sheet is absent when XMLmind XML Editor has been started using Java™ Web Start.
Add-ons available for download are listed in .xxe_addon
files. The list of ``servers'' below this checkbox contains the URLs of these .xxe_addon
files.
Use button
to add an URL to the list.Use button
to modify the selected URL.Use button
to remove the selected URL from the list.Use button
to reset the list to a standard value. Clicking this button displays a dialog box allowing to choose between three different strategies:Recommended choice if you are running one of the two most recent versions of XMLmind XML Editor.
Use this server when the primary add-on server is temporarily down.
Use the archive if you are running a version older than the two most recent versions of XMLmind XML Editor.
Default: checked. The default value of the list of ``servers'' is:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_usercontrib/list.xxe_addon
http://www.xmlmind.net/xmleditor/_download/list-
(for example, variable ${XXE_VERSION}
.xxe_addon${XXE_VERSION}
is replaced by "3_5_2
" if the version of the running XML Editor is v3.5.2)
Zip files containing add-ons may have been downloaded using a Web browser and then copied to a local directory (for example, because you have problems downloading add-ons directly from XXE). In such case, check this box and specify in the text field below it this local directory.
Note that this directory may also contain unzipped add-ons (not recommended though). This is useful because sometimes Web browsers have the bad habit of automatically unzipping the downloaded Zip files.
Default: not checked. No local directory containing Zip files.
Install all types of add-ons in
, where XXE_user_preferences_dir
/addon/XXE_user_preferences_dir
is:
on Linux.$HOME
/.xxe5/
on the Mac.$HOME
/Library/Application Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor5/
on Windows XP, Vista and 7.%APPDATA%
\XMLmind\XMLEditor5\
Example: C:\Documents and Settings\john\Application Data\XMLmind\XMLEditor5\
on Windows XP. C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\XMLmind\XMLEditor5\
on Windows Vista and 7.
If you cannot see the "Application Data
" directory using Microsoft Windows File Manager, turn on Tools>Folder Options>View>File and Folders>Show hidden files and folders.
This radiobutton is disabled (grayed) if you have insufficient privileges to create files in this directory.
Default: not checked.
Install all types of add-ons in
, where XXE_install_dir
/addon/
is, for example, on Windows, XXE_install_dir
C:\Program Files\XMLmind_XML_Editor
.
This radiobutton is disabled (grayed) if you have insufficient privileges to create files in this directory.
Default: not checked.
Add-ons which depend on a specific version of XXE are installed in
, other add-ons are installed in XXE_install_dir
/addon/
.XXE_user_preferences_dir
/addon/
This way, the add-ons which depend on a specific version of XXE, are automatically uninstalled when, in the future, you'll upgrade the application. The other add-ons, which do not on a specific version of XXE, are not uninstalled when, in the future, you'll upgrade the application.
In practice, the following add-ons are installed in
:XXE_install_dir
/addon/
XSL-FO processor plug-ins.
Image toolkit plug-ins.
Non-XML format plug-ins.
Virtual drive plug-ins.
Configurations, customizing XXE for a given document type, which include custom commands written in Java™.
On the other hand, the following add-ons are installed in
:XXE_user_preferences_dir
/addon/
Translations of XXE to languages other than English.
Spell checker dictionaries other than the English one.
Configurations, customizing XXE for a given document type, which don't include custom commands written in Java™.
Note that this radiobutton is disabled (grayed) if you have insufficient privileges to create files in the
directory or in the XXE_user_preferences_dir
/addon/
directory, that is, when there is no possible choice for the installation directory.XXE_install_dir
/addon/
Default: checked.