XMLmind XML Editor

DESCRIPTION

XMLmind XML Editor is a highly-extensible, multi-platform, validating XML editor featuring a word processor-like view.

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WHAT'S NEW

Version 4.6.0:

The major enhancement of this release is the Link tool. The Link tool has been designed to allow quickly creating simple navigation links (e.g. DITA xref and link elements).
Edit|Processing Instruction|Insert Processing Instruction Before, Insert Processing Instruction, Insert Processing Instruction After now use the last target interactively specified using Edit|Processing Instruction|Change Processing Instruction Target. Previously, a newly inserted processing instruction always had a "target" target.
Improved the usability of the "Add document to list" button of the Include tool.
The addBlockInFlow, xhtml.addBlock and dita.addBlock commands now accept an element template argument. Previously these commands only accepted an element name argument.
Modified the RenderX XEP XSL-FO processor plug-in to support the following formats: AFP, XPS, PPML, HTML, SVG and XEP (RenderX own format) in addition to PDF and PostScript. Note that the support of the AFP, Microsoft XPS, PPML, HTML and SVG formats getting the corresponding add-ons from RenderX.
The WebDAV virtual drive plug-in now automatically refreshes the lock of a document before this document is saved to the server. (As of RFC 4918, there is no implicit refresh of locks anymore. Therefore this explicit refresh may be really needed.) If the WebDAV virtual drive plug-in cannot refresh a lock because this lock has already expired, the plug-in will attempt to recreate this lock. Note that the WebDAV virtual drive plug-in always requests an infinite timeout for the locks it creates. However most WebDAV servers are configured to return a shorter timeout (e.g. 24 hours). Locks actually having an infinite timeout are of course never refreshed.
System property XXE_DAV_USE_SIMPLE_REFS allows the "WebDAV virtual drive plug-in" add-on to cope proxies which do not support the WebDAV protocol (example: Apache httpd forwarding WebDAV requests to a Tomcat instance running XMLmind Document Repository).
System property XXE_FOP_CONFIG specifies the URL of a user-defined FOP configuration file. Note that, because this URL is resolved using the XML catalogs of XXE, this allows to bundle a custom FOP configuration file with the FOP plug-in, prior to deploying XXE using JavaTM Web Start.
System property XXE_XEP_CONFIG is similar to XXE_FOP_CONFIG, but applies to RenderX XEP rather than to Apache FOP.
Upgraded Saxon to version 9.2.0.6.
Upgraded XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac) to version 1.2.1_01.
Upgraded the XMLmind XSL-FO Converter (XFC for short) plug-in to version 4.4. If the add-on named "Apache Batik image toolkit plug-in" is also installed, the XFC plug-in automatically supports SVG fo:external-graphic and fo:instream-foreign-object. If the add-on named "JEuclid image toolkit plug-in" is also installed, the XFC plug-in automatically supports MathML fo:external-graphic and fo:instream-foreign-object.
In some cases, it was not possible to copy a reference to an element (Ctrl+Shift-C) just after giving it an ID using the Attributes tool.
DITA: using Copy as Reference/Paste or the Include tool caused the insertion of a transcluded element bearing the same id attribute as its conref target. This bug went unnoticed for a long time because saving the document and then reopening it in a subsequent editing session automatically removed this spurious id attribute.
DITA: XXE failed to transclude ``conref-ed'' images, that is, elements such as .
The base-64 decoder used by XXE failed to decode data using non-standard line lengths.
The Search|Bookmark submenu is now an optional feature, disabled by default. If you need it, please select Options|Preferences, General|Features section and check "Enable the Search|Bookmark Submenu".
Removed the Edit|Text submenu. This submenu was not really useful. The Replace, Insert and Convert commands all allow to create text nodes.
Id and href attributes are no longer automatically checked each time you save a DITA topic. You now need to explicitly click the "Check links" button of the Link tool to do that. On the other hand, if you specify a DITA map as the "Link context", you'll be able to check the navigation links found in the topic being edited against all the link targets of all the topics referenced in this map.
The DITA Topic menu no longer contains the "Go to..." item. A similar facility, the dialog box displayed by clicking the "View link context" button, is now found in the Link tool
The xhtml.crossReference and dita.crossReference commands have both been replaced by generic command followLink.
The Ctrl+Shift-X keyboard shortcut is now bound to the addLink command. Note that this command is available even when the Link tool has not been enabled by checking "Enable the Link Tool" in Options|Preferences, General|Features section.
The preference key "features" has been renamed to "featureList". In consequence, you need to select Options|Preferences, General|Features section and to check the checkboxes corresponding to the features you need.
XMLmind XML Editor is no longer officially supported on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Java 1.5 or later.