Documentation of XMLmind XML Editor

The Home Page of XMLmind XML Editor (XXE for short) is http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/.
The history of changes is found in http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/changes.html.

This documentation is about XMLmind XML Editor Professional Edition. However, in all the following documents, features missing, disabled or on the contrary, specific to Editions other than the Professional one are marked using this icon Feature available only in Professional Edition..

Documentation for the end user

XMLmind XML Editor - User's Guide
This guide contains information about the installation of XXE, the contents of its distribution, and a comprehensive tutorial.

This guide is available in several formats, all generated within XXE using the DocBook|Convert Document menu:

Format File XSL-FO processor used to generate the file
DocBook DocBook userguide.xml N/A.
You may want to open this file in XXE (drag the link and drop it in XXE).
PDF PDF userguide.pdf RenderX XEP 4.14 (http://www.renderx.com/)
RTF (.rtf) RTF userguide.rtf XMLmind XSL-FO Converter 4.3.1 (http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/)
WordprocessingML (MS-Word 2003) WordprocessingML (MS-Word 2003) userguide.word.xml XMLmind XSL-FO Converter
Office Open Document (MS-Word 2007) Office Open Document (MS-Word 2007) userguide.docx XMLmind XSL-FO Converter
OpenOffice (OpenOffice.org 2) OpenDocument (OpenOffice.org 2) userguide.odt XMLmind XSL-FO Converter
Quick reference cards
Quick reference cards in PDF format: A4, Letter, Mac/A4, Mac/Letter. (Everything needed to generate these quick reference cards is found here.)
XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help
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). [PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Using the Integrated Spreadsheet Engine
This guide contains everything you need to know to use the spreadsheet engine integrated in XXE. This document starts with an easy-to-follow tutorial. [PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - DocBook Support
This document, which is also available using the online help system of XXE, describes the commands which are specific to DocBook, Simplified DocBook and Slides. [PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - XHTML Support
This document, which is also available using the online help system of XXE, describes the commands which are specific to XHTML. [PDF]

Documentation for the local guru

XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment
This document describes how to customize and deploy XXE. [PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Commands
This documents contains the reference of all native XXE commands and explains how to write custom macro-commands. [PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of Cascading Style Sheets (W3C CSS)
This document describes the subset of CSS2 supported by XXE, as well as advanced ``proprietary extensions'' needed to style complex XML documents. [PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Customizing the User Interface
This document describes how to customize the user interface of XXE by writing a GUI specification (.xxe_gui XML files) and by deploying it. [PDF]
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of RELAX NG Schemas
This document describes how RELAX NG schemas are supported by XMLmind XML Editor. [PDF]
The xmltool command-line utility
This document is the reference manual of the xmltool command-line utility. This utility, like all the other command-line utilities, is found in XXE_install_dir/bin/. [PDF]
Using translatexxe
This document describes how to use translatexxe, a command-line utility which can be used to translate messages (menu labels, button labels, error messages, etc) contained in XMLmind XML Editor. [PDF]

Documentation for the JavaTM programmer

Note that the dev/ and api/directories are initially empty. You need to download xxe-devdocs-* from www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml and unzip the downloaded archive in the directory where you have installed XXE (e.g. C:\Program Files\XMLmind_XML_Editor\) in order to populate these directories.

XMLmind XML Editor - Developer's Guide
This guide describes how to embed an XML editor based on XXE components into another application, how to write a command, a document hook, a style sheet extension, an image toolkit plug-in, etc. For experienced JavaTM programmers only. [PDF]
The Create Project wizard As of XXE v3.6.2, this guide comes with a graphical wizard which makes it easy creating Ant and/or Eclipse projects. Start this wizard by executing "java -jar createproject.jar" in a terminal. (JavaTM archive createproject.jar is found in subdirectory createproject/ of the directory containing the Developer's Guide.)
XMLmind XML Editor Java TM API
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