XMLmind XML Editor V2.5 Patch 3 can be downloaded from
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml
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V2.5 Patch 3 (March 10, 2004)
Enhancements:
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* User Request: the DocBook menu contains two
new commands: Increase Section Level and
Decrease Section Level.
These commands require one or several section,
sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4 or sect5 elements
to be explicitly selected.
Increase Section Level
This command will increase the level
of selected sections by giving them a
new parent section.
Decrease Section Level
This command will decrease the level
of selected sections by moving them
out of their parent section.
Of course, these two commands will do
everything needed to keep the document valid.
Note that these two new commands,
incrSectionLevel and decrSectionLevel, are not
strictly DocBook-specific. They can be used
for other document types, provided that:
+ these commands are properly parametrized
(see Power User's Guide) ;
+ the content model of the sections in the
non-DocBook document type is similar to
the content model of the DocBook
sections.
For example, it is possible to use these
commands with APT documents (see
http://www.xmlmind.com/aptconvert.html).
* User Request: new command toggleCollapsed can
be used to collapse/expand collapsible views,
both in the tree view and in the styled view.
This generic, flexible, command can be used to
define custom keyboard shortcuts, custom
toolbar buttons and custom menus.
Example: after opening a large DocBook
document, the user often just wants to see the
outline of the document.
---
<binding>
<keyPressed code="ESCAPE" />
<charTyped char="0" />
<command name="toggleCollapsed"
parameter="collapseAll+expand" />
</binding>
---
After adding the above binding to
XXE_user_preferences_dir/config/customize.xxe,
the user, by typing Escape then typing 0, will
recursively collapse the whole document and
then expand one level of sections.
Many useful keyboard bindings, including the
above one are found in
XXE_install_dir/docs/poweruser/samples2/customize.xxe.
More generally, customizing XXE is
described in the Power User's Guide.
* In the Options dialog box, Schema tab, the DTD
catalogs frame which was used to specify XML
catalogs other that the bundled
XXE_install_dir/config/catalog.xml has been
suppressed.
The XXE_CATALOGS environment variable and the
xml.catalog.files system property which were
used to specify XML catalogs are now ignored.
Now XML catalogs are dynamically discovered at
XXE startup like all other configuration
files.
XML catalogs are expected to be files with
names ending with "atalog.xml". Like other
configuration files, these files are first
recursively searched in
XXE_user_preferences_dir/config/ and then in
XXE_install_dir/config/. (See Power User's
Guide for a thorough description of how XML
catalogs are dynamically discovered.)
The goal is to allow to deploy an XXE
configuration based on a custom DTD by
simpling telling the user to unzip the
configuration distribution in his/her
XXE_user_preferences_dir/config/.
An XXE configuration based on a custom DTD
almost always requires a custom XML catalog.
Previously this meant that the user not only
had to unzip the configuration distribution in
his XXE_user_preferences_dir/config/, but also
to manually add the custom catalog to the list
of all XML catalogs using the Options dialog
box.
* Spell-checker dictionaries, that is .dar
files, are now searched, not only in
XXE_install_dir/spell/, but also in
XXE_user_preferences_dir/spell/.
* Deployment of XXE using Java[tm] Web Start now
allows the user to work offline.
Previously, configuration files and associated
resources (DTD/XML-Schema, CSS, XSLT, icons,
etc) were kept on the deployment server and
therefore, were not cached on the PC of the
XXE user.
Now everything needed to run XXE
(configuration files, core code, plug-ins,
dictionaries, etc) is by default downloaded
and cached on the PC of the XXE user.
Note that the previous behaviour -- keeping
configuration files on the deployment server
-- is still supported but requires the
deploywebstart command line tool to be run
with option -online.
* Linux only: even when deployed using Java[tm]
Web Start, ugly Metal look is automatically
replaced by cool Kunststoff look
(http://www.incors.org/).
* User Request: XXE now really supports multiple
node selection in the
<copyDocument selection="true"> process
command child element. See Power User's Guide.
* The <transform> process command child element
has a new attribute cacheStylesheet which
allows to cache a precompiled form of the XSLT
style sheet used to transform a copy of the
document. See Power User's Guide.
Caching XSLT style sheets is useful to speed
up the execution of highly interactive process
commands.
* User Request: changed the order of traversal
of fields and buttons in the Attribute tool.
Ctrl-E gives the focus to the Attribute name
field. Pressing the tab key gives the focus to
the attribute Value field and then to the
List, Browse, Remove, Add/Change and Cancel
buttons.
* Upgraded XMLmind Spell-Checker to version
1.1p4.
* Upgraded Enterprise Distributed Technologies's
Java FTP client library to version 1.2.3
([3]http://www.enterprisedt.com/).
Bug fixes:
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* External entities defined in the external DTD
subset or in external parameter entities and
then referenced in the body of the document
were not always properly managed by XXE.
Note that XXE considers that external entities
defined in the external DTD subset or in
external parameter entities are logically part
of the DTD. That is, it does not consider this
kind of external entities as being resources
which are logically part of the document. For
example, during a Save As operation, XXE will
not attempt to copy this kind of external
entities along with the document to the new
location.
* In CSS style sheets, the identifier used as
the argument of pseudo-funtion attr() is now
case sensitive. This is allowed by the W3C
recommendation because the ``document
language'' is XML (case sensitive elements and
attributes) and not HTML (case insensitive
elements and attributes).
* Fixed the following bug: simply moving the
keyboard focus to date-field or number-field
controls embedded in the document view was
sufficient to mark the document as being
modified.
* XML Schema: the validation engine implemented
the original "Schema Component Constraint:
Type Derivation OK (Simple)" specification,
not the one fixed in "XML Schema 1.0
Specification Errata". This caused valid
substitution groups where the type of the head
was xs:anyType to be rejected by the engine.
* XML Schema: a substitution group containing
just a single non-abstract member was ignored.
Possible incompatibilities:
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* In CSS style sheets, the identifier used as
the argument of pseudo-funtion attr() is now
case sensitive.
* The XXE_CATALOGS environment variable and the
xml.catalog.files system property which were
used to specify XML catalogs are now ignored.
These variables have been replaced by another
environment variable called XXE_CATALOG. See
Power User's Guide for a thorough description
of how XML catalogs are dynamically discovered
by XXE.
* Option -online must be used to tell
deploywebstart to keep configuration files and
associated resources (DTD/XML-Schem, CSS,
XSLT, icons, etc) on the deployment server.
Now the default behaviour of deploywebstart is
to allow the user to work offline.
