XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help Hussein Shafie XMLmind Software <[email protected]> XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help Hussein Sha®e XMLmind Software <[email protected]> Publication date June 22, 2021 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 1. Install ............................................................................................................................. 3 1. Installing XMLmind XML Editor (XXE for short) .................................................... 3 2. Contents of the installation directory ......................................................................... 6 3. Acknowledgments ................................................................................................... 8 2. Getting started with XMLmind XML Editor ...................................................................... 9 II. Reference ............................................................................................................................. 12 3. Menus ........................................................................................................................... 16 1. File menu .............................................................................................................. 16 1.1. Folder menu ............................................................................................... 18 2. Select menu .......................................................................................................... 19 2.1. The selection in XXE .................................................................................. 19 2.1.1. Text selection ................................................................................... 19 2.1.2. Node selection ................................................................................. 20 2.1.3. Implicit element selection ................................................................. 21 2.2. Select menu items ....................................................................................... 21 2.2.1. Link submenu ................................................................................. 22 2.2.2. Navigation submenu ........................................................................ 23 3. Edit menu ............................................................................................................. 23 3.1. Comment menu .......................................................................................... 28 3.2. Processing instruction menu ........................................................................ 29 3.3. Reference menu .......................................................................................... 30 4. Search menu .......................................................................................................... 32 4.1. The "Find and Replace Element" menu ...................................................... 33 4.2. The "Web Search" menu ............................................................................ 34 5. View menu ............................................................................................................ 35 5.1. The "XML source" menu item .................................................................... 38 6. Tools menu ............................................................................................................ 40 6.1. Remark menu ............................................................................................ 42 6.2. Revisions menu .......................................................................................... 43 6.3. "Helper Application" menu .......................................................................... 44 6.4. "Record Macro" menu ................................................................................. 46 7. XML menu ........................................................................................................... 48 8. Options menu ........................................................................................................ 48 8.1. "Customize Con®guration" menu ................................................................. 48 9. Window menu ....................................................................................................... 50 10. Help menu ........................................................................................................... 51 4. The document view area ................................................................................................. 53 5. The main tool bar .......................................................................................................... 55 1. Buttons which are common to all document types .................................................... 55 2. Buttons which are speci®c to type of the document being edited ............................... 56 6. The node selection bar ................................................................................................... 57 1. The node path bar .................................................................................................. 57 1.1. Non-editable nodes ..................................................................................... 58 1.2. Elements which are in non-validating mode .................................................. 58 1.3. Con®guring the node path bar to display the value of some attributes ............. 59 2. Navigation tool bar ................................................................................................ 60 7. Tools ............................................................................................................................. 61 1. Edit tool ................................................................................................................ 61 1.1. Reducing the number of elements displayed by the Edit tool ......................... 63 iii XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help 2. Include tool ........................................................................................................... 64 2.1. Working with XML variables ....................................................................... 64 2.2. Using the Include tool ................................................................................. 64 3. Attributes tool ........................................................................................................ 66 3.1. Using the attribute table ............................................................................... 66 3.1.1. Reducing the number of attributes displayed by the attribute table ....... 67 3.2. Using the attribute form ............................................................................... 69 4. Search tool ............................................................................................................ 71 5. Characters tool ...................................................................................................... 73 5.1. The ªFavoritesº palette ............................................................................... 74 6. Validity tool ........................................................................................................... 74 7. The "Browse Files" tool ......................................................................................... 75 7.1. Opening and comparing revisions of a document .......................................... 78 8. The "Search Files" tool ......................................................................................... 80 8.1. The "Create or edit an advanced query" dialog box ................................... 82 8.2. Syntax of search queries .............................................................................. 85 9. The Compare tool ................................................................................................. 86 9.1. Why use the Compare tool? ........................................................................ 86 9.2. Using the Compare tool .............................................................................. 87 8. Status bar ...................................................................................................................... 90 1. Validity state .......................................................................................................... 90 2. Document cache indicator ...................................................................................... 91 3. Status messages ..................................................................................................... 91 4. Spell checker ......................................................................................................... 91 5. Overwrite mode ..................................................................................................... 92 6. Clipboard utilities .................................................................................................. 92 6.1. Clipboard content ....................................................................................... 92 9. Dialog boxes ................................................................................................................. 94 1. The URL chooser dialog