O
Olivier Ishacian
XMLmind XML Editor V2.9 can be downloaded from
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml
===================================================
V2.9 (February 7, 2005)
XMLmind XML Editor now supports RELAX NG
schemas. For more information, please read
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of RELAX NG
Schemas.
The impatient reader can directly play with new
demo: XXE_install_dir/demo/bugreport_rng.xml. This
demo is simply the RELAX NG version of
XXE_install_dir/demo/bugreport.xml (which conforms
to a W3C XML Schema). It is also interesting to open
in XXE, XXE_install_dir/demo/bugreport/bugreport.rng,
the RELAX NG grammar associated with bugreport_rng.xml.
Note that XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition
has been restricted in its support of RELAX NG.
These restrictions are identical to those
related to W3C XML Schemas. XMLmind XML
Editor Standard Edition cannot be used to
create or edit a document conforming to a RELAX
NG schema, unless:
* the root element of the document has no
namespace;
* or the root element of the document has a
namespace and this namespace is
+ http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema,
+ or http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml,
+ or http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0,
+ or starts with
"http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/".
Other enhancements: (see technical details below)
-------------------------------------------------
* It was now possible to click in the gray
margin found at the left and at the right of
the document view in order to directly select
the block (paragraph, row, row group, table)
which is ``in front of the mouse click''.
This feature is not enabled by default. You
need to use Options|Options, Window tab and
check "Add interactive margins to styled
views" to enable it.
This feature, added in XXE V2.7 Patch 1, was
removed in V2.8 Patch 1, to be finally
restored in V2.9 because some users missed it.
* Updated Czech localization thanks to Martin
Kolarík (kolarik AT mii DOT cz).
* Updated German localization thanks to Patrick
Koetter (p AT state-of-mind DOT de).
Technical details about the enhancements (for
local gurus):
---------------------------------------------
* The new preserveSpace configuration element
allows to specify which elements are
whitespace-preserving.
For example, this configuration element is
used in the DocBook, Simplified DocBook and
Slides configuration files to specify that
elements such as programlisting, screen, etc,
are whitespace-preserving.
* The new relaxng configuration element allows
to specify which RELAX NG schema is associated
with an instance.
* The schemaType child of the detect
configuration element has a supplemental
relaxng value (other values are dtd and
schema) which can be used to detect instances
having a <?xxe-relaxng-schema location="..."?>
(proprietary) processing instruction.
* New command copyToClipboard can be used to
copy a string to the system clipboard or to
the system selection (X-Window only).
* It is now possible to specify to command
insertNode the target of the processing
instruction to be created. Previously, a
processing instruction created by insertNode
always had placeholder string "target" as its
target.
* All configuration elements referencing an URL
are now XML Catalog-aware. Example:
--------------------------------------------------
<relaxng name="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
location="xxe-config:common/rng/xhtml1/xhtml-strict.rng"/>
--------------------------------------------------
Previously, only configuration elements
include and load were XML Catalog-aware
Bug fixes:
----------
* When pasting some text in XXE, carriage
return/line feed characters ("\r\n" and "\r")
are now ``normalized to a single line feed
character ("\n"). Previously, this was not the
case and that was really annoying on the Mac.
* CSS counter "counter(n,lower-alpha)" did not
work as expected: the item after "z" was
numbered "a0" and not "aa".
* When opening a document in XXE, whitespace was
not stripped from elements having an
element-only content type and having attribute
xml:space with value "preserve" (default value
or explicitly specified value or value
inherited from parent).
* Namespace prefixes automatically generated by
XXE were sometimes inconsistent: "ns", "ns2",
"ns2", etc, instead of "ns", "ns2", "ns3",
etc.
* When opening a erroneous W3C XML Schema in
order to edit it, in some rare cases, XXE
froze during the validation step.
* W3C XML Schema only: error: element
declaration "bar" inconsistent
[cos-element-consistent] was reported for the
valid example below:
--------------------------------------------------
<xs:element name="foo">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="bar" type="xs:token"/>
<xs:element name="bar" type="xs:token" nillable="true"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
--------------------------------------------------
An error is still reported for the above valid
schema, but the error is now an implementation
error: implementation limit: element
declaration "bar" differs from previous
element declarations "bar" [x-cos-element-consistent].
* W3C XML Schema only: the implementation of
wildcards was out of date.
For example, ##other meant (to make it simple)
"any namespace, including absent, different
from targetNamespace".
In fact, ##other means "a namespace must be
specified and this namespace must be different
from targetNamespace".
Possible incompatibilities:
---------------------------
* Previously, by default, loading another CSS
style sheet using the Style menu caused XXE to
create another document view using the
selected style sheet.
Now, doing this cause XXE to change the CSS
style sheet of the current document view to
the one which has been selected.
This behavior can be parametrized by using
Options|Options, Window tab, "Change the style
sheet rather than add a view" check box.
* Thanks to the new preserveSpace configuration
element, the DocBook, Simplified DocBook and
Slides DTDs bundled with XXE no longer need to
be modified by XMLmind.
Previously, these DTDs were modified in order
to add attribute xml:space with default value
"preserve" to elements such as programlisting,
screen, etc.
* The way XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition is
restricted in its support of W3C XML Schemas
has changed. Previously, the targetNamepaces
of the schemas were checked. Now, it is only
the namespace of the root element which is
checked.
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml
===================================================
V2.9 (February 7, 2005)
XMLmind XML Editor now supports RELAX NG
schemas. For more information, please read
XMLmind XML Editor - Support of RELAX NG
Schemas.
The impatient reader can directly play with new
demo: XXE_install_dir/demo/bugreport_rng.xml. This
demo is simply the RELAX NG version of
XXE_install_dir/demo/bugreport.xml (which conforms
to a W3C XML Schema). It is also interesting to open
in XXE, XXE_install_dir/demo/bugreport/bugreport.rng,
the RELAX NG grammar associated with bugreport_rng.xml.
Note that XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition
has been restricted in its support of RELAX NG.
These restrictions are identical to those
related to W3C XML Schemas. XMLmind XML
Editor Standard Edition cannot be used to
create or edit a document conforming to a RELAX
NG schema, unless:
* the root element of the document has no
namespace;
* or the root element of the document has a
namespace and this namespace is
+ http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema,
+ or http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml,
+ or http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0,
+ or starts with
"http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/".
Other enhancements: (see technical details below)
-------------------------------------------------
* It was now possible to click in the gray
margin found at the left and at the right of
the document view in order to directly select
the block (paragraph, row, row group, table)
which is ``in front of the mouse click''.
This feature is not enabled by default. You
need to use Options|Options, Window tab and
check "Add interactive margins to styled
views" to enable it.
This feature, added in XXE V2.7 Patch 1, was
removed in V2.8 Patch 1, to be finally
restored in V2.9 because some users missed it.
* Updated Czech localization thanks to Martin
Kolarík (kolarik AT mii DOT cz).
* Updated German localization thanks to Patrick
Koetter (p AT state-of-mind DOT de).
Technical details about the enhancements (for
local gurus):
---------------------------------------------
* The new preserveSpace configuration element
allows to specify which elements are
whitespace-preserving.
For example, this configuration element is
used in the DocBook, Simplified DocBook and
Slides configuration files to specify that
elements such as programlisting, screen, etc,
are whitespace-preserving.
* The new relaxng configuration element allows
to specify which RELAX NG schema is associated
with an instance.
* The schemaType child of the detect
configuration element has a supplemental
relaxng value (other values are dtd and
schema) which can be used to detect instances
having a <?xxe-relaxng-schema location="..."?>
(proprietary) processing instruction.
* New command copyToClipboard can be used to
copy a string to the system clipboard or to
the system selection (X-Window only).
* It is now possible to specify to command
insertNode the target of the processing
instruction to be created. Previously, a
processing instruction created by insertNode
always had placeholder string "target" as its
target.
* All configuration elements referencing an URL
are now XML Catalog-aware. Example:
--------------------------------------------------
<relaxng name="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
location="xxe-config:common/rng/xhtml1/xhtml-strict.rng"/>
--------------------------------------------------
Previously, only configuration elements
include and load were XML Catalog-aware
Bug fixes:
----------
* When pasting some text in XXE, carriage
return/line feed characters ("\r\n" and "\r")
are now ``normalized to a single line feed
character ("\n"). Previously, this was not the
case and that was really annoying on the Mac.
* CSS counter "counter(n,lower-alpha)" did not
work as expected: the item after "z" was
numbered "a0" and not "aa".
* When opening a document in XXE, whitespace was
not stripped from elements having an
element-only content type and having attribute
xml:space with value "preserve" (default value
or explicitly specified value or value
inherited from parent).
* Namespace prefixes automatically generated by
XXE were sometimes inconsistent: "ns", "ns2",
"ns2", etc, instead of "ns", "ns2", "ns3",
etc.
* When opening a erroneous W3C XML Schema in
order to edit it, in some rare cases, XXE
froze during the validation step.
* W3C XML Schema only: error: element
declaration "bar" inconsistent
[cos-element-consistent] was reported for the
valid example below:
--------------------------------------------------
<xs:element name="foo">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="bar" type="xs:token"/>
<xs:element name="bar" type="xs:token" nillable="true"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
--------------------------------------------------
An error is still reported for the above valid
schema, but the error is now an implementation
error: implementation limit: element
declaration "bar" differs from previous
element declarations "bar" [x-cos-element-consistent].
* W3C XML Schema only: the implementation of
wildcards was out of date.
For example, ##other meant (to make it simple)
"any namespace, including absent, different
from targetNamespace".
In fact, ##other means "a namespace must be
specified and this namespace must be different
from targetNamespace".
Possible incompatibilities:
---------------------------
* Previously, by default, loading another CSS
style sheet using the Style menu caused XXE to
create another document view using the
selected style sheet.
Now, doing this cause XXE to change the CSS
style sheet of the current document view to
the one which has been selected.
This behavior can be parametrized by using
Options|Options, Window tab, "Change the style
sheet rather than add a view" check box.
* Thanks to the new preserveSpace configuration
element, the DocBook, Simplified DocBook and
Slides DTDs bundled with XXE no longer need to
be modified by XMLmind.
Previously, these DTDs were modified in order
to add attribute xml:space with default value
"preserve" to elements such as programlisting,
screen, etc.
* The way XMLmind XML Editor Standard Edition is
restricted in its support of W3C XML Schemas
has changed. Previously, the targetNamepaces
of the schemas were checked. Now, it is only
the namespace of the root element which is
checked.