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What is XMLmind XML Editor?

XMLmind XML Editor allows to author large, complex, modular, XML documents. It makes it easy mastering XML vocabularies such as DocBook or DITA. More ğ

As you can see it in these screenshots Open in a new window, XMLmind XML Editor is not a tool for programmers. Its users are generally technical writers.

XMLmind XML Editor running on Windows 7

XMLmind XML Editor is available in two editions: Personal Edition and Professional Edition. Personal Edition is free of charge, is restricted to non-commercial use and has fewer features than Professional Edition.

v5.2.1 (May 9, 2012): New "Easy Selection Mode" (primer; screencast). Several other enhancements (sort table rows, preview converted document, etc) and also some bug fixes.
v5.2 (March 14, 2012): Overhauled XHTML support, now including support for XHTML 5:
  • Robust, self-contained, W3C XML Schema for XHTML 5 which is as faithful to W3C Working Draft 25 May 2011 as an W3C XML Schema can be.
  • New CSS stylesheets.

    When the "Emulate Web Browser" stylesheet has been selected, XXE will dynamically apply to the styled view all the CSS styles found in style attributes, style elements and link elements pointing to CSS stylesheets.

  • New XSLT 2 stylesheets allow to convert XHTML 1.0, 1.1 and 5.0 documents to PostScript, PDF, RTF, WordprocessingML, Office Open XML (.docx) and OpenOffice (.odt).

    By default, the CSS styles specified in XHTML style attributes, style and link elements also apply to the XSL-FO file generated by these XSLT 2 stylesheets.

v5.1.1 (January 10, 2012): Allows to convert DocBook and DITA documents to Web Help. Several minor, yet useful, enhancements.
v5.1 (November 15, 2011): The new Compare tool will show you the differences existing between two revisions of the same initial document. This tool also allows to accept or reject some or all the changes.

The new Tools|Remark menu should be handy to use if you have to review or comment documents.

The two above facilities have a lesson of their own (including a 2:10 screencast) in our tutorial.

v5.0 (September 29, 2011): XMLmind XML Editor v5 aims to be a good tool for authoring highly modular documents: DITA maps, today's DocBook modular books and tomorrow's DocBook 5.1 assemblies, Web sites comprising a large number of XHTML pages, etc.

In order to attain this goal, we have added 3 new interactive tools to XXE: the "Browse Files" tool, the "Search Files" tool and the "Document Set" tool.

These new tools are showcased in "XMLmind XML Editor v5 Primer" (which includes a 3:30 screencast). Moreover, the "Document Set" tool has a lesson of its own in our tutorial.