XMLmind XML Editor - Commands

XMLmind XML Editor - Commands

Hussein Shafie

XMLmind Software

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78120 Rambouillet,
France,
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Email: <xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com> (public mailing list)

June 17, 2024

Abstract

This document contains the reference of all native XXE commands and explains how to write custom macro-commands.

Table of Contents

1. What is a command?

2. Writing macro-commands

1. How commands are executed
2. A sequence of commands
3. Alternative commands
4. Testing if a command can be executed
5. The "%_" variable
6. Macro-variables
7. Simple use of named variables
8. General use of get
9. Variables mapped to the selection in XXE
10. Contextual commands

II. Reference

3. Menu commands

1. Reference
2. Redefining or extending the right-click, contextual, popup menu

4. Macro commands

1. Reference

1.1. Pass and fail cheat sheet

1.2. Macro-variables

1.3. XPath variables

1.3.1. User variables
1.3.2. Predefined variables

2. Running XED scripts in a macro

3. Examples

5. Process commands

1. Reference

1.1. Attributes

1.2. Element copyDocument

1.2.1. Attributes
1.2.2. Element extract
1.2.3. Element resources

1.3. Element convertImage

1.3.1. Parameters supported by the built-in Java image toolkit

1.4. Element copyProcessResources

1.5. Element transform

1.5.1. Using a custom XSLT style sheet

1.6. Element processFO

1.7. Element upload

1.8. Element post

1.9. Element read

1.10. Element mkdir

1.11. Element rmdir

1.12. Element delete

1.13. Element copy

1.14. Element zip

1.15. Element jar

1.16. Element shell

1.17. Element invoke

1.18. Element subProcess

1.19. Process variables

2. Commented examples

2.1. Convert explicitly or implicitly selected para to a formalpara
2.2. Convert a DocBook document to RTF
2.3. Convert ImageDemo document to HTML

6. Commands written in the Java™ programming language

3. addAttribute

4. addBlockInFlow

5. autoSpellChecker

7. cancelSelection

9. checkExternalRefs

10. checkValidity

11. commentOut

12. confirm

13. contextualMenu

14. convert

15. convertCase

17. copyAsInclusion

18. copyChars

19. copyImage

21. declareNamespace

22. demoteListItem

22.1. Configuring the promoteListItem and demoteListItem commands

24. deleteChar

25. deleteSelectionOrDeleteChar

26. deleteSelectionOrJoinBlockOrDeleteChar

27. deleteWord

28. diffSupport

31. editAttribute

32. editAttributes

33. editObject

34. editPITarget

35. editMediaInfo

36. ensureSelectionAt

37. execute

38. executeMenuItem

39. extendSelectionAt

40. extractObject

42. formatTextAs

42.1. Specifying an element template for use by command formatTextAs
42.2. Filtering the text pasted in the document

43. include

45. insertCharByName

46. insertCharSequence

47. insertControlChar

48. insertNewlineOrSplitBlock

49. insertNode

50. insertOrOverwriteString

51. insertSpecialChars

52. insertSameBlock

52.1. Specifying splittable blocks

53. insertString

54. insertTextOrMoveDot

56. listAnchors

57. listBindings

58. listPlugins

59. listRepeatable

60. moveDotTo

61. moveElement

62. normalizeWhiteSpacePre

63. overwriteMode

64. overwriteString

67. pasteAs

68. pasteImageAs

69. pasteSystemSelection

71. preview

72. promoteListItem

74. putAttribute

75. recordMacro

77. refresh

78. reinclude

80. removeAttribute

82. replace

83. resizeImage

84. resizeTableTemplate

85. resizeCALSTableTemplate

88. searchReplace

89. searchReplaceElement

90. selectAt

91. selectFile

92. selectConvertedFile

93. selectLink

94. selectNode

94.1. List of element names or node types
94.2. OrNone, OrNode, OrElement modifiers

95. selectNodeAt

96. selectText

97. selectTo

98. setProperty

99. setReadOnly

100. setObject

101. showContentModel

102. showElementReference

103. showMatchingChar

104. showColumnRowLabels

105. spellCheck

108. status

109. toggleCollapsed

110. toggleTextStyle

112. uninclude

113. updateInclusions

114. viewObject

115. webSearch

115.1. Declaring search engines

117. xIncludeText

118. xpathSearch

119. XXE.close

120. XXE.compare

121. XXE.edit

122. XXE.editInclusion

123. XXE.masterDocumentControl

124. XXE.new

125. XXE.open

126. XXE.save

127. XXE.saveAll

128. XXE.setReadOnly

129. XXE.saveAs

130. A generic, parameterizable, table editor command

A. Description of the XML differencing algorithm implemented by the Compare tool

1. Comparison with other approaches
2. Elements are given serial numbers
3. A simple XML differencing algorithm

B. Format of the revision history

List of Figures

6.1. The "Document conversion parameters" panel once expanded

List of Examples

3.1. Whatever the configuration, add extra menu items to the right-click, contextual, popup menu
3.2. DITA topic configuration: when an image is selected, allow to edit it using a helper application
3.3. Any of the two XHTML 1.0 configurations: when some text is selected, display a special, simpler, popup menu
4.1. Using sequence and choice
4.2. Macro-variables
4.3. The "%_" macro-variable
4.4. Using the fail construct
4.5. Using the XPath-based constructs match and set
4.6. A contextual drop
4.7. Insert nodes copied from another document
4.8. Convert a DocBook 5 para to a formalpara
6.1. XHTML example
6.2. TEI example
6.3. XHTML checkExternalRefs property
6.4. DITA checkExternalRefs property
6.5. TEI Lite checkExternalRefs property
6.6. DocBook 5+ checkExternalRefs property
6.7. XHTML listItemSpecification
6.8. DITA listItemSpecification
6.9. DocBook 5 listItemSpecification
6.10. TEI listItemSpecification
6.11. LwDITA listItemSpecification
6.12. Implementing a “click to follow link” facility using executeMenuItem
6.13. MathML example


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