Limitations

• XMLmind XML Editor (XXE) preserves everything declared in the internal DTD subset. In the body of a document, it also preserves the references to internal, external and unparsed entities. However, XXE does not allow to create documents making use of these legacy facilities.
• XXE does not preserve whitespace (i.e. the original indentation of a document), the references to character entities, and CDATA sections.

  Note that the two above limitations are not as severe as they seem because

  • XXE supports the authoring of modular documents (even very fine grained ones) by the means of standard mechanisms: conref for DITA documents and XInclude for the other document types. More info in the tutorial.
  • When needed and when possible, XXE saves characters as references to character entities.
  • XXE can be configured to save specific elements (example: XHTML script) as CDATA sections.
• XXE cannot open non-well formed XML documents.
• XXE should run fine on any platform supporting Java^TM 1.5+. However it is officially supported only on:
  • Windows XP/Vista/7, 32-bit or 64-bit, running Sun®/Oracle® Java^TM 1.5+ with the Windows Look and Feel (LAF),
  • Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) running Apple® Java^TM 1.5+ with the Macintosh LAF,
  • Linux 2.6+ running Sun®/Oracle® Java^TM 1.5+ with the Nimbus LAF or the Metal LAF.

  It is possible to use XXE on other platforms (e.g. Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or Solaris) and/or with other LAFs (e.g. GTK), but without support from XMLmind.