Enhancements:

• New "Easy Selection Mode" is turned on by default (see OptionsPreferences, Edit section).
  • When you move your mouse, it shows you the name of the element (the "tag") below the pointer.If you click somewhere while a tag is being displayed, this guarantees that the corresponding element will be implicitly or explicitly selected.
  • It displays a gray margin at the left of the styled document view allowing to easily select the element in front of the mouse pointer.If you repeatedly click in the gray margin without moving your mouse at all, this will select the element aimed at, the parent element of this element, its grand-parent element and so on.
• This new feature is showcased in "Easy Selection Mode Primer" Experienced XXE users may want to set this mode to "Margin only" or to Off. Users preferring to work with multiple views of the same document should completely turn off this mode.
• Added menu item "ColumnSort Rows" to the XHTML, DocBook and DITA Topic menus. This new command allows to sort all the rows of a table according to the string values of the cells of the selected column. Note that header/footer rows (e.g. thead) are never sorted and that the contents of row groups (e.g. tbody) are sorted separately.
• The dialog box displayed by all menu items of the "Convert Document" submenu, which allows to specify an output file or directory, now has a "Preview result in helper application" checkbox. When this checkbox is checked and the document conversion has succeeded, a helper application (Acrobat® Reader®, Microsoft® Word, etc) is started in order to preview the result of the conversion. If an appropriate helper application has not yet been specified using OptionsPreferences, Helper Applications, the user is automatically prompted to specify this application.This facility leverages a new, generic, preview command.
• Shift-click allows to extend the node selection if any, and the text selection otherwise. Ctrl+Shift-click, which is no longer needed, is now not bound to any command.
• CSS support: extension pseudo-function spinner() generates a spinner control which can be used to render an element or an attribute containing a number.
• The Compare tool now allows to compare two revisions where one revision contains inclusion directives rather than the corresponding transcluded content (e.g. this revision has transclusion errors). However there are advanced cases (e.g. a single directive used to include several elements) which will defeat the Compare tool.
• W3C XML Schema: (notice that there is no schemaLocation attribute) is now supported. More precisely, when the imported namespace is "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" and the schemaLocation attribute is not specified, an internal copy of xml.xsd is now automatically used.
• Complete rewrite of "XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment", "Writing a configuration file for XXE". This chapter is now a quite extensive tutorial about how to write a configuration for XMLmind XML Editor.
• Upgraded the XMLmind XSL-FO Converter (XFC for short) plug-in to version 4.6.1.
• Upgraded XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac for short) to version 2.2.1.

• The parameter editor dialog box displayed by "OptionsCustomize ConfigurationChange Document Conversion Parameters" did not allow to specify a parameter value starting or ending with whitespace (e.g. page-ref-before = " on page ").
• When the title of a DocBook chapter or section was preceded by a chapterinfo or sectioninfo, this title was not numbered in the Table of Contents displayed by FileDocument Set.
• XXE deployed using JavaTM Web Start or deployed as the "xxe" (that is, full fledged) applet had a HelpCheck For Updates menu item (possibly automatically triggering an "Automatically check for updates" action).
• When the cfg:spellCheckOptions configuration element was not specified in the current XXE configuration, the on-the-fly spell checker did not pick the default language specified using the "Default language" combobox of the Spell tool. Instead the on-the-fly spell checker always used "en".
• After turning off transclusion in DITA topics using "OptionsCustomize ConfigurationConref Transclusion" and restarting XXE, some menu items of EditReference were still enabled.
• Fixed this regression added by v5.2: in some cases, images found in the content generated by a CSS stylesheet had a 1-pixel width, making such images looking like a vertical line.
• In some cases, erroneous GUI customizations (contained in customize.xxe_gui files) were silently skipped. In such cases, no errors were reported. This made almost impossible to fix these erroneous GUI customizations.
• Modified the standard RELAX NG schema of DocBook v5 as a workaround for a limitation of XXE: a book element is now required to have a title, either as its first child element or as a child element of the info element. This change allows to safely add an info element (itself having no title child) after the title child element of a book. Before this change, the aforementioned editing action caused XXE to switch to lenient mode. We do not expect anyone to want to create or already have a book without a title, so in principle, this change should be harmless.
• XHTML XSL Stylesheets: the align attribute specified on thead, tfoot, tbody or tr was not inherited by td.

Enhancements:

• New "Easy Selection Mode" is turned on by default (see OptionsPreferences, Edit section).
  • When you move your mouse, it shows you the name of the element (the "tag") below the pointer.If you click somewhere while a tag is being displayed, this guarantees that the corresponding element will be implicitly or explicitly selected.
  • It displays a more...