EditiX XML Editor and XSLT Debugger

EditiX 4.3

December, the 12 th 2005

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Version : 4.3
Build : 121205

News :

- Global performance improvement
- The first text characters are displayed in the tree
- The tree text node is selected on a full text selection
- The XPath on-the-fly includes text selection
- The redefine element is managed for W3C Schema content assistant
- RTF rendering for FOP

Bugs Fixed :

- Various problems on cardinalities with the content assistant for W3C schema fixed
- Tag delimiters were removed for a custor at the location 0
- 'All' connector for W3C Schema
- include element for W3C Schema fixed
- Graphics preview for FO
- Tree actions could not operate when editing multiple documents
- Buttons size for the XSLT mode
- When trying transforming and closing the OK button could be disabled after
- Some dialogs location and size couldn't be saved
- FOP Renderer fixed
- FOP Error line fixed
- Line added after each element when generating a W3C Schema
- Namespace declaration ignored when generating a DTD,W3CSchema,RelaxNG document
- Apos character not replaced by an entity while formatting inside an XSLT document
- Unicode management for XPath expressions

Version : 4.2
Build : 010805

News :

- Content assistant for attribute value working with DTD, W3C Schema and RelaxNG
- Better management for the "Open recent" menus (file and project)
- Type assistant for the DTD, W3C and RelaxNG generator
- Reporting list enhanced
- Various user interface parts improved

Bugs fixed :

- When assigning a W3C schema xsi attribute was duplicated
- Default action inside the find/replace dialog fixed
- Shorcut for repeating the last reseach fixed on Mac OS X
- SimpleContent with attributes extension managed for W3C Schema content assistant
- Various RelaxNG content assistant bugs fixed
- When closing a modified document without saving a dialog will ask to confirm the operation
- Element with text and attributes managed for the W3C Schema generator

Version : 4.1
Build : 280605

News:

- Coloration enhanced for DTD
- XPath evaluation works with unicode
- Search again action
- Access to a debug/feature database
- Total error number available in the statusbar

Bugs fixed :

- When assigning a DTD or a W3C Schema under XP the path was wrong
- XSLT 2.0 error details now displayed
- When assigning a W3C schema previous root attributes were lost
- First element color fixed for inner DTD
- Wrong find/replace matching
- When plugging a custom XSLT engine the errors weren't displayed
- EditiX descriptor could be corrupted by file name containing '&'
- File overwritting query can be displayed when saving a file


Version : 4.0
Build : 090505

News :

- XSLT 2.0 Transformation and Debugging
- XSLT 2.0 Content assistant
- XQuery support
- Namespace manager
- CSV (Excel) Import
- Clicking on the variable while XSLT debugging highlights the source line
- Namespace management inside the content assistant
- Content assistant ordered
- The default template for W3C Schema uses an 'xs' prefix
- URL supported when using 'Open At'

Bugs fixed :

- Formatting a document bound to a W3C schema didn't work
- When closing a document, the next active document could be in a wrong action state
- Search/Replace dialog was working for one document
- Checking a DTD fixed could let an error line
- Empty file fixed for wrong file when using 'Open At'
- A wrong XML catalog path could stop EditiX starting
- Default namespace was for XHTML inside the non XHTML output XSLT templates
- W3C Schema content assistant fixed
- The content assistant ignored the prefix for W3C Schema or XSLT
- MathML template restored

News :

- Plug easily your JAXP parser or transformer
- Import HTML documents
- The target node is displayed when dragging & dropping
- When quitting EditiX without saving a dialog box asks to confirm
- The manual and the search box are inside a non modal dialog
- ctrl alt F shorcut key for opening / closing the File browser
- Forms for reporting a bug or a feature request

Bugs fixed :

- The file browser for Windows was reading a: when opening
- Previous research was not saved
- 
 preserved when formatting


Version : 3.1
Build : 170305

News :

- Powerful file browser (creating a new file or directory, drag'n drop, multiple filtering...)
- Project file enhancement including the last browsed directory
- The full text view is enabled by default
- Preference xmlconfig / format-canonical : For preserving carriage return as 


Bugs fixed :

- Color selection for Mac OS X wasn't visible
- Font couldn't be updated for Mac OS X
- User couldn't restore the full text view (without a wrapping mode)

Version : 3.0

News :

- New view for tags, entities, declarations and comments
- XML OASIS Catalog management (including template for fast creating)
- XInclude support
- Mode for large XML document
- Preference for a wrapping line view (preference editor/lineWrapped)
- Preference for a full text view (preference editor/fullTextView)
- A custom JAXP compatible XML parser or XSLT transformer can be plugged
- Dialog for inserting a character reference
- Memory optimization when using several times the same schema/dtd
- Content assistant available by ctrl+space, ctrl+shift+space, ctrl+alt+space
- Preference improvement : Ordered list, Import, Export, Reset actions
- Better memory management while parsing
- When loading a document with a wrong W3C XML schema or DTD location the error is shown
- Template content can be edited inside EditiX
- User templates are stored inside the user home path
- New template parameters (company,phone,email...)
- HTML content assistant for XSLT with HTML output
- Preference interface / beep when ending a task (xslt,fop,docbook).
- A button inside the XSLT editor for copying the current XPath location
- When clicking on a variable name while debugging XSLT the line is shown
- Background color for XSLT tags

Bugs fixed :

- Content assistant was enabled inside a CDATA or comment section
- The user couldn't create a new file for webdav, ftp or archive content
- schemaLocation was managed as noNamespaceSchemaLocation
- Some DTD could be wrongly cached
- Default DTD for svg, xhtml and docbook fixed
- A dialog for reminding to wait could appear inside an XSLT action
- A variable name for the XSLT debugger could be '?'
- The XSLT File field name was not filled when starting debugging a new document
- W3C Schema assignation could insert a new root tag

Version : 2.11

Bugs fixed :

- Relative DTD or W3C Schema were rejected while transforming by XSLT
- The content assistant didn't work for a local DTD
- Parsing wasn't in a validating mode for a local DTD
- Problem fixed with carriage return inside text for formatting
- '>' inserted after a tag could add another tag
- An order for a namespace declaration could throw an invalid syntax error

Version : 2.1

News :

- Powerful content assistant for DTD and Relax NG ( working with cardinality, ordered and non ordered list )
- The error line is shown when validating by Relax NG
- SubstitutionGroup' and 'abstract' element are managed by the W3C Schema content assistant
- The parsing error message is maximized inside the statusbar
- Update for the DocBook XSL stylesheets
- New docking windows for the XSLT Editor
- The XSLT editor, XML data source or the XSLT result can be maximized
- HTML 4 output preview for XSLT usage
- Coloration for XSLT tags inside the XSLT editor
- Regular expression and incremental search
- Assign a Relax NG document is now available inside the DTD/Schema menu
- XML Relax NG generator from an XML document
- Size of each file is shown while browsing by FTP or WebDAV
- A beep is sent for each terminated background task

Bugs fixed :

- Syntax coloration for DOCTYPE usage
- Empty XPath expression was processed when clicking inside the XPath text field

Version : 2.0

News :

- XSLT Debugger (Stop on breakpoints, step by step, variables, nodeset and stack analysis)
- XML Differencing (menu XML / compare to...)
- DocBook transformation support inside the "DocBook" menu
- FTP, WebDAV, ZIP, JAR Access
- DocBook template for books
- When opening a document the filter is used for choosing the document type
- New document's container management
- The document type icon is shown inside the "open recent" sub-menu.
- All transforming action operates in background (XSLT,FO,DocBook)
- A toolBar added for the tree for selecting, cutting, copying or commenting nodes
- The first attribute value is shown inside the document tree
- Multiple filters for the tree (for prefix, namespace, qualified name...)
- User can run external commands (menu options)
- "tip of the day" dialog
- ANT document type
- Encoding menu (File menu)
- Action for checking the last editix version from the editix site
- The surround tag action takes into account the current schema
- "Search in a tree" action (Search menu)
- It is possible to run editix with a file argument from the command line
- The order of the templates can be changed
- "ctrl shift T" shortcut for surrounding a tag
- New W3C XML Schema content assistant
- Preference interface / initialDocument for adding a new empty editor at starting
- The preference dialog is now hidden
- Tree node speed selection improvement
- Horizontal split
- Proxy preference
- User can resize the content assistant popup
- Default relaxNG path and project usage

Bugs fixed :

- DTD Validation was not available while creating a new document
- Encoding problem fixed for XSLT and XSL-FO
- Sometimes actions were available in a bad context
- Some external frames could persist after an XSLT document closing
- The default encoding is taken into account inside the XSLT editor
- Various problems for the relaxNG content assistant
- Preference editing fixed
- Better Unicode support
- JDK 1.5 support

Version : 1.4.2
Build : 05072004

Bugs fixed :

- Various DTD parsing errors fixed
- Multiple Formatting created new tabulations
- The assistant popup could be outside the width of the editor

Version : 1.4.1
Build : 01072004

News :

- "Delete and Close action" from the tabbed pane popup

Bugs fixed :

- The cursor was not at the right location for long line under Mac OS X

Version : 1.4
Build : 28062004

News :

- Surround CDATA action from the edit menu
- Surround Comment action takes the place of the comment/uncomment action
- Global performance improvement
- Last path saved/restored while assigning a DTD, a schema or an XML or result document for XSLT
- New syntax assistant system (header for the context and a filter for user entries supported)
- Multiple errors popup available from the status bar
- Multiple file extensions is supported for a same document type
- Parts of the XSLT editor are now dockable
- A preference file / tab-size has been added
- The XSLT search works on the XML document during the XSLT editing

Mac OS X News :

- The "alt F4" shortcut for closing the current document has been replaced by "ctrl Q"
- Multiple drag'n drop from the finder is managed for editing a file

Bugs fixed :

- When starting a new document, the focus was not initialized
- Formatting action with special characters contained '???' sequence
- Various bugs fixed for synchronizing the text and the tree

Release Node :

- Improvement for RelaxNG is reported to a next version

Version : 1.3
Build : 14052004

News :

- Tree element view for fast editing
- The 'editor / dividerLocation' preference is now in percent (by defaut 20%)
- Action for disabling/enabling completion with XSLT editing
- Better XSLT completion
- New surround action (available in the edit menu and the editor popup)
- Used attributes are disabled for completion
- Add a 'Line Break' entity helper
- EditiX saves its last location and size
- Last opening directory is now preserved
- Global performance improvement
- XSLT XPath evaluation improvement (support for relative evaluation)

Bugs fixed :

- History for opening file and project file were wrong
- Default previous / next tag are now tied by default to U and I key
- Entities parsing error

Version : 1.2.1
Build : 19032004

News (Mac OS X) :

- drag'n drop support from the finder for opening xml/project file
- editix About / editix Quit Menu item working
- Embedded FAQ

Bugs fixed :

- ':' missing for simple elements while generating a W3C XML schema from a document instance
- Duplicate processing instruction when formatting
- multiple charsets (preference file->rw-encoding) support for XSLT

Version : 1.2
Build : 15032004

News :

- New XSLT Editor (multiple view : XSLT / Data / Result and fast XPath test)
- User can generate a temporary schema for document completion (menu XML -> Generate a temporary schema for completion)
- SVG Preview (menu View -> SVG Preview)
- A popup is visible each time the parsing action result is correct
- The focus is now visible for the text part
- Space key (more already escape) is available for removing the completion popup
- User can disabled/enabled temporary the syntax completion popup (menu XML -> Disabled / Enabled syntax popup)
- DTD syntax checker
- Embedded Menu documentation
- User can change the default 'xs' schema prefix when generating a schema from an instance (preference xml-W3C XML Schema prefix)

Bugs fixed :

- Empty root tag with attributes showed a syntax error
- Result file for XSLT didn't manage unicode
- EditiX could Freeze when editing XSLT
- Dialog box for XSLT parameters was incoherently accessible
- User has to confirm to open more than once the same document
- Completion improvement

Version : 1.1
Build : 01032004

News :

- W3C XML Schema generator from the current XML document (menu DTD/Schema -> Generate a W3C XML Schema from this document)
- DTD generator from the current XML document (menu DTD/Schema -> Generate a DTD from this document)
- Template generator from the current XML document (menu Template -> Generate a minimal template)
- Project file contains now all user parameters ( XSLT parameters... )
- Fast comment/uncomment action popup
- The 'use default DTD' and 'use default Schema' actions have been removed
- Drag'n'drop for copying/moving nodes

Bugs fixed :

- Default file encoding can now be updated using the preference file/rw-encoding
- DTD template was using an illegal header
- DTD root is updated when assigning a new DTD
- Document root is updated by default when assigning a Schema
- Undo/Redo state is now saved when alterning to a document

Version : 1.03
Build : 15022004

News :

- File/encoding preference for reading/writing other file encoding (like UTF_8)
- Preferences are now fully initialized when starting
- LookAndFeel improvement for Mac OS X

Version : 1.02
Build : 13022004

News :

- Support for Mac OS X 10.3.2 / Java 1.4.2

Version : 1.01
Build : 09022004

News :

- Add a 'editor/dividerLocation' preference for the tree/text divider initial location
- User can store any dialog location and size
- User can update from the 'dialog/...' preference any dialog location and size
- User can update the default look-and-feel from the 'interface/lookAndFeel' preference
- User can update the dfault XML encoding from the 'xml/default-encoding' preference
- User can update any menu shortcut from the 'shortcut/...' preference
- Default shortcut use the default system action control (like ctrl...)
- Add a template for ant

Bugs fixed :

- Formatting added extra white-space
- file: was used rather than file:// in xsl, dtd, schema choice

Notes :

- User preferences are available from the 'Options' menu
- Mac OS X users : Use the preferences 'interface/lookAndFeel' and 'shorcut/...'
- Western european countries can update the default ISO-8859-1 encoding with the preference 'xml/default-encoding'