What's new?

XMLBlueprint 8.6

•	XML Element Inspector.
•	XML Entities Inspector.
•	XML Model Inspector.
•	Dialog to associate XML Document with DTD, Relax NG Schema, or XML Schema.

•	XPath syntax coloring.
•	Faster synchronization.
•	Import now supports XML CData Sections and XML Comments.
•	The following translations have been improved: Chinese (Traditional), Russian.

•	Generate Sample XML does not generate elements in other namespace than the namespace of the root element.
•	Character ~ in shortcuts dialog.
•	Right-click is sometimes very slow.

XMLBlueprint 8.5

•	Generate Sample XML now supports patterns.
•	Much larger files can now be loaded & edited on 64-bit Windows versions.
•	The following translations have been improved: Chinese (Simplified).

•	XPath Evaluator displays error message "The XPath query returned no results." when XML document contains a relative reference to a DTD.
•	XPath Evaluator stops working after a while.
•	Mouse wheel doesn't work in some dialogs, such as Fonts dialog.
•	Some problems with "default values" and "fixed values".
•	Some problems when working with two monitors.
•	In XML Error List, non-English characters are displayed as ?.

XMLBlueprint 8.4

•	SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) - more secure and faster than FTP.

•	The following translations have been improved: German, Portuguese (Brazil).
•	Open file from FTP or WebDAV Server dialog & Save file to FTP or WebDAV Server dialog: - breadcrumbs navigation - faster select all - no username & password visible
•	XML Element Selector is in color.
•	Environment variable JAVA_HOME is used.
•	DTDs are now considered UTF8.
•	Less out-of-memory problems.
•	No annoying clicking sound in XMLBlueprint's Help.
•	Selection colors of non-focused views have been modified to produce better readability.
•	XML Outline: more whitespace to produce better readability, faster resizing.

•	Generate Sample XML may hang.
•	Restart after language change may fail.
•	Shift+ESC in main view makes XMLBlueprint invisible.
•	Access Violation during XML Completion under Windows XP.
•	Validation of an XML Document with many errors may hang.
•	Learn structure of an XML Document may fail.
•	Sync problems with entities.
•	In Find Text dialog and Replace Text dialog, pasting from clipboard removes newlines and tabs.

XMLBlueprint 8.3

•	The following translations have been improved: Italian, Portuguese, Russian.

XMLBlueprint 8.2

•	New refactoring features: Surround with Element Tags, Rename Element, and Remove Element Tags.
•	Zoom in or out of text using the mouse wheel.

•	XML Completion works better now when using the mouse.
•	The following translations have been improved: French & Spanish.

•	Selection problems.
•	Synchronization problems.

XMLBlueprint 8.1

•	Drag & Drop editing in editor.
•	Tabs now have tooltips.
•	Scroll buttons next to tabs now repeat.

•	All dialogs were updated to improve the translated versions.
•	The following translations have been improved: Czech, Dutch, German, Polish.

•	ObjectStore_xT, assertion in line 80.
•	FTP is still not passive.
•	After validation, cursor should jump to first error.
•	Help>Contact Us is linked to wrong page.
•	When XMLBlueprint is killed in Task Manager, all open documents are lost.

XMLBlueprint 8.0

•	Dockable/Floatable Views.
•	Synchronized XML Outline.
•	Synchronized XPath Evaluator.
•	XML Error List supports multiple errors.
•	XML Completion shows annotations, taken from DTD, Relax NG Schema, or XML Schema.

•	Windows 7 (fonts, message boxes, themed dropdowns, themed menus).
•	Faster (startup, switching between files, Block Indicator, XML Element Selector).
•	Schematron diagnostistics and reports.
•	Options menu and View menu.
•	Colors dialog and Fonts dialog.
•	Selection shows syntax coloring.

•	Language switch doesn't work if user has no administrator rights.
•	Paste from clipboard doesn't support newlines (\n) and tabs (\t) in Find Text dialog and Replace Text dialog.
•	Shortcuts are not resolved (Windows 7).
•	File association problem (Windows 2003 Server).

XMLBlueprint 7.5

•	Generate sample XML from DTD.
•	Generate sample XML from Relax NG Schema.
•	Generate sample XML from XML Schema.

•	Edit Locations dialog now has a checkbox to choose between active or passive FTP.
•	Find Text dialog and Replace Text dialog now have a "Match whole word" option.

•	Find Text dialog, Replace Text dialog, and Open URL dialog do not accept characters from a non-English keyboard.

XMLBlueprint 7.4

•	The user interface has been translated into:

Arabic	العربية
Chinese (Simplified)	‪‪中文 (简体)
Chinese (Traditional)	中文 (繁體)
Czech	Česky
Danish	Dansk
Dutch	Nederlands
Finnish	Suomi
French	Français
German	Deutsch
Greek	Ελληνικά
Hungarian	Magyar
Italian	Italiano
Japanese	日本語
Korean	한국어
Norwegian	‪Norsk (Bokmål)‬
Polish	Polski
Portuguese	Português
Russian	Русский
Spanish	Español
Swedish	Svenska
Turkish	Türkçe

•	Import CSV files.
•	Import Excel files.

XMLBlueprint 7.3

XMLBlueprint 7.2

•	Preview in default browser.
•	Windows 7-style combo boxes and dialogs.
•	Save All Files dialog.
•	Faster XPath.
•	Faster Replace All Text.

•	Option "Show block indicator" (Options>Editor...) not stored properly.
•	Drag & Drop errors under Windows 7.
•	Outline and Editor are not synchronized when xml contains xml:space="preserve".
•	Data in Alternate Data Streams (ADS) is not preserved.
•	Switching between users may cause an Access Violation.
•	Accelerators should only be visible when ALT key is pressed (Vista or higher).
•	Typing / should close the element (</element>) if possible.
•	Wrong caption in some dialogs.
•	License Key is only valid for 'current user'.
•	Some font problems.
•	Replace Text is always case sensitive for non-English text.

XMLBlueprint 7.1

•	Default Schemas.

•	XML Completion (/ and >).
•	XSLT Completion (HTML and other namespaces).

•	Cannot undo in XPath Evaluator.
•	Whitespace in XSLT output not ok.
•	Small errors in Outline tab.
•	Small errors in Files tab.

XMLBlueprint 7.0

•	Windows 7.
•	Folding.
•	MSXML 6.
•	ISO Schematron (Syntax Coloring, Validation and Easy XML Completion).

•	It's now possible to associate an XML Document with an XSLT Stylesheet, using the "Setup XSLT Transformation" dialog and run the transformation.
•	Multi Select in XPath Evaluation results.

•	Cannot update indent in active document (in Indentation Preferences dialog) when "Detect indent when a document is opened" is selected.
•	Doesn't work under Windows 7 (hangs at startup).
•	Not all controls support IME.
•	Accelerators (F in &File) do not work properly when IME is active.
•	Wrong fonts are used under Japanese Windows XP.

XMLBlueprint 6.4

•	Cannot preview in Output Window when Internet Explorer 8 is installed.
•	XMLBlueprint doesn't start when the system font has a Chinese (actually non-English) name.

XMLBlueprint 6.3

•	Dialog to control XML Formatting, including which elements should not be formatted ('verbatim').
•	FTP access is now passive (more firewall-friendly).
•	New in Outline Tab and XPath Tab: - Copy Text of Node. - Copy XML of Node.

•	Selection of words (double click) is not compatible with other applications.
•	Copy/paste does not work in Go to Line dialog.
•	Sometimes, elements are shown more than once in drop-down list during XML Completion.
•	Some web pages cannot be loaded into XMLBlueprint when they are 'zipped' (HTTP protocol).
•	Search results in Help are not always correct.

XMLBlueprint 6.2

•	(X)HTML is not displayed in the output window (tab 'Browser'). For example, see Quick Start examples "How to preview XHTML" and "How to transform an XML Document, using XSLT".
•	In Explorer, tab "Files": F5 (Refresh Folder) doesn't work.
•	After <book> press Enter. The newly created line does not indent correctly.

XMLBlueprint 6.1

•	Element Selector

•	Press and hold Ctrl Shift and F (to format an XML Document), then release F and Ctlr (hold Shift). The selection now behaves strangely until another application is focused.
•	Sometimes, when XMLBlueprint is started by clicking on an XML Document, the document is actually opened, but an error message is displayed: "Cannot open file".
•	Formatting indents Javascript in XHTML.
•	Bookmarks are sometimes copied.
•	When a file is saved, the indentation should be checked.
•	Chinese (actually non-English) font names are shown as ????? (question marks).
•	CML schemas are old.
•	In Properties dialog an empty System ID is displayed as "/".
•	No CSS completion when line is empty.

XMLBlueprint 6.0

•	New 3D Look (Icons, TABs, etc.).
•	Block Indicator.
•	Line Revision Indicator.
•	CSS, HTML, Javascript: - Syntax Coloring. - Smart Indent. - Easy Completion.
•	Follow Hyperlink (Ctrl+Click).
•	Scrollable TABs with Close buttons.
•	Auto-detect Indent when a document is opened.
•	Add to Templates.
•	Block Undo/Redo.
•	Support for Compressed HTTP (GZip).
•	New Options Dialogs.
•	Improved Files Explorer and FTP/WebDAV dialogs.
•	Auto-learn structure when XML Document has no reference to DTD or Schema.
•	Improved Welcome Screen.
•	DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange).
•	Updated Templates: - CML 2.1. - DeveloperWorks 5.9. - DITA 1.1. - DocBook 5.0.
•	Faster Resizing.

XMLBlueprint 5.1

•	Smart Comment/Uncomment.
•	Join Elements/Split Element.
•	Rename Elements.
•	Rename Namespace Prefix.
•	Copy Text in Selection, Delete Text in Selection, Lowercase Text in Selection, Uppercase Text in Selection.
•	Print in color and landscape (printer settings).
•	Smart Indent of Selected Lines.
•	Use ':' to skip namespace prefix in XML Completion.

•	Caret doesn't move after operations such as 'Format Document'.
•	Shift+Ctrl is now Ctrl+Shift.
•	Disabled icons are improved.

•	'Tidy' (Ctrl+T) is now called 'Format Document' (Ctrl+Shift+F).
•	'Indent' is now called 'Increase Indent' (Tab).
•	'Unindent' is now called 'Decrease Indent' (Shift+Tab).
•	'Open URL' has now shortcut Ctrl+Shift+O (was Ctrl+U).

XMLBlueprint 5.0

•	XML Completion: - Much improved context-sensibility. - Font in drop down is now the same as editor's font. - Automatically add closing tag (</element> or />). - Automatically add mandatory attributes and elements. - Select item by pressing ">". - Home, End, PgUp, PgDown. - CDATA (<![CDATA[]]>) and Comment (<!---->).
•	Create New XML Document Wizard now supports "Add option content" and "Add first particle within choice".
•	XML Completion without a schema.
•	XPath evaluator is much faster.
•	Find Previous/Find Next: - accepts selection - continues at begin of document when end of document is reached.
•	New menu item: Windows.

•	XML without BOM (Byte Order Mark) is treated as ASCII, should be UTF-8.
•	TAB order errors.
•	Outline and XPath Evaluator - problems with CDATA and entities. - cannot select text. - no horizontal scrollbar.
•	File dialogs only have "All Files" as file type.
•	Root element in Assign Schema dialog does not accept Unicode.
•	HTML encoding is not detected.
•	Many dialogs flicker when resizing.
•	Running XSLT transformation results in "OK" instead of tranformation output.
•	Sun JDK 1.4 uses older Xalan version, instead of XMLBlueprint's newer version.
•	Pressing F9 to run XSL transform takes focus away from editor.
•	Non-standard keyboard shortcuts.

XMLBlueprint 4.6

•	Text wrapping (optional).
•	OASIS XML Catalogs.
•	Libxml2 and Libxslt.
•	XSLT 2.0.

•	The XML Completion dropdown now has a scrollbar.
•	Codepage IBM437 is now supported.
•	The caret in the editor remembers horizontal position when moving up and down.
•	We separated File>New in File>New and File>New from Template.
•	Syntax coloring is optional.

•	XMLBlueprint cannot start with multiple files.
•	During XSLT transformation, the DTD in the XML Document is not loaded.
•	The editor's background is always white.
•	FTP/WebDAV dialog does not remember position.

XMLBlueprint 4.5

•	Typing <element> will automatically add the close tag, </element>.
•	Correct indentation after pressing [enter].
•	When whitespace is visible, TABs are displayed as | instead of ».

•	Unwanted scrollbars may appear in XML Completion's drop down.
•	Error message "Cannot find XML Schema for namespace {...}" is shown, even when the namespace is not actually used in the document.
•	Red error line should disappear when document is reloaded.
•	No feedback message is displayed (e.g., "Updating XML Completion ...") when updating XML Completion for a Relax NG schema.
•	Sometimes a folder is 'locked' by XMLBlueprint: the folder cannot be removed while XMLBlueprint is running.

XMLBlueprint 4.4

•	It is not possible to add a new tool: when XMLBlueprint restarts, any changes are forgotten.
•	Layout problems when XMLBlueprint runs on a 120 DPI display.
•	Tidy separates empty elements (<element></element>).
•	No XML Completion for nodes in output namespace in XSLT Stylesheets.
•	XPath errors when parent of root node is selected.
•	Colors and 3D effects are not confirm Windows XP themes.

XMLBlueprint 4.3

•	Relax NG Completion (merging of grammars, combining of definitions) - solves SVG 1.2 and CNXML 0.5 problems.
•	To close a tab, middle-click the tab.
•	Added shortcut Ctrl-H to replace text (Ctrl-R still works).
•	Snippets: use | to indicate caret (text cursor) when there's no selection.

•	Setup XSLT Transformation dialog (icons were missing).
•	Edit snippets dialog (problems with newline and clipboard).
•	Added -i option to JING (do not check ID/IDREF) - solves error message "conflicting ID-types for attribute ...".

XMLBlueprint 4.2

•	XPath Expression Evaluator.
•	Relax NG (Syntax Coloring, Validation and Easy XML Completion).
•	Sites.
•	Snippets.
•	XML Element Selector.
•	Pre-installed XML validators and XSLT processors.
•	Example directory.
•	Shortcuts overview.

•	Shortcuts for user tools.

XMLBlueprint 4.1

•	File types are identified by an icon (colored square).
•	Open documents (tabs) can be reordered by drag & drop.
•	Preview of XML Document in Output Window.
•	Reopen documents at startup (optional).

•	Validate XML Documents without saving.
•	Auto-detect file type of tool output.

•	Oracle Database and WebDAV.
•	Tidy puts entities on new line, should be treated as text instead.
•	Number of trial days on certain non-English version of Windows is zero from the start.
•	XSLT completion does not work in the context of a non-XSLT namespace.
•	Explorer is slow when viewing large documents.

XMLBlueprint 4.0

•	Major improvements in XML Outline (syntax coloring; toolbar; show/hide certain node types; remember which nodes are open).
•	Assign DTD or XML Schema dialog (when opening a new XML Document).
•	Indentation dialog to choose between spaces or tabs.
•	Schemas Cache (faster validation; validate offline).
•	Bookmarks.

•	Validate XML Document without saving.
•	File>New templates.
•	Tidy and Indent/Unindent.
•	Status Bar (accepts Unicode characters; Unicode value of the character under the cursor).
•	Colors dialog (improved layout; cancel button).
•	Run as administrator or non-administrator.
•	Faster loading of documents.
•	XML Completion (<!ATTLIST>; <!ELEMENT>; <!ENTITY>; <!NOTATION>; the <any> element).
•	XSLT Transformation (run without saving; syntax coloring in output window).

•	FTP/WebDAV dialogs.
•	Customize Tools dialog.
•	Multi monitor support.
•	WebDAV (Oracle).

XMLBlueprint 3.9.1220

XMLBlueprint 3.8.1111

XMLBlueprint 3.8.1007

•	Easy XML Completion. XMLBlueprint will automatically support context-sensitive XML Completion for any XML Document with a reference to a valid DTD or XML Schema. In the previous versions the schema had to be registered in the Schemas Catalog, that's no longer needed.
•	UTF-8 files can now be written with or without a Byte Order Mark (BOM). Default is no BOM.
•	Working with files on the Internet (via ftp, http, https or webDAV) is now easier than ever. There's now a separate OpenURL dialog for directly (down-)loading any file from the Internet. The FTP and WebDAV dialogs were improved and are a lot clearer now.
•	Improved support for the mouse wheel.

XMLBlueprint 3.7

•	Welcome Screen.
•	Task-based Help manual.
•	Tip of the Day.

XMLBlueprint 3.6.0512

•	Error messages are not modal.
•	Sometimes a "Garbage Collection Failed!" message is displayed when XMLBlueprint is closed.

XMLBlueprint 3.6.0422

•	Improved Shell support (Desktop, My Computer, etc.).
•	Improved FTP support (UTF-8).
•	Improved WebDAV support (locking).
•	Improved XML tips (better support for XSLT, entities).
•	Improved Unicode support.
•	Many bug fixes.

XMLBlueprint 3.5.0127

•	There was a small bug in version 3.5.0114: Sometimes an access violation occurs when opening the Select Fonts dialog.

Welcome!

Introducing XMLBlueprint

Working with files

Working with text

Creating and Editing XML

Validating XML

Working with XSLT and XPath

Working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Working with OASIS XML Catalogs

Importing CSV files and Excel files

Generating Sample XML

Customizing XMLBlueprint

Non-English Support

Java and .NET

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