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XmlShell The Ultimate Lightweight XML Editor - What's New
The current version of XmlShell The Ultimate Lightweight XML Editor is v.1.5. This page lists all the changes for v.1.x.

Version 1.5
(07/02/2003)
  • Fix - DTD validation didn't work properly in some cases.
  • Fix - In the Node view, the "entering row" for new attributes could be deleted.
Version 1.4
(06/01/2003)
  • New - Find & Replace (Ctrl+H).
  • New - Bookmarks (Ctrl+F2) in Editor view. (Related option: /Config/Editor/Bookmark/@color.)
  • New - Right-click (context) menu on view tabs.
  • Fix - First attribute was missing from the Attribute view for child nodes.
  • Fix - DTD validation was not working.
Version 1.3
(05/17/2003)
  • New - Option: The paths to find XML Schema files (/Config/Schemas/Path).
  • Fix - Entity reference starting character '&' got converted to '&' when there were multiple child text nodes.
  • Fix - Validating from Editor view didn't take the current document path.
  • Fix - Editor view Tab size didn't reflect Configuration change properly.
Version 1.2
(05/01/2003)
  • New - Option: Whether to sort element attributes (/Config/Misc/@SortAttributes).
  • New - Right-click (context) menu for Grid views.
  • Fix - When typing in Grid views, the in-place edit box showed up even when no cells were selected.
  • Change - Show warning when trying to save read-only files.
  • Change - Show warning when trying to select an XML parser that is not installed on the machine.
Version 1.1
(03/15/2003)
  • New - Validation against DTD, XML Schema, or XML-Data Reduced (XDR) Schema.
  • New - Include DTD Entity declarations in the entity popup list (Editor view).
  • New - Smart insertion of surrounding text for "", '', (), [], {}, etc... (Editor view, Insert Element).
  • Fix - When "ConvertChar" option was set to false, non-element data got lost.
  • Fix - DTD Entity references got lost when switching views.
  • Fix - Right click on the XmlTree view caused loss of changes made in the Editor view.
  • Fix - Browser view crashed on some IE versions.
  • Fix - Cancel saving non well-formed files brought up the "File might be Read-only" message.
  • Fix - Short file name was displayed on the window title.
Version 1.0
(01/31/2003)
Features of the original release
  • New - True side-by-side tree structure and table/editor/browser views.
  • New - Multiple-selectable tree.
  • New - Grid-like table view to display table-like XML data.
  • New - Intelligent popup list in editor.
  • New - In-place editable tree.
  • New - Drag & Drop.
  • New - Unlimited levels of undo/redo.
  • New - Syntax-colored free-form text editor.
  • New - XSL Transform view.
  • New - Open non well-formed XML files.
  • New - Display filter.
  • New - Automatic text format.
  • New - Clipboard integration.
  • New - Multi-parsers support.
  • New - Configurable tree display.
  • New - Check well-formedness.

Version 1.0 beta 2

(10/14/2002)

Version 1.0 beta 1

(07/12/2002)