User Manual

For epcEdit Release 1.2.1

Table of Contents
1. About epcEdit
I. Using epcEdit
2. Getting Started
2.1. Starting epcEdit
2.2. The startup dialog
2.3. What is on the screen
2.4. Opening existing documents
2.5. How a document is displayed by epcEdit
2.6. Basic editing operations
3. Working with Documents
3.1. Opening a Document
3.2. Creating a New Document
3.3. Saving a Document
3.4. Validating the document
4. Editing text and markup
4.1. Basic editing operations
4.2. Inserting elements
4.3. Editing attribute values
4.4. Deleting elements
4.5. Splitting elements
4.6. Renaming elements
4.7. Entity references
4.8. Other types of markup
4.9. Searching for text and markup
5. Controlling the document display
5.1. Screen width
6. The element manager
6.1. The Insert tab
6.2. The Rename tab
6.3. The All tab
6.4. The Attributes tab
6.5. Attribute list
6.6. Railroad diagrams
7. Entities
7.1. Entity display and entity expansion
7.2. Entity insertion
7.3. Entity defaults
7.4. Declaring new entities
8. Style Sheets
8.1. Element Styles and XPath styles
8.2. Style inheritance
8.3. The Style Sheet Dialog
8.4. Adding new XPaths
9. Embedded Images
9.1. Entities as images
9.2. Elements containing images
10. Templates
10.1. Using templates to create new documents
10.2. Using templates when opening a document
10.3. Creating new templates
10.4. Using multiple templates for the same document type
10.5. Templates for DTDless XML documents
11. The table editor
11.1. Inserting a new table
11.2. Starting the table editor
11.3. Introduction to table editing
11.4. The table editor toolbar
11.5. Tables in DTDless XML documents
12. Editing DTDless XML documents
12.1. Extending the element set
12.2. Declaring new attributes
12.3. Tables in DTDless XML documents
13. Text-mode editing
13.1. Syntax highlighting
13.2. Validating in text mode
14. Printing a document
II. Reference information
15. Menu structure
15.1. The File menu
15.2. The Edit menu
15.3. The Document menu
15.4. The Element Menu
15.5. The Entity menu
15.6. The Extra menu
15.7. The Table Menu
15.8. The View menu
15.9. The Help Menu
16. epcEdit User Interface Components
16.1. The Toolbar
17. DTDs and Catalogs
17.1. Catalogs
17.2. System Identifiers
17.3. Installing DTDs
18. Customizing epcEdit
18.1. Customizing icons
18.2. Extensions and Scripts
18.3. Debugging Scripts and Extensions
Glossary of terms
A. Questions and Answers
B. epcEdit license agreement
C. Upgrades and Support
C.1. Upgrading epcEdit
D. About this document
List of Figures
3-1. Template selection dialog
3-2. Document creation information
4-1. Text entity tags
4-2. Marked section tags
4-3. Comment tags
4-4. PI tags
6-1. The element manager
6-2. The attributes tab
6-3. The attribute list dialog
6-4. Required elements in railroad diagrams
6-5. Sequences in railroad diagrams
6-6. Optional elements in railroad diagrams
6-7. Alternatives in railroad diagrams
6-8. Repeated elements in railroad diagrams
6-9. Repeatable optional elements in railroad diagrams
6-10. AND-groups in railroad diagrams
6-11. Example railroad diagram
8-1. The style sheet dialog 1
8-2. The style sheet dialog 2
8-3. The style sheet dialog 3
8-4. The style sheet dialog 4
8-5. The style sheet dialog 5
8-6. The stylesheet dialog 6
8-7. The Add XPath dialog
11-1. The table editor
11-2. Example table
11-3. The table editor toolbar
12-1. Declare element dialog
12-2. Add attribute dialog
13-1. Saving before validation in text mode
15-1. New Document Dialog
15-2. Document creation information
15-3. Template information dialog
15-4. The validation dialog
15-5. Validation message details
15-6. Load Error dialog
15-7. Save File dialog
15-8. Saving an invalid document dialog
15-9. Overwriting an existing file
15-10. Page layout dialog
15-11. Windows print dialog
15-12. Unix print dialog
15-13. PDF export dialog
15-14. Page layout tab
15-15. Font mapping tab
15-16. The search dialog
15-17. Preferences dialog 1
15-18. The color selection pop-up
15-19. Preferences dialog 2
15-20. Preferences dialog 3
15-21. Preferences dialog 4
15-22. Catalog usage dialog
15-23. Preferences dialog 5
15-24. ID/IDREF Dialog
15-25. Document info dialog 1
15-26. Document info dialog 3
15-27. Document info dialog 3
15-28. Entity manager
15-29. Entity property dialog
15-30. The Notations Dialog
15-31. Character reference dialog
15-32. The spell checker dialog
15-33. Spell checker configuration dialog
15-34. The PI dialog
15-35. The marked section dialog
15-36. The Run Script Dialog
15-37. The Insert Table Dialog
15-38. The columns sub-menu
15-39. The Column Properties Dialog
15-40. The rows sub-menu
15-41. The cells sub-menu
15-42. The license key dialog
15-43. About epcEdit dialog
16-1. The toolbar
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