Properties

Basic editing actions include chaging the font, text and background colors, control alignment and indentation, resize page margins, resize table columns, insert or delete table rows, resize images and SVG objects and more.
In addition the Properties bar allows complete control for all properties, in a hierarchical structure.

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The Properties bar is kept synchronuous with the caret in the document. You can either type the value of a property of simply pick a predefined value (a color, a font family, etc). Also you can access the documenent hierarchy and change ancestor's properties without leaving the bar.

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XML Tree and XPath

The XML Tree provides another way to view and work with an XML document. You can add new elements and attributes, edit existing nodes and make other changes to the document such as adding text, comments and processing instructions.

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Based on the XPath language, XF Designer is able to perform structure-aware searches and replacements of certain patterns of elements inside the document.

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XML Editing and Project View

The XML Editor implements full undo/redo support, syntax highlighting, autocomplete and autofill for XSL-FO and XSL. It also includes menu commands to verify the XML syntax, assign XSL stylesheets and run XSL transformations, pretty print, one step PDF generation, etc.
Note that the editing mode can be switched by pressing one of the icons on the bottom.

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For large projects, or just to organize your work better, you will find the Project View bar to be an invaluable tool. It allows the user to organize documents in folders, and is able to run commands on the selected document (like "Run XSL Transformation") without actually opening it.

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Drag and drop

The user has a drag and drop interface for defining the output. It is a comfortable use because you can open an existing document from the project window by simply dragging them.

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The Insert Date/Time add-in (feature) makes inserting the current date and time into the body section of any document a very easy thing to do.

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XSL Transformations

XF Designer 2008 is able to run XSL Transformation over any XML document, and then display the result. If the result is an XSL-FO document, then the document is opened in Design mode. If the result is a SVG or xChart document, then the document is rendered automatically, and the preview is displayed.

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Manage Scripts

The Manage Scripts option may allow users to easily define(create) their own functions.

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