User Interface#

The interface consists of the following components:

See also Keyboard Interface.

Menubar#

See Menus for a description of each menu.

Toolbar#

The toolbar provides shortcuts for commonly used menu commands. Hover over the toolbar buttons to see a popup showing the menu command they invoke.

Address#

Displays the current file being edited. This is also a convenient place to enter an HTTP address for editing an online XML file.

XSL Output Tab#

The XSLT Output tab contains a web browser-rendered view of the HTML output from an associated XSLT transformation. XSLT transforms are defined when your XML documents contain an xml-stylesheet processing instruction.

Node Values#

The view on the right shows the text value of the adjacent node in the tree view. For element nodes that have children it shows a light blue band because the text is in the child nodes.

Node Names#

The TreeView on the left shows the XML document hierarchy in a tree, displaying element, attribute, and processing instructions names as well as standard names for comment, text, CDATA, whitespace, and significant-whitespace nodes.

Intellisense#

When you have an associated XSD schema, intellisense popups will prompt with expected node names and enumerated node values.

XSD Annotations#

When you have an associated XSD schema, the xsd:documentation associated with the current node is displayed in a tooltip popup and in the Dynamic help tab.

Validation Errors#

The Error List at the bottom shows validation errors and warnings.

Status Bar#

The status bar at the bottom shows various messages indicating the state of the program.

Resizers#

You can move the resizers to change the ratio of space allocated to each of the main three panels.

See also XML Notepad File Association.