Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is the second 0.9 release. Please download it and try to break things (and fix them - patches gratefully acepted!).

Conglomerate requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or later

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.

New Translations:

• (rw) (Steve Murphy)
• (uk) (Maxim Dziumanenko)

Updated Translations:

• Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
• German (de) (Frank Arnold) (Jens Seidel)
• Canadian English (en_CA) (Adam Weinberger)
• British English (en_GB) (David Lodge)
• (fr) (Michèle Garoche)
• Swedish (sv) (Christian Rose)

Enhancements

• Added recent files support to File menu based on libegg ( bug #108524) (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Implemented triple-click selection of text ( bug #144667) (Yuriy Syrota)
• Implementation of word-count feature ( bug #135093) (Thierry Moisan) (David Malcolm)
• Implemented --unit-test command line option and unit-testing of example files (Geert Stappers) (David Malcolm)
• Added context-menu option to convert an entity reference to a copy (David Malcolm)
• Added new debug plugin (must be enabled with --enable-debug-plugin=yes), which adds a debug item to the Tools menu to dump the CongEditorArea tree as XML (and open the resulting file) (David Malcolm)
• Initial (disabled) implementation of property pages (David Malcolm)

Fixes

• Huge cleanup of character handling; should compile cleanly on GCC4 with -Wall (David Malcolm)
• Fixes to makefile and to packaging (Nickolay V. Shmyrev) (Geert Stappers)
• Fixes to display specifications (Michèle Garoche)
• Remove lots of excess debug logging (David Malcolm)
• Various code cleanups (David Malcolm) (Nickolay V. Shmyrev) (Marcus Meissner)
• Fixes for cursor handling during source-code cleanup (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)

Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is the first 0.9 release - the main editing widget has been rewritten since the last release (0.7.16). Please download it and try to break things (and fix them - patches gratefully acepted!).

The new code fixes a long-standing problem where Conglomerate would crash when loading certain documents. This has now been fixed (we believe), so that Conglomerate should now be able to load and display any well-formed XML document. The design is simpler and should enable us to implement more sophisticated effects in the future (e.g. table editing).

Unfortunately, whilst it's better than it was at loading files, it's now less stable when it comes to editing them. There are quite a few bugs still present in the new implementation - for example, "span tags" are invisible if present in a document loaded off disk (freshly created span tags appear as expected). This and other bugs can be seen below a tracker bug ( bug #143769); please file bugs you discover with the editing functionality and attach them to this tracker bug.

Conglomerate requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or later

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.

New Translations:

• (zh_CN) (Funda Wang)

Updated Translations:

• Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
• German (de) (Frank Arnold)
• Greek (el) (Kostas Papadimas)
• Canadian English (en_CA) (Adam Weinberger)
• British English (en_GB) (David Lodge)
• Spanish (es) (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• (fr) (Michèle Garoche)
• Dutch (nl) (Daniel van Eeden)

Enhancements

• Major rewrite of the main editing widget (David Malcolm) (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Improvements to menu icons and keyboard shortcuts (Alan Horkan)
• Beginnings of work on a table-editing plugin for DocBook (David Malcolm)

Fixes

• Fixes to i18n framework (Michèle Garoche) (Geert Stappers) (Marcel Telka)
• Fixes to improve stability of basic editing (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Fixed the random document generator to use the correct text "Lorem ipsum" text from Cicero's "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", based on http://lipsum.com/ (David Malcolm)
• Cleaned up to fix bug #145096 (David Malcolm)
• Fixed simple word-wrapping in new editor widget (I hope) bug #143994 (David Malcolm)

Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is still an unstable release; there are still some known repeatable crash bugs. Please download it and test that no new bugs have been introduced!

Conglomerate requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or later

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.

Updated Translations:

• Canadian English (en_CA) (Adam Weinberger)
• Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
• (fr) (Michèle Garoche)

Fixes

• Corrected misspelling. (Michèle Garoche)
• Removed references to old code from API documentation. (Michèle Garoche)
• Fixed build for the case where both Enchant and gtk-doc are enabled. (Frederic Brin)
• Fixes for better integration with GNOME's mime-handling system. (Karl Eichwalder)

Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is still an unstable release; there are still some known repeatable crash bugs. Please download it and test that no new bugs have been introduced!

Conglomerate requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or later

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.

Updated Translations:

• Canadian English (en_CA) (Adam Weinberger)
• Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
• British English (en_GB) (David Lodge) (Gareth Owen)
• (fr) (Michèle Garoche)
• Greek (el) (Nikos Charonitakis)
• Spanish (es) (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• Dutch (nl) (Geert Stappers) (Daniel van Eeden)
• (pt) (Duarte Loreto)
• Russian (ru) (Dmitry G. Mastrukov) (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Albanian (sq) (Laurent Dhima)

New Translations:

• (pt_BR) (Estêvão Samuel Procópio) (Raphael Higino)

Enhancements

• Conglomerate now has rudimentary spell-checking, using the enchant library. It highlights misspelt words by underlining them. Spell-checking can be disabled for certain elements in the dispspec as appropriate; for example the DocBook <programlisting> element disables spellchecking. (David Malcolm) (Jeff Martin)
• Hybrid documents should work much better (e.g. where you embed fragments of one document type e.g. XHTML within another document type) . Conglomerate no longer needs to have a dispspec, and the notion of a document-level dispspec is now merely a default. The elements within a dispspec are now required to all be in the same XML namespace (or in none), allowing various simplifications and improvements in document type detection. (David Malcolm)
• The popup menu now allows you to add arbitrary XML elements (David Malcolm) (Jeff Martin)
• Dispspecs with namespaces now store typical prefix strings for those namespaces, so that when Conglomerate needs to autogenerate a namespace, it can name it something sane like "xhtml" or "xsl" as appropriate. (David Malcolm)
• Added internal hooks for stylesheet parameters; added callbacks to create option widgets for exporters and importers; added dummy Paper Size options for the PDF and XSL:FO exporters (David Malcolm)
• "Unknown elements" in the main editor view now have disclosure triangles for their children; improvements and simplifications to the layout code of the main editor widget (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Namespace URIs and attributes now appear in the main editing view for unknown elements. (David Malcolm)
• Added support for CDATA sections, generalising text editing code where necessary to support these (and some comment editing support where it seemed appropriate) (David Malcolm)
• The status bar now shows the XPath of the selected node (David Malcolm)
• Attribute editing now supports NMTOKEN attributes. (Douglas Burke)
• Improvements to the parser error dialog: it now uses selection/single-click rather than double-click for moving between the parser errors, and highlight the line containing the error when an error is selected. (David Malcolm)
• Newly-created documents have their source cleaned, rather than appearing on a single line. Various infrastructure improvements towards the ultimate goal of having Conglomerate autodetect the whitespace settings of a document and making fresh edits conform to it. (David Malcolm)
• Improvements to feedback and error-handling of transform dialogs (Douglas Burke)
• Gained a big speedup by disabling some overzealous internal self-testing. (David Malcolm)

Fixes

• Ported to the GtkUIManager API (David Malcolm) (Douglas Burke)
• Dispspec files should now be set up for translation (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Ask for confirmation when replacing an existing file bug #154844 (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Various improvements to the API documentation (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Fixes to use URIs rather than paths in more places, partially fixing bug #145422; improvements to command-line parsing. (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Enumerations are now edited using GtkComboBox rather than GtkOptionMenu, and are now set to the attribute value on creation, rather than being left at "(unspecified)" (if the attribute is actually set). Various other GtkOptionMenus ported to GtkComboBox. (Douglas Burke)
• Fixes for newline characters in when in a whitespace-preserving element (part of bug #108404) (Douglas Burke)
• Fix to namespace handling within the Random Document plugin ( bug #153358) (David Malcolm)
• Added hacks to ensure that Glade and XSL files appear in file chooser (David Malcolm)
• Ensure new DocBook files are valid ( bug #149307 bug #149305 bug #148117) (Geert Stappers)
• The node-properties dialog window now displays the properties of the parent node if sent a CONG_NODE_TYPE_TEXT node. This is to allow editing the attributes of nodes marked as span by the display specification for the document type. (Douglas Burke)
• Edit->Preferences dialog now closes properly (Keith Sharp) ; a crash bug has been fixed, and now has a Plugins tab. The dispspec list has been changed from a two-column name/description list to a single column with the titles presented in a different style. (David Malcolm)
• Removed the experimental FO code since it never worked. (David Malcolm)
• The Dialog of Doom that appears when bug #124507 is about to bite you now only appears once per document, rather than continuously popping up as the error recurs. (David Malcolm)
• Improvement to validation dialog: the icon used when there is an error is now different than when the document validates. (Douglas Burke)
• Fix to Conglomerate's desktop file bug #151845 (Stephane Loeuillet)
• Various other fixes and cleanups (removal of dead code, fixes for various memory leaks, i18n work, improvements to the example files, fixes to the dispspec DTD and to some dispspecs etc). (David Malcolm) (Geert Stappers) (Jeff Martin) (Michele Garoche) (Douglas Burke) (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)

Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is still an unstable release; there are still some known repeatable crash bugs. Please download it and test that no new bugs have been introduced!

Conglomerate now requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or later

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.

Updated Translations:

• Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
• British English (en_GB) (Gareth Owen)

Enhancements

• The Tools->Validate feature can now show you the errors when validation fails (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• You can now select a DTD for documents lacking one, accessible via buttons in the File->Properties dialog and in the Tools->Validate error dialog (Dave Malcolm)
• A new option in the File->New assistant for creating empty XML documents of arbitrary type. The assistant has a page which lets you enter the name of the top-level element, and its namespace URI (if any), with a little XML source preview that updates as you type. (Dave Malcolm)
• Improvements to the internals of attribute editing, making code cleaner and fixing various crashes (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Rewrite of the File->Import UI, making use of GtkFileFilter (see bug #144713). Hopefully the features are now a lot more "discoverable" than before. (Dave Malcolm)

Fixes

• Fix layout of alert widget contents. (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Added the envar DocBook element ( bug #144739) (Lars Trieloff)

Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is still an unstable release; there are still some known repeatable crash bugs. Please download it and test that no new bugs have been introduced!

Conglomerate now requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or later. We use the new file chooser dialog by default, and hope to make use of the other good stuff as we work towards the 0.8 release.

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.

New Translations:

• Punjabi (pa) (Jaswinder Singh Phulewala)
• British English (en_GB) (Gareth Owen)
• Canadian English (en_CA) (Adam Weinberger)

Updated Translations:

• Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
• Russian (ru) (Dmitry G. Mastrukov)
• Dutch (nl) (Daniel van Eeden) (Kees van den Broek)
• Swedish (sv) (Christian Rose)
• Spanish (es) (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• Croatian (hr) (Robert Sedak)
• German (de) (Christian Neumair)
• Catalan (ca) (Jordi Mallach)
• Serbian (sr) (Danilo Šegan)
• Serbian (sr@Latn) (Danilo Šegan)

Enhancements

• Conglomerate no longer requires a display specification for an XML file. If the document type isn't recognised when loading a document, it switches to an alternate tree-based UI. (Dave Malcolm)
• Implementation of Find and Replace, adapted from GEdit (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Added a Convert to Comment/Convert from Comment feature to the popup context menu (Dave Malcolm)
• Added the beginnings of a plugin to view the document with a CSS stylesheet, using Dodji Seketeli's Sewfox library (Dave Malcolm)
• Use GtkFileChooser rather than GtkFileSelector; we now require GTK 2.4 in configure.in (Dave Malcolm)
• Big improvements to namespace handling code, including adding namespace support to attribute editing (Johannes Hölzl)
• Properties dialog for DocBook elements now has a language selection widget (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Added the beginnings of a preferences dialog (Dave Malcolm)
• Added a display specification for the OPML outliner format (Daniel Larsson)
• Added support for a "Release Notes" document type, which I used to create these release notes (Jeff Martin)
• Changes to LOTS of files, adding gtk-doc style comments to most functions. ( bug #123318) Lots are currently placeholder comments, and will be filled in later. (David Hoover)
• Added stubbed plugins for AbiWord, HTML and TEI support. Began work on a "View RELAX NG in compact form" plugin. (Dave Malcolm)
• Finished implementating the "node tools" category of plugin; they now appear in the context menus and work; some simple examples implemented. (Dave Malcolm)
• Added item to debug menu to dump plugin information into an XML file (Dave Malcolm)
• Various packaging improvements (Geert Stappers)
• Big rewrite of DTD->RELAX NG importer: now has a struct to handle options; inlines elements where it can to give a Russian Doll-style schema; adds a <start> element (Dave Malcolm)
• Added a Properties dialog for the first span element (if any) when right-clicking in text areas. (Dave Malcolm)
• Improvements to internal API support for DTDs, with new utility functions (finding cross-referencing of elements within DTD content models, guessing likely start elements, etc) (Dave Malcolm)
• Building from CVS now requires the use of the flags: -Wall -Werror; various warnings fixed as a result of this (Dave Malcolm)
• Cancelling the addition of required children elements now works properly, with enhancements to the internal API for modifying the document. See bug #135865 for details. (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Added new menu item Help/Homepage that will open www.conglomerate.org in browser. (see bug #134966). (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)

Fixes

• Fixed a long-standing problem with the internal API (node_set_parent operation now has an explicit argument to indicate whether the node should be added at the end or beginning, fixing at least one subtle pointer manipulation bug (Dave Malcolm)
• Big overhaul of path handling within the code (Toshio Kuratomi) and (Geert Stappers) , fixing bug #135345 , bug #121676
• More cleanups of the internals of the popup menu code (Dave Malcolm)
• Fix for bug #143937 (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Various build fixes for GCC-2.95 (Pav Lucistnik) (Geert Stappers)
• Updated with the new logo, fixing bug #134749. (Geert Stappers)
• Warning fixes (Danilo Segan)
• Autogenerate the marshalling code (Johannes Hölzl)
• Removed unnecessary translation markings from debug menu strings (Dave Malcolm)
• Updated the boilerplate example plugin code (Dave Malcolm)
• Fixes for bug #122813; eliminate markup inside translated strings (David Hoover)
• Cleanup of internals of dispspec handling (Dave Malcolm)
• Removed unnecessary test that stopped detecting nested cross-references to elements in a DTD, fixing bug #136209 part (i) (Dave Malcolm)
• Fix for bug #135867 (crash when selecting Edit Display Spec) (Dave Malcolm)
• Added tests to determine if we have a way of printing a document; set up the sensitivity of printing menu options appropriately (Dave Malcolm)
• Add new parameters to function cong_error_dialog_with_convenience, fixing bug #134950 (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
• Applied patch by (hondaguru AT earthlink.net) for bug #132884
• Ensured the File->New assistant is fully constructed before it is shown to avoid ugly visual resizing (Dave Malcolm)

Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is still an unstable release; there are still some known repeatable crash bugs. Please download it and test that no new bugs have been introduced!

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.

New Translations:

• Croatian (hr) (Robert Sedak)
• Japanese (ja) (Mitsuru Oka)

Updated Translations:

• Albanian (sq) (Laurent Dhima)
• Serbian (sr) (Danilo Šegan)
• Serbian (sr@Latn) (Danilo Šegan)
• Dutch (nl) (Daniel van Eeden)
• Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
• Greek (el) (Kostas Papadimas)
• German (de) (Christian Neumair)
• Croatian (hr) (Robert Sedak)

Enhancements

• Added preliminary support for the TEI Lite format (Roberto Rosselli Del Turco)
• Big fix of XML namespace handling. Dispspecs now refer to elements using a namespace URI (if any) and the local name within that namespace. Element-matching code now uses namespaces rather than prefixes in various places, including the XSL-FO and RELAX NG plugins, which should lead to more robust handling of arbitrary documents. (Dave Malcolm)
• When determining which dispspec to use, calculate coverage of the document elements and pick the best (above a certain threshold percentage) (Dave Malcolm)
• New dialog for selecting which child element to insert when a DTD requires such a choice. The new dialog lists both the XML names and the translated names with icons where available (Dave Malcolm)
• Added a workaround for bug #124507 which pops up a dialog explaining what the problem is and tells you which elements are causing it. The problem elements will not appear in the editor widget. The dialog repeats every time the document is editor, but this is better behaviour than a silent crash :-) (Dave Malcolm)

Fixes

• Reorganised source tree so that the xds files live in their own "dispspecs" subdirectory, rather than sharing the "examples" folder with the sample instance documents (Geert Stappers)
• Tidying up of plugin management code to use Service IDs to identify instances and GType to identify classes (Dave Malcolm)
• Big warning fix, should now compile cleanly on "-Wall -Werror" (Dave Malcolm)
• Big cleanup of the insides of the popup context menu, replacing lots of obcure hackery with a more maintainable system. (Dave Malcolm)

Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is still an unstable release; there are still some known repeatable crash bugs. Please download it and test that no new bugs have been introduced!

You can download it from the usual place:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Enhancements

• New translations: no (Kjaartan Marass) , fr (Alban Browaeys) , sq (Laurent Dhima)
• Updated translations: cs (Miloslav Trmac) , es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador) , nl (Daniel van Eeden) , no (Kjartan Maraas) , pt (Duarte Loreto) , sr/sr@Latn (Danilo Šegan) ,
• The File->New assistant now has a "Random Document" plugin, which is both great fun, and good for testing. If you select this, you reach a page where you can select a document type from those available (based on the dispspec files loaded). You can also specify a "depth" which is used to give an idea of how deep the document's tree should be. If a DTD is available, Conglomerate will try to ensure that the document is valid against that DTD. It also generates random text, to really push the unicode support (it generates random strings using most of the full range of Unicode). (Dave Malcolm)
• If a DTD if found, the DTD tab of the Properties dialog for a node now has a "content model" view, showing the valid child elements that are allowed by the DTD in a tree form. (Dave Malcolm)
• First attempt at a "Find" dialog; improving this and the "Replace" dialog would make great jobs for programmers wanting to get involved. (Dave Malcolm)
• Big rewrite of the plugin code with the aim of eventually moving over to libgnomeoffice's framework. Plugins contain services of various kinds; everything is now a GObject subclass. (Dave Malcolm)
• The "--enable-printing" configuration option no longer requires libfo; this is now enabled separately with a new "--enable-libfo" option (Dave Malcolm)
• Change template code to use a <cong:template> element (Jeff Martin)
• Toolbar now has a "New Document" button (Daniel van Eeden)
• Internal improvements to GUI button sensitivity logic (Paul Smith)

Fixes

• Fix bug bug #130820 (Dave Malcolm)
• Fixed crash when loading file without a dispspec with no extension in its filename (Dave Malcolm)
• Fixed a bug in the template code (Daniel Larson)
• Fixes for C99ism build problems on gcc-2.95.4 (Geert Stappers)
• Fixed whitespace issues in the README files (David Hoover)
• Various build fixes, including disabling gtk-doc for now (Geert)
• Added a couple of DocBook tags to the display specification (Daniel Larsson)
• Added a template file for display specifications to the examples subfolder (Boris Goldowsky)