Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Visual Editor for XML 1.0 Release and Graduation Review Florian Thienel Holger Voormann

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 About The Visual Editor for XML is a set of plug-ins that provide WYSIWYM editing ability for XML files, regardless of the XML involved. Vex uses CSS stylesheets to provide the formatting for the presentation layer. All that is needed is a stylesheet and an appropriate XML file to edit. It hides the XML tags from the users, allows them to have a word processor like experience but store the information in the native XML format. Vex is based off of a contribution from the original Vex project created by John Krasnay and hosted at sourceforge.net. In the year 2008 this code was donated to Eclipse and has been an Eclipse Web Tools Incubator component. In 2011, the project moved under the hoods of the Mylyn Docs project.

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Introduction Vex is a Mylyn Docs sub project: This is the first release of Vex as an Eclipse project. The goals are to build an Eclipse community around Vex and to widen the user space of Eclipse from software developers to all kinds of „content“ developers which use XML as their native format.

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Consistent Releases Vex has a history of milestone releases in preparation for this graduation: M9 on M8 on M7 on M6 on M4 on M3 on on

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Committer Diversity The following individual committers are involved: Dave Carver Florian Thienel Holger Voormann Igor Jacy Lino Campista

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Main Features WYSIWYM editing of XML documents CSS stylesheets to define the visual representation of XML Customizable for any kind of XML representation Self-hosting mechanism for the development of customizations Includes the main XML document types for document creation (DocBook, DITA, XHTML)

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Non-code aspects User Guide: Contributor Guide: Forum: Mailing List: Continous Integration: Tycho-based CI and integration build. Bi-weekly committer calls in Skype (open for interested people):

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Bugzilla Bugzilla Statistics (on ): Open: 30 bugs, 10 enahncements Fixed: 75 bugs, 10 enhancements

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Community Part of the Mylyn Docs community Connections to Mylyn Docs WikiText and Mylyn Docs Intent

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 IP Log

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Schedule 1.0 – September – December 2012 Full support for XML comments

Vex Release Review | © 2012 by Vex committers, made available under the EPL v1.0 Project Plan Themes for future releases: Full support of the XML infoset Support for widely used XML specifications (e.g. XML Inclusions) Support for widely used XML document types (e.g. DocBook) API stabilization Usability Building a community