At present, XLML documents have been edited mainly with XMetaL, a commercial XML editor. For experimental use, a OpenOffice/StarOffice conversion to XLML has been implemented.

XMetal is an easy to use graphical XML editor. It has been customized for xlml to provide a comfortable way to edit valid xlml documents. The html generator Xlmlgen can be called directly from XMetaL so the document authors have not to deal with technical details and installation issues of XLML. XMetaL is available as fully featured evaluation version.

The integration of XLML with XMetaL is quite easy. The XMetaL-XLML customization files have to be copied into the XMetaL installation directory and one path definition must be changed, if XLML was not installed into the default location. For further information please look at the README file in the "integration/xmetal" directory of your XLML installation.

OpenOffice and his commercial brother StarOffice, both well known and very powerfull office programms are based on the same XML document format. As the HTML export of OpenOffice/StarOffice writer program is insufficient for long documents (only one HTML page is generated), an experimental version of a OpenOffice to HTML converter using XLML has been implemented (as private work in its first version).

The current version provides already a good range of functionality to convert simple OpenOffice files. Image inclusion, hyperlinks, document internal links, tables, list, chapters and table of contents for chapters have simple, but working processings.

An example of a converted document can be found here. It was generated out of this OpenOffice writer source document. If you don't have installed OpenOffice or StarOffice, this WinWord version can give you an impression of the current capabilities of the conversion.