Though Docbook was mentioned as well: I'd likewise opt for favouring Docbook 
5(.1) over Docbook 4 when creating new instances using xxe's menu.

Martin Goik

Am 7. September 2017 22:50:09 WESZ schrieb Leif Halvard Silli 
<verktyst...@russisk.no>:
>If one tells someone, who is not that well versed the world of XHTML,
>to 
>create a XHTML file in a XMLmind editor, it should normally not be 
>necessary to remind them to please pick the 5.0 format.
>
>But in XMLmind XML editor, when one wants to create a new XHTML 5 file,
>
>the latest and most updated version of the XHTML language is located at
>
>the bottom of the XHTML submenu of the New command. The same goes for 
>Docbook. (Fortunately, for DITA, there is just one level.) (This issue 
>is more 'pressing' in the XMLmind XML Editor than it is in the XMLmind 
>XHTML Editor, as the selection of formats is longer in in the former 
>editor.)
>
>For XHTML and Docbook, I would like to propose that the choice of file 
>formats should be presented to the user in the opposite order (opposite
>
>of today’s order). That is: Just beneath the XHTML submenu, one 
>should, on top, find the 5.0 submenu. And then, the 1.1 submenu. And
>the 
>1.0 submenu at the bottom. This way, the latest version, is placed on 
>the top and thus most easily accessible.
>
>My main concern is that one should not have to know which version of 
>e.g. XHTML to pick: If you are a not so well versed XHTML author, you 
>probably want the XHTML.latest.version - only nerds and persons with 
>very spesific wishes and concerns prefer XHTML 1.x over XHTML 5.x. Thus
>
>the user interface should make it fastest and simplest to pick the 
>latest version - for instance by placing those file formats on top. (At
>
>least as long as the latest version cannot be concidered experimental.)
>
>Leif Halvard Silli
>
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