XMLSpy 2005 Tips

Make sure you are using a current distribution of Linux (e.g. Red Hat 8 or higher). Download and install Wine and follow the included instructions to compile and configure Wine on your machine. Copy the complete 2005 Release 4 installation directory from Windows to the Linux partition (this avoids any installer-related issues); this should be an installation where you have already requested/purchased and entered a key-code, because the key-code request mechanism doesn’t currently work under WINE. Copy the following DLLs from a Windows NT, 2000, or XP installation into the c/windows/system directory under Linux (the WINE installer will have created this directory for you): riched32.dll (required for Text View to work) riched20.dll (same thing) wininet.dll (required for all OpenURL functions to work) This step is required, because the current version of Wine does not yet fully implement these APIs. In a future version of Wine, this may no longer be required - feel free to experiment. Start XMLSpy using the command line "wine -dll riched32=n XMLSpy.exe" (which will force WINE to use the native riched32.dll version that you just copied over, instead of the built-in WINE version, which doesn't implement enough functionality for us yet). Go to Tools/Options dialog, select the XSL tab, and ensure that the Transformation engine is set to XMLSpy internal, not MSXML.