XMLSpy alternatives...
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I'm looking at XML/XSD editors to help me to put together a fairly large set of interlinked schemas. I've tried XMLSpy and like it very much. But... It's SOOO expensive!!! (almost $1000 for the version I think I need!). Are there ANY alternatives I should try that even come close to being as easy to use and as intuitive as XMLSpy? I've tried XMLFox (freeware) and Popkin's "XML Architect" - they don't even come close as far as I'm concerned. Anything else out there? Again, I need it to be stable, be able to edit large linked schemas and validate documents based on the linked schemas.
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I'm looking at XML/XSD editors to help me to put together a fairly large set of interlinked schemas. I've tried XMLSpy and like it very much. But... It's SOOO expensive!!! (almost $1000 for the version I think I need!). Are there ANY alternatives I should try that even come close to being as easy to use and as intuitive as XMLSpy? I've tried XMLFox (freeware) and Popkin's "XML Architect" - they don't even come close as far as I'm concerned. Anything else out there? Again, I need it to be stable, be able to edit large linked schemas and validate documents based on the linked schemas.
XMLSpy is just the best and the home edition only cost about 40/50 dollars.
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I'm looking at XML/XSD editors to help me to put together a fairly large set of interlinked schemas. I've tried XMLSpy and like it very much. But... It's SOOO expensive!!! (almost $1000 for the version I think I need!). Are there ANY alternatives I should try that even come close to being as easy to use and as intuitive as XMLSpy? I've tried XMLFox (freeware) and Popkin's "XML Architect" - they don't even come close as far as I'm concerned. Anything else out there? Again, I need it to be stable, be able to edit large linked schemas and validate documents based on the linked schemas.
Personal opinion of course but I have liked Stylus Studio better than XMLSpy. It is still not cheap though, I believe the price is about $500USD. Another alternative for schema editing only is Tibco's XML Authority. I am not sure if it is still available by it self though, The suite was back to the $500 range. I have used "Cooktop" for transformation file editing. I would think you could do some schema editing with it but it may not be that different than notepad for just schema's.
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I'm looking at XML/XSD editors to help me to put together a fairly large set of interlinked schemas. I've tried XMLSpy and like it very much. But... It's SOOO expensive!!! (almost $1000 for the version I think I need!). Are there ANY alternatives I should try that even come close to being as easy to use and as intuitive as XMLSpy? I've tried XMLFox (freeware) and Popkin's "XML Architect" - they don't even come close as far as I'm concerned. Anything else out there? Again, I need it to be stable, be able to edit large linked schemas and validate documents based on the linked schemas.
You could wait for the next version of Visual Studio .NET - apparently XML support is vastly improved. (I cannot recall where I heard that exactly).