Favorite XML Tools?

[drolfson]

What is your favorite tool to use to create XML by hand? Is there a 'best' one? (Preferably open source.) Any particular one(s) to avoid? Thanks, Don

[Ian Shlasko]

A keyboard :)

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[Steven J Jowett]

NotePad

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[Joan M]

http://www.altova.com/[^] (never used it, heard of it) http://www.oxygenxml.com/[^] Don't know this one... http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/[^] even didn't heard of that one... http://www.editix.com/[^] never heard of that one... notepad => used tons of times, never hangs, works well and it is lightweight. ultraedit => also used it extensively, it works like charm, it is a powerful editor. ...

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[Ravi Sant]

to create - notepad is best to modify and do complex functionalities - xmlspy

[Shelby Robertson]

PSPad

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[drolfson]

Thanks, all for the suggestions so far. Should probably have said I usually use Textpad or Notepad++ but thought since I will be doing a few in the near future I might expend the time trying something maybe a little more XML friendly, but wanted to start with respected opinions rather than just rolling the google dice. :rolleyes: Thanks, Don

[R Giskard Reventlov]

I use Notepad++[^] for pretty much everything.

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[Dave Parker]

I prefer to use Visual Studio personally with an XSLT file to provide tooltips etc, I've not tried any other dedicated editors though.

[Mike Hankey]

I've used XmlPad[^] for some time. It's free and works well.

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[Espen Harlinn]

There is always Eclipse[^] - A real open source heavyweight that also include visual xml schema editing facilities - and a ton of other features :) Regards Espen Harlinn

[Dan Neely]

Joan Murt wrote:

http://www.altova.com/\[^\] (never used it, heard of it)

Not free, but I've been using it at work for years and it works well. You have a GUI schema builder and solid autocomplete for editing xml.

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[Bassam Abdul Baki]

MS XML Notepad[^] Although I still prefer the first version (1.5).

[PIEBALDconsult]

Notepad.

[Soulus83]

It's the best one I've ever used. Auto-Schema generation and documentation based on sample XML, XSLT Debugger and HTML,XML and Text Output visualizers, validation of schemas and good stack trace of schema exceptions. You should try the evaluation period and buy a copy if you like it ( I do ;P ) DiffDog is also cool, although I won't pay for it, has a pretty good level of details for XML comparisons (based on elements, attributes, values, etc), not only text like some others :suss:

[Jules VDV]

Notepad++

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[Nemanja Trifunovic]

vim[^]

utf8-cpp

[HimanshuJoshi]

Notepad++.

[Graham Shanks]

I use XMLSpy from Altova at work - it's good but as already mentioned it is not free For hobbyist things I'd use the XMLBuddy[^] plug-in to eclipse[^]

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[Gary Wheeler]

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

Although I still prefer the first version (1.5).

You've got to be kidding. It had so many bugs it was almost unusable. Buggy UNICODE support, didn't respect xml:space, etc.

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