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HarryF · Oct 13, 2002, 10:15

Just putting together a list of XML Editors;

Open Source Editors
- Cooktop (http://www.xmlcooktop.com/) - An excellent Open Source editor providing support for plenty of additional XML technologies like XSLT and web services.

- Xerlin (http://www.xerlin.org/) - is this one still alive?

- Pollo (http://pollo.sourceforge.net/) - XML Editor with Schema support

- TXE (http://www.geocities.com/shjejurkar/TXE/readme.html) - a simple Open Source XML editor written in Java.

- Swish (ftp://ftp.zveno.com/swish/) - A simple Open Source XML editor from Zveno.

Commerical Editors
- XML Spy (http://www.xmlspy.com) - Windows editor which pretty much has it all - great for visualising XML

- Arbortext (http://www.arbortext.com) - not one I've tried but get's talked about (by Kevin Yank for example)

- XMLMind (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/) - another I haven't tried

If you want to add any or review those above further please do.

MarcusJT · Oct 13, 2002, 16:15

eXcelon Stylus Studio (http://www.exln.com/products/stylusstudio/) is also an excellent XML editor, with its particular forte being XSLT.

hillsy · Oct 13, 2002, 20:30

M$ XML Notepad - not the best editor out there, but simple, lightweight and free. Useful for putting together simple XML structures.

Also SoftQuad XMetaL - good for WYSIWYG document-based editing.

HarryF · Oct 14, 2002, 01:18

Quote:

eXcelon Stylus Studio

Had a bad experience with it using it's XML Schema features - don't know if that was me but various other sources where telling me "your schema is fine and the XML validates" while Stylus Studio moaned that my schema was full of errors.

M$ XML Notepad !?! There's life out there for those Notepad coders yet

MarcusJT · Oct 14, 2002, 07:08

I have to confess I haven't used it to validate anything yet.

Xselerator is also pretty damn good:
http://www.topxml.com/xselerator/

hillsy · Oct 14, 2002, 16:52

Quote:

Originally posted by HarryF

M$ XML Notepad !?! There's life out there for those Notepad coders yet

hehe - yep

The difference is that M$ XML Notepad is actually vaguely useful

It's not in the same league features-wise as XML Spy etc but it has this simple tree-based outliner which is really good. Pity it doesn't do validation.

juleswhite · Mar 18, 2004, 17:24

Butterfly XML Editor is an opensource IDE built on top of a new real-time incremental XML parsing algorithm. The editor features syntax and error highlighting, incremental validation, intelligent code completion (based on XML Schema, DTD, or document analysis), XSLT pipelines, and side by side DOM and source viewing. Built-in support for XHTML, XSL, Xforms, XML Schemas, XSP, and Cocoon sitemaps is included. Support for other XML types can also easily be added. The editor is capable of parsing XML documents that are not well-formed and showing the source of the errors. Errors in documents are highlighted in the source as well as marked in the DOM view. This allows for easy conversion of HTML to well-formed XML. The side by side DOM and source viewing allows for the tree view of the XML to be instantly updated as the user types. The source can also be navigated and updated from the DOM tree. XSLT pipelines make building up and visualizing complex transformations easy.

http://www.butterflyxml.org

flyingpylon · Mar 19, 2004, 11:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by M@rco

I have to confess I haven't used it to validate anything yet.

Xselerator is also pretty damn good:
http://www.topxml.com/xselerator/

I use Xselerator (for XSLT mostly) and you're right, it's pretty damn good. But my biggest frustration is that it doesn't wrap text in the editor. I e-mailed them about it and they said it was a "feature" therefore it would not be fixed. It has some other nice features though. It's worth checking out.

I've also used XMLSpy in the early days and it was good before it turned into expensive bloatware (at least for my purposes which I'll admit are rudimentary).

DLG_1 · Jun 7, 2004, 10:29

i use xmlwriter2.0 and it's pretty cool!

only $99usd

Andrew-J2000 · Jun 7, 2004, 12:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryF

Had a bad experience with it using it's XML Schema features - don't know if that was me but various other sources where telling me "your schema is fine and the XML validates" while Stylus Studio moaned that my schema was full of errors.

M$ XML Notepad !?! There's life out there for those Notepad coders yet

Hmmm, theres loads of editors...

zakruvalcaba · Jun 14, 2004, 18:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by hillsy

M$ XML Notepad - not the best editor out there, but simple, lightweight and free. Useful for putting together simple XML structures.

Ironic you use "M$" and "free" in the same sentence.

adipromo · Sep 20, 2005, 01:17

<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Debugger 6.2(http://www.oxygenxml.com/)

Features:
- XML Editor
The content assistant, XML outliner and the model view are all designed to make XML editing faster and easier.

- XML Schema Editor
<oXygen/> offers you the possibility to edit different types of schemas: XML Schemas, DTDs, Schematron and Relax NG Schemas.

- XSL / XSLT Editor.
Offering a powerful content assistant for the XSL and FO documents and the possibility of selecting from different types of XSLT transformers, including FOP, <oXygen/> is one of the XSLT developers' favorite choice.

- XSL / XSLT Debugger
Making use of two XSLT transformation engines, Saxon and Xalan, the <oXygen/> helps you spot the bugs that may be present in your XSL stylesheets. XPath dynamic evaluation, templates and nodes stacks are just a few of the information presented in the debugging perspective.

- XML Diff and Merge Tool
The differences are presented in a graphical format, the scrolling of the two documents is synchronized so the matches are kept close one another. Guiding areas are painted between the two files to allow to easily locate visually the corresponding differences. An overview ruler helps tracking the changes.

- Other features.
Plugin for Eclipse, various editors for DocBook, TEI, XHTML, XSL:FO, SVG, XQuery, WSDL, remote editing, licensing policy, miscellaneous.

- Buy once run everywhere, you can use one license to run <oXygen/> on any supported platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Eclipse etc.

The Academic/Home Edition is only 48$ and there is no limitation in its features compared with the Professional Edition.

aLargeTrout · Sep 21, 2005, 21:20

Eclipse anyone? Just load the XSLT schema from http://www.fesersoft.com/dotNet/ for code completion and set-up Saxon as an external tool and there you have it. The only drawback is that it doesn't provide proper debugging support.

Eclipse is the only tool I’ve managed to set up to properly use code completion with Xforms.

Cladonia · Oct 11, 2005, 10:35

Cladonia Limited, the publisher of Exchanger XML Editor, has released a free XML Editor for use in a non-commercial environment called Exchanger XML Lite.

The Lite edition is completely free for home, academic or non-profit use. No registration required, no 30-day usage limit.

Exchanger XML Lite is a Java-based product that provides comprehensive functionality for viewing, authoring and editing XML data and documents.

Features:
• Multi-document interface
• Comprehensive XSLT Debugger
• DTD, RelaxNG, XML Schema support
• XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XSL:FO, SVG, SOAP, WSDL
• Import from Database, Excel, text files
• XML Digital Signatures
• Generate schema from instance
• Generate instance from schema
• Emacs shortcuts

For more information visit http://www.freexmleditor.com

Alternatively, if you require a commercial license, or would like to try out the Grid or XML Diff/Merge functionality, then download the Exchanger XML Professional edition from http://www.exchangerxml.com and register for a 30-day trial license.

orjan · Feb 17, 2006, 10:44

I'm looking for a browser based html WYSIWYG editor that supports schemas. I have tried Xstandard but I'm not sure if it supports custom schemas?

I have now tried a couple of editors but it's hard to find one that suits all purposes.

Bitflux is a good xml-editor for Firefox but it doesn't run at IE.
Dojo Editor looks promising but I'm not sure if it supports XML-schemas.

There're also commercial products like r.a.d.editor, ephox and ektron but I haven’t heard of them before.

stylusstudio · May 2, 2006, 12:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarcusJT

eXcelon Stylus Studio (http://www.exln.com/products/stylusstudio/) is also an excellent XML editor, with its particular forte being XSLT.

The Website URL for the Stylus Studio XML IDE has changed to: http://www.stylusstudio.com
It now includes tools for working with XML, XML Schema, DTD, XSLT, XQuery, Web Services, XML Mapping, EDI, etc. A free trial download is available.

vikrantkorde · May 3, 2006, 05:36

I am using XMLSPY Editor for it. I am very well satisfied with this Editor.

wwb_99 · Jun 7, 2006, 09:50

Hmm, might be good to update this a bit.

A few I don't see mentioned:

Visual Studio .NET 2003--reasonably good Xml & Xsd editor/designer.
Visual Studio 2005--very good Xml, Xslt & Xsd editor/designer.

Oct 13, 2002, 10:15	#1
HarryF SitePoint Wizard Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Switzerland Posts: 2,906	XML Editors Just putting together a list of XML Editors; Open Source Editors - Cooktop (http://www.xmlcooktop.com/) - An excellent Open Source editor providing support for plenty of additional XML technologies like XSLT and web services. - Xerlin (http://www.xerlin.org/) - is this one still alive? - Pollo (http://pollo.sourceforge.net/) - XML Editor with Schema support - TXE (http://www.geocities.com/shjejurkar/TXE/readme.html) - a simple Open Source XML editor written in Java. - Swish (ftp://ftp.zveno.com/swish/) - A simple Open Source XML editor from Zveno. Commerical Editors - XML Spy (http://www.xmlspy.com) - Windows editor which pretty much has it all - great for visualising XML - Arbortext (http://www.arbortext.com) - not one I've tried but get's talked about (by Kevin Yank for example) - XMLMind (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/) - another I haven't tried If you want to add any or review those above further please do.

Mar 18, 2004, 17:24	#7
juleswhite SitePoint Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Fairhope, AL Posts: 1	Butterfly XML IDE based on unique real-time incremental parsing algorithm Butterfly XML Editor is an opensource IDE built on top of a new real-time incremental XML parsing algorithm. The editor features syntax and error highlighting, incremental validation, intelligent code completion (based on XML Schema, DTD, or document analysis), XSLT pipelines, and side by side DOM and source viewing. Built-in support for XHTML, XSL, Xforms, XML Schemas, XSP, and Cocoon sitemaps is included. Support for other XML types can also easily be added. The editor is capable of parsing XML documents that are not well-formed and showing the source of the errors. Errors in documents are highlighted in the source as well as marked in the DOM view. This allows for easy conversion of HTML to well-formed XML. The side by side DOM and source viewing allows for the tree view of the XML to be instantly updated as the user types. The source can also be navigated and updated from the DOM tree. XSLT pipelines make building up and visualizing complex transformations easy. http://www.butterflyxml.org Last edited by juleswhite; Apr 2, 2004 at 08:26.

Oct 11, 2005, 10:35	#14
Cladonia SitePoint Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1	Free XML Editor Cladonia Limited, the publisher of Exchanger XML Editor, has released a free XML Editor for use in a non-commercial environment called Exchanger XML Lite. The Lite edition is completely free for home, academic or non-profit use. No registration required, no 30-day usage limit. Exchanger XML Lite is a Java-based product that provides comprehensive functionality for viewing, authoring and editing XML data and documents. Features: • Multi-document interface • Comprehensive XSLT Debugger • DTD, RelaxNG, XML Schema support • XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XSL:FO, SVG, SOAP, WSDL • Import from Database, Excel, text files • XML Digital Signatures • Generate schema from instance • Generate instance from schema • Emacs shortcuts For more information visit http://www.freexmleditor.com Alternatively, if you require a commercial license, or would like to try out the Grid or XML Diff/Merge functionality, then download the Exchanger XML Professional edition from http://www.exchangerxml.com and register for a 30-day trial license.

Feb 17, 2006, 10:44	#15
orjan SitePoint Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 20	I'm looking for a browser based html WYSIWYG editor that supports schemas. I have tried Xstandard but I'm not sure if it supports custom schemas? I have now tried a couple of editors but it's hard to find one that suits all purposes. Bitflux is a good xml-editor for Firefox but it doesn't run at IE. Dojo Editor looks promising but I'm not sure if it supports XML-schemas. There're also commercial products like r.a.d.editor, ephox and ektron but I haven’t heard of them before. Last edited by orjan; Feb 20, 2006 at 05:27.

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Oct 13, 2002, 16:15	#2
MarcusJT The doctor is in... Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London Posts: 3,538	eXcelon Stylus Studio (http://www.exln.com/products/stylusstudio/) is also an excellent XML editor, with its particular forte being XSLT.

Oct 13, 2002, 20:30	#3
hillsy Yugo full of anvils Join Date: May 2001 Location: :noitacoL Posts: 1,877	M$ XML Notepad - not the best editor out there, but simple, lightweight and free. Useful for putting together simple XML structures. Also SoftQuad XMetaL - good for WYSIWYG document-based editing.

Oct 14, 2002, 07:08	#5
MarcusJT The doctor is in... Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London Posts: 3,538	I have to confess I haven't used it to validate anything yet. Xselerator is also pretty damn good: http://www.topxml.com/xselerator/

Jun 7, 2004, 10:29	#9
DLG_1 SitePoint Addict Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 599	i use xmlwriter2.0 and it's pretty cool! only $99usd

Sep 20, 2005, 01:17	#12
adipromo SitePoint Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1	<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Debugger 6.2(http://www.oxygenxml.com/) Features: - XML Editor The content assistant, XML outliner and the model view are all designed to make XML editing faster and easier. - XML Schema Editor <oXygen/> offers you the possibility to edit different types of schemas: XML Schemas, DTDs, Schematron and Relax NG Schemas. - XSL / XSLT Editor. Offering a powerful content assistant for the XSL and FO documents and the possibility of selecting from different types of XSLT transformers, including FOP, <oXygen/> is one of the XSLT developers' favorite choice. - XSL / XSLT Debugger Making use of two XSLT transformation engines, Saxon and Xalan, the <oXygen/> helps you spot the bugs that may be present in your XSL stylesheets. XPath dynamic evaluation, templates and nodes stacks are just a few of the information presented in the debugging perspective. - XML Diff and Merge Tool The differences are presented in a graphical format, the scrolling of the two documents is synchronized so the matches are kept close one another. Guiding areas are painted between the two files to allow to easily locate visually the corresponding differences. An overview ruler helps tracking the changes. - Other features. Plugin for Eclipse, various editors for DocBook, TEI, XHTML, XSL:FO, SVG, XQuery, WSDL, remote editing, licensing policy, miscellaneous. - Buy once run everywhere, you can use one license to run <oXygen/> on any supported platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Eclipse etc. The Academic/Home Edition is only 48$ and there is no limitation in its features compared with the Professional Edition.

Sep 21, 2005, 21:20	#13
aLargeTrout SitePoint Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bucharest, Romania Posts: 25	Eclipse anyone? Just load the XSLT schema from http://www.fesersoft.com/dotNet/ for code completion and set-up Saxon as an external tool and there you have it. The only drawback is that it doesn't provide proper debugging support. Eclipse is the only tool I’ve managed to set up to properly use code completion with Xforms.

May 3, 2006, 05:36	#17
vikrantkorde SitePoint Evangelist Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Mumbai, India Posts: 536	I am using XMLSPY Editor for it. I am very well satisfied with this Editor.

Jun 7, 2006, 09:50	#18
wwb_99 Community Advisor Join Date: May 2003 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 9,258	Hmm, might be good to update this a bit. A few I don't see mentioned: Visual Studio .NET 2003--reasonably good Xml & Xsd editor/designer. Visual Studio 2005--very good Xml, Xslt & Xsd editor/designer.