Editing XML: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2/5) - exploring XML

The freeware junkies like to take advantage of the newest software developments but are reluctant to spend money on it. After all software should be free, especially for seemingly trivial tasks like text editing. Their prey is:

Microsoft XML Notepad

Microsoft has released a free editor that graphically displays XML data. It uses Internet Explorer 4.0 Service Pack 1 and newer to parse XML, with version 5 validation services are added. While DTDs and Processing Instructions cannot be edited inside XML Notepad they can be added with a normal text editor. The application offers sophisticated tree manipulation features like replicating subtrees, drag&drop and sports a state-of-the-art Windows 95/98/NT4 user interface.

IBM alphaworks Xeena

Xeena is a Java application that is built on top of the Swing User Interface Library and IBM's XML Parser for Java. The XML attributes of the elements are edited via a table. Each attribute value is entered using an editing GUI component (e.g. combo-box, text-field) derived from the DTD. The editor guides the user in inserting elements into the tree correctly through a context-sensitive elements palette which prohibits the insertion of elements in an invalid order. The editor has a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) with full support for editind multiple XML documents and cut, copy & paste across documents.

Pierlou Visual XML

Visual XML is another good Java Swing application for editing XML documents. The author declares it as beta and advises not to use it on production documents, but the price is right... It is easy to internationalize, instructions are given on the site.

Netpadd

Netpadd is a Windows Notepad replacement with some XML capabilities added, such as a tree view of the document structure.

GNU Emacs SGML-mode

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Created: Feb. 13, 2000
Revised: Feb. 29, 2000