[ Kaine Varley]
Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent and
reasonably price XML
editor for both XML and XSLT? I used to use XMLSpy 3.5, which
had some great
features like formatting and indenting XML. However, I was
quite taken aback
by the enormous price hike $399, to version 5. I'm not after
anything fancy,
like managing XML projects or even intelli-sense, just the
formatting and
parsing for validity would be great.
I am very partial to XML Cooktop, which is free and runs on Windows. It
is the best such tool, IMHO, to run xslt transformations on, and you can
validate and format the xml (using Tidy, which is preconfigured in the
tool). It lets you use a wide range of processors and makes it easy to
switch among them.
Rick Jelliffe's Collaborative Markup Editor (search for Toplogi) is the
best editor if you have a lot of character encoding problems, want the
most complete facilities for validation (xsd, Schematron, Relax NG,
DTD), or if you sometimes want to work with SGML or some other non-xml
variant. The community model is about $70, but I believe you can use it
free with some restrictions.
Cheers,
Tom P
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