[TriLUG] XML editing

Paul McLanahan pmclanahan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 12:59:56 EDT 2008


oXygen is indeed great. We use it at work to edit websites, which are
all configured w/ lots of XML and XSLT transforms. However it's
definitely overkill if you just want to edit XML with a little help.
oXygen really shines if you are doing XSLT transforms in that it does
great XSL code completion, has built-in docs, and will allow you to
run your transform using a variety of different transforming engines
(all built in) and see the output. The built-in XSL debugger is
excellent as well.

If you just need to edit some XML w/ an editor that understands XML
and will error-check and color-code, then Eclipse is probably your
best (free) bet. The Eclipse-based Aptana Studio is also good, but
doesn't have (that I've found) the cool tree-view mode that just plain
Eclipse does.

Good luck,

Paul



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