firstObject XML Editor - a cool and fast XML editor
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Do you need a super-fast and nice XML editor? Do you mind if its completely free? Take a look at firstObject XML editor from firstObjec.com
Do you need a super-fast and nice XML editor? Do you mind if its completely free? Take a look at firstObject XML editor from firstObjec.com
I do own an older
version of XMLSpy from Altova, and that contains all the bells and whistles
that you could possibly want from an XML editor and more. However, like
many other large tools, it takes a while to load, takes even longer to
colorize the XML, and it just feels like an overkill for many daily XML
jobs. And I never seem to remember all the menus, toolbars and dialog boxes
either. I guess I don't live in the XML world that XMLSpy
was created for 
Instead I use the firstObject XML Editor, which loads extremely fast and has nice coloring of XML too. This is much more of a daily XML fiddling tool that I need. Below you see the main dialog;
On the left you see the tree-representation of your XML file, and on the right you see the actual, colorized, XML. The two parts are linked together, so you can navigate between them with ease.
What are the benefits?
Huge-file support!
Colorized XML
Quickly see the
XPATH-path if you programming XML
Quickly get the
necessary CMarkup-code to access, get or set the element. Super if you
use CMarkup!
Re-align XML elements
to separate lines, even if the original file doesn't have such lines
Indenting of XML
so you easily see the structure. This is also very fast.
Ability to customize
what you see in the tree-view. You can easily expose any attribute or element
as part of the tree!
Unicode, UTF-8
and UTF-16
Quickly validate
XML and even validate with MSXML agains DTD if your need to.
Source code is
available if you purchase the Advanced Option from firstObject.com. Use
the treeview and richtext in your own apps!
Instead I use the firstObject XML Editor, which loads extremely fast and has nice coloring of XML too. This is much more of a daily XML fiddling tool that I need. Below you see the main dialog;
On the left you see the tree-representation of your XML file, and on the right you see the actual, colorized, XML. The two parts are linked together, so you can navigate between them with ease.
What are the benefits?
- Super-fast!
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