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Xerlin: A lightweight XML editor

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by Mark W. Kaelin

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The Nov. 27, XML TechMail discusses the pros and cons of Xerlin. What software do you use to create and edit your XML documents? Will you give Xerlin a try, or will you stick with your preferred editor?

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by ethan roberts

I use vi for all of my schemas and manual document generation. It's not full of bells and whistles like some of the other products, but it's free and incredibly efficient.

I won't be checking out Xerlin. I haven't used DTD's in a couple years anddon't plan to step away from schemas.

by wbskinner

Why does almost everything I read about xml use dtds when schemas have more and do more? Are most people who are writing about xml coming from httpland and dtd is a known entity? Coming from application development and database design it seems to methat using a meta language for XML that is itself a proper XML grammar makes more sense. Namespaces alone in a large deployment is a reason to use schemas. But I'm open...

by ethan roberts

I agree that schemas provide a richer environment to describe the data. As I said, I haven't used DTD's in a couple years. When I started with XML, DTD's were the only thing available.

To answer your question, I can think of a couple reasons DTD's tend to be in more editors: product lifecycle and ease of validation.

Schemas are complicated, and the strong typing makes validation harder. DTD's are more of an "if it's there, it's correct" type of thing. From a development standpoint, it's got to be easier to validate against a DTD.

Product lifecycle may be another factor. Schemas are relatively new, and any product that was designed and built prior to schemas reaching W3C recommendation status would want to use DTD's. We may see more schema-compliant validating editors in the next couple years now that schemas are in recommendation status.

by lorik

I'll stick with it, although I wish it had right-click functionality and that I could save elements that I create.

by builder

I'm going to try Xerlin right now.

I've been using the trial version of XML Spy. I think spy is the one to beat. But it's expensive-ware.

Below are a bunch of XML editors that I found. Post any experiences here. Especially if they do anything with FO.

david.

11. LeanEdit
XML editor written in Java.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/leanedit/

13. Morphon XML-Editor
Editor for XML files
http://freshmeat.net/projects/morphonxmleditor/

18. TreeNotes
A Java XML editor
http://freshmeat.net/projects/treenotes/

24. XMLEditor
A small editor for editing and changing XML files.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmleditor/

26. XML Tidy
This package is a highly efficient XML Data validation and correction tool
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmltidy/

31. XMLmind XML Editor
A full-fledged XML 1.0 editor featuring a word processor-like view.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmlmind_xml_editor/

33. SMILGen
An XML editor designed for use with SMIL 2.0, RealPix, andRealText.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/smilgen/

38. NetBeans XML Project
NetBeans support for working with XML, DTD, and CSS documents.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/netbeans_xml/

42. GenDoc
An XML editor written in Java 2.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gendoc/

43. Simple Outline XML
XML with an easier syntax to read and edit.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/outlinexml/

46. oxygen XML editor
A Java editor that supports XML, XSD, XSL, and DTD.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/oxygen/

53. Xerlin
An XML editor
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xerlin/

56. eXchaNGeR
An XML browser and XML editor framework.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xngr/

57. Bitflux Editor
A browser-based WYSIWYG XML editor.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bitfluxeditor/

59. HIDAM
A "Hierarchical Data Manager" that edits data in XML format.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/hidam/
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