Best XML Editors for XML

Paligo

Paligo was built for documentation professionals who need to manage a large volume of complex content. To manage and organize this documentation efficiently, content reuse is essential. The Paligo CCMS is an excellent choice for companies who need to leverage the benefits of content reuse for better business outcomes. Content reuse helps to streamline the content creation process as it saves time, money, and improves the quality of output. The single sourcing features eliminate duplication of content and optimize the content creation process. Additionally, the modern SaaS UI lets content creators of all levels of proficiency to easily grasp the fundamentals of structured authoring.   Our goal is to make structured authoring more accessible to a wider audience by simplifying and demystifying the process. This is achieved through our intuitive and user-friendly CCMS, which is both powerful and robust, enabling our customers to easily author, manage, translate, and publish content.

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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GNU General Public License. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

11 Ratings

Starting Price: Free

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Code Browser

Code Browser is a folding text editor for Linux and Windows, designed to hierarchically structure any kind of text file and especially source code. It makes navigation through source code faster and easier. Code Browser is especially designed to keep a good overview of the code of large projects, but is also useful for a simple CSS file. Ideal if you are fed up of having to scroll through thousands of lines of code. It supports syntax highlighting for all major languages and custom syntax highlighting can also be added. Although Code Browser was initially designed to edit programs, it can also be used for different tasks such as plain text outlining or helping to understand existing source code. I've added a page with suggestions to take advantage of folding.

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Oxygen XML Editor

Oxygen XML

Oxygen XML Editor is the complete XML editing solution, both for XML developers and content authors. It provides must have tools for XML editing, covering most XML standards and technologies. Oxygen XML Editor includes all the features of Oxygen XML developer and author. The most intuitive XML editing features and a user-friendly interface, helping you to improve the results of your work with Oxygen XML Editor. Take advantage of unmatched extensibility support and enhance the built-in XML publishing frameworks of the XML Editor, or even create your own frameworks. The powerful connectivity support of the XML Editor allows you to interact with the majority of XML databases, content management systems, and WebDAV. Oxygen allows you to collaborate with other authors more efficient than ever using the XML Editor's tracking tools, subversion repository client, and compare and merge solutions.

Starting Price: $979 per year

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Help+Manual

Help+Manual is a full featured documentation tool that is as easy to use as a word processor, yet much more powerful, it gives you the power of a true WYSIWYG XML editor and puts all the tools that you need at your fingertips. This is combined with powerful features for generating and editing help and documentation files, including full support for multimedia and complex modular projects. Whether you publish documentation for desktop or mobile, iOS or Android, Windows help or PDF user manuals, it is always a breeze with Help+Manual! But single source is much more than just outputting the same information to different formats. Mark content with conditional tags to create different outputs for each publishing channel, no post-processing is required. Help+Manual handles the complexities of documentation generation for you. Power users, however, can get under the hood and manipulate topic and layout templates and more. Help+Manual gives you the best of both worlds.

Starting Price: €498 one-time payment

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Komodo Edit

ActiveState

Komodo Edit is a great editor if you’re looking for something powerful, yet simple. Komodo IDE provides more robust functionality such as debugging, unit testing, code refactoring and code profiling. Software vendors are increasingly the front line of security for their customers since one compromised patch or upgrade can make hundreds or even thousands of your customers susceptible to cyberattacks. Don’t be the next SolarWinds. Rather than implementing multiple point solutions and custom code, the ActiveState Platform can provide you with an out-of-the-box solution that helps ensure the security and integrity of the open source components you import, work with and run.

Starting Price: $84 per month

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Stylus Studio

Stylus Studio® X16 XML Enterprise Suite raises the bar for productivity in XML development tools. Approximately 2 Million XML developers and data integration specialists turn to Stylus Studio's comprehensive and intuitive XML toolset to tackle today's advanced XML data transformation and aggregation challenges. And you should, too! Winner of CRN Magazine's Product of the Year Award, Dr. Dobb's Jolt Productivity Award, and SOAWorld Readers' Choice Award for the technical excellence of its powerful yet easyto- use tools, Stylus Studio simplifies all XML development tasks. Whether you are developing Web applications that transform relational data to XML, leveraging legacy data in EDI, HL7, or other flat file formats like CSV, or wrestling with complex XSLT stylesheets, Stylus Studio helps you realize the promise of existing and emerging XML technologies. From XQuery to XML Pipelines to Java or C# for .NET code generation, Stylus Studio is the one XML IDE that does it all.

Starting Price: $99 one-time payment

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xmlGrid.net

Load your XML file to the online XML editor. You can choose any of the methods listed in the menu: paste the data directly to the Input Box, open the file from your local file system or get it from internet By URL. After the XML data is loaded, it will be displayed in a hierarchical XML Grid which allows you to easily navigate the tree structure. You can add, edit, or delete any node or brach of the tree structure. If you want to save the edited XML document you can choose the Save function from the menu, the XML data will be displayed in a nice formatted text. Load your XML data into the Online Editor. The XML code will be validated against W3C XML 1.0 specifications.

Starting Price: Free

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EditiX

EditiX displays information and error messages in the status bar on the right. A tab list of opened documents with an icon and a file name depending on the current document type* and the current document path. A panel on the left side containing various windows like a file browser, a project manager, an xpath evaluator. EditiX provides a variety of features like, XSLT editor and debugger (v1 v2 v3), XML databases (exist, xindice,XML berkley DB), syntax error and document xpath location on-the-fly, validation of xml documents against, context sensitive content assistant based on XML Schema, DTD, XML Relaxng, fully customizable (user preference, application descriptor), refactoring (elements, attributes,schema type, template name, variables and parameters).

Starting Price: $99 one-time payment

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XML Notepad

Microsoft

XML Notepad provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents. Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and values. Drag/drop support for easy manipulation of the tree, even across different instances of XML Notepad and from the file system. Good performance on large XML documents, loading a 3mb document in about one second. Instant XML schema validation while you edit with errors and warnings shown in the task list window. Intellisense based on expected elements and attributes and enumerated simple type values. Support for custom editors for date, dateTime and time datatypes and other types like color. Handy nudge tool bar buttons for quick movement of nodes up and down the tree. Handy "XML statistics" tool to summarize info about your XML documents.

Starting Price: Free

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Liquid Studio

Liquid Technologies

Liquid Studio provides an advanced toolkit for XML and JSON development along with Web Service Testing and Data Mapping and Data Transformation tools. The Development Environment contains a complete set of tools for designing XML and JSON data structures and schemas. These tools provide editing, validating and advanced transformation capabilities. For novice or expert, the intuitive interface and comprehensive features will help you save time and money delivering a successful project. Visualize and edit an abstracted view of your XML schema(XSD) using an intuitive user interface, and validate your XSD against the W3C standards.Includes split graphical and text views, intellisense, syntax highlighting, drag and drop, copy and paste, and multi-step undo/redo. Visualize and edit an abstracted view of your JSON schema using an intuitive user interface, and validate your JSON Schema against the IETF standards.

Starting Price: $149 one-time payment

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SIMQIN

Today, XML is a widespread standard in multi-media and cross-platform publishing of technical documentation. Many editing programs, management systems and publication tools, as well as many industry standards, are now based on XML. Nevertheless, XML has not yet been able to break through in all areas, because the format has a very clear separation between the structure and the layout of documents. Editors still prefer to work with word processors such as Microsoft Word: here, the text and the document layout are created almost simultaneously and can be immediately checked on screen. Working with XML, on the other hand, requires a sense of the abstract – the text flow is broken up by tags of the document structure. The layout only follows at a further stage in production. SimQin shows the document in layout mode from the outset. Additionally, however, the XML document structure and organisation are made visible.

Starting Price: Free

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Xeditor

Xpublisher

Xeditor is a professional online XML editor for XML authoring based on state-of-the-art web standards. By enabling authors to work together on structured content from any location at any time, Xeditor helps companies put efficient workflows in place. What’s more, the web-based architecture means there’s no need for time-consuming local installations. Xeditor, the professional online XML authoring tool, gives users the tools they need to create and edit structured documents intuitively in XML format. With the help of XML, content can be created in a way that is media-independent, semantically marked up, automatically processed, and published with a high degree of efficiency. XML is the data format of the future. Xeditor offers its users both an intuitive visual and a technical writing experience. Authors of subject-specific content benefit from the intuitive user interface of the visual XML editor, including WYSIWYG functionality.

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XMLSpy

Altova

Altova XMLSpy is the world's best-selling JSON and XML editor for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging related technologies. XMLSpy JSON and XML Editor give developers the tools they need to build the most sophisticated applications with its graphical schema designer, code generation, file converters, debuggers, and profilers for working with XSD, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, SOAP, and more. Developers need a JSON and XML editor that adds value beyond bracket matching and basic validation checking. XMLSpy provides the comprehensive feature set below and includes graphical views, code generators, wizards, and other intelligent JSON and XML editing functionality that help you get the job done faster than ever. XMLSpy abstracts away the complexity of editing XML and related technologies through its intuitive user interface and rich variety of views and options. Whether you prefer to edit XML documents in a text-based or graphical XML viewer, XMLSpy provides intelligent guidance.

Starting Price: $499 one-time payment

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ExtendsClass

ExtendsClass provides tools directly usable in a browser. It saves you from having to install add-ons to your browser in order to add features. You have at your disposal syntax validators, code formatters, testers, HTTP clients, mock server, but also a SQLite browser. These are small and easy-to-use tools that can help when you do not want to install software on your workstation. The available tools allow you to convert data (CSV, TSV, XML and JSON), compare data (Text, XML, JSON), format data (XML, JSON) and also encode and decode base 64 data.

Starting Price: Free

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Code Beautify

CodeBeautify is developed for beautify, minify, convert your code/data for your expected result. Visibility determines how the program is visible on codebeautify.org and who can access it. Everyone has access to the code Which is by clicking Save Online Button, and it is listed at the recent page. Everyone user has access to it's own code via link and it is not listed at the user recent page.

Starting Price: Free

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Online XML Tools

Online XML tools is a collection of useful XML utilities for working with Extensible Markup Language documents and data structures. All XML tools are simple, free and easy to use. There are no ads, popups or other garbage. Just XML utilities that work right in your browser. And all utilities work exactly the same way — load XML, get result. Free online XML beautifier. Just load your XML and it will automatically get prettified. There are no ads, popups or nonsense, just an awesome XML prettifier. Load XML, prettify XML. Created for programmers by programmers from team Browserling.

Starting Price: Free

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XMLmind

XMLmind XML Editor is a strictly validating, near WYSIWYG, XML editor. XMLmind XML Editor is highly customizable either by the end-user or by the local guru. XMLmind XML Editor is highly extensible without having to program (though it also has an extensive, well-documented, Java™ API). XMLmind XML Editor is not a programmer's tool. Its users are generally technical writers, engineers and scholars who use it to write large, complex, modular, documents. XMLmind XML Editor is also available as attractively priced, “special editions” called: XMLmind DITA Editor, XMLmind DocBook.

Starting Price: $390 one-time payment

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Fonto Editor

Fonto Group

Structured content authoring made easy. We let subject matter experts create, edit and review mission-critical documents. Flawless, fast and efficient. Fonto Editor. Thousands of authors worldwide use Fonto to create structured content in many languages. Let us make a first impression A picture paints a thousand words, a video shows a thousand pictures. One platform. Get the most out of your Fonto Editor by using these complementary products. Fonto Content Quality. Provides intelligent assistance while you’re writing. It helps to increase the quality of your content, save a lot of time and mitigate commercial and legal risk. Fonto Review Intuitive online collaboration and a valuable audit trail, right at the source. 100 times easier, more reliable and always up to date. Fonto Document History. Provides documentary evidence of the sequence of activities that have affected your content. In some cases you just need to be sure.

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Emacs

GNU

At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A wide range of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more. A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions. Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers. Text shaping with HarfBuzz. Native support for JSON parsing. Better support for Cairo drawing. Portable dumping used instead of unexec. Support for XDG conventions for init files. Additional early-init initialization file. Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line. Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick.

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Kate

KDE

Kate is packed with features that will make it easier for you to view and edit all your text files. Kate lets you to edit and view many files at the same time, both in tabs and split views, and comes with a wide variety of plugins, including an embedded terminal that lets you launch console commands directly from Kate, powerful search and replace plugins, and a preview plugin that can show you what your MD, HTML and even SVG will look like. Kate supports highlighting for over 300 languages making it easier to read code in almost all programming languages. Kate also understands how brackets works and will help you navigate inside complex code blocks hierarchies. On-the-fly spellchecking is also included and will help you check your text before publishing. Work on multiple files at the same time with split views. Use the project sidebar to navigate your project directory structures and use Kate's smart tabs to quickly access your recently opened documents.

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Eclipse PHP

Eclipse Foundation

The PHP IDE project delivers a PHP Integrated Development Environment framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses the development components necessary to develop PHP-based web applications and facilitates extensibility. It leverages the existing web tools project in providing developers with PHP capabilities. The essential starting point for PHP developers, including a PHP language support, a Git client, XML Editor and Mylyn, terminal. The experience of developing PHP application with PDT can be extended with a large variety of plugins created by the Eclipse ecosystem. Syntax highlighting, syntax validation, content assistance, code navigation, PHP debugging (Zend Debugger / Xdebug), PHP Profiling (Zend Debugger / Xdebug), PHPUnit, code formatted, refactoring, code templates, remote projects, and the whole power of the Eclipse Ecosystem.

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Quark Author

Quark

Enable subject-matter experts (SMEs) to author structured content within the familiar Microsoft Word environment, so they don’t have to know complex languages such as DITA or XML. Meet specific use cases, especially in regulated environments, with greater accuracy, consistency and speed with modular content that can be reused. Decrease production time and costs by automating error-prone, time-consuming and repetitive manual tasks with different workflows for different content types. Synchronize updates across specific content components, such as legal text and disclaimers. Easily collaborate with SMEs and other stakeholders to create, review and manage your content assets and their individual components. Eliminate the duplicate creation of text, images, charts and other content components. Maintain consistent branding and messaging across multiple documents and channels.

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Adobe FrameMaker

Adobe

Intelligent content for any screen, format and language. Superfast. Fast. Powerful. Future-ready. Boost performance with an all-new 64-bit FrameMaker. Create rich, immersive content with unmatched image handling capabilities. Experience faster opening and publishing of PDF and HTML5 files. Push the envelope with new capabilities built on top of the latest technologies. Get started with XML/DITA authoring with an easy-to-use workspace, productivity enhancements, and lots more. With an all-new 64-bit architecture, you can significantly boost productivity with more memory for long, complex documents. Open files up to 40% faster. Work with images like never before with support for transparency, high quality import and other striking enhancements. Open up a world of possibilities with the latest technologies, modern libraries, Duden hyphenation and spell-checking support and more.

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Best XML Editors for XML

Compare the Top XML Editors that integrate with XML as of November 2024

What are XML Editors for XML?

Paligo

Notepad++

Code Browser

Oxygen XML Editor

Help+Manual

Komodo Edit

Stylus Studio

xmlGrid.net

EditiX

XML Notepad

Liquid Studio

SIMQIN

Xeditor

XMLSpy

ExtendsClass

Code Beautify

Online XML Tools

XMLmind

Fonto Editor

Emacs

Kate

Eclipse PHP

Quark Author

Adobe FrameMaker