Best XML editor

[nostrander]

What tools are needed to edit xml?
If special tools need which ones are the best inexpensive ones?
Thanks

[DELOCH]

notepad is the best text editor next to FAR(www.farmanager.com)

FAR is a DOS based file manager which can edit files and control easily, since it is partly dos you can compile programs from it as well

for me, I like notepad with font: courrier new.

XML is a basic language, any text-editor will do

just save the file in 2 steps

1) Make a filename(filename)
2) Add an extension(after filename)

filename = filename
extension = .xml
save as filename.xml :D

quite basic though... you can download off the web, just google an XML editor :D

[nostrander]

Thanks new to xml this will help.:)

[DELOCH]

let me say this in simple form:

no one can tell you what to use, do what you need, and what people pay you to do(in programming)

[macchisp]

I use Cooktop. It is free and it has a lot of tools that you can use that most free services do not offer. It will even render your valid code for you. If you have non valid code, it will tell you where your error is. Of course it doesn't tell you how to fix your problem. I searched on Google to find it when I was looking for XML IDEs.

[DELOCH]

you do not need an IDE for XML, XML is basic, all you need is not to forget to close, and even if you mess up the result will tell you exactly where the error is...

plus it is a great excersize, you must type good without a typo, in C++ if you mess { with [ or ( it won't work, or if you forget ; at the line it will not work, if you forget to add a . it won't work, if you make 1 letter mistake you get the point

good luck ^_^

[ealbrecht]

I haven't done any Google'ing for your answer... but I wouldn't recommend using "just" a plain text kind of editor. While they work it is not good practice or even recommended to use them. There are a large number of free editors out there, you just have to search for them and do the whole "trial-n-error" thing. Try to find editors that have color-coding, auto tag-completion, and ones that validate your code syntax. I have to agree more with macchisp, while a rich-feature IDE is not needed, they sure do make your work a lot easier. I highly recommend getting a nice, graphical, feature-rich editor that is for free. It doesn't mean that you have to work in design view, you can still work in code-view, but the added features will make your life a lot easier as a developer.

[dave_mwi]

Some programs I've used - although not free:

Oxygen XML
Stylusstudio

Both are good and have many tools for xml validation, etc as well as wsdl web service tools.

It just depends on what you'll be doing in general. If you're doing simple xml documents you can do them by hand with any text editor. If you're going to be doing more complex things like WSDL programming, XSD, etc, then a tool can save you a lot of time and energy.

[xmlguy]

you don't need any special tools at all, after all xml syntax is quite simple, you can even use notepad to view and edit xml files, problem is when you want to create xml files and some proper programming you want advanced features like syntax highlighting, auto complete etc etc. For this you will need a dedicated xml editor, There are free xml editor (http://www.xml-editor.info/free-xml-editor)s and paid ones.
My recommend for free editor is serna, see this blog here
For the best xml editor (http://www.xml-editor.info/best-xml-editor/) (paid) i suggest liquid xml editor (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/xml-editor.aspx).