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Chris Markle - 20 Apr 2004 04:24 GMT

Hi,

One of our "new to XML" programmers is using some advanced XML editing tool
like vi or the like to do their XML editing... They asked for suggestions
for a "better" tool than that for this purpose (XML editing). Looking for
suggestions, links, etc. from this group... Also, is there anything that
plugs into Eclipse for this purpose? Thx in advance...

Chris

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nobody important - 20 Apr 2004 08:54 GMT

You could try Cooktop ( http://xmlcooktop.com/ ) it's free, it formats XML
in a neat structure, and is able to validate the XML as well. Unfortunately
it's Windows only.

/nobody important

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Roedy Green - 20 Apr 2004 09:55 GMT

> Also, is there anything that
>plugs into Eclipse for this purpose? Thx in advance...

One of the HTML tools might do XML as well. Check out Dreamweaver.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/dreamweaver.html

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Wald - 20 Apr 2004 15:03 GMT

> Also, is there anything that plugs into Eclipse
> for this purpose? Thx in advance...

Plugs into Eclipse? Of course:
* Oxygen XML (commercial)
* X-Men (open source)
* XMLBuddy (free versions available)

These are all XML editor-type plugins for Eclipse. You can find them
here:

http://www.eclipse-plugins.info/eclipse/plugins.jsp?category=XML

together with loads of other XML-related tools.

Greetz,
Wald

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Mark Preston - 20 Apr 2004 15:54 GMT

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> suggestions, links, etc. from this group... Also, is there anything that
> plugs into Eclipse for this purpose? Thx in advance...

There is at least one tool that plugs into Eclipse (but I can't remember
its name or where it is - try eclipse.org or sourceforge). There is also:-

NetBeans (built-in)
DreamWeaver (built-in)
XML Spy (specialist and superb)
Oxygen (not bad and free - I think)

In fact, there are loads.

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