What's a good freeware XML editor? (1 Viewer)

[jasonmorriso]

I'd like to modify the MyTorrents plugin (to add my own search site, and fix the broken Mininova parser), but trying to edit it in notepad gives me a headache.

What do all the skin makers and plugin authors use?

 

[Sh4nn0w]

I use .:: NOTEPAD++ ::. whenever I'm modifying any xml files. I've used it replace standard notepad.

Sure there's plenty of others too.

 

[eetaylog]

standard notepad is fine surely?

 

[Sh4nn0w]

For me notepad++ was better as it does syntax highlighting; avoided me screwing up skin files accidently :

 

[eetaylog]

ah right, yeah that looks a lot nicer to work with than standard notepad!

 

[Epstone]

I'm using the integrated editor in Visual Studio often, but if you don't have it on your computer and don't need it you should prefer notepadd++
And turn on word completing

PS: .:: NOTEPAD++ ::.
there is a xml plugin which sounds very interesting, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

[2BitSculptor]

I've been happy with MS's XML Notepad 2007. it's free. It displays the XML in tree format that you can expand and contract , duplicate and move stuff around... and being able to have multiple instances, you can drag controls and stuff from one to another.

Chuck

 

[Weeji]

I use PSPad. I'm sure Notepad++ is about the same, but I've grown comfortable with PSPad.

 

[surfermc]

Notepad++ plus 1

 

[joz]

I've used a couple and the tools that I mainly use now for skinning are;
- PHPEd, mainly because it's immensily powerful with all kinds of features, search replacing with regex and stuff like that. It's a PHP editor so ofcourse used for other purposes as well and it's not free.
- XMLSpy, either not free but the best xml editor out there.

Free solutions that I've used are;
- XML Notepad (Microsoft)
- Crimson Editor
- and the mentioned Notepad++