XML to XHTML on WinXP platform

[The Doormouse]

I am looking for an XML editor, an XSLT editor and a DTD editor.
What setups do people recommend on my platform (WinXP)?

My goal is learning XML for XHTML output.

I read a book that recommended XML Notepad, which - oddly - is no longer
being distributed by mickeysoft. Another book recommended SAXON, which uses
Java virtual machine. I am not too keen on Java.

Thanks everyone.

The Doormouse

 

[brucie]

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I am looking for an XML editor, an XSLT editor and a DTD editor.

that would be any text editor. if you want syntax highlighting use an
editor that has language syntax files available.

heres are some specifically for xml

cooktop: http://www.xmlcooktop.com/ [free]
xray: http://www.architag.com/xray/ [free]
peters xml eiditor: http://www.iol.ie/~pxe/ [free]
xmlspy: http://www.xmlspy.com/products_ide.html [$400]
turboxml: http://www.tibco.com/solutions/products/extensibility/turbo_xml.jsp [$270]

What setups do people recommend on my platform (WinXP)?

i use http://www.editplus.com/ but only because its preview button
integrates with a local server otherwise i'm happy with any text editor
that has syntax highlighting

 

[The Doormouse]

Thank you, brucie!

The Doormouse

 

[David Christopher Weichert]

Am Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:12:28 +0000 schrieb The Doormouse:

I am looking for an XML editor, an XSLT editor and a DTD editor. What
setups do people recommend on my platform (WinXP)?

I personally use jEdit (http://www.jedit.org). It features: syntax
highlighting, can parse against a DTD to validate and for automatic tag
completion and context sensitive suggestion of Tags, Attributes and
Entities, structure view of the nesting of XML Elements, ... It also
supports writing XSLT stylesheets and DTDs and comes with an XSLT
processor (Xalan, http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html) available as
an easy to install plugin. It requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE,
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp). Best of all, it is free!

My goal is learning XML for XHTML output.

I read a book

You may want to look at: Elliotte Rusty Harold ,Chapter 17 of the XML
Bible, Second Edition : XSL Transformations
(http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/chapters/ch17.html).

that recommended XML Notepad, which - oddly - is no longer being
distributed by mickeysoft. Another book recommended SAXON, which uses
Java virtual machine. I am not too keen on Java.

Java is really the way, because so many XML Tools are implemented in Java,
due to the fact that Java has such a good XML API. Saxon is not an Editor,
but an XSLT Processor. That said, it is very good and is also available as
"instant Saxon" for Microsofts broken Java 1.1 Virtual Machine. Of course
you can run Full Saxon with a more recent and less buggy Java
implementation (s. above). There are alternatives
however, Sablotron (http://www.gingerall.com/charlie/ga/xml/p_sab.xml)
makes a nice and fast XSLT Processor written in C++.


Kind regards
David

 

[The Doormouse]

Thank you!

The Doormouse