altova xml spy free edition

[Andy Fish]

hi,

i used to use the free edition of altova xml spy for editing xml files. now
I see that it costs $500

all I want to do is just edit xml files in a "raw" xml view, validate that
they are well formed, and pretty-print (reformat), so I don't really want to
spend 500 bucks on a tool to do it

is this something that 'authentic' (or any of the cheaper altova products)
does?

if not, what's your favourite free/cheap xml editor

 

[Andy Dingley]

i used to use the free edition of altova xml spy for editing xml files. now
I see that it costs $500

I've posted regularly on how I don't much like Altova or XML Spy
anyway.

if not, what's your favourite free/cheap xml editor

Anything will do element closure these days. Hunt around and you'll
get DTD or schema awareness too, or even schema editing tools. jEdit
is the low end, Eclipse the high end.

 

[Armel]

hi,

i used to use the free edition of altova xml spy for editing xml files.
now I see that it costs $500

all I want to do is just edit xml files in a "raw" xml view, validate that
they are well formed, and pretty-print (reformat), so I don't really want
to spend 500 bucks on a tool to do it

is this something that 'authentic' (or any of the cheaper altova products)
does?

if not, what's your favourite free/cheap xml editor

we make and use ECMerge for our XML stuff, it has XML completion and XML
validation through macros and built-in pretty-printing.
it is basically a differ but it is also a good editor with XML syntax
colouring for 20$ in its standard version.

Regards
Armel

 

[MKline]

hi,

i used to use the free edition of altova xml spy for editing xml files. now
I see that it costs $500

all I want to do is just edit xml files in a "raw" xml view, validate that
they are well formed, and pretty-print (reformat), so I don't really want to
spend 500 bucks on a tool to do it

is this something that 'authentic' (or any of the cheaper altova products)
does?

if not, what's your favourite free/cheap xml editor

www.xmlcooktop.com

freeware