Beginners Tools For Working With XML
Dated: 08 Nov, 2010 06:10:05 AM
While you can view XML documents with a simple text editor, there are many tools that can make your life easier when coding XML. These tools can help prevent you from making errors. Also, these tools present the XML contents in a more readable form. Many of these tools provide graphical updating, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, highlighting errors and document validation.
Here are some of the applications that can be used to create / manage XML documents.
- Notepad: You can use text editor such as notepad to create or view a simple XML file. Here is how a XML file looks in notepad.
- XML Spy: XML spy allows you to create XML document graphically. You can right click to add an element, select / change properties. You can also create schemas, enter data in you document and even validate your document against schema or DTD.
- Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 / 2010: Visual Studio is a commercial development IDE. This application is mainly meant for .net development but also allows you to create XML documents, view schema. This application has the features like error highlighting, auto-completion, tag suggestions, etc.
To view XML documents, you can use any modern browser, like
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer
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