Comparison of XML editors
This is a list of XML editors. Note that any text editor can edit XML, so this page only lists software programs that specialize in this task. It doesn't include text editors that merely do simple syntax coloring or expanding and collapsing of nodes.
Name | Version | Software license | Active | Type | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | Textual editor? | Tree View editor? | Graphical editor? | WYSIWYG editors? | XML Schema Editor? | Syntax highlighting for (XML, XSD, XSL, XSLT, ...) | Tag Folding | Intellisense/ Autocompletion (using schema.xsd for text) |
XPath search | XML diff/merge | Full- featured free trial period |
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Adobe FrameMaker | 2015 release | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Altova XMLSpy | 2017 | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone Eclipse Plugin |
Yes | No[1] | Yes[1][2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 30 |
Arbortext Editor | 6.0 | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
CAM: Content Assembly Mechanism | 3.1 (2014) | Open Source | Yes | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | No | N/A | ||
Daxe | 2016 | GNU GPL | Yes | Web-app | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Limited | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A |
Doctored.js | 2014 | GNU GPL | No | Web-app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
EditiX XML Editor | 2016 | Proprietaryxml | Yes | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
emacs/ nxml-mode |
current | GNU GPL | ? | Emacs mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ||
Essential XML Editor | 1.6.4 | Proprietary (old version open source) | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Exchanger XML Editor | 3.3.01 (2010) | Artistic/GPL (formerly proprietary) | No | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | N/A |
FontoXML | 2.1 | Proprietary | Yes | Web-app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
FOXE: Firstobject XML Editor | 2011 | Proprietary | ? | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Limited | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | N/A | ||
Jaxe | 3.5 (2013) | GNU GPL | Yes | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | ? | No | Yes | No | N/A |
Jedit XML Plugin | 2.8.3 (2012) | GNU GPL | Yes | Plugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | ? |
jquery.xmleditor | 2014 | Free Browser-based | Yes | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | N/A | |
Liquid XML Studio | 12.0.3 (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone + Visual Studio Plugin | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BeyondXML | 1.1.18.0 (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
MadCap Flare | 10.0.1 (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Oxygen XML Editor | 18.0 (2016) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone[3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Quark Author Web Edition on Quark Publishing Platform | 10.5 (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Web-App | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Sections Only | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | N/A | ||
Quark XML Author | 4.8 (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Microsoft Word Plugin | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | N/A | ||
Rinzo | 1.4.0 | GNU LGPL | Yes | Eclipse Plugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes[4] | Yes | ? | |
Simply XML | 5.6 (2013) | Proprietary | Yes | Microsoft Word Plugin | Yes | No | No | No | Partial/DITA Map only | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Partial/DITA Map only | No | Yes | ||
SDL Xopus | 4.4.2 (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Web-app | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||
Stylus Studio | X15 R2 (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Serna XML Editor | 4.4 (2011) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Xeditor | 2.0 | Proprietary | Yes | Web-app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Xerlin | 1.3 (2005) | Open Source | No | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||
XMetaL | 10.0 (2015) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||
XMLBlueprint | 2013 | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? |
XML Copy Editor | 1.2.1.1 (5/4/2014) | GNU GPL | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ||
XML Edita for Mac | 1.0.4 (2016) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
XMLFox.com | 6.0 (2003 - 2015) | Freeware | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
XmlGrid.net | 2014 | Free Browser-based | Yes | Web-app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | N/A | |
XMLmind XML Editor | 7.0 (2016) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [5] | ||
XML Notepad | 2.6 (2014) | Microsoft Public License | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ||
XMLSeed | Release 3.0.1.1 (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (indirect) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes (indirect) | Yes | ||
XMMax Editor | 4.0 (2015) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||
XMLPad | 3.0.4. (2014) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ||
XML ValidatorBuddy | 5.3 (2015) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
XML Marker | 2.2 (2013) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
Xmplify XML Editor for Mac | 1.8.0 (2016) | Proprietary | Yes | Standalone | No | Yes | No | Yes | Read-only Tree View | No | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
XTrans | 1.8 | GNU GPL | No | Standalone | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
See also
Note
Spring Tools Suite and Eclipse have a variety of built-in and free plugins matching or exceeding the quality of the paid versions. They come with a content assist tool that completes tags and can search for classes in any java classpath. They also include validation, bean creation, and commit tools.
A plugin for Notepad++ named XML Tools is available.[6] It contains many features including manual/automatic validation using both DTDs and XSDs, XPath evaluation, auto-completion, pretty print, and text conversion in addition to being able to work on multiple files at once. Other tools are available to edit XHTML.
References
- 1 2 Plugin version
- ↑ Wine supported
- ↑ Older Eclipse plugin versions work in current (Indigo) Eclipse.
- ↑ By DTD/XSD or already written elements if DTD/XSD isn't present. Also proposes Java elements.
- ↑ (XMLmind personal edition is full featured and free for personal use.)
- ↑ https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/XML%20Tools/Xml%20Tools%202.4.2%20r1057%20Unicode/
External links
- XML Editors at DMOZ