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)
Full-
featured free trial period
Adobe FrameMaker 2015 release Proprietary Yes Standalone Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes
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
Doctored.js 2014 GNU GPL No Web-app Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes
EditiX XML Editor 2016 Proprietary 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
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 N/A
Jedit XML Plugin 2.8.3 (2012) GNU GPL Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No No ? Yes Yes ? ?
jquery.xmleditor 2014 Free Browser-based Yes Standalone Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes 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
BeyondXML 1.1.18.0 (2014) Proprietary Yes Standalone Yes No No 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[1] 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[2] ?
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
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 ?
XML Copy Editor 1.2.1.1 (5/4/2014) GNU GPL Yes Standalone Yes No Yes Yes ? No No ? Yes Yes Yes ?
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 ? N/A
XMLmind XML Editor 6.6 (2016) Proprietary Yes Standalone Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Almost full featured
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 ?
XMLSpy 2015 Proprietary Yes Standalone
Eclipse Plugin
Yes No[3] Yes[3][4] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 30
XML ValidatorBuddy 5.3 (2015) Proprietary Yes Standalone Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No ? 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 1.7.6 (2016) Proprietary Yes Standalone No Yes No Yes Read-only Tree View No No ? Yes No Yes Yes
XTrans 1.8 GNU GPL No Standalone Yes No No Yes Yes No No ? Yes No No ?

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. 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. Older Eclipse plugin versions work in current (Indigo) Eclipse.
  2. By DTD/XSD or already written elements if DTD/XSD isn't present. Also proposes Java elements.
  3. 1 2 Plugin version
  4. Wine supported

External links

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