[metadataLibrarians] selecting an XML editor

[Kevin S. Clarke]

Hi,

oXygen is a very good editor that can be used as a standalone product
for most of the people or integrated into Eclipse IDE for your
programmer and IT people.  It is also very reasonably priced
considering its features.

The editor I use, XMLBuddy, is also very good, but it only exists, I
believe, as a plugin to the Eclipse environment.  This isn't
necessarily a bad thing, but you might need to investigate whether the
environment would offer more than you want (causing confusion and more
time to learn the interface just to use a smaller set of features) for
the non-programmer types. http://www.xmlbuddy.com/

We started using XMLSpy here and had problems with it when working
with larger XML documents.  That was awhile back (so it might be fixed
by now), but with the newer editors we have had no reason to go back
to it.

A good place to look for other editors is:
http://www.xmlsoftware.com/editors.html  -- They range in quality and
price.

Happy hunting, Kevin


On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:22:36 -0400, Amanda J. Wilson
<wilson.1596 at osu.edu> wrote:
> Good afternoon all --
> 
> We are looking at investing in XML editors here at OSU and I have been
> given the glorious task of research!  So far I have poked around and found
> some information about oXygen, XML Spy, and XMetaL.
> 
> To give you some background, some of the people using the editor would be
> new to XML and would get basic training in XML.  Our EAD guru and myself
> will also me using the editor and the jury's still out on our programmer
> and IT people.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions about additional editors I should
> investigate?  Also, are any product reviews available that you know of?
> 
> Someone has already mentioned looking at XForms and InfoPath for simple
> data entry and I've got two votes for oXygen (good for the average markup
> person).
> 
> Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Amanda
> 
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