Talk:Comparison of XML editors

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Sort By Name Column

Anyone know how to have the grid automatically sort by the name column? Think it would be better like that?

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First, I am sorry to have edited this article not in sync with the policies. But I am not responsable for the vandalism by IP 85.241.113.219, although it took place nearly the same time. As other commerical products are also listed I wanted to add the two products that are now available in English. I am the author of these products. I understand that wikipedia should not be the place for advertisement but would it be able to add information on this software under the following circumstances...?

internal pages for each of the products that shortly describe them
no promotial language, just neutral descriptions
external links only on the product pages
description limited to the main points so that the user itself can justify about the value

What makes the applications special is also the approach to edit XML as a tree of nodes, not character by character. Although similar solutions have been released, they show another fresh way to edit XML.

Please discuss about my request and clarify the possibilites to place information about the XML editors.

Marvin7362 (talk) 09:46, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One of the main criteria for inclusion on Wikipedia is notability as established by third-party reliable sources. So even if you use a neutral language to describe the applications, it may still not be sufficient to add them to the list. I would suggest you request for the articles to be created here and see what others think. Laurent (talk) 10:31, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested addition

May I suggest to add a columns "DITA support" as well as "DOCBOOK support" in the sense of supporting subject matter experts to author technical documentation or similar with the editor using one of the given standards (versus XML geek editing any XML file)

I know PTC Arbortext which was EPIC Editor before which is not in the list.

Done Could someone please add the following? I would prefer to not make this edit myself due to conflict of interest, although I think it's an obvious addition. XMetaL has been a popular XML editor for 10 years[1] with 74,500 Google hits for "XMetaL XML editor".[2] Walk Up Trees (talk) 18:58, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name	Software license	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	Textual editor?	Graphical editor?
XMetaL	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes

Thanks! Walk Up Trees (talk) 18:58, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested addition: XMLmind

XMLmind is an xml editor that is used for technical documentation, and in particular unsing DocBook and DITA.

Name	Software license	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	Textual editor?	Graphical editor?
XMLmind	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

Note: I do not put it right now on the main page, because I am not sure there are not enough product listed. XMLmind is however relatively well positionned in Google (at least for me).

Note: a reference: Elliott, James; Loy, Marc (June 21, 2007), "Getting Productive with XMLMind", XML.com{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

--Nabeth (talk) 09:30, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested addition: EditiX

EditiX is a general and multiplatform xml editor. It has a free edition too, includes a visual schema editor and a lot of tools about XML.

Name	Software license	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	Textual editor?	Graphical editor?
EditiX XML Editor	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Note: a reference: Howard, Kevin (2008), "Book : Learn XML", XML.com{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Added. As well as the reference.

Note: it would be good if we were able to identify neutral references for each XML editor.

--Nabeth (talk) 16:51, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think the reference for EditX is not enough. The editor is only mentioned in a list among many other XML editors. We need a proper review in a magazine or website so I've removed it for now, but feel free to put it back if you can find a reliable source. In general, I think it would be better to create an actual article (even a stub) so that the notability can be challenged in a proper AFD. Laurent (talk) 16:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's a book reference (at least one, but found several others book reference too) on this tool, this is enough for being mentionned. Here a magazin in french about it : http://www.puce-et-media.com/index.php/Articles/xml-et-la-distribution-sur-differents-supports.html. Found several training center using this tool : http://www.ledet.com/other/?vendor=Editix&product=XML. Here an article on it : http://www.soutou.net/christian/telechargements/debutXML-cours2008.pdf. Another book : http://izibook.eyrolles.com/extract/show/459. There's a lot more, m I asking where did you search it ?????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.206.40.130 (talk) 11:36, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The EditX article has been deleted here. If you feel it shouldn't have been deleted then convince the admin to restore it, not me. In the meantime, as long as the article remains deleted, I'll keep removing the links. Notability is far from obvious and listing links where EditX is barely mentioned is not going to convince anybody. Laurent (talk) 11:41, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why Laurent did you delete the article too ??? Are you working for a concurrent company or what ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.72.215.50 (talk) 18:20, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This tool must not be deleted because there're serious references on it : Article of the university of Minho with Editix reference : http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:wtJFDq-JxREJ:alfa.di.uminho.pt/~danieladacruz/CISTI09xqbe.pdf+editix+xml+article&hl=en&sig=AFQjCNFoRykc0-qtlcBgWLtwDobrpJqd2A Article of the university of EDINBURGH with EditiX reference about TEI : http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:bOPvxzg0pO8J:www.researcherdevelopment.ed.ac.uk/RLIF/Lab_Digital_Philology_Report.pdf+xml+training+editix&cd=29&hl=en&ct=clnk Mac article with Editix reference : http://macproductionartist.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/xml-indesign-oxygen/ XSLT article with EditiX link in the Tools part : http://www.wordiq.com/definition/XSLT Trainings : http://www.ledet.com/other/?vendor=Editix&product=XML http://www.accelebrate.com/xml_training/ Education portal with EditiX : http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/xml/pointers.html Local Wiki with EditiX reference : http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/XML_editor Blog post : http://www.xmltoday.org/taxonomy/term/10 Books : XML: Visual QuickStart Guide : http://books.google.com/books?id=485Ol3iv2tAC&pg=PA247&dq=editix&ei=JbD5Stb3EJKkNeGJrOgO#v=onepage&q=editix&f=false Eclipse Book : http://books.google.com/books?id=vxMDuxmSKTsC&pg=PA766&dq=editix&lr=&ei=d7D5SpqhCJmkM5rNtIcP#v=onepage&q=editix&f=false Java 5 French Book : http://books.google.com/books?id=qD8UMCSf_V8C&pg=PA79&dq=editix&ei=JbD5Stb3EJKkNeGJrOgO#v=onepage&q=editix&f=false Java 6 French Book : http://books.google.com/books?id=Rn_L89cQ7XoC&pg=PT86&dq=editix&ei=JbD5Stb3EJKkNeGJrOgO#v=onepage&q=editix&f=false Ruby Book : http://books.google.com/books?id=oiLzZCFnh78C&pg=PT241&dq=editix&lr=&ei=d7D5SpqhCJmkM5rNtIcP#v=onepage&q=editix&f=false —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.72.215.50 (talk) 18:41, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Autocompletion Feature

Is there a clear definition of the meaning of the (Boolean value) column "Intellisense/Autocompletion"? Would an XML editor that provides simple tag completion meet this criterion? What does the phrase "using schema.xsd for text" mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markjleonard (talk • contribs) 18:37, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proprietary Bias

Seems slanted. I believe there are free facilities in Emacs, nxml-mode for example and Eclipse (many) that can be added. I think the priced ones will come out as doing more but the info should be here on the free ones. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 20:51, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just added XML Exchanger (xngr). Used to be commercial, but it's free since the 2010's. It's the only free XML Editor I consider somewhat usable, i.e. it can read DTD (editing support), validate against DTD and XSD and provides XSLT support. Someone even fixed some code during a Google summer code. For Windows 10, you have to adjust the DPI settings in the Windows properties. Not tested on Mac, runs OK under Ubuntu 18, but I don't know how to change the DPI settings (screen resolution) for a single application. Fonts can be adjusted though. - Daniel K. Schneider 14:39, 25 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel K. Schneider (talk • contribs)

Suggested addition: Geany

Non of the editors matched my requirements for XML folding but Geany is pretty nice. Small, GUI, GPL...

https://www.geany.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geany — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.122.104.243 (talk) 09:47, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested addition: XML Copy Editor

On internet this page What are the best XML Editors? recommends another tool: XML Copy Editor. It is free software and translated in several languages.