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I've been looking for a nice XML editor, preferably free, that works on Windows or Mac, as I have a few hundred XML files I have to make, and if there is an XML editor out there that would speed things up, rather than typing everything in X-Code, I'd be much appreciative.

  • I prefer Mac, but can use Windows, if it so arises that there is a much better piece of software available.

  • Auto-completion would be key.

  • I more often type new XML.

  • Schema checking is also important, but I have a limited ie. 2 number of schemas.

Any recommendations?

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Notepad++ or Sublime Edit (or any other good text editor) support syntax highlighting.

However that being said they aren't great for editing xml; probably there are plugins that improve them, but my recommendation would be Xpontus. It matches your requirements pretty well.

  • OS: Cross platform (specifically states that it works on Mac, Windows and *nix - though I only have used it on Windows)
  • Auto-completion would be key: It supports xHTML autocomplete; don't think it knows completions for other schemas.
  • Schema checking is also important, but I have a limited ie. 2 number of schemas. Yep that is the feature xpontus does the best over a good text editor.

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  • As expected, there are XML plugins for Notepad++, they include schema-checking.
    – miroxlav
    Apr 14, 2014 at 1:16
  • XPontus hasn't had a release since 2008, and the Mac version no longer works: it's a 32-bit program, but Mac applications are required to be 64-bit.
    – Mark
    Apr 14, 2020 at 1:19
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As per the comment below, the last version of this program was from 2011 and it also seems to break if you have complex XML. I would suggest looking for an alternative. VSCode is now wildly popular some 5 years later, it's free and has excellent tooling and plugin support, for example - See XML Tools.

On Windows, I use firstobject XML editor. It's fast, free, portable (a singe .exe) and can handle huge files. It also sports syntax highlighting.

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  • I do not recommend this editor. I was a great fan of FOXE, but that program is from 2011 (last version 2.4.2.432) and I just discovered that it has parsing errors if the XML becomes too complex. See the example at imgur.com/a/1HjtKQi where the RoleDescriptor\KeyDescriptor\KeyInfo\X509Data\X509Certicate XM tree completely breaks down for the second RoleDescriptor node
    – user416
    Feb 4, 2019 at 9:05
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I use Eclipse Web Tools Platform:

  • Free
  • Works with Mac/Windows/Linux
  • Auto-completion
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Schema checking
  • Eclipse comes with a huge amounts of other features for XML and other languages.

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I highly recommend Brackets for the following reasons.

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    – Nick Dickinson-Wilde
    Mar 20, 2014 at 8:46
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oXygen XML is a multi-platform XML editor if you are looking for a full-blown XML IDE. It's free and it has loads of features. Can also run as an Eclipse plugin.

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    On their website it says that you can try it for free for 30 days only, after that you’d have to purchase a license. Is there a free version hidden somewhere?
    – unor
    Mar 21, 2014 at 11:47
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  • Also - what's irritating about this, is that is basically just the eclipse XML editor. It's certainly built on Eclipse, and doesn't appear substantially different.
    – dgo
    Aug 3, 2016 at 21:46
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XML Notepad 2007 by Microsoft is good and free. The tree view is very nice, and being able to search by XPath selector is nice. Its also quick and (surprisingly for Microsoft) un-bloated.

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