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  • Martin Z
    #1

    XML Editors?

    Hi, I'm just working on a hobbyhorse command-line app for modders on
    TA-Spring. The app is configured using XML deserialization , and I've
    generated XSD to make designing the confuration XML files easier... and
    in Visual Studio it's relatively painless.

    The problem is that I want to be able to use this app without editing
    the XML in Visual Studio, and whipping up a whole configuration program
    would be a terrible PITA for a little hobbyhorse app. So does anyone
    know of a good XML editor that supports using XSD for
    intellisense/validation in a user-friendly way? The configuration is
    pretty much snap-together building of the tree of configuration
    objects, so an XML editor that could reflect this to the user would be
    nice.

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    • Martin Honnen
      #2
      Re: XML Editors?



      Martin Z wrote:

      The problem is that I want to be able to use this app without editing
      the XML in Visual Studio, and whipping up a whole configuration program
      would be a terrible PITA for a little hobbyhorse app. So does anyone
      know of a good XML editor that supports using XSD for
      intellisense/validation in a user-friendly way? The configuration is
      pretty much snap-together building of the tree of configuration
      objects, so an XML editor that could reflect this to the user would be
      nice.
      You might want to check whether "XML notepad 2006", a .NET 2.0 application
      <http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/default.asp?url =/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/html/xmlnotepad.asp>
      does what you want.

      --

      Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
      Attention Required! | Cloudflare
      http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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        • Martin Z
          #3
          Re: XML Editors?

          Been trying it out.. so fare, tried XML Notepad and Jaxe. Jaxe just
          doesn't seem to like MS's autogenerated XSD, and XML Notepad doesn't
          handle abstract types well. If I have an element defined as an
          abstract type in it's XSD, and the XML implementation includes a
          non-abstract type in it's XSI:Type attribute, then XML Notepad declares
          it invalid and gives up on autocomplete. I'm starting to think the
          only XML editor that actually can autocomplete autogenerated DotNet
          XSD/XML is Visual Studio itself.

          Heheh, is MS ever planning on releasing a stripped-down redistributable
          version of Visual Studio Express with only the XML/XSD authoring
          features?

          Martin Honnen wrote:
          Martin Z wrote:
          >
          >
          The problem is that I want to be able to use this app without editing
          the XML in Visual Studio, and whipping up a whole configuration program
          would be a terrible PITA for a little hobbyhorse app. So does anyone
          know of a good XML editor that supports using XSD for
          intellisense/validation in a user-friendly way? The configuration is
          pretty much snap-together building of the tree of configuration
          objects, so an XML editor that could reflect this to the user would be
          nice.
          >
          You might want to check whether "XML notepad 2006", a .NET 2.0 application
          <http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/default.asp?url =/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/html/xmlnotepad.asp>
          does what you want.
          >
          --
          >
          Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
          http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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