July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
12h 30m
English
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Explore XML Documents in Graphical Editors
Text editor not enough for you? This hack looks at XML documents with graphical editors.
Along with XML has come a thundering horde of graphical XML editors that do everything short of buttering your toast. Many editors are readily available (see http://www.xmlsoftware.com/editors.html for a comprehensive though not exhaustive list), but I’ll mention only a few safe bets here.
xmlspy
xmlspy 2004 by Altova (http://www.xmlspy.com) is a feature-rich, graphical editor for XML for the Windows environment. xmlspy has also been tested on Red Hat Linux running Wine, and Mac OS/X running Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac. The Home Edition of this popular editor is available for free, but you must pay for licensess for Professional and Enterprise editions. I’ll give you a quick feature fly-over of xmlspy—though there are a number of features I won’t get around to mentioning.
xmlspy can help you create documents and schemas by hand or from templates (examples), organize work into projects, and import text and database files. You can view documents as text with syntax highlighting or in a grid view, check spelling, validate against DTDs and XML Schema documents, perform XSLT transformations [Hack #33] and evaluate XPath location paths. xmlspy provides support for WSDL (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl) and SOAP [Hack #63] . You can also use xmlspy to generate Java, C++, or C# code [Hack #99] from DTDs or XML Schema documents.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.