XML Editor?

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GfK(Posted 2011) [#1]
Anybody recommend a good free XML editor? I'm designing my game levels in XML and the file's quite big so its getting a bit difficult to use notepad, leaves a lot of scope for making mistakes.


Yasha(Posted 2011) [#2]
An excellent tool if you're a programmer on Windows (I assume you are, if you're using Notepad) is Notepad++: http://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/

It offers syntax highlighting, code folding and various other things for several dozen languages, including XML. With XML it also highlights the matching start or end tag if the cursor is currently over one or the other.


GfK(Posted 2011) [#3]
Ah, I actually meant Notepad++ but I've been using it for so long I just call it Notepad now!

I'm really after a visual editor of some sort.


CyBeRGoth(Posted 2011) [#4]
I have always been a fan of PSPad http://www.pspad.com/en/screenshot.htm
I am not too sure what you mean by visual editor though so I don't know if this fits the bill.


Warner(Posted 2011) [#5]
Maybe it is a good point to consider creating a level editor that generates XML.

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CyBeRGoth(Posted 2011) [#6]
Ah, if thats what your after then yes the only good way is to make your editor output the XML nativly it's what I generally do, just have it spit out the level data as a stream of hex, such as <levelData> 12,12,54,18,0A,15,15 etc </levelData>


nrasool(Posted 2011) [#7]
Hey GFK, use http://www.syntext.com/products/serna-free/ or http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/

Both are free and open source. They are pretty good for editing XML files

Kind Regards


D4NM4N(Posted 2011) [#8]
Most of these run on anything and some include auto-formatters and structure checking:

JEdit, Netbeans, XCode(osx only), Eclipse (a little heavy but good), notepad++(windows only), GEdit(linux only)

I use (mostly) eclipse & netbeans myself.

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GfK(Posted 2011) [#9]
Thanks guys - I'll bear these in mind for in future. I plodded on with Notepad++ and just got finished - just short of 2000 lines of XML in ~6 hours.