XML Editor - Textual Editors

Textual Editors

Text XML editors generally provide features dealing with working with element tags. Syntax highlighting is a basic standard of any XML editor; that is, they color element text differently from regular text. Element and attribute completion based on a DTD or schema is also available from many text XML editors. Displaying line numbers is also a common and useful feature, as is providing the ability to reformat a document to conform to a particular style of indenture.

Here is an example of edition in a text editor with syntax coloring:

The advantage of text editors is that they present exactly the information that is stored in the XML file. They provide a more granular way to control the formatting of the file (such as indentations), to do low-level operations (such as a find/replace on element names) and to edit XML files without any schema or configuration file.