XMLSpear is a free XML Editor with a great real-time validation feature.It is easy to use, built in Java and available for all platforms.XMLSpear is great for users that just want to work with XML files without Deep knowledge of the XML syntax.
The XML is displayed in three different views:
* The treetable is great to see the structure of the xml file. Don't worry about writings Tags or escaping reserved XML characters. You can insert and delete nodes, and even build a whole document from scratch. It is the most convenient view for correcting and editing xml. This view makes XMLSpear different form many other XML tools.
* The element view is especially usefull if your element has many attributes.
* The source view is great for correcting unwellformed xml, doing finds-replaces or copy-and-paste. You can always escape to this view to do advanced Things that are not supported in the other views.
Mac OS users can open and edit their plist files, even when they are in binary format.
XMLSpear is packaged with a MQSeries plugin for browing queues and putting messages, so you can even test your MQ based services.
Features
Some of the features of XMLSpear that are already available:
* Full schema validation using DOM3 in Xerces 2.9.0
* Tree editor for inserting and deleting nodes
* Real-time validation against schema or DTD while editing
* Interactive resolving of schema or DTD locations
* Test facility for correct proxy settings
* GUI components reflecting the XML schema
* Visual and textual feedback for errors
* Support for multi-document view
* Generation of complete XML documents from schema
* Opening and correction and even formatting of not-well formed XML
* Unformat XML to filter out all the whitespace to shrink your file size
* Checks xsd schemas for errors, in exactly the same way as normal xml files
* Plug-In interface for extending functionality
* Flexible encoding (character set) support
