[MojoRising022]

I am looking for a full-featured XML editor. There are a ton of great options on the PC side, but nothing earth-shattering it seems for the Mac.

I can always use BBEdit, EMacs, or vi, but I am looking for something with more automation and a decent UI.

I spent a few hours working with Oxygen XML Editor and while it has all the features I would like to have and then some, I find the interface clunky and the overall responsiveness quite slow.

Anything out there I should take a look at?

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by MojoRising022:
I am looking for a full-featured XML editor. There are a ton of great options on the PC side, but nothing earth-shattering it seems for the Mac.

I can always use BBEdit, EMacs, or vi, but I am looking for something with more automation and a decent UI.

I spent a few hours working with Oxygen XML Editor and while it has all the features I would like to have and then some, I find the interface clunky and the overall responsiveness quite slow.

Anything out there I should take a look at?

I think that if you're looking for a "full-featured" editor with a decent UI and you haven't found one yet by searching VersionTracker and Google... then it would seem like there are none for OSX.

Maybe there's one for X11?

[Sven G]

Well, on the KDE front there's kxmleditor, also - of course! - available as a Fink package. Haven't tried it personally, however...

[walrusjb]

Nothing along the lines of XMLSpy unfortunately (and they have no plans of making a port)... there's a definite market gap here.

Will kxmleditor even run on X (via X11, etc)?

I've yet ot find anything half as good as XMLSpy - it's the sole reason I keep Virtual PC on my notbook...

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by walrusjb:
Nothing along the lines of XMLSpy unfortunately (and they have no plans of making a port)... there's a definite market gap here.

Will kxmleditor even run on X (via X11, etc)?

I've yet ot find anything half as good as XMLSpy - it's the sole reason I keep Virtual PC on my notbook...

Sven G posted above you saying that there is a kxmledit package available in Fink... So yeah, it looks like it runs on OSX. Unfortunately I, too, have not tried it.

[Sven G]

Originally posted by walrusjb:
Will kxmleditor even run on X (via X11, etc)?

But of course!

Being a Fink package, it's easy (just tried it myself):

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install kxmleditor

... Which, BTW, gives you the "stable" 0.8.1 release; it indeed works with Apple's X11, even without starting the whole KDE environment (which it would be better to install before, anyway, of course), simply by typing kxmleditor & in the xterm...

[walrusjb]

Very cool - I'll have to look into that one. Thanks for the tip

[workerbee]

Originally posted by walrusjb:
Nothing along the lines of XMLSpy unfortunately (and they have no plans of making a port)

That's a real shame, I'd probably buy it in a second.

How does it run in VPC?

[walrusjb]

How does it run in VPC?

Slowly - at least on my setup. I don't even bother for simple or lightly formatted docs, but it gets the job done for complex schemas, etc. and the inline XSLT previews. I'm sort of in the habit of dealing with the speed hit while I'm getting schemas and XSLTs defined, then closing out and doing a lot of copy & paste in TextEdit or Dreamweaver to make the time back up on the actual XML.

I only run it this way on my notebook when I'm on the road - so it may not be as annoying on a newer machine or desktop (I'm still running a Ti400 for my notebook). Of course, Spy isn't exactly spry - even on one of the quick Athlons at the office - so it may not be a speed demon on any setup with VPC.

Kind of annoying, but I deal with it as I haven't found anything else as powerful... I've sent countless letters of inquiry about an OS X port to no avail