Is there an XML Editor with grid view similar to that of XMLSpy?

Question

I have been testing out a few different xml editor/viewers and I can't seem to find any that have a feature that is comparable to XMLSpy's grid view. Another feature I'd like to find, but is a deal breaker would be XMLSpy's ability to "Copy as Structured Text". Haven't found anything similar to this either in the free varieties of xml editors/viewers.

Anybody ever worked with a free xml editor that has the grid view option like XMLSpy?

Answer 1

XML Marker is a great tool that I've used for years. Well, that is, the old, free version (v1.1). The current version 2.2 is no longer free: $50 individual, $125 commercial. I find that price insane. Same with Liquid XML looks even nicer, but with an even insanerer[sic] price of $100/$300. I'm surprised there aren't better free or even reasonably priced (<$20 IMHO) editors out there. I'm tempted to write one, charge $5, and make a killing by sheer volume. ;-)

[Addendum:] I just downloaded Xsemmel, recommended by another commenter. It's free & open source, and so far it looks pretty good! I'm going to give this a run for a while.

Answer 2

You can also use Xsemmel and it is open source: https://xsemmel.codeplex.com

Answer 3

You can also use XMLPad tool and it's free!! You can download it from here

Another one is EditiX

Answer 4

It seems the functionality you are looking for is already available in WMHelp XMLPad. It provides source, grid table preview. Software is free and development seems stopped in 2008.

Also, you can try Foxe or XML Copy Editor or Jaxe or CAMV

Answer 5

You can check here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_XML_editors for all available editors.

Answer 6

Liquid XML Studio has an XML grid editor. Each section can be viewed as a tree or a table. The Table view allows data to be cut and pasted from tabular data sources ie Excel, SQL Server management studio etc.

Answer 7

There appears to be a product called XML Marker that claims to have this as well.

http://symbolclick.com/

Never tried it.

Answer 8

Liquid's grid view is limited. you can't select multiple cells for copying an pasting. I would go with Oxygen or XMLSpy. Stylus studio is also a decent option.

Answer 9

oXygen has a grid view for editing. oXygen is not free, but they do have a 30 day trial. Great editor for XML based work. The price is reasonable for all the features.

The XML document is displayed in the XML Grid Editor as a structured layout of nested tables in which the text content can be modified without directly interacting the XML tags. considers the child elements and attributes of the recurring elements as columns. The tables can be expanded and collapsed with a mouse click to show or hide the elements as needed. Also the document structure can be changed easily with drag and drop operations on the grid components.