Editing XML files

If you’re looking for a free XML editor, I can highly recommend jEdit. If you’ve installed the recommended jEdit plugins, then jEdit will offer you great XML file editing capabilities.

For example, in the image below (click to open in a new window) you’ll see I’m editing an XML file in jEdit.

You can see the following great features:

1 – Drop-down containing a list of valid entries
2 – An error console at the bottom, which is updated whenever the file is parsed (ie: when you save the file, or when you give the file focus after changing tabs)
3 – Syntax highlighting for easy reading
4 – The fact that the file extension is not XML, but rather AML, but because I’ve setup this file to be read as an XML file, it is treated as such

So, add this to all the other great features of jEdit (remembering that it’s a power user’s text editor), is there a reason NOT to use it?

Read more about using and customising jEdit here: jEdit