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I agree with Mark's assessment of XML Spy for visualizing and manipulating
XML Schema (and DTDs).
The only reservation I have is with the occasional blips in the parser. We
recently encountered a problem with an XML DTD where it parsed in a variety
of common XML parsers (notably RXP and MSXML), but failed to parse in XML
Spy. I was able to find a workaround that satisfied all parsers -- and in
fact what XML Spy wanted was probably a good practice -- but I hate to gear
DTDs/Schemas to specific tools; that seems to defeat the purpose of
interoperability. There have also been posts to the xmlschema-dev list
about inconsistencies between XML Spy's Schema parser and other parsers
(such as XSV), not to mention the XPath bug brought up on this list last
week. These issues seem to be few and far between, but enough to cause a
little concern for us with regard to sharing DTDs/data with vendors and
clients who often do not use XML Spy.
[disclaimer] The fact that XML Spy is widely and successfully used
indicates that it is a good tool (I like it myself :-)). If our
DTDs/Schemas were only for internal use, I would have no reservations.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Feblowitz [mailto:mfeblowitz@frictionless.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:37 PM
To: 'Dare Obasanjo'; Don Box; Long, Craig Z; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML IDE: What are the top 3 and why?
My (rapidly depreciating) $.02:
I'm an emacs user from way back. Written lots of emacs lisp, was an
evangelist.
So far, nothing I've seen compares with XML Spy for visualizing and
manipulating XML Schema.
A picture can be worth a thousand tags.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:17 PM
To: Don Box; Long, Craig Z; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML IDE: What are the top 3 and why?
M-x all-hail-emacs
PS: Another content free post brought to you by the letters E, M, A, C,
and S.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Box [mailto:dbox@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:29 PM
> To: Long, Craig Z; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML IDE: What are the top 3 and why?
>
>
> I and most of my friends use Emacs. The NT version has been
> pretty stable for at least a year, and the built-in SGML mode
> has proven more than functional (for me at least). I know of
> at least one person who likes the XSLT mode for Emacs, but I
> didn't care for it.
>
> BTW, the price is hard to complain about.
>
> DB
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Long, Craig Z [mailto:craig.long@eds.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:17 AM
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: [xml-dev] XML IDE: What are the top 3 and why?
> >
> > XML-Dev,
> >
> > I'm currently using XML Spy 4.3 and am pleased with it. Please
> suggest
> > other note worthy XML development tools (ideally the top
> 3-5) that are
> > comparable to XMLSpy (price/functionality). As you know developers
> often
> > find themselves having to justify the purchase of a tool and what
> tool.
> > Thanks for your expert opinion.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > /**
> > *
> > * @author Craig
> > * @Developer
> > * @Ever Vigilant!!!
> > *
> > */
> >
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