Choosing A Good Xml Editor

Renoise Tool Development Renoise XML Fileformats & Tools
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I just googled looking for a good (free?) .xml editor, to play with the new renoise song standard. And the amount of editors is mindboggling.

This site has tips on choosing an editor:
http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/information-papers/xml-editors/

tho is quite a lengthy read, and since I’m impatient… I’d like some renoisers in the know to advice me on a good editor :)

grts

Rico

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Notepad++. :)

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PSPad: http://www.pspad.com/en/

You can use the code explorer to browse through the xml nodes.

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JEDIT:
http://www.jedit.org/

With the XML Plug-In Set:
http://plugins.jedit.org/list.php?category=4

This is the editor I use for, well, everything.

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Anyone know how could I see the contents of a .xrns inside Total Commander?

I found these two plugins and installed them: IEView, xBaseView.
Is it possible with any of those two?

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No plugins needed, it’s a simple zip file. Hold down STRG then press PAGE DOWN. That also works with self extracting archives and with proper plugins also for installers.

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Thanks! Well, that was easy. :)

Btw, I never heard of STRG before, which I presume is Ctrl… Oh, yes, I googled now… it’s Ctrl in german.

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You’re right, i forgot to translate it, i’m so used to it. Btw, i couldn’t live without my TC, just as important as Renoise, another nice tip is CTRL + Q to browse to your sample collection.

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cheers for the recommendations, enough to keep me busy.

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It beats PSPad and Ultraedit both together.

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Microsoft has actually released a pretty intresting free tool they call XML Notepad that can be downloaded here.
I can’t say I have used it much myself but it is probably good for less advanced users I guess ;)

Myself prefer lightweight editors like Notepad++ and Programmers Notepad, both support syntax highlighting and code completion (both build on the scintilla engine)

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Thanks for the hint, will try that out.

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http://www.vim.org/ I never used it for xml, but I love it