XML Editor for OS X

Question

Hi

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12073/what-is-the-best-xml-editor was a great question regarding XML editors on Windows. What about on OS X?

Oxygen is feature complete, but, it's a Java app and a bit clunky on OSX. It's also extremely expensive.

Anything Mac native and comparable in features for less than $300 ?

Thanks

Andrew

Answer 1

EditiX XML Editor (starts at $60) or maybe oXygen ($299 is less than $300, right).

You'll find a big list of the optiosn over at XMacL if you want more choices.

Answer 2

It's been a long time since I used Oxygen, but in the latest builds of eclipse (gannymede) there is a built in XML editor that works for about 90% of my use cases (XSD/DTD validation, auto-complete etc.)

Obviously eclipse is a Java application and therefore may feel clunky for you, but, worth a try from my perspective as it is a lot cheaper than $300

If you are after extensibility in your tool then look at using TextMate and an appropriate Bundle (or extend an existing bundle with new macros).

Answer 3

If you use TextMate, there are plugins available such as http://ditchnet.org/xmlmate/

Answer 4

The latest JEdit Builds on the 4.3 branch combined with a wealth of plugins give you a lot of advanced XML/SLT/XQuery functionality.

The downsides are it's still a Java Application, with all the lipstick on a pig implications that brings. You'll also find inconsistent UI Metaphors in the various plugins. There's a lot of poking and prodding you'll need to do, and last time I checked the JEdit forums there was a lot of "you idiot, it works like this" going on.

The upsides are free and legitimately powerful. I'm a BBEdit user, but I keep JEdit around for writing XQuery.

Answer 5

These of all been really helpful answers, and obviously the accepted answer is matter of personal preference!

Shame you can't mark a few as accepted.

Thanks All

Andrew

Answer 6

Emacs has a nice XML mode, if you don't mind running that on os x.