There are
many xml schema editors available in the market. Some of them are free
and some are commercial. If you look at the features provided, they
have some common features available in all the schema editors.
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Some of
the best schema editors that are available the market and that have
got good reviews from the users are <oXygen/> and XML Spy. These
editors have lots of features that help the developer to increase the
productivity.
These products
have visual editors that give you the diagrams of the schema that you
are editing. Code view is also available side by side. So when you select
a part of the diagram the corresponding code is also selected in the
code view.
The same
applies in the reverse too. This helps the developer to edit the schema
files easily. There are features that allow you to generate the schema
from a well formed xml document. You can use this as a template to further
work on the schema.
Color coding
and syntax completion helps lot writing the code faster. Along with
the syntax completion you also get documentation on the particular syntax
which helps a lot in coding.
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