[plug] Whats a good xml editor for linux?

[Derek Fountain]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 20:42, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Whats a good xml editor for linux?

As you've probably gathered from the responses you've had so far, there isn't 
one. I thought Quanta offered XML support of some sort, but the fact they 
don't flag it as a feature from their website perhaps tells you something in 
itself. Most programmable text editors offer some sort of XML support, but I 
don't think any of them could be described as "good". I would consider "good" 
to be in the league of XMLSpy on that other platform, and there certainly 
isn't anything like that under Linux that I know of. And XMLSpy doesn't work 
under Crossover Office, so that's not an option.

I find this very strange. XML is open, modern and very useful technology, and 
the back end is well supported with expat, libxml2 and the like. For some 
reason the OSS community doesn't seem too interested in writing an editor 
capable of dealing with XML files nicely. Maybe it's an extension of the 
"it's only text so use vi or emacs" mentality which often makes specific text 
handling tools hard to come by?

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