Does anyone know where to get a freeware or shareware xml editor. Or even one at a low cost.

It is really cumbersome to manually code the text. I was hoping I could find something with a visual interface. Such as Microsoft Access is to Databases.

If anyone knows, I would appreciate it.

thanks,

Ray

Hi Ray,

Have never used one with a visual interface.

I think Altova XMLSpy Home Edition is free and has some nice features to make things a bit easier.

HTH,

Chris

Hi Chris,

I'll check it out. thanks for the help. Out of curiousity, how do you input data for XMl?

Hi Ray,

No problem.

The approach I would use for inputting data really tends to depend on the data.

I tend to hand code small files, however, when supplied with a lump of data in a database / excel / other format, I'll often knock up a script to convert the data to xml format.

Cheers,

Chris

Hi Chris,

Do you have a script that makes the conversion from Excel to XML? CAn you tell me how to do it?

thanks,

Ray

Yes Free Home Edition of XMLspy is available from the following URL

http://www.altova.com/support_freexmlspyhome.asp

Charul Shukla

Hi Ray,

How you do things will depend on your excel file and the desired xml structure.

Most of the things I have had to convert in the past have been quite simple excel docs, I have usually saved these as tab delimited files, then read them line by line in a script, adding them to a dom object before saving the dom to create an xml file.

HTH,

Chris

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