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I like SyncRO Soft's Oxygen 8.x XML Editor. It gives me much needed features for the price and I can really rock XML and XSD design, testing and documentation with it.
I also like Microsoft's XLINQ to XSD technology. With it I can automatically generate either C# or VB.Net object class code into my application from an XSD file and the Load (read) or Save (write) XML data files to/from these object classes effortlessly as well as many other features. I can access my XML data directly from these object classes with XLINQ SQL-like statements or with much simplier direct object references in C# or VB.Net. It makes working with XSD and XML data files programmatically about as easy as it can be. In Visual Studio I even get Intellisense for my XSD classes to assist me with the coding.
Such as:
// BANG it out !!
// PeopleDB is defined by XSD file
var Pdb = PeopleDB.Load("../../PeopleDB0.xml");
// cnt = # of person in Pdb
int cnt = Pdb.person.Count;
// get name of first person in Pdb
String str = Pdb.person[0].Name.givenname + " " + Pdb.person[0].Name.familyName;
// and show it in a MessageBox
MessageBox.Show(str, "Person", MessageBoxButtons.OK);
Cut from much larger XSD file:
<xs:element name="PeopleDB">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="person" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Name" type="PersonName"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:complexType name="PersonName">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="familyName" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="middlename" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="givenname" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
See download and documentation at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f83e69dd-ef73-49c5-9b3a-ee0c61e68a20&DisplayLang=en
They're Really Cool !!
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