Date: May. 9, 2001
Link: http://xmleverywhere.com/cooktop/
Source Author or Organization: Victor Pavlov, XMLEverywhere

XML Cooktop is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for writing and testing XML, Document Type Definitions (DTDs), XML Path Language (XPath) and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) stylesheets.

Cooktop's development goal was creation of an XML Spy-class feature set in a freeware product. The program validates XML documents and checks well-formedness, offers XPath and stylesheet testing and support and includes a Microsoft Extensible Stylesheet Language (MS XSL) to Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) converter. It also converts HTML to Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) via Tidy.

XML Cooktop color codes and indents XML source and displays HTML output in a browser window. Spellchecking is available, and the "auto workspace" feature remembers pairs of xml/xsl files used. Cooktop is extensible via broad support for third party programs such as Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) processors and XML formatters.

This release includes Peer-to-Peer features (with more planned in future releases): distributed chat capability is provided via an integrated Jabber client, and peers can share libraries of favorite URLs and cataloged, reusable code fragments called Code-Bits.

XML Cooktop supports Windows 95/98/98SE/Me/NT4/2000. The license allows free use for any purpose but prohibits commercial distribution without contacting the author. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later is required. Microsoft Word is required for spellchecking.