Tuesday, March 06, 2007

XML/XSL Tools

New Favourite Tool

If you have to write and therefore debug xslt stylesheets, you really need to take a good look at the oXygen editor. It does all the things you expect an editor to do:

  • handling multiple file formats in addition to xml/xsl
  • context-appropriate word completion
  • multi-platform support
  • etc., etc.

oXygen does one more thing that really makes it worth the money. It allows you to step through the style sheet processing side by side with the xml input, highlighting both the current template instruction and the xml bit being processed.

For a 30-day trial, checkout the oXygen download page.


All-in-one tool for free:

I recently took a look at Mircosoft's Visual Web Developer - Express Edition. Microsoft's tagline for the Express Edition products is: "Free, lightweight, easy-to-use, and easy-to-learn tools for the hobbyist, novice, and student developer".

The editor provides validation and ease of use tools for web related docs:
  • HTML
  • XML
  • XSL/XSLT
  • CSS
One of the benefits of working with a tool like this is being able to work with the different types of files in a consistent environment. I even used it to create a dita doc project: dita files, ant files, xsl files, and css.The price is right; it's worth taking a look at it. Click the link below.

Express - Visual Web Developer


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