XMLSpear is a powerful graphical tree editor, targeted to check, and correct XML files in a simple way.

You can assign a schema or DTD to validate the xml. For correcting not-wellformed xml a simple source editor is available.

Here are some key features of "XMLSpear":

· Full schema validation using DOM3 in Xerces 2.8.0
· Tree editor for inserting and deleting nodes
· real-time validation while editing table and element view
· GUI components reflecting the xml schema
· Visual and textual feedback for errors
· Support for multi-document view
· Generation of complete xml documents from schema
· Opening and correction of not-well formed XML
· Plug-In interface for extending functionality
· Flexible encoding (character set) support
· Project viewer
· Integrated text and HTML plugin.

Requirements:

· Java Runtime 1.4 or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This release includes a fix for bug B-18, see the bug list for details.
· The xerces library is updated to version 2.10.0.
· Added several extra settings to customize XMLSpear to your specific needs. All available settings can be viewed or edited in the XMLSpear.properties file.
· All run-parameters after the first one (which references the property file), will be interpreted as file paths. So you can use the bat or shell script to start the editor and open 1 or more files.