by Steffen Frederiksen | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog
Who cares about XML editors in the first place? Well, there are many different answers to that question. Ever since XML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on February 10, 1998, a lot of people realized that this new standard could be used for cross-platform publishing. The fact that an XML file could be processed by computers, and even transformed into other formats using XSLT stylesheets, was great news. Today, this XML characteristic of being machine-readable and processable is becoming even more important for new technologies. These include content automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and chatbots or other software robots. Even though these new technologies are very smart and clever, they still need a lot of help to figure out what a text is about and what the relevant context might be. XML tagging with elements and attributes is providing this help. What is an XML Editor? Being entirely character-based, you can write perfectly valid and useful XML using Notepad. In fact, I have worked with people who preferred Notepad to any other tool, but fortunately you do not meet many people who do. Most people prefer using tools that provide a lot more assistance, making it as easy as possible to write a valid XML file following a particular XML model (schema or DTD). Some XML editors will provide more sophisticated features, but these features are more developer-oriented than the basic editor features. For this blog, let us stick with this definition: an XML editor is a software application that makes it as easy as possible to create a valid XML file, using a particular Schema...
