XML Spy

XML Spy XML is a widely spread and accepted software and has a wide support on the Internet simply because it is flexible, dynamic, user friendly, interoperable and flexible. XML today plays a pivotal role in software development and is associated with most of the programs being use today. XML spy is an extremely powerful tool associated with the XML software and allows you to create business critical software's and also gels with XML view and the options that suit your business needs.

XML Spy offers intelligent editing options with work best with XML technologies. XML Spy consists of five editing views which can be used to work with any XML technology in which every way you chose to work or any type of XML document you would like to work with. XML Spy also increases productivity in many ways and time to market the technology.

The advantage with XML Spy is that it provides an option of presenting the data in a standardized way. If you want to enjoy the benefits of your application the XML documents that are created must be in a standardized way. You can also develop advanced XML applications using the XML Spy. But in order to be able to create these advanced applications you need the most advanced relational databases and XML based applications. XML documents should be bound to the external applications runtime also.

XML Spy support the most of the databases which are popular. XML Spy is the only tool that is available for the entire web services platform which can tackle and provides you an edge with multi level developmental programming and offers a boundary less environment to work with XML documents.

XML Spy's XML Editor

The XML Spy offers an advanced text tool which allows you to view XML documents and allows you to navigate and edit them easily. So this feature not only accelerates the programming overall but also increases productivity. The XML Spy Advanced text tool offers features like editing features, code completion, source folding, line numbers, validation process which is in built, entry helpers and structure checker which checks the document if it is well formed and a lot more knick knacks. These features will be well appreciated by the software developer who has deadlines to meet.

Advanced Text View

The advanced text view is the most popular feature and famous view of the XML Spy package because of its powerful features. More over XML Spy is continuing to add more features to the Advanced text view every year, and so the version has been changing progressively. Now the XML Spy's Advanced text view also includes a CSS feature or the Cascading style sheet feature.

Before the XML Spy was brought into the XML landscape editing was a different troublesome ball game. While editing the XML document it was very easy to end up with unbalanced brackets and unequal number of brackets. The XML Spy code completion feature has helped solved this problem to a large extent as it automatically completes the code for you by recognizing it instantly and completing it for you. That way the chances are very minimal that you may go wrong and it also has the scope of abating human errors in this area fully to a hundred percent.

After completing the code for you automatically it places the cursor strategically in the middle of the line so that you can start adding child elements without any effort. The entry helpers have a drop down list of elements, attributes and many more functionalities which has a comprehensive list and you can chose the appropriate action to complete the entry.

The line numbering feature also helps in easy navigation and the line numbers can be used to locating errors easily. The XML Spy has a button on the toolbar which helps you achieve this task and also efficiently correlates the XSLT. The line numbering feature in XML Spy also helps create bookmarks which act as an easy referencing tool if you have to proceed with the document further at that point of time but may find a need to come back to this point where you have bookmarked. The XML Spy's source folding feature helps you to expand and collapse various parts of the document and also created a hierarchical structure for your document which again helps easy navigation.

The document indentation also shows the documents tag and the end of tag within the same file. So you can use the start and end points to refer while editing or correcting the document. The XML Spy Advanced text view also provides a tool called pretty print. The pretty print option helps to reformat the XML document and has the ability to open or close indents and tags making it easy on the human eye and for easy reading purpose. The XML Spy Advanced Text view also has a feature to do a spell check in multi languages like French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and many more. It also includes a separate English language medical dictionary and a legal dictionary also.