What's a good XML viewer/editor for Mac OS X?

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I use XML Editor from XMLmind for editing/viewing XML file in Mac.

It's not bad, but I expect an XML editor for Mac. What options do I have including the commercial/free software?

Are you just editing XML specific to the Mac (like 'plist' and 'sdef') or are you editing a variety of schemas? — Philip Regan, Feb 15 '11 at 20:04
@Philip : I wanted a general solution to parse the XML files. — prosseek, Feb 15 '11 at 21:18

score 23 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 31 '19 at 19:05

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OS X Software for Editing XML

EditX (commercial)
oXygen (commercial)
XML Edita (commercial)
XMLMate (free/open source plugin) for TextMate (shareware)
XMPlify (commercial)

edited Dec 31 '19 at 19:05

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answered Feb 15 '11 at 21:19

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Of the many mentioned here, which is your recommendation? Which is better featured? Which is more Mac-like in behaviour? – Vihung Jun 28 '12 at 11:06
Please repair the link to EditX that now is not free. Linked is an old version for PowerPC – hectorpal Jan 21 '16 at 02:20
ONE colud also use the new Visual Studio Code Editor (my favorite Editor by now) or Atom or MacVIM or Xcode,Netbeans,Eclipse,IntellijIDEA (basically any Programming IDE does also Support XML Syntax Highlighting and most of the also have Code Completition) if you need also DTD/XSD Validation the you need to take a closer look – konqui Aug 11 '16 at 18:55
oXygen. Worth every dollar. – james.garriss Mar 13 '17 at 18:50
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URL of XMLMate is dead. – Hauke Mar 05 '19 at 10:36
The most Mac-like, by far, are Xmplify, then XML Edita, in that order. – Cykelero Jul 21 '20 at 12:54

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 17 '11 at 09:21

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Eclipse works on Mac OS and it is one of the best XML editor around, actually. It has XSD validation, autocompletion towards this schema. Also, it offers a graphical XSD designer.

answered Feb 17 '11 at 09:21

rds

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Just to add: Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + F will format the XML. – arun Apr 07 '17 at 18:38

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '11 at 09:23

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Although it's still a beta I have found Xmplify to be a pretty useful XML aware tool. Copes with DTD, XSD, XPath and XSL transformation in the tool

answered Feb 16 '11 at 09:23

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Out of beta now, $59. – Steve Bennett Apr 30 '13 at 04:52

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 30 '15 at 20:25

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IntelliJ IDEA is overall a good IDE, it's available on Mac, and it supports editing XML in ways such as syntax highlighting, collapsing a given scope, and validating XML. I haven't used it much for XML, but I've had good experiences with that IDE for other purposes so thought I would mention it here.

answered Jul 30 '15 at 20:25

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Allows folding/collapsing elements to more-easily view the structure and change the order. – automorphic Mar 30 '20 at 16:36

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 11 '16 at 14:06

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And of course Emacs with psgml-mode or nxml-mode will edit XML.

answered Aug 11 '16 at 14:06

Peter Flynn

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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 25 '12 at 20:29

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Testing this and that, I settled down with Text Wrangler, with XML Tidy script. It's free and pretty useful for my purposes.

answered Sep 25 '12 at 20:29

prosseek

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XML Tidy does indentation ... and I believe it checks well-formedness. Apparently xmllint, which the XML Tidy script uses, can validate. Can you validate XML using XML Tidy within Text Wrangler? – LarsH May 16 '16 at 15:57

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 12 '17 at 15:49

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I found a simple and free software to view, no editor: XML Spy

answered Dec 12 '17 at 15:49

Jonas WebDev

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Welcome to Ask Different! We're trying to find the best answers and those answers will provide info as to why they're the best. Explain why you think the software you recommended is better than others out there. See [answer] on how to provide a quality answer. - From Review – fsb Dec 12 '17 at 17:48
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@fsb thanks, my suggestion is based that is program is free and simple, fit well for me :) – Jonas WebDev Dec 12 '17 at 21:58
That's good but it doesn't tell us anything about the software, why you like it, how it will fit the needs of the OP, etc. We prefer answers to be more than just 1 line. See [answer] for tips. – fsb Dec 12 '17 at 22:11
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@fsb the top-rated answer here just rattles off a list of software, with not "tell[ing] us anything about the software, why you like it, how it will fit the needs of the OP, etc." It's not fair to hold Jonas to a different standard than those who have been here a long time. – Conrad May 30 '20 at 16:08
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score 2 · Answer 8 · edited Jul 02 '20 at 05:54

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If you have the Apple Developer Tools installed, then you have Xcode and this includes the "Property List Editor" application (Apple plist files are in XML format, hence the name).

You can find the application here:

/Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app

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answered Feb 15 '11 at 19:28

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I don't think the Property List Editor can deal with generic XML files, it's intended to edit a specific .plist format. – ghoppe Feb 16 '11 at 20:11
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^ This is true (what ghoppe said). And even now that it's integrated into Xcode, no longer standalone, you just get the raw color coded code with line numbers. No disclosure triangles, etc. like a .plist file gives you. – NOTjust -- user4304 May 08 '13 at 22:37
Well, Xcode complaint on an XML not being in the right format. So... it's not exactly generic. – hectorpal Jan 21 '16 at 02:18

Phil · Answer 9 · 2017-02-06T06:24:22.940

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As an alternative to XMLmind XML Editor there's QXmlEdit It is also free and quite feature rich. It's written in Qt and runs on Mac as well as the other platforms Qt supports.

edited Feb 06 '17 at 06:24

answered Feb 06 '17 at 05:21

Phil

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score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 22 '17 at 05:00

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I always believe that an open source is the best and simple solutions. You can try BlueFish, or Brackets, I strongly advise you to try it, you won't lose anything.

answered Dec 22 '17 at 05:00

Sam

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score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Sep 25 '12 at 21:54

TextMate.

You can download the source code from GitHub and compile it locally. Then in the preferences install the appropriate language bundle. https://github.com/textmate/textmate

If you like the application I would recommend buying the commercial version to show your support to the author.

score 0 · Answer 12 · edited Nov 04 '11 at 21:27

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I'm looking for the same thing, and I just came across XMLmind XML Editor. I like how it can load my files pretty quickly.

@rds: I've tried using Eclipse to open my XML files, but it would hang with my files (>15MB). I've come to notice any editor built with Java hangs upon trying to open my file, or at least takes an unbearably long time to load it.

edited Nov 04 '11 at 21:27

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answered Aug 24 '11 at 02:20

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The OP already mentioned XMLmind. – guwac Nov 14 '12 at 14:53
Also, XMLmind is Java, so shouldn't it hang as well, @jde? – hd1 May 13 '14 at 00:27

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Apr 21 '16 at 09:53

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I like the look of http://www.sublimetext.com/2 as seen in a Daniel Shiffman tutorial

answered Apr 21 '16 at 09:53

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Nov 05 '21 at 12:09

Another option is Microsoft VS Code with an XML extension...

I'm using: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DotJoshJohnson.xml

You can Cmd+Shift+P and type "XML" to find the utils provided by the extension.

Some keyboard shortcuts are provided, e.g. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+B to format nicely.

Or find elements by XPath query, or display the XPath of the highlighted element.

score -2 · Answer 15 · edited Feb 28 '17 at 10:20

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You can try all in one JSON viewer or all in one XML viewer.

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edited Feb 28 '17 at 10:20

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answered Nov 29 '14 at 04:19

James Malvi

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Other than the links being swapped (The JSON link goes to the XML viewer and the XML link goes to the JSON viewer), why has this been downvoted?
I have used both of these to beautify code for publication many times.
– August Mar 29 '23 at 22:45
I guess even though the question asks for a viewer/editor, reading the question they really want an editor. – Matt Sephton Jun 29 '23 at 20:40

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