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Copyright (c) 2007 Laurent Gregoire http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/0xBABAF000L/10_en.html

This is a comparison table for Editors used for editing TEI.

Editors for TEI
Name Operating Systems FLOSS? Explicit support for XML Explicit support for TEI URL Projects Using Beginner-friendliness
(scale 1-10, 1=hard)
Notes
Editix Win, Linux, MacOS No Yes No [1] A free Lite version exists.
EditPad Pro Win No No [2] TCP 8 PRO: UTF-8 support, excellent character-encoding conversions, syntax coloring, regex search/replace, XML 'content folding', handles large files well. CON: no search-in-files, sort, uniq, or diff.
Emacs Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris Yes Yes No [3] NZETC 3 (See also TEIEmacs) TEI customizations available at http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/tei-emacs/; best mode for TEI XML is nXML, using RELAX NG compact schemas. For Mac look for Aquamacs package
Emeditor Win No No [4] TCP 9 PRO: large-file support, utf-8 support, diff.
epcEdit Win, Linux, Solaris Yes No [5] TCP 7 Free; also supports SGML; feels a bit like XMetaL
Exchanger XML Editor [6]
jEdit all (Java) Yes Yes Yes [7] NZETC 7 XML use requires plugins, and only supports DTDs
Notepad++ Yes [8]
oXygen all (Java) No Yes Yes [9] 8 Can validate using DTD, W3C schema, RELAX NG, and Schematron; can run XSL transformations on file; WYSIWYG mode using CSS
Sacodeyl Annotator [10]
Serna Free Yes Yes Yes [11]
TextMate MacOS No No [12] An extension is needed for XML editing
TextPad (4.73) Win No No [13] TCP 9 PRO: simple interface, powerful regex/multi-file replace, search-in-files, primary and secondary sort, uniq, diff, hotlinked search results, syntax coloring. CON: no utf-8 support.
vi Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris Yes No No [14] 1
XmlBlueprint [15]
XMLcopyEditor Win, Ubuntu Yes Yes Yes [16] TCP 7 Free; validates to DTD, XSD, Relax.ng
XMLmind No Yes No [17] A free version exists.
XMLSpy No Yes No [18]
XmlWriter [19]