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| [[EditPad Pro]] || Win || || No || No || [http://www.editpadpro.com] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ 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. ||
 
| [[EditPad Pro]] || Win || || No || No || [http://www.editpadpro.com] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ 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. ||
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| [[Open XML Editor]]      || Win          || Yes  ||  Yes || No || [http://www.philo.de/xmledit/] ||  || 8 || Text-based editing, DTD validation, various input encodings but output only in UTF-8, plugin of Saxon XSLT processor and external hex editor possible ||
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| [[oXygen]]      || all (Java)          || No  ||  Yes || Yes || [http://www.oxygenxml.com/] ||  || 8 || Can validate using DTD, W3C schema, RELAX NG, and Schematron; can run XSL transformations on file; WYSIWYG mode using CSS ||
 
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| [[epcEdit]] || Win, Linux, Solaris || ||  Yes || No || [http://www.epcedit.com] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ TCP]|| 7 || Free; also supports SGML; feels a bit like XMetaL ||
 
| [[epcEdit]] || Win, Linux, Solaris || ||  Yes || No || [http://www.epcedit.com] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ TCP]|| 7 || Free; also supports SGML; feels a bit like XMetaL ||
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| [[jEdit]] || all (Java)          || Yes || Yes || Yes || [http://www.jedit.org/] || [http://www.nzetc.org/ NZETC] || 7 ||  XML use requires plugins, and only supports DTDs ||
 
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| [[Emacs]] || Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris || Yes ||  Yes || No || [http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/] || [http://www.nzetc.org/ 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 ||
 
| [[Emacs]] || Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris || Yes ||  Yes || No || [http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/] || [http://www.nzetc.org/ 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 ||
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| [[jEdit]] || all (Java)          || Yes || Yes || Yes || [http://www.jedit.org/] || [http://www.nzetc.org/ NZETC] || 7 ||  XML use requires plugins, and only supports DTDs ||
 
 
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| [[Notepad++]]|| || Yes ||  || || [http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/] || || || ||
 
| [[Notepad++]]|| || Yes ||  || || [http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/] || || || ||
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| [[Open XML Editor]]      || Win          || Yes  ||  Yes || No || [http://www.philo.de/xmledit/] ||  || 8 || Text-based editing, DTD validation, various input encodings but output only in UTF-8, plugin of Saxon XSLT processor and external hex editor possible ||
 
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| [[oXygen]]      || all (Java)          || No  ||  Yes || Yes || [http://www.oxygenxml.com/] ||  || 8 || Can validate using DTD, W3C schema, RELAX NG, and Schematron; can run XSL transformations on file; WYSIWYG mode using CSS ||
 
 
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| [[Sacodeyl Annotator]]|| || ||  || || [http://www.um.es/sacodeyl] || || || ||
 
| [[Sacodeyl Annotator]]|| || ||  || || [http://www.um.es/sacodeyl] || || || ||

Revision as of 03:56, 22 December 2009

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
UltraEdit Win, Linux No Yes No [1] 9 customizable for TEI-support; can handle extremely large files; powerful regex/multi-file replace; macro recording
Emeditor Win No No [2] TCP 9 PRO: large-file support, utf-8 support, diff.
EditPad Pro Win No No [3] 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.
Open XML Editor Win Yes Yes No [4] 8 Text-based editing, DTD validation, various input encodings but output only in UTF-8, plugin of Saxon XSLT processor and external hex editor possible
oXygen all (Java) No Yes Yes [5] 8 Can validate using DTD, W3C schema, RELAX NG, and Schematron; can run XSL transformations on file; WYSIWYG mode using CSS
epcEdit Win, Linux, Solaris Yes No [6] TCP 7 Free; also supports SGML; feels a bit like XMetaL
jEdit all (Java) Yes Yes Yes [7] NZETC 7 XML use requires plugins, and only supports DTDs
Emacs Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris Yes Yes No [8] 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
Notepad++ Yes [9]
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]
Editix Win, Linux, MacOS No Yes No [20] A free Lite version exists.
Exchanger XML Editor [21]

The follow cartoon illustrates the commonly-held assumptions that emacs and vi and very powerful but obscure while thier competitors make users ddo all the work.

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