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