Editors

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
TextPad (4.73)	Win		No	No	[2]	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.
Emeditor	Win		No	No	[3]	TCP	9	PRO: large-file support, utf-8 support, diff.
EditPad Pro	Win		No	No	[4]	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	[5]		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	[6]		8	Can validate using DTD, W3C schema, RELAX NG, and Schematron; can run XSL transformations on file; WYSIWYG mode using CSS
XMLcopyEditor	Win, Ubuntu	Yes	Yes	Yes	[7]	TCP	7	Free; validates to DTD, XSD, Relax.ng
epcEdit	Win, Linux, Solaris		Yes	No	[8]	TCP	7	Free; also supports SGML; feels a bit like XMetaL
jEdit	all (Java)	Yes	Yes	Yes	[9]	NZETC	7	XML use requires plugins, and only supports DTDs
Emacs	Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris	Yes	Yes	No	[10]	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
vi	Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris	Yes	No	No	[11]		1
Notepad++		Yes			[12]
Sacodeyl Annotator					[13]
Serna Free		Yes	Yes	Yes	[14]
TextMate	MacOS	No		No	[15]			An extension is needed for XML editing
XmlBlueprint					[16]
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.