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XML Document Production Tools

This is a quick list of XML document production tools taken from Charles McCathieNevile and a quick poll. See also the W3C authoring technologies survey (member-only).

XMLspec-based Tools

XMLspec is a vocabulary for structured XML documents.

XMLspec DTD

current and maintained DTD for XML Documents. See also:

documentation

Eve describes the goals and functionality of XMLspec

XSL for document production

XMLspec schema

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/spec-prod/

the DTDs and XSL stuff in the CVS repository

example docs

XML 1.0 (Second Edition)

produced normative recommendation with xmlspec.xsl and saxon or XT.

XLink

produced normative recommendation with xmlspec.xsl and saxon or XT.

XBase

produced normative recommendation with IE and the subset of xmlspec.xsl that IE supports.

XML schema

produced normative recommendation with XSLT, IE, and saxon or XT. Note, this document was based on an augmented XMLspec DTD.

Amaya

not working right nowfree Windows/Unix XMTL editor. Amaya used to support structured XML editing but does not currently and again. There is a possibility that adding support in the S (structure) and P (presentation) langauges for XMLspec could give native support for that DTD.

XMLSpy

commercial Windows XML and maybe CSS editor.

Xmetal

commercial Windows XML and CSS editor. Available from Softquad.

Epic Editor

commercial Windows/Unix XML and CSS (with plugin) editor. Available from Arbortext.

Xeena

commercial (1000USD) Java XML tree editor.

Emacs Sgml Mode

free Windows/Unix XML DTD-enforced raw document editor.

XED

Text editor for XML document instances.

HTML/XHMTL-based Tools

Due to authoring tool limitations, some folks like to work with XHTML, deriving additional structure from div and span classes.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/sources

set of XSLT tools, claimed to be half-working

http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/tools

list of additional WAI-related authoring tools

Grammar for CSS specs

the CSS WG uses a predefined set of classes and markup and a program to generate the final documents from it

QA WG XSLTs

the QA WG has been using a set of XSLTs to generate the table of contents, extract checklists from guidelines, splitting a large document in several pieces, etc. Lack of documentation, though

Dreamweaver

commercial Macintosh/Windows XHTML editor with "clean roundtrip of code". Available from MacroMedia.

Amaya

free Windows/Unix XHMTL editor. Amaya provides WYSIWYG support for editing XHMTL

Lists of Lists of XML Editors

Rather than sign up to maintain a list of XML editors, Susan Lesch gives you these lists of lists:

Free XML tools list by Lars Marius Garshol

XML Software's list of XML editors

Dave Winer's list of XML editors at UserLand