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I use XML Editor from XMLmind for editing/viewing XML file in Mac.

It's not bad, but I expect an XML editor for Mac. What options do I have including the commercial/free software?

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Are you just editing XML specific to the Mac (like 'plist' and 'sdef') or are you editing a variety of schemas? – Philip Regan Feb 15 '11 at 20:04
@Philip : I wanted a general solution to parse the XML files. – prosseek Feb 15 '11 at 21:18
Obligatory: vim is good enough for me! – Jason Salaz♦ Sep 25 '12 at 23:14

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OS X Software for Editing XML

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Of the many mentioned here, which is your recommendation? Which is better featured? Which is more Mac-like in behaviour? – Vihung Jun 28 '12 at 11:06
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Although it's still a beta I have found Xmplify to be a pretty useful XML aware tool. Copes with DTD, XSD, XPath and XSL transformation in the tool

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Out of beta now, $59. – Steve Bennett Apr 30 at 4:52
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If you have the Apple Developer Tools installed, then you have XCode and this includes the Property List Editor app (Apple preference plist files are often in XML format, hence the app name).

You can find the app here: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app

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I don't think the Property List Editor can deal with generic XML files, it's intended to edit a specific .plist format. – ghoppe Feb 16 '11 at 20:11
^ This is true (what ghoppe said). And even now that it's integrated into Xcode, no longer standalone, you just get the raw color coded code with line numbers. No disclosure triangles, etc. like a .plist file gives you. – NOTjust -- user4304 May 8 at 22:37
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Testing this and that, I settled down with Text Wrangler, with XML Tidy script. It's free and pretty useful for my purposes.

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TextMate.

You can download the source code from GitHub and compile it locally. Then in the preferences install the appropriate language bundle. https://github.com/textmate/textmate

If you like the application I would recommend buying the commercial version to show your support to the author.

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Eclipse works on Mac OS and it is one of the best XML editor around, actually. It has XSD validation, autocompletion towards this schema. Also, it offers a graphical XSD designer.

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I'm looking for the same thing, and I just came across XMLmind XML Editor. I like how it can load my files pretty quickly.

@rds: I've tried using Eclipse to open my XML files, but it would hang with my files (>15MB). I've come to notice any editor built with Java hangs upon trying to open my file, or at least takes an unbearably long time to load it.

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The OP already mentioned XMLmind. – guwac Nov 14 '12 at 14:53

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