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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI've use oXygen XML (primarily the Eclipse plugin, although the license also allows use of the desktop app) for several years, but primarily for the truly excellent XSLT debugger - if you don't need that, it may be a bit pricey.
Haven't tried any others in the last few years, due to Oxygen doing all I need.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostAdding to this is probably OT for this thread, but one of the beautiful features of the debugger is that you can set breakpoints in the XML file, and the XSLT debugger will stop when it processes that part of the input tree. This is an absolute godsend when you have a large input file whose processing only goes wonky for certain elements.
It may be that other XSLT debuggers can now do the same. Either way, if you're working with XSLT then you need this capability - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
There was/is one more editor that's good for debugging XSL - StylusStudio, but I'm sticking with Oxygen as it's more universal and good for actual editing of XML.
lots of other useful features that I now treat as a given but are hard to find anywhere else really, like schema diagramming, NVDL, RNG support, XML db connectors so you can Xquery directly etc
I also had the pleasure of meeting one the developers of Oxygen and I really like their company structure 40 developers + an accountant, no middle management, no cruft and that's exactly the reason they're pumping major releases every six months or so. Excellent support etc.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI've use oXygen XML (primarily the Eclipse plugin, although the license also allows use of the desktop app) for several years, but primarily for the truly excellent XSLT debugger - if you don't need that, it may be a bit pricey.
It may be that other XSLT debuggers can now do the same. Either way, if you're working with XSLT then you need this capability - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.Last edited by NickFitz; 13 May 2010, 03:28.
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Notepad++ is pretty good if you're looking for something that's free.
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostI've already got visual studio
Was after something with a bit more functionality... unless i'm not using VS properly?
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI've use oXygen XML (primarily the Eclipse plugin, although the license also allows use of the desktop app) for several years, but primarily for the truly excellent XSLT debugger - if you don't need that, it may be a bit pricey.
Haven't tried any others in the last few years, due to Oxygen doing all I need.
Edit: actually, scratch that, just found the free trial link so gonna have a play.Last edited by Durbs; 12 May 2010, 17:26.
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I've use oXygen XML (primarily the Eclipse plugin, although the license also allows use of the desktop app) for several years, but primarily for the truly excellent XSLT debugger - if you don't need that, it may be a bit pricey.
Haven't tried any others in the last few years, due to Oxygen doing all I need.
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I've already got visual studio
Was after something with a bit more functionality... unless i'm not using VS properly?
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If you have an MS Action Pack subscribtion then visual studio is OK, I've used it for hacking around with XML a few times and found it to be more than adequate.
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