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XML files can be opened in a browser like IE or Chrome, with any text editor like Notepad or MS-Word. Even Excel can be used to open XML files.
Xerlin is another one of the best XML viewer software for Windows on our list. The tree structure view in this software allows you to view XML files. It also allows you to edit the attributes and elements of XML files. This software includes all of the primary XML viewing and editing functions.
Dreamweaver is one of the best tools you can use to read and edit XML files. You can also create XML files and incorporate them into XSLT data. This is a subset language of XSL you can use to display XML data on a web page, and then edit it into an easy-to-read form.
start Notepad++ and make sure the function list is closed. load a large XML file. open the function list (menu View, then Function List).
firstobject's 605k download lightweight native Windows free XML editor opens a 50MB file in 1.3 seconds and provides text editing, search, syntax-colored printing, plus tree view and additional XML features including formatting and full-blown CMarkup scripting built in. You can reformat an entire 50MB XML document to a different indentation (takes 3 seconds on a nothing special 2.3GHz/2GB machine).
XML Copy Editor is perfect for this type of thing.
I like the viewer of Total Commander because it only loads the text you actually see and so is very fast. Of course, it is just a text/hex viewer, so it won't format your XML, but you can use a basic text search.
Try EditPlus - http://www.editplus.com/
I have tried dozens of XML editors hoping to find one which would be able to do some kind of visualization. The best lightweight viewer for windows I have found was XMLMarker - too bad the project has been dead for some years now. It is not so useful as an editor, but it does a good job of displaying flat XML data as tables.
There are tons of free editors that do XML syntax highlighting, including vim, emacs, scite, eclipse (J2EE edition), jedit, notepad++.
For heavyweight XML features, like XPath support, XSLT editing and debugging, SOAP/WSDL there are some good commercial tools like, XMLSpy, Oxygen, StylusStudio.
JEdit is open-source and also has plugins for XML, XPath and XSLT.
Word-2003 is fairly good for visualizing (but don't use it for editing). Excel-2003 and up also does a good job at visualizing flat XML data and can apply XSL transformations (again, no good as an editor).
JEdit and its XML-plugin.
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