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Useful Tools for Creating and Editing XML Code ..............................................................

Though you can create XML code in any text editor — even Notepad — it is a lot easier to create

and edit XML code in a specialized editor. Several XML editors are available free of charge, or as

part of another application; they are described in the following sections.

XML Notepad 2007 ................................................................................................

One such tool is XML Notepad 2007, available as a free download from the Downloads page of the

Microsoft web site, at the following link.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72d6aa49

-787d-4118-ba5f-4f30fe913628&DisplayLang=en

Figure 15.1 shows the TreeView tab of the XML Notepad editor, with the List Fields XML code.

This view shows each attribute on a separate line of the tree in the left pane, with its value dis-

played in the right pane.

The XML Notepad 2007 utility was updated towards the end of the beta of Office

2007/Windows Vista, and it worked well at that time. Unfortunately, in the release version

of Vista, it has a curious problem: it will only run minimized or maximized, not restored. Hopefully this

glitch will clear up with a patch some time soon. Until that time, when you run this utility, it will appear

minimized; right-click its taskbar icon and select Maximize to open it full-screen.

FIGURE 15.1

The Tree View tab of the XML Notepad 2007 editor.

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