Lightweight XML Viewer that can handle large files

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There are plenty of  heavyweight  tools such as XmlSpy  which are good for prodding around in xml docs - but often  very often in some cases   you just want to quickly open and browse an xml doc  and have it pretty printed  Possibly with some basic search functionality  textual is probably fine    I usually use a browser such as IE of Firefox for this  but they tend to break down for larger file sizes  I m often opening files in the 10s of MBs or more    I have some ideas about how such a viewer might be implemented  so I m sure there must be something out there that can do it  but my google-fu is letting me down   So I thought I d put it to the hive-mind that is SO to lead the way   Thoughts

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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

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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

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TextPad has a free xmltidy plugin that pretty-prints your XML  Nice and fast  although TextPad is shareware

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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

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Try EditPlus - http   www editplus com

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Try EditPlus - http   www editplus com

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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

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Try EditPlus - http   www editplus com

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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

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XML Copy Editor is perfect for this type of thing

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XML Copy Editor is perfect for this type of thing

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TextPad has a free xmltidy plugin that pretty-prints your XML  Nice and fast  although TextPad is shareware

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XML Copy Editor is perfect for this type of thing

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I like Microsoft s XML Notepad 2007  but I don t know how it handles very large files  sorry

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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

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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

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XML Copy Editor is perfect for this type of thing

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http   www firstobject com dn editor htm is so far the best and lightest editor available with handful of utilities  I recommend using it - tried with up to 400 MB of files and more than a million records

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JEdit and its XML-plugin

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I like Microsoft s XML Notepad 2007  but I don t know how it handles very large files  sorry

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JEdit and its XML-plugin

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JEdit and its XML-plugin

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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

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I like Microsoft s XML Notepad 2007  but I don t know how it handles very large files  sorry

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I like Microsoft s XML Notepad 2007  but I don t know how it handles very large files  sorry

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http   www firstobject com dn editor htm is so far the best and lightest editor available with handful of utilities  I recommend using it - tried with up to 400 MB of files and more than a million records

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Try EditPlus - http   www editplus com

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JEdit and its XML-plugin

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