Compare the Top XML Editors as of July 2025

What are XML Editors?

XML editors are software tools that allow users to create, view, and edit XML (eXtensible Markup Language) files. These tools provide features such as syntax highlighting, validation, auto-completion, and formatting, which make it easier to work with XML data. XML editors also help users ensure that the XML structure is correct and complies with relevant schemas, making them particularly useful for developers working with web services, data exchange, or configuration files. Some XML editors offer advanced features like XPath, XSLT support, and integration with other software development tools. Compare and read user reviews of the best XML Editors currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Paligo

    Paligo

    Paligo

    Paligo was built for documentation professionals who need to manage a large volume of complex content. To manage and organize this documentation efficiently, content reuse is essential. The Paligo CCMS is an excellent choice for companies who need to leverage the benefits of content reuse for better business outcomes.  Content reuse helps to streamline the content creation process as it saves time, money, and improves the quality of output. The single sourcing features eliminate duplication of content and optimize the content creation process. Additionally, the modern SaaS UI lets content creators of all levels of proficiency to easily grasp the fundamentals of structured authoring.

 Our goal is to make structured authoring more accessible to a wider audience by simplifying and demystifying the process. This is achieved through our intuitive and user-friendly CCMS, which is both powerful and robust, enabling our customers to easily author, manage, translate, and publish content.
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    Kate

    Kate

    KDE

    Kate is packed with features that will make it easier for you to view and edit all your text files. Kate lets you to edit and view many files at the same time, both in tabs and split views, and comes with a wide variety of plugins, including an embedded terminal that lets you launch console commands directly from Kate, powerful search and replace plugins, and a preview plugin that can show you what your MD, HTML and even SVG will look like. Kate supports highlighting for over 300 languages making it easier to read code in almost all programming languages. Kate also understands how brackets works and will help you navigate inside complex code blocks hierarchies. On-the-fly spellchecking is also included and will help you check your text before publishing. Work on multiple files at the same time with split views. Use the project sidebar to navigate your project directory structures and use Kate's smart tabs to quickly access your recently opened documents.
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    Xpublisher

    Xpublisher

    Fabasoft Xpublisher

    Xpublisher is the key to collaborative creation, full management and easy publishing of content in all channels, enabling the highly automated production of journals, books and technical documentation. Create, edit & review structured content quickly and easily with our online XML editor. Access all your XML documents anytime, anywhere and collaborate with other authors in real-time, regardless of their technical proficiency (Note: XML is not mandatory, you can also work with common MS Word documents.) Manage & structure your content & any additional digital assets (e.g. images, video, audio) efficiently with our digital asset management system & publishing system Xpublisher, for a highly automated, fast & accurate multichannel-publishing. Numerous leading companies are already convinced by Xpublisher. We deliver turnkey solutions to help you master these challenges, so you can create content efficiently and publish it automatically
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    Help+Manual

    Help+Manual

    Help+Manual

    Help+Manual is a full featured documentation tool that is as easy to use as a word processor, yet much more powerful, it gives you the power of a true WYSIWYG XML editor and puts all the tools that you need at your fingertips. This is combined with powerful features for generating and editing help and documentation files, including full support for multimedia and complex modular projects. Whether you publish documentation for desktop or mobile, iOS or Android, Windows help or PDF user manuals, it is always a breeze with Help+Manual! But single source is much more than just outputting the same information to different formats. Mark content with conditional tags to create different outputs for each publishing channel, no post-processing is required. Help+Manual handles the complexities of documentation generation for you. Power users, however, can get under the hood and manipulate topic and layout templates and more. Help+Manual gives you the best of both worlds.
    Starting Price: €498 one-time payment
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    Xeditor

    Xeditor

    Fabasoft Xpublisher

    Xeditor is a professional online XML editor for XML authoring based on state-of-the-art web standards. By enabling authors to work together on structured content from any location at any time, Xeditor helps companies put efficient workflows in place. What’s more, the web-based architecture means there’s no need for time-consuming local installations. Xeditor, the professional online XML authoring tool, gives users the tools they need to create and edit structured documents intuitively in XML format. With the help of XML, content can be created in a way that is media-independent, semantically marked up, automatically processed, and published with a high degree of efficiency. XML is the data format of the future. Xeditor offers its users both an intuitive visual and a technical writing experience. Authors of subject-specific content benefit from the intuitive user interface of the visual XML editor, including WYSIWYG functionality.
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    Emacs
    At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A wide range of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more. A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions. Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers. Text shaping with HarfBuzz. Native support for JSON parsing. Better support for Cairo drawing. Portable dumping used instead of unexec. Support for XDG conventions for init files. Additional early-init initialization file. Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line. Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick.
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    Adobe FrameMaker
    Intelligent content for any screen, format and language. Superfast. Fast. Powerful. Future-ready. Boost performance with an all-new 64-bit FrameMaker. Create rich, immersive content with unmatched image handling capabilities. Experience faster opening and publishing of PDF and HTML5 files. Push the envelope with new capabilities built on top of the latest technologies. Get started with XML/DITA authoring with an easy-to-use workspace, productivity enhancements, and lots more. With an all-new 64-bit architecture, you can significantly boost productivity with more memory for long, complex documents. Open files up to 40% faster. Work with images like never before with support for transparency, high quality import and other striking enhancements. Open up a world of possibilities with the latest technologies, modern libraries, Duden hyphenation and spell-checking support and more.
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