Morphon has announced the release of the latest (3.1) version of
their proprietary XML-Editor and bundled CSS-Editor as a
free-of-charge/no-cost product.
XML-Editor is a document-oriented WYSIWYG validating XML editor
(cross-platform/Java-based) that, prior to this release, came with
a US$150 price tag. It has some fairly powerful features, including:
- full CSS support for control over onscreen formatting
- full Unicode 3.0, UTF-8, and UTF-16 support
- support for XML namespaces
- regular-expression searching (though not regular-expression
search-and-replace)
- drag and drop (structures as well as text)
- XML Catalog and OASIS Open/SGML Catalog support
- remote editing (integrated HTTP/FTP upload/download)
A ChangeLog at
the Morphon site documents changes added for this release and
all past releases.
On the down side, "fast" and "snappy" are not words that come
to mind when working with XML-Editor. It's a Swing-based
application that has some fairly noticeable performance
limitations.
Users looking for a fast, relatively low-cost WYSIWYG
validating editor that's also multi-platform should take some time
to evaluate epcEdit, which
also comes with a powerful set
of features (including graphical table-editing and full
regular-expression search-and-replace support -- extract-matching
backreferences, even). It's currently priced at US$99 for a single
academic or "private use" license, US$349 otherwise.