Using an XML viewer and editor

An xml viewer and editor help you to view the xml document easily and also edit them if needed. Syntax color coding of the elements, the attributes, and the values in the xml document helps you to identify the different components of the xml file easily and edit them.

A tree like view of the different elements and their attributes helps easy editing. You can expand and collapse the elements if needed. The industry standard xml editors come with the viewer and with a host of other features.

Some of the useful features that you can use are those that check for the well-formedness of an xml document. You should be able to validate the xml document against a schema or a dtd.

Syntax color coding and code completion are the standard features that will enable you to work with the documents with ease. Editors like XMLSpy would also help you generate an xml instance document from the schema you have created and vice versa.