I was looking for a fast, free XML editor today, which could handle fairly large (~100MB) XML files without too much hassle. Previously I’ve used XML Marker for this; it’s fantastic, however it has a fairly clunky interface. I wish SymbolClick would release a more modern version!

Anyway, today I found FirstObject XML Editor and gave it a try; so far it seems great! It’s lightweight (only a single EXE file), and it’s fast. Best of all, it has a very, very simple way to format (i.e. pretty print) XML files – just press F8!

Highly recommended.

In my current job, I need to create XML files that have been known to blow up to 250MB and upwards. As you can imagine, digging through these files to find erroneous data is a frickin nightmare! Well, not anymore! After some googling today, I came across Xml Marker, a freeware product created way back in 2004. The selling point for me was this one -

The implementation is very efficient in memory and CPU resources so you can quickly navigate through very large XML files – up to hundreds of megabytes and even gigabytes of XML data on a standard personal computer.

And you know what? They aren’t lying! It has absolutely no trouble opening up the massive XML files, and what’s more, parsing through them to build up a node tree for quick navigation. It’s absolutely amazing! Highly recommended!