Quickduck » Applications http://quickduck.com/blog Straight from the mind of geniuseseses.... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:52:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 FirstObject XML Editor http://quickduck.com/blog/2009/08/01/firstobject-xml-editor/ http://quickduck.com/blog/2009/08/01/firstobject-xml-editor/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:00:02 +0000 Gerrod http://quickduck.com/blog/?p=128 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.

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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!

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