Adobe Dreamweaver vs. Altova XMLSpy

This program is a must-have if you work in any HTML-based programs. It's convenient for HTML emails and tweaking code used in Wordpress. It's also greta for editing older PHP sites I manage for clients, I do not use it for new websites anymore as I feel other solutions are more suitable for my clients.

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Altova XMLSpy is an excellent tool for creating/designing new XML schemas (XSDs) using a visual layout tool and helps developers and architects work with XML and JSON documents, understand and validate and diagnose issues with XML and JSON documents. It is not well suited for working with other data formats, such as YAML or CSV.

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• Very simple to write code in Dreamweaver editor
• Auto Complete feature is great
• Spell Check, Syntax Checker functionality is very good

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• XML schema (XSD) design and maintenance
• XML document validation
• XML and JSON document reformatting and pretty-printing

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• Space - you have to download the software on your hard drive
• Cost - It's a monthly subscription and not open source
• RAM - You need enough RAM to run Adobe products, and if you don't have enough it will crash and you can lose hours of work.

• Application performance could be improved, especially initial load speed
• Better support for large document handling (documents hundreds or thousands of megabytes in size)
• Remove all nagging popups to upgrade

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Adobe Dreamweaver is very useable and easy to navigate. It's features are fantastic and documentation on how to use the software is very detailed. If you can't find how to do something, the help file is fantastic and works great!

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Google Web Designer is what I used to use but Dreamweaver was better. Google did not offer the functionality I needed. Google was also messy and had limited design options. Google seems better for creating animated banners or animated photos, but not for designing a full website or designing HTML.

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XMLSpy does not have many capable competitors, it is the market leader and other alternatives do not provide the tools we rely on.

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• Saves time of doing everything by hand.
• Makes managing older PHP hand-coded sites easier to manage.
• Allows for easy creation of HTML emails.

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• XMLSpy has made us much more efficient when designing new integrations

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