Altova XMLSpy vs. CoffeeCup HTML Editor

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.

Incentivized

My typical use is to edit HTML and CFM pages from prior projects, and use them to create new ones. So, I rarely use the tools for designing pages provided in this application. I have found the ability to preview a page very useful. I am aware of numerous features in this editor, that simpler editors would not provide. It has proven to be a great fit for my use.

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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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• Easy to use editing features
• Helpful analysis of code, and useful suggestions for corrections
• Very useful split-screen preview of HTML code
• Wizards to guide inserting tables, links, images, audio etc.

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• 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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• Maybe I could list a con if my use of it was more diverse and consistent. It does everything and more for my purposes, and in ways I Iike very much.

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

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• This editor certainly saves time in reducing my need to know and/or check coding minutiae.

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