Altova XMLSpy vs. UltraEdit

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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UltraEdit is well suited for editing very large files. The macro editor is very powerful and easy to use. If one needs a quick-to-open text file editor, you will find UltraEdit much too slow to load. Compared to some free editors on the market, the basic individual user license is quite expensive.

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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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• Search and replace in files that are not open
• Cut and paste columns - I don't know any other program that can do this!
• Is a super fast and powerful text editor.

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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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• The color coding capacity is rudimentary and keyword based only. A good color coding mechanism should allow context.
• With the latest versions, the top menu has a lot of big icons and has a user-friendly kind of look which impacts the actual text window. Most users don't fancy pretty icons and like efficiency over pretty buttons.

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As a program UltraEdit comes ready to use out of the box and requires very little setup for it to be extremely useful. It's flexibility among a wide array of tasks and files makes it a go-to for all our troubleshooting and data viewing needs. Timely updates and great support.

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Have never needed support, not once. So giving them a 10 for the fact that their product is so good that we've never needed it.

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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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I have evaluated Notepad++ as an alternative to UltraEdit. In some cases, such as loading time, Notepad++ is a superior product. However, in terms of editing existing macros, and editing very large text files UltraEdit is a much better product.

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

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• Its ease of use and functionality make it fast and reliable which saves my designers time.
• Its simplicity makes it fast and easy to train new users.
• UE's guidance features make it a great tool with a good ROI.

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