While I don’t recommend editing XML files by hand, its not an uncommon task and I occasionally find myself having to do it. As I am a big advocate of web based applications, I was hoping to find a web based XML editor but had trouble finding one. So I built one.
From the technical point of view, editing the XML directly (rather than translating it to a more edit-friendly format, then converting it back) was something I wanted to explore and jQuery’s fantastic DOM support (which covers XML files as well) seemed to be the right approach. All of the editing is handled in the browser and each update is reflected in the source XML immediately. Saving merely consists of pushing the string onto a PHP script which saves the file.
The interface is still a little clunky and could use some visual and functional improvements, but it should get the job done for now. I’m also planning a number of feature updates.
Let me know how you like.
