XSL Editor

rane500

Odd question, but it's been something bugging me for a while.

Can anyone recommend any good (and preferably free) XSL/XSLT/X-Path editor/syntax checker/validator? I was trying to convert an existing project into using PHP-generated XML with XSL templates to do the actual page rendering, and debugging just using a browser was almost impossible - every single browser had the most cryptic error messages I've ever seen for XML/XSL issues.

I've seen several commercial editors and plugins for Eclipse, but nearly nothing on the open source and/or free software side of the fence...and to add insult to injury quite a few of the commercial ones didn't even have a demo to examine.

EPJS

I use XRay XML Editor because of the built-in validator.

It validates using either DTD or Schema

It's free and it validates as you use it. Background is green when everything is valid, and red when something is invalid.

visualAd

For XSL I use vim. It highlights the markup well, auto indents and marks markup errors in red. It doesn't val;idate or check the syntax however. I actually use PHP's XSLT processor to vlaidate it as the error information it returns is quite comprehensive.

rane500

Wow, thank you both for the great answers.

EPJS - XRay looks excellent...it sucks that it requires a Windows machine, although I'll gladly pull out and dust off the ancient Win2k laptop if it means quick and easy syntax checking.

visualAd - I can safely say I simply did not think to use that module in that manner. (No...honestly I'm guilty of not reading up on it.) I'll install it on the web server and give it a shot as well.

Thank you both!