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XML Copy Editor

A fast, free, validating XML editor.

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XML Copy Editor is a free, validating XML editor for Windows and Linux, released under the GNU General Public License. It provides a desktop environment for editing XML documents with validation, spell checking, and support for multiple languages, including Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Slovak, Swedish and Ukrainian.

The editor includes XML validation, spell checking with libenchant-2 support, autocompletion triggered by space, element folding, and command-line file opening. It uses wxWidgets and xerces-c++ for its interface and XML processing, and supports PCRE2 regular expressions. Linux packages are available for Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Slackware and Ubuntu, with a WinPenPack portable version for Windows. The project provides downloads for Win32, Win64, Ubuntu-amd64 and source code, along with screenshots, a forum, bug tracker, feature requests and a HowTo wiki.

XML Copy Editor is intended for users who need a validating XML editor on Windows or Linux. It is distributed as free software under the GNU General Public License, with no paid editions, trials or seat-based licensing described.

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