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What is XMLSpy?

Altova XMLSpy is the world’s best-selling JSON and XML editor for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging related technologies. It gives developers the tools they need to build the most sophisticated applications with its graphical schema designer, code generation, file converters, debuggers, and profilers for working with XSD, JSON Schema, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, SOAP, and more.

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XMLSpy is an XML development environment for modeling, editing, debugging, and transforming all XML technologies. XMLSpy gives developers the tools they need to build the most sophisticated applications with its graphical schema designer, code generation, file converters, debuggers, and profilers for working with XSD, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, JSON, and more.

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1992
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"Altova XMLSpy should be your first choice for working with XML schemas"
Altova XMLSpy provides an excellent visual user interface for designing new XML schemas from scratch and maintaining existing XML schemas. It allow...
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"XMLSpy - One of the best Mark up Language Editor"
XMLSpy is one of the best tools for editing, debugging and coding in XML and JSON formats. It eases the schema design of XSD, JSON Schema, XSLT, X...
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"XML files validation using XMLspy for client project"
The schema validation and the graphical representation of the object in the XML document is very important for the developer/data engineers while w...
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Anurag K.
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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

It helps in creating and validating XML for the rest web services and also JSON data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

build the most sophisticated, but everything else seems to be fine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using in Web Services for request and response Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Spenser K.
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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

Validate XML data against XSD or DTD.

Perform XML transformation through user- assigned XSLT script.

Through GUI, specify partial of full XPath to locate XML node(s) and it's/their value(s).

Reverse engineering XSD or DTD from input XML data.

Generate sample XML data from input XSD or DTD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Can be pricey. Activation of user licence sometimes can be tedious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:

Floating licensed is recommended for a multi XMLSpy users environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help validate huge size XML data structurally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

Its easy to create xsd and xml and anyone with very less experience can generate the xml. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Nothing its a good tool so no chance of dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solved so many xml creation and xsd creation problems. This tool xml spy has many benefits such as easy xsd creation editable xsd and xml on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

Formatting, fast loading of files in the editor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Json support is a bit out of place. Plugin contribution mechanism is not so smooth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:

Should be tried out. Quite a good one amongst the umpteen editors in the market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building business processes consuming xml spy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yasir A.
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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

Visualizing schema, and testing it with different data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Some how hard to get started, the barrier to entry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:

Start with a well formated schema one that is already valid Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Integrating multiple systems and coming up with common schema Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

XMLSpy is the most helpful in my day to day work.. I like it's pretty print and Grid features.. they are really helpful in analyzing the XMLs quickly.I would highly recommend this tool for any enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

None.

I didn't dislike any of its features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helpful to analyze the data faster. I really like the grid feature to review the XMLs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

Good for writing xml schemas and validating schemas against a xml file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Sometimes while writing schemas it gives vague error the its near to impossible to figure out what actually went wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Schema validation

Schema writing

Xml file validation against schema Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

The ease of editing and formatting text. I also love how you can change the view to see the text how you want to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

I have no dislikes. It’s very user friendly and laid out well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

I’m able to read data better. Validation tools are a plus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

Guides built in for new users who may not be familiar with XML Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Dated materials and there weren’t interactive tools to help navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data mapping for XML based software solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

It is very easy to edit and view big XML files, XSLT transformation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Nothing, price, it is preferable to have Web version to edit several files per month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?

No problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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