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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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Altova
Year Founded
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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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

I like the flexibility it gives with the multiple views of XML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

I cannot think of what I don't like because it gives you so much. If I have not found it, it's probably is there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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XMLSpy is a great product and if you do any web services development you need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using XMLSpy to create XML stylesheets.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

Easier to read XML files and view the block diagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

I dislike the pricing of Altova XMLSpy since it can be quite costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It allows for easier comprehension of longer XML files with block diagrams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

Powerful xml toolset including xslt transformation capabilities, xpath evaluation and schema validation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

The price is a little high, if you only work with xml occasionally or do not required advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:

If you use xml regularly, definitely take a look. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is nice to perform an xslt transformation on the fly using an xml and xsl of your choice. This allows a much quicker feedback loop for xsl development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

It's view and edit features of all syntax files like json, xml, wsdl, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Price. It is very expensive to get a license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It is efficient if you deal with large size data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It benefits in analyzing and editing large size of xml/json files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

easy access to multiple view of the xml file, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

initially it was difficult to use xmlspy without help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

easy to navigate for huge files which was difficult using browser or any other software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about XMLSpy?

I like the debug feature of stepping through each step. It’s pretty much the number one reason I would use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XMLSpy?

Datapower functions are unknown to xml spy so they have to be removed. It’s not too big of an issue. It’s very slow to load too. Interface could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Debugging xslt files when we don’t understand how it’s behaving Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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