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== Editors ==

'''List of editors''' [http://www.xmlsoftware.com/editors.html [1]]

''XMLSpy at Altovia has a free personal edition [http://www.altova.com/xmlspy_biz_faq.html#q11 [2]] or see their other software Authentic info [http://www.altova.com/authentic_biz_faq.html#q5 [3]] on this web page''

'''Quanta'''

Quanta Plus Review [http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1442/urm0110f/0110f.htm [4]]

Quanta Plus Site [http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ [5]]

'' And when/if you accidentatlly change the view and can't get back to the layout you once knew in toolbars ;^)) [http://invisiblepixels.org/progs/quanta.html#dock [6]] ''

== Validators ==

'''XSV''' [http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xsv-status.html [7]] On Unix it requires PYTHONPATH to be set and the RPM's to be put into /usr//lib/python2.3/site-packages/ Then put the path to python at the top of commandLine.py and rename it to xsv to use like an executable.

'''MSV''' [http://www.sun.com/software/xml/developers/multischema/ [8]] This is sofar the most useful in it's output because it references the line and the column where an error occurs.

'''xmllint''' [http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man1/xmllint.1.gz [9]] It is part of the Gnome FC project and is bundled in most Linux distributions.

'''XercesJ2''' [http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/ [10]] There are different flavors of Xerces parser. You can use the jar files in your API or use them at the command line to parse and validate xml with a xml schema instance document.

XML Hacks book has more details and examples of each.

== Tools for DTD to XML Schema Conversion ==

Tip [http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/2106 [11]]

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== XML (books and references) ==

Book XML Hacks [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlhks/ [12]]

Book XML Schema [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema/ [13]]

Book XML Schema Tutorial [http://www.w3schools.com/schema/default.asp [14]]

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== W3C standards for xmlns URL/URI ==

The World Wide Web Consortium XML standards for XML Schema [http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/ [15]]

From XSD diagrams from WashU [http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema [16]]

A bit about namespaces 2000 for ref [http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/ [17]]