Rinzo

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 Open source XML editor built on Eclipse

 Author:    Claudio Cancinos, Carolina Serrano
 Homepage:  http://editorxml.sourceforge.net/
 Family:    XMLEditorFamily EclipseFamily JavaBasedEditors
 Platform:  Eclipse
 License:   GPL

Rinzo is an Eclipse xml editor with the goal of make life simpler when dealing with xml files.

It has several features regarding plain xml edition such as:

If DTD/Schema? is present it'll be used for validation and to propose autocompletion of tags and attributes.
If DTD/Schema? is not present validation will be only for well formness and autocompletion will be based on elements already written in the document.
And also templates proposals on either case.
DTD and Schema generation from an example XML.
Syntax Coloring.
Background validation using the document DTD or Schema and well formness.
DTD and Schema generation from a XML.
Namespace support.
XML Refactoring and Quick Assist.
XPath Viewer.
And more

But since working on Java most probably involve the usage of frameworks such as Spring, MyBatis? or Hibernate which rely part of their functionality or configuration on XML definitions where the programmer declares classes of its domain to the framework, what makes this editor different is its ability to interact with java elements in files like web.xml, .hbm files, struts-config.xml, spring contexts or any other XML file where java elements must be handled in order to:

Open a class definition from declarations in XML files.
Autocompletion and validation of class names on tag's bodies and attributes.
Create a java class from a class name written in an XML.

And it's also possible to extend its validation and content assistant contributing to its extension points.