Altova XMLSpy vs. BBEdit

Altova XMLSpy is an excellent tool for creating/designing new XML schemas (XSDs) using a visual layout tool and helps developers and architects work with XML and JSON documents, understand and validate and diagnose issues with XML and JSON documents. It is not well suited for working with other data formats, such as YAML or CSV.

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BBEdit's free version is great as an update to the group's previous product Text Wrangler, which, as that name implies, allowed us to manage any text to remove odd formatting and adjust the text to our specific needs as a publishing group. The paid version, which I am less familiar with, has considerably better tools if you are seeking BBEdit for coding purposes, as its HTML ability is much better than the free version I use more regularly. If you are looking for a word processor or other more polished text files, this is unlikely to suit. But if you want a simple program with surprisingly complex uses for preparing text for another program or writing code, this may be the program you need

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• XML schema (XSD) design and maintenance
• XML document validation
• XML and JSON document reformatting and pretty-printing

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• I love the SORT functionality of BBEdit
• The ease of use makes it a superior product to every text editor out there.
• BBEdit handles text like a pro, and like all text, editors should.

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• Application performance could be improved, especially initial load speed
• Better support for large document handling (documents hundreds or thousands of megabytes in size)
• Remove all nagging popups to upgrade

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• It's still a little techy for my uses.
• I have some issues with making my preferences stick. But they're minor.
• I have tried other code editors, and this one is the best.

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Updates are frequent and I can't recall any issues with broken programs or vulnerabilities. The team behind BBEdit is also generous with its free trials, allowing long-term free users to have multiple chances to sample its full software. I am unsure if I had issues how the support would be, only because I have not needed them

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XMLSpy does not have many capable competitors, it is the market leader and other alternatives do not provide the tools we rely on.

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Compared to Brackets, BBEdit feels faster, leaner, and has more utility value. Brackets feel oriented towards coders specifically, whereas BBEdit is like a toolbox of text tools for a wide array of needs. I feel like the same is probably true for Visual Studio Code, but I have barely used it. Visual Studio Code is used by my company's IT department, and from observation, it seems like a very capable coding application. I expect to dig into it further when I have time.

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• XMLSpy has made us much more efficient when designing new integrations

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• BBEdit has literally saved product launches by speeding the process of scrubbing and prepping large-scale data imports.
• It's eliminated hours per week of waiting for "full-featured" IDEs.

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