The XML Editor is an interactive tool for editing XML documents and for creating new data or annotating text retrospectively in XML language. XML is not a programming language like HTML. It is a markup language. That means: XML can work outside the web and sets the meaning of the elements and (optionally) their presentation. XML is able to organize and classify data in a text. Therefore, XML is able to facilitate the exchange of data and information as well as to make it searchable. Additional details on XML are not explained here. Please see
for more information. TextGrid’s XML Editor is based on “Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project” and “Vex” by John Krasnay et. al.:
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools and http://wiki.eclipse.org/Vex
Please note that this Editor is still part of the TextGridLab. So you chose between the default XML Editor and the customized TextGrid XML Editor. This is important if the Preferences should be changed or a XML object is opened via the context menu of the Navigator.
The TextGrid Help explains the TextGrid XML Editor Perspective and its parts in detail and gives you some examples for using the XML Editor.