March 29, 2008 - A New Tool in My Tester's Tool Box - firstobject XML Editor

We do a lot of testing of very large XML files.

Using standard editors or XML Notepad worked well for smaller XML files, but they often choked on the really large, many-megabyte files we were testing.

One of the QAers on my team searched around a bit and found Foxe - firstobjects XML Editor.  Now it has become a nice addition to our tool box.

Foxe allows us to load, parse, search and edit these very large files extremely rapidly.

And the built-in C++-like macro language (FOAL), gives us the ability to quickly generate counts of elements.

From their web site:

The firstobject XML Editor freeware edition for Windows provides high performance text editing and parsing of text files. This release is built on CMarkup 8.3 technology to provide light and fast parsing without dependence on external components.

 

The Editor supports aligning and indenting XML, print, print preview, e-mail sending, text encoding selection and conversion, Unicode character functions, and C++ code generation to see how to create or navigate your XML with CMarkup.

• Independent: does not require any external XML component, and is based entirely on Win32 calls available since Windows 95.
• Fast: built on CMarkup; check out the performance!
• Large Files: the editor and parser are both designed to work efficiently even on large multi-megabyte files.
• Light: the executable is small and the application does not gobble memory (utilizes only 1.5 to 3 times the memory size of a document).
• UTF-8: displays and works with Unicode characters (as supported by available fonts) on any Windows 95 or later operating system

Download firstobject XML Editor at: http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm

See all the tools in my tool box at:
http://www.sqablogs.com/jstrazzere/55/Tester%26%2339%3Bs+Tool+Box.html