Re: [xsl] suggestion for an xml editor, please?

["Christophe Marchand cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hum... difficult to answer ! There are many editors, and many various 
use cases !


In my opinion, best editor for XML-related technologies is Oxygen 
(https://www.oxygenxml.com/) suite. Fonto XML 
(https://www.fontoxml.com/fonto-xml-editor/) is also a great editor.

They are both commercial.


If you have to work on very large XML files, they probably won't be very 
suited for : an XML editor needs to keep the whole tree in memory (with 
of course some optimizations), and working on very large documents is 
often slow. For this kind of documents, prefer some simple text editors, 
like EMacs or others that are able to work woth large files.


But I think that working on large files must be done with programs ; 
i.e. you probably need to code a program to split your text file into 
XML elements ; if rules are not too complex, it's easy with many 
XML-related technologies, including XSLT or XQuery. Then, once you have 
a structured document, it's easy to add more processing in your code to 
process all use cases.


Hope this helps,
Christophe



Le 17/08/2022 C  08:19, Massimiliano Volpi maxvolpi@xxxxxxxxxxx a C)critB :
>
> Sorry to post a possibly silly/slightly off topic question, but I am 
> struggling to narrow down the options for what should be one of the 
> first steps in working with XML files.
>
> Essentially, I have a list of very long (100 pages) documents in .txt 
> format, which are derived from companies' annual reports (I did OCR on 
> PDF files to extract the txt files).
> Now I need to mark the different sections of these text files, so I 
> can do text analysis on them, using the section from which the text 
> come as a variable (say, comparing the environmental sustainability 
> section between companies).
>
> I want to mark the different sections according to a simple scheme.
>
> I have tried to google editors for xml, and I have found too many. Can 
> I please ask for advice to narrow down the field?
> If the solution proposed was open source (like Libre Office), even 
> better (but this is a nice to have, rather than essential).
>
> Thanks and apologies again for the naive question: the amount of 
> options I saw confused me, so I thought it better to ask the experts.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Massimiliano Volpi
>
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