Vex

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 Open source, cross-platform visual editor for XML in Java, based on Eclipse

 Authors:  John Krasnay (lead developer), Marcus Andersson, John Austin, 
           Adrian Berkovits, Martin Gautier, David Holroyd
 Homepage: http://vex.sourceforge.net/
 Family:   JavaBasedEditors XMLEditorFamily
 Platform: Sun Java Virtual Machine
 License:  Open Source

Vex is an editor for XML documents. The "visual" part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex is best suited for "document-style" XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than "data-style" XML documents.

Vex is based on the Eclipse platform, the same platform used to build the popular Eclipse Java development environment. This foundation provides several advantages.

The Eclipse platform implements a sophisticated plugin architecture, allowing Vex to be extended with third-party or custom, in-house plugins.
Vex leverages many of the mature plugins that make up the Eclipse Java IDE such as the CVS interface, document searching and bookmarking facilities, and searchable help system.
Vex is available with native look-and-feel on many platforms, including Windows, Linux/GTK, and Macintosh OS-X/Carbon?.
Java developers using the Eclipse IDE can import Vex into their IDE as a plugin, making it easy to maintain software documentation with Vex.

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