Simple WYSIWiG XML editor

Hello,
I try to write a simple XML editor using Swing. I have no problem processing the XML document itself (parsing XML, DTD and CSS) but now I need to display the parsed document and allow the user to edit it.
My idea is to use "decorators" configured at runtime (by the parsed CSS) wrapped around the DOM elements, but how should I display it and make it editable? I don't want to care about formatting if it's not really necessary - I'd like Swing to do as much of it as possible.
Thanks in advance for all your hints
Tommy

Vim works pretty good, its free, and has syntax highlighting. You would need to be familiar with using vi. http://www.vim.org/
If you use Eclipse, you can get http://www.oxygenxml.com/. It's not free, but its cheaper than XMLSpy.
I haven't found anything better than XMLSpy, even though its expensive.
Does anyone know of another tool that can generate a sample instance document from a schema, and/or a schema from an instance document? I find that handy in XMLSpy.
-Scott
http://www.swiftradius.com

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