Simple XML Editor

Is there a simple, FREE, XML editor out there (written in Java)?
I am using an XML file format for a small application I wrote, and I would prefer to edit the file using an XML editor, since it is easy to screw up the file in a text editor.
If you've used Forte or Netbeans, all I want is a simple XML editor like the one that is built into the IDE.
Thanks for any information.

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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Hi everybody,
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Procyon wrote:
It would be nice to be able to do something like this:
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2 dec
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Are there any tutorials for this? I'm so confused as to why dynamic text operates so differently from the trace command. I'm not interested in doing a fancy menu bar with thumbnails, scrollbars and animations, I just want to learn the basics.

I don't really see how you are getting a valid trace out of that code (I get nothing if I try it as is), but as far as the textfield goes, you haven't shown any attempt in your code that might help to point to why you cannot get the text into a textfield. It might be a problem with how you are trying to write to the textfield and not how your are manipulating the data.
While you could make use of a textfield for the menu, doing so is not straightforward, as you would need to implement htmlText with special coding in order to have the text clickable. You might consider using a List component or ComboBox instead.
What I always do when I am working with xml is to store the data into a data structure, usually an array conatining objects, and then make use of that structure rather than dippng into the xml data itself when I utilize the data.
Another thing, which rquigley demonstrated, is that your xml will serve its purpose better if the data for each image is collected under the same node. If you have separate sections for each piece of data like you have, when it comes to editing it will be more prone to error as you have to be sure you are editing the correct entry of each separate group.
I too am no expert in the world of xml, but I have not yet worked with parameters inside the tags, so I would usually structure it as...
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