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MSXML 4.0 to be kill bit-ed

Jan Schreuder — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT

While on the subject of XML. I noticed an announcement on the Microsoft XML Team blog that MSXML4 is going to disappear within the next 12 months. It will mean that applications will no longer be able to create MSXML4 documents in the Internet Explorer browser. The team urges everyone to switch to MSXML6 as soon as possible.

The differences between MSXML4 and MSXML6, as well as migration issues, can be viewed here. A summary of the supported versions:

MSXML6 – Should be your first choice. This is the MSXML version that will be carried forward. MSXML6 is shipped with Vista and Microsoft is working on getting this in downlevel OS Service Packs.
MSXML3 – This has the advantage of having shipped with every supported OS. Microsoft is committed to keeping MSXML3 robust and stable but won’t be adding any functional improvements.
MSXML4 – This is in maintenance mode with a very high bar for fixes approaching End of Life.
MSXML5 – Exclusively meant for Office. Do not take any dependencies on it.

More information can be found in this post at the Microsoft XML team blog.

XML Notepad 2007 Update

Jan Schreuder — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:50:00 GMT

Exactly one month ago, I blogged about XML Notepad 2007. XML Notepad 2007 is the replacement for the original XML Notepad that was written back in 1998! The XML team released an update to the tool yesterday, which you can download here. A full list of new features and bug fixes can be viewed here.

Try it. Especially the option to view the differrences between two XML documents is really good!

XML Notepad 2007

Jan Schreuder — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:34:00 GMT

It's been quiet for a long time, but I hope that I can find time to blog again. So here's one to get me started again.

I bumped into an article on MSDN, written by Chris Lovett in August 2006, which describes the creation of XML Notepad 2007. Chris Lovett has been working on System.XML in C# since 1999. This version of XML Notepad, which replaces the one that dates back to 1998, is written in C#. Chris describes the design and implementation of the new version, and some of the new features.

I already tried it on one of the XML's I'm currently working with and it's pretty cool. You can download XML Notepad 2007 here and try it yourself.

XML Notepad 2007 supports the following features:

Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and values.
Incremental search (Ctrl+I) in both tree and text views, so as you type it navigates to matching nodes.
Cut/copy/paste with full namespace support.
Drag/drop support for easy manipulation of the tree, even across different instances of XML Notepad and from the file system.
Infinite undo/redo for all edit operations.
In place popup multi-line editing of large text node values.
Configurable fonts and colors via the options dialog.
Full find/replace dialog with support for regex and XPath.
Good performance on large XML documents, loading a 3mb document in about one second.
Instant XML schema validation while you edit with errors and warnings shown in the task list window.
Intellisense based on expected elements and attributes and enumerated simple type values.
Support for custom editors for date, dateTime and time datatypes and other types like color.
Handy nudge tool bar buttons for quick movement of nodes up and down the tree.
Inplace HTML viewer for processing xml-stylesheet processing instructions.
Built-in XML Diff tool.
Support for loading IXmlBuilder and IXmlEditor implementations from different assemblies using new vs:assembly attribute.
Source code localizable by moving all error messages and dialog strings to .resx files.
Default XSL transform.
New icons, a play on the Vista "Notepad" icons.