Extensible Markup Language is the meaning of acronym XML. To write in XML is a very useful skill as this language now is the most useful and sought after language for all types of textual and graphical script for web design. It is possible to write XML with a text editor. But there are distinct advantages to using good XML script that can be programmed in any format that is easy to read, edit, follow and work with in regard to others who may come in behind one editor for maintenance purposes. XML editors implement Syntax highlighting, which means, that color script for the text in various parts of the code allows the author to follow and also make modifications. There are also other very useful features in most standard XML Editors that make life much easier for the author such as word completion and automatic appending at the closing of a tag when an open tag is entered.

The goal of using an XML Editor is to write code that will program in markup language that will render pages on the web for anything. XML has been called HTML on steroids however that description it is not appropriate for XML even though XML became the standard to use on the web after emerging in 2001. Those who can master this language will never starve, in fact life would become very comfortable, as the most popular programming languages such as Java, Perl and C++ and Python are programming languages that have been used to write applications that render XML, which actually is not necessary.

Nevertheless an XML Editor will be found to create style pages for programmers who use Windows, Linux or Mac Operating Systems. This use of the XML style pages makes creating exact web pages and content completely in the control of the end user. With a general XML Editor it is possible to create a synchronized tree with multiple tree view (namespace). The Surround feature is easily applied. Writing code can be done in data mode. When nodes are required they can be dragged and dropped. It is also possible to select the current node when necessary. When it is appropriate the editor can duplicate sibling nodes. When in need of finding a file the editor can do a multiple file search. This XML editor is web-based so it has a bookmarks program to use for such needs.