XML Notepad is an

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written by Chris Lovett and published by

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. The editor features

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in both tree and text views, drag/drop support,

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, find/replace with

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s and

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expressions, and support for XInclude. The editor has good performance on large XML documents and has real time XML schema validation. The editor also features an HTML viewer for displaying

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transformation results and a built-in XML comparison tool. The program's source code was made available on

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on 20 April 2007, and moved to

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in April 2016.

History

The original XML Notepad was written in 1998 by Murray Low in C++, but was eventually removed from

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(MSDN) due to its lack of support for modern XML standards and no maintenance. However, because of high demand, a replacement was written in C# by Chris Lovett using the System.Xml library of the

.NET Framework 2.0 Microsoft started development on the .NET Framework in the late 1990s originally under the name of Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS). By late 2001 the first beta versions of .NET 1.0 were released. The first version of .NET Framework was ...

. XML Notepad 2007 was released eight months after the release of XML Notepad 2006. The new version featured several bug fixes,

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compatibility and updated Aero-style

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s. XML Notepad 2.6 was released in 2014 containing various bug fixes reported by community on codeplex. It was also updated to use

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. According to the Codeplex Web site it moved in 2016 to

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