Open an XML document as a visual hierarchy, edit elements and attributes with ordinary controls, or work directly with the source when you need it.
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XML describes information using named tags. Those tags can form a deep hierarchy, which is useful for software but harder to scan in a large source file. The visual editor presents the same document as expandable elements with separate controls for names, text, and attributes.
Changes flow in both directions between the visual tree and source. If a source edit is temporarily invalid, the editor reports the problem while keeping your last valid visual tree intact.
Every XML document has one root element: the outermost element containing everything else. In a product catalog, that root might be <catalog>.
Elements placed directly inside another element are its child elements. A catalog might contain several <product> children, and each product might contain <name> and <price> children. Elements can hold text as well as more nested elements.
Attributes add name-and-value details to an opening tag, such as <product id="123" active="true">. Whether information belongs in an attribute or child element depends on the XML format expected by the system using the document.
XML appears in configuration files, RSS and Atom feeds, sitemaps, office-document formats, publishing workflows, product feeds, legacy APIs, and data exchanged between business systems. Unlike HTML, XML does not come with a fixed set of tags; a document’s vocabulary is defined by the people or systems using it.
The editor also preserves advanced XML content—including declarations, comments, CDATA, processing instructions, and namespaces—so a simple visual change does not discard unrelated parts of a valid document.