Download XML Nanny 3.0 beta 1

XML Nanny is a handy tool that makes it possible to validate XHTML and XML documents for their ‘Well-Formedness’. The program is only available for the Mac OS X platform and can validate the various documents both locally and over the network. The developer has released XML Nanny 3.0 beta 1 with a lot of changes. For example, the file size has been drastically reduced to about one MB and many small improvements can be found. The announcement looks like this:

I’ve ported the work I did on the TeXMLMate plug-in back to XML Nanny. For now, I’m calling it version 3.0 beta 1. New Features (for XML Nanny) include:

• Vastly reduced application file size — XML Nanny.app has gone from more than 20 MB to about 1 MB in size. This is due to jettisoning Xerces C++. XML Nanny 3.0 is based entirely on libxml2 — and is much better for it.
• Open in external editor is much improved — now you can configure your preferred external editor. Clicking on error items in XML Nanny’s result view will open the document or schema with the error selected.
• XML Catalog support – Look under Window -> XML Catalog menu
• More XML Parser config settings
• Improved Schematron support
• View parsed XML — see what the XML Parser sees.
• Improved stability and more