An XML editor is a markup language editor with added functionality to facilitate the editing of XML. This could be done in plain text in a text editor such as Vim (text editor), with all the code visible. Specific XML editors, however, have facilties like word-completion and menus and buttons for tasks that are common in XML editing, based on data supplied with DTD. Examples of such editors are:

There are also graphical XML editors that hide the code in the background and present the content to the user in a more user-friendly format, approximating the rendered version. This is helpful for situations where people who are not fluent in XML code need to enter information in XML based documents such as time sheets and expenditure reports. And even if the user is familiar with XML, use of such editors, that take care of syntax details, is often faster and more convenient. These are often called WYSIWYG editors. However, web page editors can never be fully WYSIWYG because the rendering depends on the browser used.

Graphical editors include:

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