Conclusion

XML can be easy to learn and follow. You might even find it easy to build applications to utilize XML data, but XML development tools are definitely necessary. They not only provide a centralized environment where you can perform your XML work, but they also accelerate the learning curve for new technologies and XML-based languages.

In this appendix we showed you several of these tools and provided various options so you can make an intelligent choice for your own development environment. As we are sure many of you seasoned developers know, standardizing development environments for your applications and solutions is an often overlooked but important step to success.