# XMLSpy Reviews **Vendor:** Altova **Category:** [XML Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/xml-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 26 ## About XMLSpy Altova XMLSpy is the world’s best-selling JSON and XML editor for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging related technologies. It gives developers the tools they need to build the most sophisticated applications with its graphical schema designer, code generation, file converters, debuggers, and profilers for working with XSD, JSON Schema, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, SOAP, and more. ## XMLSpy Reviews ### 1. XMLSpy - One of the best Mark up Language Editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Indrajeet D. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2022 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** XMLSpy is one of the best tools for editing, debugging and coding in XML and JSON formats. It eases the schema design of XSD, JSON Schema, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, SOAP, and more. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Lack of free version. The cost is too high. Too many updates whole round the year creates confusion on stability. Examples are not easy to understand. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** End-to-end solution for any XML and JSON format designing, compiling, editing and viewing. GUi-based view, which makes it very easy to understand and design schemas. Helps validate and formating huge XML and JSON files. ### 2. Altova XMLSpy should be your first choice for working with XML schemas **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Altova XMLSpy provides an excellent visual user interface for designing new XML schemas from scratch and maintaining existing XML schemas. It allows even novices to learn how XML schemas work and figure out how to create an XML schema to model real-world objects or represent the data structures that are relevant to them. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** The software licensing costs for Altova XMLSpy might put it out of reach of non-corporate users. It would be great if there were a lite or free version that was available for non-commercial use. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Altova XMLSpy in our software development toolchain for enterprise integration and business-to-business integration. It is our core tool for designing or maintaining XML schemas, and we also use it for inspecting and reformatting XML documents and investigating and diagnosing issues with XML data. It has saved hundreds of hours of effort that we would have expended had we been required to craft XML schemas line by line manually. ### 3. Best tool to write code and generate schema **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishi M. | Services Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** This tool helps me to create varity of schema depending on the system also help me to create webservice. The best thing about XMLspy is that it integrates with DataPower and allow to test the code before even putting it into DataPower. Which no other IDE does. Features like visual schema creation, xsl v2 support, graphical WSDL creation, open XML support, diff dog and many more makes it even more powerful tool. It not only helps in coding it helps on creating the design documents as well. Ahh, I almost forgot that it helps a lot by integrating itself with eclipse. I use this IDE a lot and xmlspy makes my life easy by integrating with it. Creating scema and WSDL is so easy in this tool. And the graphical options gives so much visibility of the inter related schemas, which helps any organization which uses schemas for all its service. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** All good about this tool. Nothing bad. Price could have been a bit less. **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** Highly recomended product. Loads of features available if you are developing a web service which used XML as a base. Features like visual schema creation, xsl v2 support, graphical WSDL creation, open XML support and for me DataPower plugin support makes this tool awesome to but for any organisation or for a developer. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to save my time by compiling the code before even putting into DataPower. Whihc is for me a very big task. ### 4. Altova XML Spy is the right choice **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siarhei L. | Senior Machine Learning Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** If there is a time for you to use data in XML format together with Schema development - Altova XML Spy is the right choice. You can easily develop new schemas in an intuitive way using cool UI - just add new nodes into the graph. Or, you can switch to the text format and work with it. Next, you can validate you XML files against yours schemas, or transform data using XSLT. Plus, it supports JSON and many more formats/standards! Great experience! **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Nothing to dislike actually, this is my best tool to develop XML schemas. **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** there are no alternatives :) **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Three easy steps: - create schema using great UI - create test XML files - generate code and use XML-formatted data in my product code. ### 5. Great piece of software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jon T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** I've used XMLSpy for around 10 years now and have always got on well with it. Whenever I have moved companies I have always insisted XMLSpy is purchased as part of my software suite as it is critical to the work I do. It makes analysing XML files very easy, and I use it a great deal for setting up xsd files which is very simple and straight forward. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** No dislikes about the software, I find it meets all my needs **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** XML analysis and xsd creation ### 6. Genuine feedback on Xml Spy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivi M. | IT Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2020 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** What is not to like in Xml spy, with so many similar products already in the market XML spy is first choice. Other products are just limited to editing xml but Altova Xml spy allows to validate, edit, format xml, validate, format and write xslt, XPath, against an schema. One doesn't needs a comparison tool as with xml spy comparison is also possible. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** I understand that the project offering so many features often charge but I felt this product price is little higher. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Only the price is bit higher else no such issues. ### 7. Powerful and Insightful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark O. | Sr. Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2020 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** XMLSpy is a very powerful tool that needs to be included in your development toolbox. The XMLSpy editor is extremely helpful when trying to solve issues in your backend systems and processes when creating or developing your XML or XSD templates. The step through, viewer and the ability to add threads for stress and integration needs when whitebox testing or development is phenomenal. The wizards have been revamped so that it's not complicated but actually straight-forward when implementing some of the features that are unlocked. One of the more powerful aspects with XMLSpy is the WSDL & SOAP tools help tremendously when creating or developing your process. Since I'm a SQA Engineer the tools and debuggers in XMLSpy have helped me to isolate issues or even for that matter potential issues/bugs that could surface in your testing phase. I've used the SOAP client to help me when I needed to interpret third-party WSDL docs from our development partners. It is so helpful to use the database integration portion of the tool that helps with SQL interoperability configurations. Download the tool you won't regret it. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** I guess the only thing that is a negative is price but down the line it pays for itself. **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** I would highly recommend downloading and using XMLSpy, even if it's just for the trial. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** The issues that I have used XMLSpy to solve were my project needs when we were using XML in Java to parse our creation of XML templates. ### 8. XML files validation using XMLspy for client project **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** The schema validation and the graphical representation of the object in the XML document is very important for the developer/data engineers while working with the XML format files. XMLspy used to validate the schema and even helped with showing all the list of objects present in the XML file **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Since we can't connect it directly from git hub so I felt it will be really convenient if we have those features **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** If we have to validate and create new XML file from the existing this is the best tool **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Schema creation of new XML files from existing file so tht data analyst team can use the data for future analysis ### 9. Altova Xml Spy Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** XML spy is my favorite editor. I've used this tool to edit my xml code because of their fully loaded language markup editor. It's very easy to debug the code using this tool. Love the Grid view option which displays the code in a clear and concise manner making editing quick and efficient . **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Cost is the only downside to this tool. Wish it was a little less expensive. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I edit my PPFAs, xml scripts using this tool and always find it easy to use and very convenient. ### 10. Excellent tool for XML-based and Web services applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** I liked the best is for creating and validating XML**s with the schema/XSD and xml using Soap UI it is easy to use for validating the files against a schema and easy to format XML data and can see the flows for a XML schema Overall it is one of my best tool I recommend . **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** heard it as expensive but AT&T still uses this product overall i like this product as its ease to use and Can validate using it . **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** Highly recommend to use **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Validation purpose I used this software to create, view, and edit XML and WSDL files for our platform in multiple ways . Overall it was so easy to use and format quickly. ### 11. Helps in creating XML for bussiness **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anurag K. | Java Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** It helps in creating and validating XML for the rest web services and also JSON data **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** build the most sophisticated, but everything else seems to be fine **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using in Web Services for request and response ### 12. Among COTS XML editor tools, XMLSpy remains the one easy to use. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Spenser K. | Senior Application Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Validate XML data against XSD or DTD. Perform XML transformation through user- assigned XSLT script. Through GUI, specify partial of full XPath to locate XML node(s) and it's/their value(s). Reverse engineering XSD or DTD from input XML data. Generate sample XML data from input XSD or DTD. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Can be pricey. Activation of user licence sometimes can be tedious. **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** Floating licensed is recommended for a multi XMLSpy users environment. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Help validate huge size XML data structurally. ### 13. Awesome Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Its easy to create xsd and xml and anyone with very less experience can generate the xml. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Nothing its a good tool so no chance of dislike. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved so many xml creation and xsd creation problems. This tool xml spy has many benefits such as easy xsd creation editable xsd and xml on the go. ### 14. Intelligent app providing critical support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi S. | E, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Formatting, fast loading of files in the editor **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Json support is a bit out of place. Plugin contribution mechanism is not so smooth **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** Should be tried out. Quite a good one amongst the umpteen editors in the market **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building business processes consuming xml spy ### 15. integration work with complex xsd and xml **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yasir A. | Freelancer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Visualizing schema, and testing it with different data **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Some how hard to get started, the barrier to entry **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** Start with a well formated schema one that is already valid **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating multiple systems and coming up with common schema ### 16. XML Spy Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** XMLSpy is the most helpful in my day to day work.. I like it's pretty print and Grid features.. they are really helpful in analyzing the XMLs quickly.I would highly recommend this tool for any enterprise. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** None. I didn't dislike any of its features. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helpful to analyze the data faster. I really like the grid feature to review the XMLs. ### 17. Good software but needs improvement while giving errors **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Good for writing xml schemas and validating schemas against a xml file **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Sometimes while writing schemas it gives vague error the its near to impossible to figure out what actually went wrong. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Schema validation Schema writing Xml file validation against schema ### 18. XMLSpy is great and user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** The ease of editing and formatting text. I also love how you can change the view to see the text how you want to **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** I have no dislikes. It’s very user friendly and laid out well. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’m able to read data better. Validation tools are a plus ### 19. For someone who had never used it there were a lot of resources available to learn **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Guides built in for new users who may not be familiar with XML **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Dated materials and there weren’t interactive tools to help navigate **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data mapping for XML based software solutions ### 20. transform one XML document to another XML by using XSLT file **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2020 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** It is very easy to edit and view big XML files, XSLT transformation **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Nothing, price, it is preferable to have Web version to edit several files per month **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems ### 21. Great software when working with XML. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antoine S. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2019 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** I like the flexibility it gives with the multiple views of XML. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** I cannot think of what I don't like because it gives you so much. If I have not found it, it's probably is there. **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** XMLSpy is a great product and if you do any web services development you need it. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using XMLSpy to create XML stylesheets. Review reports generated web services. ### 22. Altova XMlSpy Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Easier to read XML files and view the block diagram. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** I dislike the pricing of Altova XMLSpy since it can be quite costly. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows for easier comprehension of longer XML files with block diagrams. ### 23. Excellent xml dev environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2019 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** Powerful xml toolset including xslt transformation capabilities, xpath evaluation and schema validation **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** The price is a little high, if you only work with xml occasionally or do not required advanced features. **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** If you use xml regularly, definitely take a look. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is nice to perform an xslt transformation on the fly using an xml and xsl of your choice. This allows a much quicker feedback loop for xsl development. ### 24. Xmlspy experience **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** It's view and edit features of all syntax files like json, xml, wsdl, etc. **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Price. It is very expensive to get a license. **Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy:** It is efficient if you deal with large size data **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** It benefits in analyzing and editing large size of xml/json files. ### 25. Best for XML files **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2019 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** easy access to multiple view of the xml file, **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** initially it was difficult to use xmlspy without help **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy to navigate for huge files which was difficult using browser or any other software ### 26. Use it to debug xslt and schemas **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2019 **What do you like best about XMLSpy?** I like the debug feature of stepping through each step. It’s pretty much the number one reason I would use it **What do you dislike about XMLSpy?** Datapower functions are unknown to xml spy so they have to be removed. It’s not too big of an issue. It’s very slow to load too. Interface could be better. **What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Debugging xslt files when we don’t understand how it’s behaving - [View XMLSpy pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/xmlspy/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-04+01%3A43%3A48+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4acdd644-314b-457c-a4d1-2968a5e44d11&secure%5Btoken%5D=3964b1f582a9ab9fb9db23c1ef8ab4652073414c6df0081cce42ebef5792fac7&format=llm_user) ## XMLSpy Features **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top XMLSpy Alternatives - [IBM Db2](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-db2/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (598 reviews) - [Progress MarkLogic](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-marklogic/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (65 reviews) - [InterSystems IRIS](https://www.g2.com/products/intersystems-iris/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (59 reviews)