Writing your DXL is much easier and faster if you have a decent editor. These editors are mentioned here because they have DXL syntax highlighting. If you use an editor that supports syntax highlighting but is not mentioned here then please tell me so we can include it in this list.
Sodius DXL Editor
This is a brand new editer from Sodius!
Going far beyond syntax highlighting, the DXL Editor is a real development environment for DXL built on the market-leading Eclipse platform, bringing its richness and power to provide a first-class environment for editing and executing your DXL scripts, on par with other first-class languages such as Java and C++
Crimson Editor
Crimson is a professional source code editor for windows. It provides many powerful programming language features such as syntax highlighting and macros. Syntax highlighting is customisable so you can create your own syntax files. Syntax Files for DXL are available from the Crimson site, or can be downloaded below.
View DOORS 8.2 keywords file
View DOORS 7.1 keywords file
View Specification file
TextPad
TextPad is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires. Below you can download DXL syntax file for TextPad. Save the text to a file called doors-dxl.syn.
EditPad Pro
“A Mighty Fine Editor” - EditPad Pro is a powerful and versatile text editor or word processor. Designed to make text editing as convenient as possible, using EditPad Pro to edit text files will save you a lot of time and frustration.
Get Colouring Scheme for EditPad
jEdit
jEdit is a mature programmer’s text editor with hundreds of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0.
Wanted!
We have received requests for syntax files for the following editors. If you can help then please email us so we can post here for the benefit of others.
Notepad Plus