oXygen (http://oxygenxml.com/) seems to be the de facto standard for XML editing (certainly on this list) and is inexpensive, but I recently came across a free alternative that works quite well: http://www.editix.com/ . Can do many of the things that oXygen does (it's schema aware, it can do XSL transformations). May be worth a try. Regards, Joseph Greene Institutional Repository Project Manager 325 James Joyce Library University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 353 (0)1 716 7398 [log in to unmask] http://irserver.ucd.ie/dspace/ -----Original Message----- From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bleier, Karen Sent: 12 November 2010 20:20 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: just getting started Who can explain IT departments? They wanted me to use an InfoPath form that they would devise for me, and when I explained why that was not the best path to take, they gave up and said, in essence, "This is already paid for; use it." We'll see how it goes. Karen K. Bleier Librarian 816-822-3418 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michele R Combs Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 1:52 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: just getting started Just out of curiosity, why XML Notepad? It isn't something I'd recommend for a beginner in XML. Michele ________________________________________ From: Encoded Archival Description List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of <Karen K Bleier> [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 3:57 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: just getting started Foolish question, perhaps, but I'm just setting up my software to begin using EAD to describe my collection. I've been asked to use XML Notepad. I can't figure out how to download the schema. I get to this page: http://www.loc.gov/ead/eadschema.html. What am I meant to do next? From some of the things I've read, I think perhaps I'm only supposed to point to the schema, not download it, but it's not clear to me how to do that, either. If I've managed to miss the instructions, please, someone point them out to me. I can find instructions for converting from DTD to schema. I've been through the archives here, but most of the questions also seem to be about converting from the DTD to the schema. I don't need to convert my EAD records from being DTD-compliant to being schema-compliant, as I have no EAD records yet. I thought about creating some and then converting them, but XML Notepad doesn't like the DTD; it seems to only accept .xsd extensions. Any help will be most welcome!