I'm working on an RPG type game. Currently, I am using XML to define all of my data. For example, I may have a structure that looks like this:


<ScriptData Name ="InnPatron4Talk">
<Dialog Speaker="default">Many adventurers have left for the hidden cave. None returned.</Dialog>
<Step Name="default" Count=3"/>
<Dialog Speaker="default">Blah Blah Blah</Dialog>
</ScriptData>


At the moment I am using the built in visual studio XML editor to create these "by hand". This actually works fine for me, except VS seems to lack a spell checker. So I am looking for alternatives. I've tried XML Notepad 2007 and Serna, but I'd rather have something more like a basic text editor, except with spell checking and knowledge of XML syntax. I'm also happy to switch to something not XML based, if it suites my needs.

So in short, I'm looking for a text editor with a spell checker that's good for writing structured data. Thanks for any suggestions.

I've used jEdit http://www.jedit.org/ for editing XML. It has plug-ins for autocompletion and grammar checking by used schema, XML syntax checking and spell checking. All these plug-ins can be installed from inside jEdit itself. It downloads and installs what you pick, so you won't have to search all around. It's the only XML capable tool I haven't had much trouble with so far.

jEdit looks pretty good. I'm not a huge fan of the Java style UI, but it seems like it could work. Thanks for the tip!