From the course: Learn API Documentation with JSON and XML
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Tools for writing JSON and XML
From the course: Learn API Documentation with JSON and XML
Tools for writing JSON and XML
- [Narrator] As part of this course, you'll be creating JSON and XML files. What tools will you need to create those files? JSON and XML are simply text formats. This means that you can always just use the text editors that come with your operating system. For example, for Windows, you can use Notepad. For Mac OS, you can use TextEdit. There are more sophisticated text editors available. These editors can often validate files and show you where they do not have the correct form, and even format them so that they look nice. For Windows, Notepad++ is an easy to use, powerful editor that is free. For both Mac and Windows, Sublime Text is a very good tool, and I'll use it in this course. It's not free, but there is a free trial version that you can use. Let me show you how to get it. So, this is the Sublime Text website. It's at sublimetext.com and just click on the download button and you'll see that there's downloads for every operating system. Sublime Text is often updated, so what you…
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