Can someone help me Xml Problem

I am new to xml. How do i preview xml to see what i ahve done. i am saving the file and opening it up in ie. now it shows the xml tags is it suppose to do that? lastly what kind of editors are their to edit xml? So when i run the code i should see the work not the tags right?

Ugh, don't use IE to preview your XML transformations. Download XML cooktop (free):

http://www.kens.net/files/cooktop.msi

Right-click, save target as.

once downloaded do i have to install anyhting else?

im trying to now view the xml code? i still get just the tags with the data. Am i missing something? Im trying to get the data to show with out the tags when i preview the work?

OK, when you open up XML Cooktop, open the .xml file. You will see a workspace, with some tabs. There is a tab called "stylesheet (xsl)", in there you will put your XSL style sheet. When you're done, click on the "XSLT" button at the top, to see the result.

There are 3 XSLT buttons:

1- view the output in your XML Cooktop
2- view the output in a browser (ick)
3- save the output to your PC

ERROR: Cannot complete the XSLT because the XML document is not provided!

In your xml declaration, what encoding (if any) are you using?

I've had that problem before, when my declaration was encoding="utf-8" and the xml file was created and saved in Notepad (ansi-latin-whatever). So make sure your xml declaration and the encoding matches.