XML installs statistics
By Red Hat (18 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages
XML Language Support by Red Hat
XML has 10,899,037 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #93 of 2,501 tracked listings.
Rating: 3.80 / 5 from 69 ratings
About XML
XML Language Support by Red Hat
NO LONGER REQUIRES JAVA! since v0.15.0
Description
This VS Code extension provides support for creating and editing XML documents, based on the LemMinX XML Language Server.

Features
| Regular font | Italics font |
|---|---|
| enabled by default | requires additional configuration to enable |
- XML References features (since v0.24.0)
- XML Colors features (since v0.24.0)
- RelaxNG (experimental) support (since v0.22.0)
- Surround with Tags, Comments, CDATA (since v0.23.0)
- Syntax error reporting
- General code completion
- Auto-close tags
- Automatic node indentation
- Symbol highlighting
- Document folding
- Document links
- Document symbols and outline
- Renaming support
- Automatic Tag Renaming when
editor.linkedEditingis enabled - Document Formatting
- DTD validation
- DTD completion
- DTD formatting
- XSD validation
- XSD based hover
- XSD based code completion
- XSL support
- XInclude support
- XML catalogs
- File associations
- Code actions
- Schema Caching
- Minify XML
- Generate XML from Grammar
- Generate Schema from XML
See the changelog for the latest release.
You might also find useful information in the Online XML Documentation
or you can read this documentation inside vscode with the command Open XML Document available with Ctrl+Shift+P:

Requirements
For running the binary version:
- Windows, macOS, or Linux, on a x86_64 CPU
We do not currently support running on Linux installations withoutSee #1016libcpresent
- Java is not required for this version
- The binary is automatically downloaded by vscode-xml if it is needed, with no additional action required on the part of the user.
For running the Java version (required if you want to run extensions to the base XML features):
- Java JDK (or JRE) 11 or more recent
- Ensure Java path is set in either:
xml.java.homein VSCode preferencesjava.homein VSCode preferences- Environment variable
JAVA_HOMEorJDK_HOME - Note: The path should end at the parent folder that contains the
binfolder. Example Path:/usr/lib/jvm/jre-11ifbinexists at/usr/lib/jvm/jre-11/bin. - Note: If the path is not set, the extension will attempt to find the path to the JDK or JRE.
See how to set java home for more information how this extension searches for Java.
Supported VS Code settings…
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- dtd
- json
- MEI
- RelaxNG
- RelaxNGCompact
- rnc
- rng
- svg
- TEI
- xml
- xsd
- xsl
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Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-xml. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 20, 2026. See the methodology.