Public Test Editor can be found in the C:Program Files\Starcraft II\StarCraft II Editor Public Test.exe
Use Ctrl+3 for XML view(you can only edit the dependency that is furthest to the left).
You can just copy from a mpq editor using notepad or something and paste directly into the public test editor for the XML view, or you could just swap maps and copy paste whats in the XML view for each data type. The XML view basically shows the contents of what would be in the Map's Base.SC2Data/GameData folder for each data type as a xml file. You can also add comments into and arrange the elements so they make more sense in the xml view. It's easy to organize because the xml only shows what has been changed from the parent and default values.
Seems to work fine for me and I was even using it for a mod that I used to create a map. I copied all of the data in the xml files from the maps I wanted and pasted them into the data editor in xml view for each data type.
I don't think you can publish from the public test editor because it seems to want to patch when you try to connect to battle.net but I haven't had problems yet opening it's maps with the normal editor.
Wow, cool it's all copy paste now.
You can just copy from a mpq editor using notepad or something and paste directly into the public test editor for the XML view, or you could just swap maps and copy paste whats in the XML view for each data type. The XML view basically shows the contents of what would be in the Map's Base.SC2Data/GameData folder for each data type as a xml file. You can also add comments into and arrange the elements so they make more sense in the xml view. It's easy to organize because the xml only shows what has been changed from the parent and default values.
Seems to work fine for me and I was even using it for a mod that I used to create a map. I copied all of the data in the xml files from the maps I wanted and pasted them into the data editor in xml view for each data type.
I don't think you can publish from the public test editor because it seems to want to patch when you try to connect to battle.net but I haven't had problems yet opening it's maps with the normal editor.