Stylus Studio™ Release 5.3 -- A Boon to XML Developers
"I just purchased Stylus Studio, and it is a really good product," said Doug Domeny, a software analyst for Ektron Inc., an innovator in Web content management and authoring software. "It found some errors in one of my XML schemas that my former XML tool failed to detect, so I'm pleased with its thorough technical competence. Most of my time with XML tools is spent writing XSLT to filter XML or to convert from one XML vocabulary to another, and Stylus Studio's XSLT editing, mapping, and debugging tools save me lots of time and effort. Stylus Studio is an excellent tool for any developer working with XML."
Commenting on the significance of Stylus Studio Release 5.3, Carlo Innocenti, the senior product architect for Stylus Studio said, "XML developers will be highly impressed with the advanced functionality in our new XML differencing tool. And our revamped XML mapping tools are second to none. Stylus Studio is the only XML IDE to fully support round-trip engineering for XSLT- and XQuery-based XML mapping, providing the most intuitive development support for XML data integration projects. Stylus Studio Release 5.3 is concrete proof of our ongoing commitment to provide the highest quality and most value-priced XML development tools, period."
XML Differencing
The powerful new XML differencing utility in Stylus Studio Release 5.3 allows developers to quickly compute and visualize changes between XML documents and directories. The integrated XML Differencing tool supports the following features:
-- One-click differencing of XML files using a customizable color-coded
XML tree view
-- Support for one-to-one and many-to-one XML file differencing
-- Support for folders differencing; ability to launch XML file
differencing from within a diffed folder
-- View differences using "split-screen" and "merged changes" views
-- Step through XML differences node by node
-- Autorun feature allows user to set conditions under which differencing
is calculated automatically
-- Expand all changes
-- Collapse identical XML blocks to simplify the display
-- Optionally resolve or ignore XML entity references and XML namespaces
-- Many user-configurable XML differencing settings, including the
ability to optionally compare or ignore XML comments, XML element content,
whitespace, XML attributes, XML processing instructions, formatting
characters, and more
-- Choose among XML differencing algorithms optimized for processing very
large XML documents, optimized for speed, and optimized for detail
A complete technical description of the new XML Differencing utility is
available at:
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_differencing.html
Enhanced XML Mapping
Users benefit from several enhancements to Stylus Studio's visual XML mapping tools for XQuery and XSLT. Chief among the mapping enhancements for Stylus Studio Release 5.3 is a powerful split-screen editing mode that simultaneously displays fully editable views of both the visual XML mapping diagram and the underlying XSLT or XQuery source code. Users can now make live edits to either the source code or the visual XML mapping diagram, and see instantly the effect their changes have -- without clicking a separate tab or opening another editor. Because Stylus Studio automatically synchronizes the changes to both visual mapping and source code views as you work, this feature is a great way to learn the intricacies of these powerful XML technologies.
A complete technical description of the updated XML Mapping tools in Stylus Studio is available at: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_mapper.html
Pricing & Availability
Stylus Studio is available now for a free 30-day trial download at http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html. Stylus Studio can be purchased at our Online Shop, http://www.stylusstudio.com/buy_xml_editor.html, or by calling (781) 280-4488. Prices start at $395(USD) for a single-user license, All current Stylus Studio customers are eligible for a free upgrade to Stylus Studio Release 5.3.
About Stylus Studio™
Stylus Studio, a product from Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), is the first and only XML IDE to provide advanced support for XML and its related technologies: XSL, XSLT, XML Schema, DTD, SOAP, WSDL, SQL/XML and XQuery. Used by over 100,000 software developers world-wide, Stylus Studio simplifies XML programming and enhances developer productivity through innovation. For a complete listing of new product features, visit: http://www.stylusstudio.com. Additional technical product information about Stylus Studio is available at http://www.developxml.com.
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