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What's New in Stylus Studio 2011 XML?

• Expanded EDI Capabilities:  New and increased support for NCPDP, X12, EDIFACT, HL7, and IATA
• Generation of XHTML documentation
• Usability Enhancements:  User-friendly improvements  to the XML Editor, XQuery Mapper, XML Pipeline Designer, and XML Schema Editor
• Visual Mapping for Updating Relational Data Sources: Support for SQL insert, update and delete operations using drag-n-drop to relational databases
• New XQuery Code Refactoring: The Stylus Studio product can automatically create a local function from selected code, and then replace that code with a call to that local function
• Large XML File Support: Very large, multiple Gigabyte XML file sizes supported

What's New in Stylus Studio 2010 XML?

XQuery Enhancements — The XQuery module provides several important enhancements:

• XQuery Code Refactoring — Stylus Studio can automatically create a local function from selected code, and then replace that code with a call to that local function.
• Importing XQuery Modules — A new user interface helps you manage XQuery module imports in your XQuery code.
• Visual Support for Updating Relational Data Sources — SQL insert, update, and delete operations can now be created using drag-and-drop in XQuery Mapper.
• Register Custom URI Resolvers — A new user interface lets you register Collection, Module, and Document URI resolvers.
• Support for XQJ 1.0 — The XQuery module now supports the XQuery API for Java (XQJ) Version 1.0.
• New Navigational Features — Go To, Find All References, and Rename short-cut menu items simplify working with XQuery Code.

XML Converters Enhancements — The XML Converters have numerous enhancements in Stylus Studio 2010:

• Support for Cargo-IMP — The Cargo-IMP IATA EDI dialect is now supported.
• Support for New EDI Releases — DataDirect XML Converters provides support for these releases of currently supported EDI dialects:
• EDIFACT D08B
• IATA 08-1
• X12 006010
• Intra-segment validation — The EDI to XML Module now supports intra-segment validation for EANCOM, EDIFACT, HIPAA, X12 and CARGO EDI dialects using the Syntax Rules property in the Select XML Converter Properties dialog box.
• Open-ended Codelist Support — You can now suspend codelist validation for specific codelist tables by adding a special value to the codelist table. And a new Quick Fix option in the EDI-to-XML Editor allows you suspend codelist validation on-the-fly, while editing a SEF file.

Use ZIP, JAR, MS Open Office, and OpenDocument Format as Data Sources — Stylus Studio 2010 allows you to use XML stored in ZIP, JAR, Microsoft Open Office, and OpenDocument Format as data sources in XQuery Mapper and XSLT Mapper.

Support for SOAP 1.2 — The Web Service Call Composer now supports SOAP 1.2.

What’s new in Stylus Studio 2009?

• EDI to XML Module — The EDI to XML Module lets you graphically build a Standard Exchange Format (SEF) file to help you convert proprietary EDI to XML, and vice versa. To describe customizations to an EDI standard, you can use either an instance of a proprietary EDI document, or you can select and modify one of the many EDI dialects supported by the DataDirect XML Converters that are bundled with Stylus Studio.
• EDI to XQuery Document Wizard — The new EDI to XQuery document wizard lets you create XQuery based on any of the EDI dialects supported by the DataDirect XML Converters that are bundled with Stylus Studio.
• ATIS and HIPAA EDI Support — ATIS and HIPAA have been added to the EDI dialects supported by the DataDirect XML Converters that are bundled with Stylus Studio. EDI support now encompasses ATIS, EANCOM, EDIFACT, Edig@s, HIPAA, HL7, IATA, and X12.
• License Manager for DataDirect Components — A new license manager lets you easily manage license upgrades for DataDirect XQuery and DataDirect XML Converters.
• EDI to XSD Document Wizard — The new EDI to XSD Document Wizard lets you generate XML Schema for any of the EDI dialects and message types supported by the DataDirect XML Converters that are bundled with Stylus Studio.
• Register Custom Tools Using the Command Line— You can now register custom tools using the Stylus Studio command line.
• Number Formatting in XML Publisher — The Properties window associated with the XML Publisher has a new tab, Decimal Format, that exposes properties that allow you to control how numbers are formatted in XML reports.

What’s new in Stylus Studio 2008 Release 2?

• Convert New EDI Formats to XML: Stylus Studio now supports the Edig@s EDI dialect. With a new Edig@s to XML Schema wizard, as well as support for the IATA 07.1 revision and numerous other formats including EANCOM, X12, and HL7
• Java and C# for .NET Code Generation: Code generation has numerous improvements in Stylus Studio, including enhanced support for the Microsoft .NET processor and new support for the Saxonica Saxon .NET Processor when generating C# code for .NET. Deploying XQuery, XSLT, and XML
• Microsoft Visual Studio Project Support: Stylus Studio can automatically create or update a Microsoft Visual Studio project to include the C# for .NET class for the XQuery, XSLT, or XML Pipeline for which you are generating code.
• Enhanced Scalability and Performance: The new release leverages enhanced optimization techniques –including streaming– to further improve application performance and scalability when accessing and converting multiple, large data sources including relational databases and flat files.
• Support for Standard Java XML Processing API: New support for industry-standard XML processing APIs in the generated Java code.
• Usability and Performance Enhancements: Various enhancements to the XML Editor, XQuery Mapper, XML Pipeline Designer, and XML Schema Editor.

What’s new in Stylus Studio 2008?

• C# Code Generation for .NET- In addition to Java, you can now use Stylus Studio to generate C# code for .NET for your XQuery, XSLT, and XML Pipelines
• Simplified Java Code - Java code generated for XQuery, XSLT, and XML Pipelines has been simplified, for easier reading by Java developers. Code is now generated for the active scenario, further simplifying application development using generated code
• WSDL Editor - The new Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Editor helps you create and develop WSDL documents. Using the split-screen editor, you can work using graphic components or plain text. Stylus Studio ensures that both views are kept synchronized, and access to any XML Schema associated with the WSDL document is just a click away
• Support for DataDirect XML Converters 3.1 - Stylus Studio bundles DataDirect XML Converters™ to help stream bi-directional XML conversion for EDI, CSV, dBase, and many other file formats.
• Tools Support for DataDirect XQuery 3.1 - The latest release of DataDirect XQuery, DataDirect XQuery 3.1, comes bundled with Stylus Studio. With DataDirect XQuery 3.1, you can now write XQuery to query relational data on these databases:
  • IBM Informix
  • MySQL
  • MySQL Community Edition
  • PostgreSQL
• XML Pipeline Scenarios - An XML pipeline is a way to express the various steps in processing XML documents. Stylus Studio® 2008 XML Enterprise Suite provides grapical tools for expressing XML pipelines in terms of a series of XML operations, for example, converting, validating, transforming, or performing other operations on an XML document. Using the XML Pipeline, Software Architects can easily visualize their XML applications (such as ETL, EII, and EAI applications) at a higher level, and automate many common XML programming tasks including Java code generation and debugging of XML processing applications. XML Pipeline scenarios in Stylus Studio® 2008 XML Enterprise Suite have been simplified and streamlined, allowing you to select an execution framework from a single drop-down list. Of course, you can continue to override individual processor selections, and a helpful message indicates whether or not Stylus Studio is able to generate code for the execution framework you have specified
• XQuery Mapper Support for Web Services - You can now drag a Web Service Call (.wscc) created using the Stylus Studio Web Service Call Composer and drop it on the XQuery Mapper canvas, allowing you to use the Web service as a data source. You map a source document node into the Web Service Call's SOAP request port, and map the SOAP response port to a target document node
• Auto-complete XML Fragments - The XML Editor now allows you to auto-complete XML fragments when you are editing an XML document that uses included or imported XML Schema
• XML Schema Editor - The XML Schema Editor has a new search feature that allows you to find all constructs in the XML Schema that reference any of the following elements
• Global element
• Simple global types
• Complex global types
• XML Publishing - Simplify XML Publising applications with Stylus Studio XML Publisher, a powerful XML report designer that allows users to design stylesheets which express advanced document layouts for use in single-source publishing, XML content management, and multi-channel publishing applications. Using an intuitive visual interface, business users can easily design rich document layouts to publish XML to PDF, HTML, Postscript and many other document formats using XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, or XQuery 1.0. Stylus Studio XML Publisher even supports joining and grouping of numerous heterogeneous data sources including relational databases; XML databases; Web services: EDI, EDIFACT, X12, CSV and other flat file formats; as well as XML and XML Schema documents
• Integrated Support for Saxon SA 9.0.0.1 - The Stylus Studio XQuery and XSLT tools have been updated to support the Saxon SA 9.0.0.1 processor, a leading Java-based XSLT and XQuery processing component
• Support for Gigabyte Size XML Files - Stylus Studio® 2008 XML Enterprise Suite implements several optimizations that permit the editing of huge XML documents (in the multi-gigabyte range) in the text editor. Because previous versions loaded the entire document in memory, a lot of memory was required and support was limited to documents of up to 200MB. With the new enhancements, memory consumption is linear, enabling support for larger XML documents at quicker execution times
• Query Plan - Stylus Studio® 2008 XML Enterprise Suite introduces a new query plan utility for DataDirect XQuery™. You can visualize query execution plans in to gain insight into how DataDirect XQuery™ will execute your XQuery code, including seeing the type of SQL statements that are used to access relational data, when XML streaming is being used, which temporary tables are being created, when variables are being called, etc. The new feature is available in the XQuery editor, and is available for any well-formed XQuery code which targets DataDirect XQuery™

What's New in 2007 Release 2

Support for Gigabyte Size XML Files
Stylus Studio® 2007 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2 implements several optimizations that permit the editing of huge XML documents (in the multi-gigabyte range) in the text editor. Because previous versions loaded the entire document in memory, a lot of memory was required and support was limited to documents of up to 200MB. With the new enhancements, memory consumption is linear, enabling support for XML larger documents at quicker execution times.

Query Plan
Stylus Studio® 2007 XML Enterprise Suite, Release 2 introduces a new query plan utility for DataDirect XQuery™. You can visualize query execution plans in to gain insight into how DataDirect XQuery™ will execute your XQuery code, including seeing the type of SQL statements that are used to access relational data, when XML streaming is being used, which temporary tables are being created, when variables are being called, etc. The new feature is available in the XQuery editor, and is available for any well-formed XQuery code which targets DataDirect XQuery™.

What's New in Stylus Studio® 2007 XML Enterprise Suite
Stylus Studio® 2007 XML Enterprise Suite is a significant product release. There are two all-new XML tools including XML Pipeline - for modeling, editing, debugging, and deploying advanced XML data services, and XML Publisher - for creating enterprise XML publishing and content management applications. In addition to these powerful new tools, you'll find many performance and usibility enhancements to the existing toolkit. The following are just some of the highlights of this new release.

XML Pipeline
An XML pipeline is a way to express the various steps in processing XML documents. Stylus Studio® 2007 XML Enterprise Suite provides powerful graphical tools for expressing XML pipelines in terms of a series of XML operations, for example, converting, validating, transforming, or performing other operations on an XML document. Using the XML Pipeline, software architects can easily visualize their XML applications (such as ETL, EII, and EAI applications) at a higher level, and automate many common XML programming tasks including Java code generation and debugging of XML processing applications.

XML Publishing
Simplify XML Publising applications with Stylus Studio XML Publisher, a powerful XML report designer that allows users to design stylesheets which express advanced document layouts for use in single-source publishing, XML content management, and multi-channel publishing applications. Using an intuitive visual interface, business users can easily design rich document layouts to publish XML to PDF, HTML, Postscript and many other document formats using XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, or XQuery 1.0. Stylus Studio XML Publisher supports numerous heterogeneous data sources including relational databases; XML databases; Web services: EDI, EDIFACT, X12, CSV and other flat file formats; as well as XML and XML Schema documents.

Data Conversion API's
Data Conversion API's are an enhancement to Stylus Studio Deployment Adapters, enabling you to read and write to many different file formats from your Java applications. So whatever your data format is: Base-64, Binary, d_Base, EDI, TSV, JSON, or any other legacy data format, the powerful data conversion API's can help.

Tools Support for DataDirect XQuery 2.0
Develop XQuery expressions that access most relational databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and IBM DB2. Includes integrated support generating Java code that invokes DataDirect XQuery for deploying XQuery applications with the click of a button.

Integrated Support for Saxon SA 8.7.3
The Stylus Studio XQuery and XSLT tools have been updated to support the Saxon SA 8.7.3 processor, a leading Java-based XSLT and XQuery processing component.

Stylus Studio's main design goals were to maximize XML developer productivity, push innovation, and provide unquestioned value, which are the top needs for both software developers and managers alike.

Productivity
Stylus Studio is designed to automate and accelerate the XML development process. XML's verbose self-describing syntax is generally cumbersome to work with manually, and is of course better suited for being developed with Stylus Studio. Stylus Studio consists of powerful XML editors, for example, an XML editor that allows users to work with XML in a variety of different views including text, grid, and tree views.

Complex XML code - for XQuery, XSLT, XML Schema or SQL/XML queries - can be intuitively developed using their respective editors, which support drag-and-drop or visual design operations. Productivity gains are also achieved using Stylus Studio's plentiful XML developer features, including code generators (for XML Schema and DTD, for example) and conversion utilities (import/export data wizards and HTML-to-XSLT conversions, for example) which automate commonly performed developer tasks.

Support for source code integration and a robust project window enable Stylus Studio to be used on large software projects in real-world software development scenarios.

Innovation
The explosive growth of XML standards and their extensive adoption throughout enterprise computing requires an XML IDE that can provide comprehensive and innovative support for the newest XML technologies, and one capable of issuing timely product updates as XML specifications evolve. Stylus Studio has a long history of first-to-market achievements, including the first XSLT debugger, XSLT Mapper, and the new XQuery Mapper. And on startup, Stylus Studio notifies you if an update to your installed version is available, so you are never behind the curve in the rapidly evolving world of XML technology.

Value
Stylus Studio offers unprecedented value as a true enterprise software development tool. But the value of a tool is not solely derived by merely weighing the cost of the software application against the types of productivity gains described earlier. Stylus Studio's vast collection of XML debuggers and testing utilities ensures correct program behavior and eliminates costly software bugs at the outset of the software development cycle, resulting in better quality code. Furthermore, the XML standards-based approach to software application development is fundamentally more cost effective then proprietary alternatives, enabling you to avoid the higher costs associated with single vendor traps and lock-ins. Finally, Stylus Studio product support is offered free of charge and Stylus Studio Developers Network offers numerous free developer resources, eliminating support and maintenance plans.

Stylus Studio Editions

Stylus Studio XML Professional Suite Stylus Studio XML Professional Suite provides a complete set of tools for the XML
application developer, including XML Differencing for comparing multiple XML
documents and folders. XML Differencing is also included in Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite.

Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite - Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite is Stylus Studio's most comprehensive XML IDE,
offering a complete and robust set of tools for writing, testing, debugging, and deploying
XML applications. In addition to editors for XML, XML Schema, XQuery, and XSLT,
Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite provides the following features exclusive to this
edition of Stylus Studio:

• Java and C# for .NET code generation for deployment of XQuery and XSLT
• transformations
• The ability to expose XML Schema to Java bindings
• XQuery and XSLT Profilers to help you gather performance metrics and troubleshoot
• performance bottlenecks
• Custom XML Conversions, a module that allows you to easily convert non-XML files
• like EDI and CSV to XML
• Web Service Call Composer to help you build and test calls to hundreds of industrystandard
• Web services
• Integration with Raining Data Tiger Logic XDMS
• Support for OASIS catalogs, including dozens of catalogs bundled with Stylus Studio

Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite: XML Tools Overview
Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite provides a comprehensive set of XML tools and features for working with XML, XQuery, SQL/XML, Web services, XML publishing, and many other XML technologies.

• XML Editors - Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite includes numerous synchronized, visual XML editing views, Sense:X (Intelligent XML Editing), Integrated XML Validator, XML differencing, and much more.
• XQuery (XML Query) Tools - Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite is one of the first XML development tools to support visual XQuery editing, XQuery mapping, and XQuery debugging.
• XSL/XSLT Tools - Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite provides comprehensive XSLT development support, including XSLT debugging, XSLT mapping, XSLT profiling, visual HTML-to-XSLT stylesheet design, XSL:FO, and much more.
• EDI Tools - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) integration tools for converting, mapping and deploying advanced XML data integration applications which involve read/write access to legacy EDIFACT and X12 data sources.
• XML Pipeline - XML Pipeline lets you model your entire XML application instead of just individual pieces; use it to design, edit, debug and deploy advanced XML data service applications.
• XML Publishing - Visually design beautiful XML reports for XML publishing applications using XSL:FO, XQuery and XSLT technologies to generate PDF or HTML output from any data source.
• Document Type Definition (DTD) Editor - Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite includes a visual DTD editor, integrated DTD validator, and various DTD generation utilities.
• XPath Tools - Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite includes utilities for XPath 1.0/2.0, including XPath Evaluator, XPath Expression Generator, Sense:X for XPath (Intelligent XPath Editing), and much more.
• Web Services Tools - Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite supports Web Service Development via a Web Service Call Composer, UDDI Registry Browser, and other tools that make it easy to find, test, and use Web services.
• XML Mapping Tools - With Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite, you can map data in one format to another using visual drag-and-drop mappers. Stylus Studio's mappers include support for mapping to and from XML documents, Web service data, relational data, flat files, and many more.
• Import/Export Utilities for any File, XML and Relational Data - Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite includes Convert to XML, a visual tool for extracting XML data from any file format including CSV, tab separated, binary data files, EDI, or any other flat format, as well as many other data import/export utilities for RDBMS, XML, ADO, and more.
• Relational Database Connectivity Tools - Create XML views of relational databases and render relational data as XML with Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite's SQL/XML utilities.
• Java and XML Tools - Build XML-enabled Java applications using Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite's JSP Editor, XML-Java debugger, and more.
• HTML/XHTML and Web Design Tools - Easily design advanced XML-data driven Web sites with Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite's handy XML tools for Web designers.
• Microsoft and XML Tools - Use Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite to build XML-enabled Microsoft applications with MSXML, Microsoft .NET XML (System.XML), SQL Server 2000, and other XML-enabled products and APIs.

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