Altova has announced
the general availability of the XML Spy 4.0 Suite, including an updated version
of their IDE and new tools targeted to users who may not necessarily be XML geeks.
The XML Spy
4.0 IDE is an update of XML Spy 3.5 and includes full validation
and graphical design support for the W3C XML
Schema Recommendation. The update is free of charge for customers who bought
XML Spy 3.5 after January 19th, 2001.
Like its predecessor,
the IDE is an XML editor supporting tree, text
and graphical (W3C XML Schema only) modes. It's easy to use for technical users who will
appreciate the dual functionality of the tree and text modes, and it provides help and guidance
that makes it almost impossible to create non-well-formed or invalid documents. The IDE exposes angle brackets and requires a minimum
level of XML knowledge.
Altova has complemented the IDE with a couple more mainstream products that make up the XML Spy 4.0 Suite:
- XML Spy 4.0
XSLT Designer, a drag and drop DTD and W3C XML Schema-aware workshop, is an attempt provide users who do not
know XSLT with a way to
automate the writing of XSLT stylesheets for producing (X)HTML output.
- XML Spy 4.0
Document Editor uses the output of the XSLT Designer to provide a "word-processor-style free-flow
WYSISYG text editor for XML documents, empowering non-technical people to
create and edit XML documents".
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