XML News from Sunday, January 23, 2005

Sonic Software has released Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition, Release 2 , a $495 payware XML editor for Windows. Features include:

• XML differencing
• XSLT debugging
• XSLT mapping
• XSLT profiling
• XSL:FO
• XQuery editing, mapping, and debugging.
• XML Schema Editor
• Document Type Definition (DTD) Editor
• XPath Evaluator
• XPath Expression Generator
• Web Service Call Composer
• UDDI Registry Browser
• Tools for mapping to and from XML documents, Web service data, relational data, and flat files
• Import/export utilities for RDBMS, XML, CSV, ADO, and flat files
• JSP Editor
• XSLT 2.0 Editor and Debugger
• Supports the July 2004 XQuery 1.0 working drafts
• Convert flat files, binary data, EDI, and other formats to XML
• XML Schema Editor
• XML grid view for editing tabular XML data

New features in this release include support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)-to-XML mapping, support for Saxon 8.1.1, integration with Mark Logic Content Interaction Server 2.2 and Sleepycat DB XML 2.0, updated XML editing and validation support for the XSV 2.8 XML processor, simultaneous text-diagram view/editing in the XML Schema Editor, in-place editing of any XML Schema component references, and support for substitution groups.