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Company
Altova GmbH, Altova Inc.
Purpose:
Web editor/integrated development environment
Starting Price:
$990; plus $198 for one-year support and maintenance package. Enterprise pricing TBA.
Reviewer's view
Buy this product if you want a comprehensive solution for developing XML-based Web services, HTML to XML migration, and modeling or transforming XML content, And don't forget that it goes beyond the obvious XML uses, with applications in KM and graphics. Consider other, less expensive Altova products if you need fewer capabilities or want an inexpensive way to learn about XML.
Xmlspy Enterprise Edition is a robust Windows-based interactive XML development environment, a Swiss Army knife for XML developers. With xmlspy, you can develop and analyze XML models (DTDs and schemas); create and edit XML documents conforming to an XML model; develop, debug, and apply XML transformations (XSLT files) to XML content; and develop XML-based Web services.
ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL
Since xmlspy is a robust tool, keep an open mind about what you can do with it beyond the obvious: migrating HTMLbased sites to XML; creating XML-based Web applications; and creating valid or well-formed XML content. Perhaps less obviously, xmlspy can be used to incorporate XML-based graphics (using tools developed by other vendors such as Jasc Web-- Draw, the makers of Paint Shop Pro) into XML content. XML graphics are based on XML's SVG standard, and they are not static. XML documents with SVG graphics can provide dynamically different views, and content within them (like callouts) can be searched. Another creative use for xmlspy is knowledge management. Vendors are developing schema-based taxonomies for enterprise knowledge management applications. With xmlspy, you can analyze or develop an enterprise taxonomy, modify it, and develop subsets such as a two-level navigation scheme for an intranet. A different but equally good reason to buy xmlspy is to learn about XML and Web services. xmlspy includes several popular industry-standard XML models and templates for using them.
Major new features in release 5 of xmlspy Enterprise Edition are:
XSLT processor and debugger
C++ and Java code generation of classes from XML schemas
Authentic forms view
Tamino XML database management
OASIS catalog support (subset)
Built-in stylesheets and editing templates for DocBook, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office "redbook," NewsML, and the...