(2005-01-20)
Updated Release of Award-Winning XML IDE Adds Visual Tools to Simplify Legacy Data Integration
Stylus Studio (http://www.stylusstudio.com), the industry-leading innovator of XML development and productivity tools, today shipped Stylus StudioŽ 6 XML Professional Edition, Release 2, the latest update of its award-winning XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE). The new release adds full support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)-to-XML mapping in its Convert-to-XML legacy data integration tool, and significant new features and usability enhancements to the Stylus Studio XML Schema Editor, Grid View, XML Mapper, XQuery Editor and XSLT Editor.
"New support for EDI in the Stylus Studio Convert-to-XML function extends an already powerful XML data mapping framework, providing an elegant solution for seamlessly handling EDI data sources to be more easily transformed and/or manipulated as XML using standards-based XQuery or XSLT technologies," said Carlo Innocenti, Stylus Studio's senior product architect. "Furthermore, as a testament to our renewed customer focus, Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition, Release 2 implements over a hundred customer-submitted product change requests, including substantial usability and performance enhancements across all of our XML editors -- the net result is the most powerful, intuitive and productive XML IDE on the market."
The following new features and enhancements are just some of the highlights of the solid and robust Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition, Release 2:
-- Convert-to-XML -- Full support for EDI-to-XML mapping, including
component and subcomponent fields, as specified in HL7, UN/EDIFACT and
ANSI/X12 specs, support for common datatypes including BCD (packed and
unpacked) Comp-3 (COBOL format), and Zoned -- (IBM signed/unsigned
decimal), multiple match patterns, key/value pairs, lookup tables for
decoding field values, XML Namespace/DOCTYPE support in output document,
support for stop patterns to stop processing of a particular region, and
many usability enhancements.
-- XML Schema Editor -- new visual interface, in place editing of any XML
Schema component references, support for substitution groups, intelligent
copy/paste, enhanced XML Schema data model re-factoring capabilities, and
many usability enhancements.
-- XML Grid View -- Expanded support for visual XPath analysis, rename
element/attribute, remember column width & expansion state, and many other
usability enhancements.
-- XSLT Editor -- Updated support for the Saxon 8.1.1 XSLT processor.
-- XML Editor -- Updated XML editing and validation support for the XSV
2.8 XML processor.
-- XML Data Server Connectivity -- Integration with Mark Logic Content
Interaction Server 2.2 and Sleepycat DB XML 2.0
Learn more about how the Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition can simplify your XML data integration project by visiting our website at: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_product_new_features.html
XML Developer Community Reaction
"XML and Web services offer greater flexibility and interoperability than older EDI technologies -- new support for EDI-to-XML mapping in Stylus Studio provides an elegant solution for building new XQuery and XSLT enabled systems while still leveraging existing investments in legacy EDI systems that are so prevalent in the back-office operations of manufacturing, healthcare and many other industries. The new release offers compelling value by simplifying what would otherwise be very complex data integration projects," said Sherman Gomberg, senior managing consultant, Syncata Corporation, a business consulting and systems integration firm focused on the automotive and manufacturing industries.
"Overall, Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition is a mature product that works quite well, and was capable of handling all the XML-related tasks that I threw at it." -- Mike Gunderloy, MCSE, MCSD .NET, MCDBA, Contributing Editor ADT Magazine.
Pricing & Availability
Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition, Release 2 is available now for a free 30-day trial download at http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html. Paid customers of Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition are eligible for a free upgrade to Release 2. Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition, Release 2 can be purchased at our Online Shop, http://www.stylusstudio.com/buy_xml_editor.html, or by calling (781) 280-4488. Prices start at $495(USD) for a single-user license and $240 (USD) for an upgrade license.
About Stylus Studio
Stylus StudioŽ, a product from DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), is the industry's most innovative XML IDE providing advanced support for XML and its related technologies: XSL, XSLT, XML Schema, DTD, SOAP, WSDL, SQL/XML, XML mapping and XQuery. Used by leading 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.
Stylus Studio is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
For More Information:
Rob Estepe
Sales Manager
Stylus Studio
Telephone: (781) 280-4488
Email: stylusstudio@stylusstudio.com
SOURCE: Stylus Studio