Altova XMLSpy Enterprise Edition

Altova XML Spy Enterprise Edition 2008 is elegant XML development software for designing, editing and debugging a range of applications involving XML, XML Schema, XSLT, XQuery, SOAP, WSDL and Web service technologies. The software is proficient and suitable for usage on both J2EE, .NET platforms. It has a user friendly interface with a variety of editing views and options. It offers you the most apt functionality that suits your business needs and working preferences.

Altova XML Spy Enterprise Edition consists of main view window where the documents are viewed and edited, and the Information Window shows the detailed view of all the elements and attributes. The program includes tabs for features like messages, XPath, XSL Outline, Find in files and Find in schemas. The menu bar and toolbar contain various menu applications and shortcuts for different commands. While editing your XML documents it can be edited in different modes like Text View, Grid View, Authentic View, Schema/WSDL View and a browser view. The other features, XML parser and validator supports W3C’s XInclude 1.0, XPointer Framework and XPointer element (). There are some built-in processors and Debuggers like XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0 cand XQuery 1.0 included in the W3C drafts option. With the XPath expression evaluation feature you can easily create a XSLT stylesheet. The XML Spy IDE enables you to organize the files into the projects that are displayed in tree form on the right side of the interface. A project consists of schema files, XML data files, transformation files and output files. You can import the data from various databases as an XML file and generate XML schema file. You can also create, edit and debug the SOAP request within IDE. XML Spy is also integrated in the Visual Studio .NET environment. You can even generate code in java, C++ or C# to modify into XML files.

Altova XML Spy Enterprise Edition 2008 comes across as a rather potent development utility owing to its cross platform support and elaborate range of features and earns it a score of 4 rating points on a scale of 5.

Altova XMLSpy 2016 Enterprise Edition is the industry's best-selling XML editor and XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies. XMLSpy is powered by RaptorXML for lightning-fast validation and processing. It includes a graphical XML Schema 1.0/1.1 editor that allows you to design complex schemas with ease. Revolutionary Smart Fix validation reports errors and suggests options for fixing them with one click, making troubleshooting a breeze. It autogenerates Java, C++, or C# class files based on XML Schemas. It also includes a schema-aware XSLT 1.0/2.0/3.0 editor, debugger, and profiler, as well as the groundbreaking XSL Speed Optimizer. XMLSpy even supports intelligent HTML5, XHTML, and CSS3 editing. The XPath 1.0/2.0/3.1 Builder / Evaluator assists in writing and testing XPath expressions, while the schema-aware XQuery 1.0/3.1 editor, debugger, and profiler facilitate efficient querying of XML data. Comprehensive support for editing, validating, and converting JSON includes a graphical JSON Schema editor. XMLSpy is the only XML editor to support instant creation of charts based on XML data via XSLT or XQuery. Robust XBRL tools provide support for XBRL 2.1, XBRL Dimensions, XBRL Formula, and XBRL Table Linkbase with validation and graphical XBRL taxonomy editing. Web services tools include a graphical WSDL designer for editing, validation, and conversion of WSDL 1.1/2.0 docs, as well as SOAP request/response handling, validation, and debugging. XMLSpy integrates with all major SQL databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix, MySQL, Sybase, MySQL, Firebird, and Access. You can connect to and query a database, generate an XML Schema, import/export data based on DB schemas, generate DBs from XML Schemas, and edit relational or XML data. XMLSpy supports integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse, and COM and Java APIs plus OLE and ActiveX controls let you access XMLSpy capabilities programmatically.