XMLSpy

Synopsis

XMLSpy is a commercial XML development environment supporting XSLT, CSS, XQuery, XML Schema and many other specifications.

Features

(from the homepage:)

It offers an "XML editor, the original graphical schema designer, a code generator, file converters, debuggers, profilers, full database integration, support for WSDL, SOAP, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, and Open XML documents, plus VS .NET and Eclipse plug-ins, and more."

See the feature matrix for enterprise and professional versions and the new features index.

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System requirements

Microsoft Windows platform (2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista).

Source code and licensing

This is a closed-source software, with license costs starting at €399 (professional edition) and €799 (enterprise edition) (prices as of 2007-10-02).

Technical support is paid extra, for 1 or 2 years (see the links above).

No discounts are offered for academic institutions or TEI members.

Support for TEI

TEI support is described thusly: "Templates are provided for the separate TEI types (prose, mixed, terminology) along with a TEILite template."

Language(s)

• Written in C++.
• Interface in at least English and German.
• Documentation available at least in English and possibly in German.

Documentation

http://www.altova.com/documentation/reference_manual_XML_tutorial.html

Tech support

http://www.altova.com/support_package.html

User community

User forum is located at http://www.altova.com/forum/default.aspx

Sample implementations

(links to demo sites running the tool or successful implementations of it)

Current version number and date of release

Version 2008 (2007-09-12)

History of versions

Available in the new features index.

How to download or buy

Purchases can be made online.

A 30-day English or German trial version is freely downloadable.

Additional notes

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