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| Learn about all the additional capabilities you’ll get by upgrading from an older version to StyleVision® 2008!
Click on the version you’re using now, then scroll up to see the major new features added in each later release. When you upgrade, you’ll gain immediate access to all this added functionality.
StyleVision is available in Enterprise Edition, Professional Edition, and Standard Edition. For a comprehensive list of features in each edition, visit the StyleVision® 2008 Feature Matrix.
Click your current StyleVision version in this list, then scroll back up to see what was added in later releases: - StyleVision® 2008 release 2 (April 29, 2008)
- StyleVision® 2008 (September 12, 2007)
- StyleVision® 2007 release 3 (May 30, 2007)
- StyleVision® 2007 (October 24, 2006)
- StyleVision® 2006 release 3 (June 1, 2006)
- StyleVision® 2005 release 4 (October 3, 2005)
- StyleVision® 2005 (October 3, 2004)
- StyleVision® 2004 release 4 (May 17, 2004)
- Styleheet Designer® 2004 release 3 (October 21, 2003)
- Stylesheet Designer® 5 (September 16, 2002)
StyleVision® 2008 release 2 (April 29, 2008) StyleVision 2008r2 includes many important new features including a new output specification, added database reporting functionality, increased support for already included technologies, and usability enhancements.
New features in StyleVision 2008r2 include:
- Native support for OOXML
 – allows users to automatically generate DOCX output based on stylesheet designs. - Support for Grouping
  – provides users with a simple method of grouping XML elements for reorganizing data presentation. - Support for Complex and Simple types in XML Schema – increases schema portability and usability by enabling users to define type-based global elements.
- Database Views – allows developers and DBAs to render custom views created from their relational database data.
- Inline PK/FK creation – allows users to create unique identifiers for database records on-the-fly.
- Support for SQL SELECT statements – enables users to use any SELECT statement as input for rendering.
- Sample XML Schema generation based on an XML instance – allows users to create stylesheets based on XML input when there is no XML Schema available.
- Embedded images and image sizing support in RTF
- Native support for XSL:FO styles for page processing
- Project management support
- RTF support now extends to Professional Edition
See the What’s New page for a more detailed description of the new features of StyleVision® 2008 and the latest releases of Altova’s other award-winning development tools!
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StyleVision® 2008 (September 12, 2007) - Modular StyleVision design files – allows users to import existing StyleVision designs to reuse their work in multiple projects.
- Database Connection Wizard – simplifies connecting to supported databases.
- Database Query window – allows users to query supported databases directly within StyleVision.
- Refactoring support when working with XML Schemas – detects changes made to source XML Schemas and allows designers to easily update StyleVision design files.
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StyleVision® 2007 release 3 (May 30, 2007) - New StyleVision Standard Edition – visual stylesheet design tool for rendering XML data in HTML format.
- Support for tables of contents – a context-sensitive right click menu and wizard allow users to tag items in a design for inclusion in the TOC.
- Rendering and editing of database XML fields – simply associate database XML fields with XML Schemas then drag defined data elements on to the design pane for rendering and publishing.
(IBM DB2 9 only for this release)
- Support for design fragments – save a set of formatting rules as a template and re-use that template throughout a design as required.
- Support for FOP 0.93 processor
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StyleVision® 2007 (October 24, 2006) - Support for specifying style values based on XPath expressions – each XPath expression is evaluated at runtime, and the result is entered as the value of the property.
- Ability to set conditions dependent on output type – fine-tune output for HTML, PDF, RTF, or Authentic forms by setting conditions for each output format as needed.
- Support for sorting data at runtime – a handy Sort dialog lets you define which elements should be sorted, whether they are numbers or text, and whether they should be displayed in ascending or descending order in the resulting HTML, PDF, and RTF output files.
- Rendering and editing of CDATA nodes – render CDATA elements in each output format and edit CDATA nodes in Authentic view.
- Page count totals – for headers and footers in the style (Page X of XX) for output to PDF and RTF.
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StyleVision® 2006 release 3 (June 1, 2006) -
CSS Support – provides support for cascading stylesheets, enabling users to specify more precise visual styling rules to transform XML and database content into HTML pages. Users can import existing CSS files into the new Style Repository Entry Helper and apply the CSS styles easily using drag-and-drop functionality.
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Multiple Source Stylesheet Design – enables the design of stylesheets that use multiple sources, such as two or more XML files, an XML file and a database, etc. Allows users to combine data from multiple sources and output it simultaneously in HTML, RTF, and PDF formats.
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JavaScript Support – adds interactivity to HTML pages with a built-in JavaScript editor for composing JavaScript code that StyleVision can automatically insert into the corresponding XSLT 1.0 or 2.0 stylesheet.
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User Interface Enhancements – including windows that can be customized, floated, and docked as required; support for working with multiple designs at one time; and a new Design Tree window for viewing and expanding all the specifics of a design in one place. Also includes a new Style Repository window that makes it easy to organize and apply styles including those from external CSS files, and a Local Properties window for viewing and editing the properties for each element and output format as a design is created.
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StyleVision® 2005 release 4 (October 3, 2005) - Enhanced standards support – updated XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 support in compliance with the latest World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Drafts released on September 15, 2005.
- Schema-awareness in XSLT 2.0 Engine – increased functionality and enhanced code performance.
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StyleVision® 2005 (October 3, 2004) -
XSLT 2.0 Support – auto-generate standards-compliant, error-free stylesheets using XSLT 2.0 and instantly preview results.
- XPath 2.0 Support – allows users to design stylesheets that support advanced data grouping and aggregation functions, and automatically creates XPath 2.0 selectors for use in building stylesheets.
- RTF Output – auto-generates output in this popular word processing format and allows users to simultaneously view the results in Microsoft® Word®.
- Creation of Database-Enabled Electronic Forms – allows users to design and produce intuitive Altova Authentic electronic forms for writing to, and reading from, all popular relational databases.
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StyleVision® 2004 release 4 (May 17, 2004) - All new version – completely restructured around its graphical stylesheet designer functionality. STYLEVISION 2004 superseded the stylesheet designer application formerly sold with XMLSPY.
- Database reporting – allows users to access database data from any major database, process it in XML, and render eye-catching HTML pages or PDF reports.
- Authentic Forms preview – provides ability to design and preview Authentic Forms, which give business users a non-technical way to enter and edit XML content using the word processor-like interface of Altova Authentic.
- Support for command line operations – allows systems integrators to call its functionality from within other applications without spawning its graphical user interface.
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Stylesheet Designer® 2004 release 3 (October 21, 2003) - Predefined document formats – for easy reuse, or to use as a starting point for customization.
- Improved support for working with XML entities – e.g. displaying images from both parsed and unparsed entities, add/delete entity definitions for document, etc.
- Numerous performance and usability enhancements.
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Stylesheet Designer® 5 (September 16, 2002) This was the initial precursor of StyleVision, bundled with the companion version of XMLSpy. - Powerful conversion utilities – for painless migration of traditional HTML websites to advanced XML-based sites.
- Compliance with then-new Internet standards – XML, XSLT & XML Schema.
- HTML importing – the process by which any traditional HTML page is distilled and separated into three files: an XSLT stylesheet for presentation, an XML Schema, and the XML document that contains the page's content itself.
- Visual drag-and-drop interface – users can separate a page's presentation from content by dragging existing content from an existing HTML file and assigning it to a content model.
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