ProductsXMLSpyEdition Comparison

This table shows the features included in the Enterprise and Professional Editions of XMLSpy® 2012. Please use this as a guide to determine the edition that is most suitable for your needs.

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32-bit version
64-bit version
XML Editing & Validation
Validation & well-formedness checking
Text view with syntax coloring & code completion
Grid view with code completion
Authentic eForms view
Browser view
Editing Portable XML Form™ (PXF™) files in Authentic View
Project management with source control system support
Find & replace across a project and/or multiple files
XML differencing
Assigning & verifying XML digital signatures
Embedding external files (e.g., images) in XML
Multi-language spell checker
XML Schema / DTD Tools
Graphical XML Schema Editor
Sample instance generation from Schema/DTD
DTD <=> XML Schema conversion
Database schema <=> XML Schema conversion
Schema/DTD generation from use cases
Ability to validate naming and coding conventions
Refactoring support for XML Schemas
User-defined sample values for XML instance generation
Schema-based code generation
Fixed & customizable XML Schema documentation
XSLT 1.0/2.0 Tools
XSLT editor
XSLT Info window
XSL Outline window
XSLT debugger
Support for Java, C#, JavaScript, VBScript in XSLT
XSLT profiler
XPath 1.0/2.0 Tools
XPath Analyzer
Intelligent XPath auto-completion
Automatic XPath generation for XML nodes
XPath execution across a project and/or multiple files
XQuery Tools
XQuery Editor
XQuery Debugger
XQuery Profiler
HTML & CSS Tools
HTML5, HTML4, & XHTML editor
CSS3 & CSS2.1 editor
Chart Tools
Chart creation from XML data
Chart visualization of profiler data
Generation of charts with XSLT and XQuery
JSON Tools
JSON Editor
JSON <=> XML conversion
Supported Databases
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000, 2005, 2008
IBM DB2® 8, 9
IBM DB2 for iSeries® v5.4, 6.1
Oracle® 9i, 10g, 11g
Sybase® 12
MySQL® 4, 5
PostgreSQL 8
Microsoft Access™ 2003, 2007
ZIP Archive Tools
Accessing, modifying, and editing files in ZIP archives
Office 2007+ / OOXML Tools
Viewing & editing OOXML in Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007+
Transforming OOXML with XSLT
Processing OOXML with XQuery
XBRL Tools
Validation & editing of XBRL instance files
Graphical XBRL Taxonomy Editor & Wizard
Fixed & customizable XBRL documentation
Web Services Tools
Graphical WSDL 1.1/2.0 editor
Fixed & customizable WSDL documentation
SOAP 1.1/1.2 client
SOAP debugger
Program Code Generation
Royalty-free code generation in Java, C#, C++
Automation Support
Scripting environment & forms editor
OLE support
ActiveX Control
Command-line interface
Global Resources
Configure / switch to multiple deployment environments
Deep integration with MissionKit tools
Multi-purpose IDE Integration
Visual Studio® integration
Eclipse integration