Version 2023 Release 2 of the XML and JSON Editor was announced on April 12, 2023. Learn about all the new features and update to the latest version.
See new XMLSpy features, including split mode in Grid View and new XPath/XQuery tools, in action in this quick demo video.
XML Grid View and JSON Grid View in XMLSpy offer a visual representation of a document’s hierarchical structure that makes it immediately easier to understand, analyze, and edit the content. With innovative functionality like a dynamic table view for visualizing repeating elements, viewing images, adding filters and formulas, and more, Grid View offers developers new ways to view and work with XML and JSON data.
In v2023r2, new support for split views makes it easy to split a document vertically or horizontally to see and edit different parts of a long document on the screen at once—instead of having to scroll within a single view. You can navigate separately in each view, which enables you to see different parts of the document side-by-side (or above and below). Editing changes in either view are made to the underlying document and are immediately reflected in the other view.
To set a vertical or horizontal split, simply drag the splitter icon on the horizontal or vertical scroll bar to the desired location.
This new option makes Grid View even easier to work with, especially for large, complex documents.
The XPath/XQuery Builder Window in XMLSpy makes it easy to build and test statements, with instant evaluation. Now, in addition to viewing XPath and XQuery results in the window, developers can create a new document from such a result with a single click. This can save a lot of time.
Learn about all the additional capabilities you’ll get by upgrading from an older version to XMLSpy Version 2024.
| XMLSpy® 2022r2 (March 8, 2022) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  | Improved conversion from XML Schema to JSON Schema |  | |
| | Setting for maximum nesting levels during XML sample generation | | |
| | Ability to save images/files in editing views | | |
| | New toolbar in Project Window | | |
| | Support for images in Project Window | | |
| | Support for a <default> file type | | |
| Code generation for Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 | | ||
| Support for XBRL Assertion Severity 2.0 | | ||
| | Support for additional database versions | | |
| | Integration with Visual Studio 2022 | | |
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.22 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2022 (October 27, 2021) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Support for Windows 11 | | |
| | New exit mode options | | |
| | Significant performance improvements in new XML Grid View | | |
| | Sticky header when scrolling in Grid View | | |
| | Whitespace indicators in Grid View | | |
| | New options to preserve whitespace when pretty-printing | | |
| | Support for BSON (binary JSON) in JSON Schema | | |
| | Saving expressions directly in XPath/XQuery window | | |
| Support for OIM 1.0 for XBRL | | ||
| Extended support for some XBRL Taxonomies | | ||
| Settings to configure XBRL validation message limits/traces | | ||
| | Support for additional database versions | | |
| | Support for Eclipse 4.19, 4.20, and 4.21 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2020 (October 9, 2019) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | All new JSON Grid Editor | | |
| Chart creation from JSON data | | ||
| | Support for JSON Lines and JSON Comments | | |
| | New JSON pretty print options | | |
| XULE support | | ||
| | Multiple improvements to XPath/XQuery tab | | |
| | Code generation for Visual Studio 2019 | | |
| | Integration with Visual Studio 2019 and Eclipse 4.11, 4.12 | | |
| | Support for additional database versions | | |
| XMLSpy® 2019 (October 17, 2018) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | XMLSpy is going sharp! All new support for high-PPI monitors | | |
| | Support for additional database versions | | |
| Support for XBRL Generic Preferred Label 1.0 | | ||
| Removal of duplicate XBRL facts | | ||
| New entry helpers for XBRL Typed Domain | | ||
| Support for US-GAAP 2018 | | ||
| | Support for Eclipse 4.8 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2018r2 (April 17, 2018) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Processing JSON with XSLT, XPath, and XQuery | | |
| | HTTP Testing Window supports importing from WSDL | | |
| | Syntax coloring for new file types | | |
| XBRL Certified Software™ designation from XBRL International | | ||
| | Support for editing XSLT3 value templates | | |
| | Support for Teradata 16 and MariaDB 10 databases | | |
| | Detailed network proxy settings | | |
| | Ability to cancel lengthy execution during XSLT/XQuery debugging | | |
| XMLSpy® 2018 (October 3, 2017) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | New HTTP testing window | | |
| 3-way XML diff/merge | | ||
| | Significant improvements in XSLT engine | | |
| | Improved spec conformance in XSLT/XQuery engine | | |
| | Support for xsl:output methods ‘adaptive’ and ‘json’ | | |
| | Redesigned Tools/Options dialog | | |
| Support for XBRL Versioning 1.0 | | ||
| Support for XML Signatures 1.1 | | ||
| Code generation support for Visual Studio 2013, 2015, 2017 | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.7 | | |
| | Support for Sybase 16, PostgreSQL 9.6, MySQL 5.7 | | |
| | Support for FOP 2.2 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2017 Release 3 (April 4, 2017) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XSLT and XQuery back-mapping | | ||
| | Support for JSON5 | | |
| | Support by JSON Schema extensions for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager | | |
| | Find bar supports multi-line searches | | |
| | Display of validation errors and SmartFix suggestions in left margin in Text View | | |
| Support for signing with SHA-256 | | ||
| | XPath expression syntax coloring in XSLT stylesheets | | |
| Numerous new features in charting engine | | ||
| | Ability to cancel lengthy XSLT/XQuery transformations | | |
| Support for XBRL Extensible Enumerations 1.1 | | ||
| | Integration with Visual Studio 2017 | | |
| | Windows Server 2016 support | | |
| XMLSpy® 2017 (October 4, 2016) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | All-new Find functionality in Text View | | |
| | Text highlighting of related matches | | |
| | New command to jump to parent element in Text View | | |
| Editing and validation of Apache Avro schema files | | ||
| Special Grid View for Viewing/Searching Apache Avro binary files | | ||
| | New XSLT/XQuery features | | |
| | XSLT and XQuery performance improvements | | |
| Support for XBRL Taxonomy Packages | | ||
| Support for Inline XBRL | | ||
| | Support for ADO.NET database drivers | | |
| | Native support for PostgreSQL | | |
| | Support for Progress OpenEdge databases | | |
| | Support for SQL Server 2016 | | |
| | Editing headers/footers in dynamic HTML and CALS tables | | |
| | Support for integration with Eclipse 4.6 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2016 Release 2 (February 16, 2016) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | XPath and XQuery Debugger | | |
| | New Layout Options for XPath/XQuery Window | | |
| | Conversion between XML Schemas and JSON Schemas | | |
| | JSON instance generation from JSON Schema | | |
| | Generation of JSON Schema documentation | | |
| | Enhancements to Text View: better folding, synchronized tag editing, and more | | |
| | Support for additional XSLT 3.0 instructions | | |
| Support for XBRL Assertion Severity 1.0 | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.5 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2016 (September 30, 2015) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | JSON Schema editor and validator | | |
| | Generation of JSON Schema from JSON instance | | |
| | JSON instance validation and entry helpers based on JSON Schema | | |
| | Mass XML to JSON converter for large numbers of files | | |
| | Executing XSLT & XQuery transformations on installed RaptorXML Servers | | |
| | High performance JSON validation via installed RaptorXML Server | | |
| | Windows 10 support | | |
| | Support for Firebird databases | | |
| | Support for numerous databases updated to include newest versions: IBM DB2 10.5, SQL Server 2014, PostgreSQL 9.4, MySQL 5.6, and Oracle 12C | | |
| | Visual Studio integration updated to include VS 2015 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2015 (September 17, 2014) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Intelligent XML file modification with XQuery Update Facility 1.0/3.0 - convenient window lets users intelligently update XML instances | | |
| | Support for XQuery Update Facility via XQuery execution (Alt+F10) | | |
| | Enhanced XSLT 3.0 support - including support for xsl:assert and automatic tail recursion detection for xsl:call-template | | |
| XBRL Table Layout preview - graphical view allows real-time table preview during editing | | ||
| Building XBRL Formulas visually, via new XBRL Table Preview - for point-and-click XBRL Formula creation | | ||
| Support for US GAAP taxonomy updated to include 2014 | | ||
| Significantly optimized support for EBA 2.1 (COREP/FINREP) taxonomies - larger files validate much faster | | ||
| | Inclusion of UBL 2.1 Schemas - these now ship with the product | | |
| | Support for Eclipse 4.4 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2014 Release 2 (March 19, 2014) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XSL Speed Optimizer | | ||
| | Large number of new Altova extension functions | | |
| | Additional support for XSLT 3.0 | | |
| | Completed support for XQuery 3.0 | | |
| XBRL Table Linkbase editor | | ||
| New commands for XBRL Formula execution and XBRL Table generation | | ||
| | Ability to provide custom error text for XML Schema assertions | | |
| | Support for integration with Visual Studio 2013 (adds to support for previous versions) | | |
| XMLSpy® 2014 (October 29, 2013) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | XML Schema 1.1 support - full support for validation and graphical editing | | |
| | Support for XPath 3.0 - including intelligent XPath autocompletion | | |
| | Support for XSLT 3.0 - for XSLT editing, debugging, and profiling | | |
| | Support for XQuery 3.0 - for XQuery editing, debugging, and profiling | | |
| Support for XBRL Formula and XBRL Concept Types | | ||
| | Ability to display multiple validation errors at once - based on user configuration | | |
| | Support for new databases: SQL Server 2012; PostgreSQL 9.0.10, 9.1.6, 9.2.1; IBM DB2 9.5, 9.7, 10.1; Informix 11.70; MySQL 5.5.28; Sybase ASE 15, 15.7; Access 2010, 2013 | | |
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.3 - the latest version of this popular IDE | | |
| | Ability to generate sample XML instances with all schema choices | | |
| XMLSpy® 2013 (September 15, 2012) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Smart Fix: automatic correction of validation errors | | |
| | Seamless integration options in Java applications | | |
| Support for embedded XML Schemas in WSDL files | | ||
| Enhanced WSDL documentation options | | ||
| | Flexible integration of external programs | | |
| | Support for CamelCase words in spell checker | | |
| | Option to strip unnecessary whitespace | | |
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.2 (adds to support for earlier versions) | | |
| Support for US GAAP 2012 XBRL taxonomy (adds to support for earlier versions) | | ||
| | Support for Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 2010 for version control systems | | |
| XMLSpy® 2012 Release 2 (February 23, 2012) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | EPUB 2.x support - editing, validating, and previewing EPUB documents for creating e-books and digital publications | | |
| | Zip and OOXML support extended to Professional Edition - support previously only available in XMLSpy Enterprise Edition | | |
| | Support for logical files in IBM iSeries databases - enhances database integration by supporting logical files, which are specific to IBM iSeries | | |
| | Ability to escape/unescape XML characters - easy command for escaping/unescaping characters to be included as text/XML | | |
| | Faster start-up - XMLSpy now launches in almost half the time previously required | | |
| XMLSpy® 2012 (October 19, 2011) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | HTML5 support - adds to support for editing HTML4 & XHTML with context sensitive entry helpers, code completion, etc. | | |
| | CSS3 support - editing support for this most recent version of the stylesheet language | | |
| | JDBC database driver support - adds to support for ODBC and ADO | | |
| | New Java API - completely new, native Java API for automating XMLSpy functionality (a COM API is also available) | | |
| | New samples for API use - codes samples showing how to utilize the XMLSpy APIs in your preferred environment | | |
| | Find in project - easily locate files in large or complex XMLSpy Projects | | |
| XMLSpy® 2011 Release 3 (June 8, 2011) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital signatures for XML documents - adds security measures to XML file transmission | | ||
| | PXF support in Authentic view - enables truly portable XML forms | | |
| | Support for .NET 4.0 scripting - updates support to include latest .NET version | | |
| | Ability to add additional .NET assemblies for scripting - easily add assemblies in addition to those provided by default | | |
| | New spell checker with improved dictionary support - provides support for more languages & language peculiarities | | |
| | Support for Internet Explorer® 9 in Browser View - support updated to include latest version from Microsoft® | | |
| | Shortcut for selecting entire XML element - ctrl-shift-e | | |
| XMLSpy® 2011 Release 2 (February 16, 2011) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Embedding external files in XML - embed external files, e.g., images, directly in XML documents | | |
| | Customizable documentation generation - customize XSD, WSDL, or XBRL documentation generation via StyleVision templates | | |
| Enhancements to chart creation functionality - candlestick charts, chart overlays, background images, and more | | ||
| | Sorting of elements and types in schema view - sort some or all schema components alphabetically with one click | | |
| | Refactoring support for XML Schemas - easily locate and rename all instances of a global element/type across referenced schemas | | |
| | Intelligent support for changing element types and base types - preserve compatible facets when changing the type of an existing element or base type | | |
| XMLSpy® 2011 (September 8, 2012) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chart creation - instant generation of eye-catching charts to display numeric XML data | | ||
| Validation of SOAP messages against WSDL files - validates SOAP messages against SOAP spec, and associated WSDL definition, including referenced XML Schemas | | ||
| | Schema Flattener - writes all the dependent files that are included in a schema into one file | | |
| | Schema Subset Creation - creates a smaller schema from a subset of selected elements and types | | |
| XMLSpy® 2010 Release 3 (May 10, 2010) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ability to validate naming and coding conventions - allows for validation of naming and coding conventions outside of the capabilities of XML Schema | | ||
| | User-defined sample values for XML instance generation - enables users to add arbitrary sample data for truly randomized XML instance generation | | |
| | Support for Visual Studio 2010 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2010 Release 2 (February 16, 2010) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 64-bit version - for use with 64-bit operating systems | | |
| | Optimizations for working with large files - optimizations for loading very large files in Text View and speed increases for common operations (e.g., paste) in Grid View | | |
| | XML Schema-based validation up to 3 times faster in Text View | | |
| | SharePoint® Server support - allows reading and writing to SharePoint Server with full checkout / undo checkout / check-in capabilities | | |
| HTTPS support for SOAP requests & SOAP debugging - HTTPS is now supported for SOAP request creation and SOAP debugging | | ||
| Support for Linux in generated C++ code - Autogenerated C++ code may be compiled and run on Linux | |
| XMLSpy® 2010 (October 28, 2009) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSDL 2.0 editing and conversion - allows you to choose which version to work with or even convert from 1.1 to 2.0 | | ||
| XBRL documentation generation - autogenerate comprehensive XBRL documentation in HTML, RTF, or Word | | ||
| XBRL Taxonomy Wizard - an easy-to-understand way to get a jump start creating a new extension taxonomy | | ||
| | Printing graphical XBRL View - prints the graphical XBRL representation as displayed in XBRL View | | |
| Find in XBRL, XBRL sorting - helpful tools to locate XBRL elements and organize/navigate large files | | ||
| | JSON editor - edit JSON files in Text View or Grid View | | |
| | JSON <=> XML conversion - easily convert between JSON and XML files when building Web 2.0 applications | | |
| | New scripting environment and forms editor - multiple enhancements for creating forms, event handlers, macros, and more | | |
| | Compatibility with Windows 7 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2009 (February 3, 2009) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Support for XBRL 2.1 and XBRL Dimensions 1.0 - lets you view, edit, and validate XBRL documents | | |
| XBRL Taxonomy Editor - allows you to view, extend, and edit XBRL taxonomies in a graphical view with intelligent XBRL taxonomy editing functionality | | ||
| | XPath auto-completion - provides valid XPath functions, as well as element and attribute names from the associated schema and XML instance(s) when composing XPath expressions | | |
| | Native support for additional databases - including PostgreSQL 8, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g | | |
| | Expanded source control system support - provides enhanced support for a large variety of popular source control and versioning systems | | |
| | Extensions for identity constraints editing in Schema View - provides enhanced visual cues and options for editing identity constraints in XML Schema view | | |
| | Support for the XSLT extension altova:evaluate - new function that takes an XPath expression as its argument and returns the output of the evaluated expression | | |
| | Support for Apache FOP 0.95 - for performing XSL:FO transformations | | |
| XMLSpy® 2008 Release 2 (April 28, 2008) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Very large file support - allows you to open and work with files that are about 4-5 times larger than those supported in the past* | | |
| | Detailed find & replace in XML Schema editor - allows you to perform detailed find and replace operations within single schemas and across complex multi-file schemas with ease | | |
| | Enhanced XSLT details in Info Window - for viewing and configuring information such as instance and schema associations, quickly organizing related files into projects and ZIP archives, and more | | |
| | New XSL Outline entry helper window - provides information about templates and functions in XSLT stylesheets that can be searched, navigated, sorted, modified, and more | | |
| | Support for Java, C#, JavaScript, and VBScript in XSLT 1.0/2.0 engines - allows editing, debugging, and profiling of advanced stylesheets that contain these types of program code | | |
| Support for SOAP 1.2 - adds to existing support for SOAP 1.1 in the WSDL editor, SOAP client, and SOAP debugger | | ||
| Project generation for Visual Studio 2008 - when generating C++ or C# code | | ||
| | Visual Studio integration extended to include Visual Studio 2008 - adds to support for previous versions | | |
| XMLSpy® 2008 (September 12, 2007) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Support for working with XML in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 files – allows users to open PPTX files, edit the data, add new files and folders, remove files, and so on. | | |
| | Data editing support in the Database Query window – now allows users to edit database data inside the window, then commit changes back to the database. | | |
| | Support for XPath evaluation in multiple files – supports calculating the results of XPath expressions across multiple files simultaneously. | | |
| | Support for XInclude and XPointer – allows users to easily build large XML instances from multiple smaller documents. | | |
| | Two-step XSL:FO transformation – allows developers to complete XSL:FO transformations from XML to PDF in two steps, enabling the use of more advanced XSLT engines. | | |
| | One-click comment in/out – allows users to easily add and remove comments using the right-click menu. | | |
| | Entry helpers in text and grid views extended to include annotations | | |
| | Speed and memory enhancements | | |
| XMLSpy® 2007 Release 3 (May 30, 2007) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for working with XML data in Microsoft Office 2007 files and other zipped archives – XMLSpy can now extract, edit, and transform XML data saved in the Open XML standard used by Microsoft Office 2007. | | ||
| | A new database query window – allowing users to easily connect to all major databases, view the structure of their databases, and query them from within XMLSpy using SQL or SQL/XML. | | |
| | Executing XQuery documents against databases (currently IBM DB2) – allowing users to query XML content in DB2 9 accurately, efficiently, and on a granular level. | | |
| | Support for IBM’s DB2 XQuery extensions – deep integration with IBM DB2 pureXML provides the optimal XML / data server solution for accessing, utilizing, and storing XML content. | | |
| | XML Schema registration in IBM DB2 databases – for DB2 validation of XML data in database columns. | | |
| | Enhanced XML Schema documentation – with the ability to save files in rich text format (RTF) and create diagrams in enhanced meta-file (EMF) format – a vector graphics format with enhanced zooming and printing capabilities. | | |
| Enhanced WSDL documentation – extending the functionality listed above for XML Schema documentation to WSDL documentation. | | ||
| | Comprehensive CSS editing support – a full featured CSS editor with syntax coloring, context-sensitive entry helper windows and drop-down menus, and screen tips. | | |
| | Redesigned and optimized code generation | | |
| | Support for XSLT 1.0 profiling (adds to XSLT 2.0 and XQuery support) | | |
| | Extended OASIS catalog support | | |
| XMLSpy® 2007 (October 24, 2006) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A completely redesigned graphical WSDL editor – making it even easier to design WSDL documents graphically, using drag and drop functionality and helpful context-sensitive entry-helper windows and menus. | | ||
| | Performance optimizations – including a 50% reduction in the memory footprint required for validation and doubled speed when loading and parsing files. These optimizations will make your work in XMLSpy even faster and more efficient. | | |
| | Dynamic new XPath Analyzer window that stores multiple expressions and results – instead of a dialog that has to be opened and closed, the XPath Analyzer is displayed in a window that is always available while you’re working. | | |
| | Find-in-files window with support for find & replace across multiple files and projects – you can run case-sensitive searches on partial or whole words or search using regular expressions. Search results are displayed for each file with line and column numbers, and clicking on any individual search result opens the associated file with the search item highlighted. | | |
| | Support for January 23, 2007 XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery standards – providing numerous advanced capabilities to transform, access, and query XML data in a standardized and interoperable manner. Altova previously supported draft versions of the specifications. | | |
| | Improved generation of XML instances from XML Schemas / DTDs and vice versa | | |
| | Tighter Visual Studio integration | | |
| | Support for embedding XMLSpy in your applications via ActiveX control | | |
| | Enhanced Eclipse integration, supporting Eclipse SDK 3.2 | | |
| XMLSpy® 2006 Release 3 (June 1, 2006) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | New XSLT 2.0 and XQuery Profilers – monitors XSLT 2.0 or XQuery code as it runs and records how long each process takes. Developers can promptly see which parts of the code take the longest time to process and optimize it more easily by focusing on problem areas. Helps create more efficient and robust XSLT and XQuery code quickly. Profilers are Enterprise Edition only. | | |
| | Enhanced Error Handling – presenting detailed messages about each error in a new validation window, including hyperlinks to errors and relevant troubleshooting information. Makes project management and problem resolution considerably faster and more effective. | | |
| | Introduced tracepoints in XSLT debugger – allowing you to trace the output of any instruction node to verify that your XSLT code is producing the desired output. This feature helps developers perfect their XSLT code more efficiently than ever before. | | |
| | Improved Restriction Handling for XML Schema Development – simplifying the process of deriving by restriction to create new complex types. The XMLSpy graphical schema editor makes the process easier and prevents users from creating illegal or invalid restrictions. | | |
| XMLSpy® 2006 (October 3, 2005) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Enhanced Standards Support – updated XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery support in compliance with the latest World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Drafts released on September 15, 2005. | | |
| | Introduced schema-awareness in XSLT 2.0 and XQuery Engines – allowing developers to harness the full power of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery in their applications by providing mechanisms for error isolation, simplified debugging, increased functionality, and enhanced code performance. | | |
| | Updated Microsoft® Visual Studio®.NET Integration – provides full integration with the Visual Studio.NET 2005, giving developers access to all of XMLSpy’s advanced features and views directly from within the Visual Studio.NET 2005 development environment. | | |
| | Updated Eclipse Integration – enables full integration with version 3.1 of the Eclipse development environment, allowing seamless access to all XMLSpy features and views directly from within Eclipse 3.1. | | |
| XMLSpy® 2005 (October 3, 2004) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Advanced Standards Compliance – provided unsurpassed compliance with, and validation against current industry standards, making it one of the most conformant DTD/Schema implementations available. | | |
| | XSLT 2.0 Support – offers full editing, visual transformation, stylesheet design, and debugging capabilities of the powerful new XSLT 2.0 standard for transforming and formatting XML content. | | |
| | XPath 2.0 Support – facilitates building, testing, and evaluating of XPath 2.0 expressions, which are used for locating and processing content within an XML document’s logical hierarchy. | | |
| | XQuery Support – delivered native support of the new XQuery 1.0 specification for extracting information from XML documents and databases. Development, editing, debugging, and execution capabilities are all provided. | | |
| | SchemaAgent – embodied a compelling new paradigm for modeling and managing complex schemas and their components in workgroups via a powerful, client/server-based, visual tool. | | |
| | Introduced Eclipse Integration – enabled full integration with the then-current version of the Eclipse application development environment, allowing seamless access to all XMLSpy® 2005 features and views directly from within Eclipse. | | |
| | XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 support – with these important specifications, developers can write less complex and convoluted code, thereby reducing errors and increasing productivity. Furthermore, increased programming functionality and strong data typing enable greater data processing capabilities and contributing significantly to improved code quality and reusability. | | |
| XMLSpy® 2004 Release 4 (May 17, 2004) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Introduced new advanced text view – provides context-sensitive entry helpers, line numbering, book marking, source folding, indentation guides, detailed find and replace functionality, and significantly increased performance. | | |
| | Extended database import/export functionality – interacts directly with the most popular relational databases, including Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, and IBM DB2. | | |
| | Improved XML-aware file differencing and merging – enables the user to intelligently compare the XML content, considering variations in formatting, namespaces, attribute order, etc., and then merge the selected changes. | | |
| XMLSpy® 2004 Release 3 (October 28, 2003) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Visual Studio – improved integration with Microsoft's Visual Studio versions 2002 and 2003. | | |
| | Enhanced Options for XML Differencing – allowing specification of file extensions for directory compare. | | |
| | Improved Schema Editor – displays the model of a redefined XML schema complex type. | | |
| | Further support for XPath 2.0 – additional functionality implemented to support then-current W3C Working Draft. | | |
| XMLSpy® 2004 (September 2, 2003) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET® Integration – introduced an added convenience, enabling Microsoft Developers to use XMLSpy directly within their preferred editing environment. | | |
| | XML Differencing – introduced visual comparison of files and directories in a highly configurable, XML-aware manner, taking into account namespaces and other variables. | | |
| | XPath 2.0 Analyzer – supported a then-current beta implementation of the W3C's XPath 2.0 working draft of May, 2003. | | |
| | Completely re-implemented Database Utilities – introduced native support for Oracle databases, auto-generation of Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle 9i XML Schema extensions, and generation of XML Schemas according to SQL/XML standard. | | |
| XMLSpy® 5 Release 4 (April 7, 2003) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Enhanced WebDAV Support – introduced support for DeltaV, an extension to the WebDAV protocol which enables check-in/check-out functionality when used in conjunction with a WebDAV server, thus allowing users to collaboratively edit and manage XML files located on remote web-servers. | | |
| | Stylesheet Designer Enhancements – introduced support for direct usage of global templates, support for conditional statements in Stylesheet Designer, as well as support for PDF Header/Footer/Cover pages, thus allowing for more customized template layouts and content outputs. These capabilities are now found in StyleVision and MissionKit. | | |
| Enhanced Code Generation – introduced support for output code which uses Xerces (a popular XML parser), Standard Template Library (STL), and additional support of XML Schema simple types in Java/C# code generation. | |
| XMLSpy® 5 Release 3 (January 22, 2003) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
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| Improved Support for building Microsoft .NET applications – introduced support for Microsoft C# code generation to accelerate application development on the Microsoft .NET platform. The generated code used System.XML, the then-current Microsoft .NET Application Program Interface (API) for programmatically accessing XML documents. | | ||
| | Enhanced support for Oracle XML DB – introduced numerous data editing and server administration features for Oracle XML DB. New features enabled developers to easily perform common operations on data managed by XML DB including: List XML Schemas, Load a Schema from a list, Save New or Delete XML Schema to Oracle XML DB, Register an XML Schema with Oracle XML DB, Execute Query using Oracle9i's DBURI, Browse, Open, Edit and Save XML documents stored in Oracle XML DB via WebDAV. | | |
| Additional Web Services Support – a new Web Service Description Language (WSDL) Documentation generation utility made it easier for Web service developers to document and publish a Web service interface in a Microsoft Word or HTML output file. | | ||
| | PDF support for Document Publishing – XMLSpy's stylesheet designer introduced visual editing and generation of eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Object (XSL:FO) code, enabling XML content to be rendered into PDF file format. With a single stylesheet design, developers could preview the output of a stylesheet transformation in either PDF or HTML. | | |
| | Java Integration Support – introduced a Java API, enabling easier customization and integration of the XMLSpy development environment for system integrators who want to control and use XMLSpy functionality from Java-based programs. XMLSpy previously supported integration via a COM based interface. | | |
| XMLSpy® 5 (September 16, 2002) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
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| | XSLT Debugging – introduced a built-in XSLT debugger, allowing developers to incrementally step through an XSLT transformation process and set breakpoints on either the XSLT stylesheet or the XML input document, inspect variables, check the call stack, analyze node-sets, and more. | | |
| WSDL Editing – XMLSpy® 5 Enterprise Edition introduced a new Web Service Description Language (WSDL) editor, allowing users to edit, visualize, and validate WSDL files. | | ||
| Code Generation – XMLSpy® 5 Enterprise Edition introduced Java and C++ code generation capabilities, enabling XMLSpy to act as a software modeling and prototyping tool. Built-in code generation frees software developers from the mundane tasks of writing low level infrastructure code, accelerating project development. | |
| XMLSpy® 4.4 (May 29, 2002) | Enterprise | Professional | ||
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| | DocBook Editing Support – introduced support for CALS and HTML tables, enabling DocBook editing. DocBook is the popular XML content model for describing books, articles, and other prose documents such as technical documentation. | | |
| | Web Standards Conformance – with then-current open industry consortiums such as the Web Services Interoperability Organization. | | |
| | Multi-language spell-checker – with support for English (British, US, Canadian), German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and other languages. In addition, separate English language medical and legal dictionaries were introduced. | | |
