New Features 2024
Version 2024r2
•New YAML conformance types have been added to enable the display and editing of YAML documents. Their default file extensions are .yaml and .yml.
•Text View now supports the hierarchical viewing and intelligent editing of YAML documents.
•You can define the pretty-printing format of YAML documents in the Options dialog.
•YAML documents can be validated against JSON schemas.
•JSON Schemas can be generated from YAML documents.
•YAML instance documents can be generated JSON Schemas.
•YAML documents can be converted to and from JSON instance documents.
•The dialog to assign a schema to a document has been enhanced to now also directly install and assign schema packages. The feature is available in the following commands: File | New, DTD/Schema | Assign DTD, and DTD/Schema | Assign Schema.
•In the context menu of a Main Window tab, a new command enables you to directly open the containing archive of the active file if the file is part of a zip archive. The archive is opened in Archive View.
•Database support has been extended to SQLite 3.45, MariaDB 11.2, MySQL 8.2 and 8.3, PostgreSQL 16.
•Eclipse support has been updated to cover the following versions: 2024-03; 2023-12; 2023-09; 2023-06.
Version 2024
•A new AI-Assistant (Window | AI-Assistant) offers Artificial Intelligence help with various XMLSpy tasks. After you enter your OpenAI API key in the Options dialog, you can access the AI-Assistant to request AI help with your XML-related task or your XMLSpy-related question.
•In Grid View, in addition to being able to set up sibling nodes to be displayed into sibling groups of 100, 1k, or 10k nodes, you can also specify that sibling nodes be displayed without grouping.
•Support has been added for the Markdown text format and the .md file extension. Text View supports the editing of Markdown files with syntax highlighting. When a text with Markdown formatting is switched from Text View to Browse View, the Markdown formatting is converted to simple HTML formatting and the document is rendered in Browse View as an HTML Page.
•The HTTP output window now supports the saving and direct loading of HTTP requests.
•Images in XML Schema and JSON Schema diagrams and documentation can now be generated in SVG format—additionally to them being available for generation in PNG format.
•Database support has been extended to SQLite 3.38.5.
•Eclipse support has been updated to cover the following versions: 2023-09; 2023-06; 2023-03; 2022-12.