Altova XMLSpy 2009 is no doubt, the industry’s most popular and best-selling XML Editor. It out rules its competitors with its powerful features, delivering the most advanced XML and Web services applications without compromising your  expectations, time, money, productivity and most importantly - High-Quality!

It is equipped with full-house features: XML editor, graphical schema designer, a code generator, file converters, debuggers, profilers, full database integration, support for XSLT, XPath, XQuery and so much more. Among these features is the widely-used feature, XML Editor.

XMLSpy’s editing tools provides ease-of-use as it simplifies creation and editing of XML documents, allowing rapid and high-quality development. Here are just some of the advanced XML editing tools XMLSpy 2009 can offer:

1. XML Text View

XML Text View is one of the powerful and synchronized editing views of XMLSpy. It is the most popular editing view among the five views and now even includes a full-featured CSS Editor.

2. XML Grid View

This enhanced XML editing view shows a graphical and hierarchical structure of any XML-compliant document through a set of nested containers all of which can be easily expanded and collapsed for a better view. One nice thing about this view is that you can use the drag-and-drop function for faster manipulation.

3. XML Schema/WSDL Design View

With this view, you can easily create and edit W3C XML Schemas and WSDL files. It is designed to simplify complexity of XML Schemas’ syntax. It also allows you to manipulate schema with its drag-and-drop function.

4. Authentic® View

It allows you to view Authentic forms created in StyleVision® 2009. With Authentic forms, users can capture content and access information in XML documents and databases. Its WYSIWYG interface gives you ease to fill in forms in a word-processor style.

5. Browser View

The Browser View allows you to preview the HTML output that is rendered when transforming XML using XSLT.

6. Intelligent XML Editing

XMLSpy 2009 brings intelligent features to help you edit XML documents quickly and efficiently. This feature includes: code completion, context-sensitive entry helpers, syntax help, and more.

7. XML Validator

The XMl Validator offers a detailed information for easily identifying validation errors in your file or project.

8. XML Project Management

An effective feature in organizing and managing projects and related documents, specifying validation and transformation rulesm, and performing batch operations – quickly and easily.

Catch more of XMlSpy 2009’s features here.

What more can you ask for?

XMLSpy 2009 delivers all you need  straight on your doorsteps, grab it now!

Until Next Time

Peter – Your XMLSpy  Guide

XML or Extensible Markup Language that is much like an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). According to our all-around friend, Wikipedia online dictionary, XML is “a general-purpose specification for creating custom markup languages. It is classified as an extensible language, because it allows the user to define the mark-up elements”

Simple definition

Too technical to understand, here’s a simpler way to define XML, it is designed to transport and store data, and which tags are not predefined, meaning, you must define your own tags.

I’ve mentioned that XML is much like HTML, now how does it differ from HTML. XML is designed to carry and store data, focusing on what data is. As for HTML, it is designed to display data, this one focusing on how the data looks.

What does XML look like

What does a typical XML document look like? See the example below of a document written in XML:

<breakfast_menu>

<food>

<name>Pancake</name>

<price>$0.50</price>

</food>

<food>

<name>Ham and Bacon Sandwich</name>

<price>$0.75</price>

</food>

</breakfast_menu>

Based on the example above, it is self-descriptive. It shows a breakfast menu with the list of food that are under the breakfast menu. Each food has a defined name and price, all of which has been defined by the programmer.

So XML is not specified by semantics of tag set, it’s just a plain text. It only provides a custom to define tags and the relationships of these tags. Only XML-aware softwares can handle and understand the meaning of XML tags wherein, the function depends on the nature of the software.

XML’s creation has helped many developers, it’s the most essential tool by far when it comes to data transmission between various softwares.

XML Software

There are a lot of XML Editors on the web you can use, here are some of the best ones:

1. Altova XML Spy

2. oXygen XML

3. EditiX – Xml Editor

4. Emile Lite

5. Microsoft XML Notepad

6. XML CookTop

Until next time

Peter – Your XMLSpy Guiode