Altova® StyleVision® simplifies the creation of XSLT 1.0/2.0 stylesheets for transforming XML and database data to attractive Microsoft Word/RTF pages. It’s easy to transform XML and database data into Word documents or RTF (rich text format) files with StyleVision. The unique StyleVision design interface allows you to visually design stylesheets to produce Word/RTF output from XML – or a database – quickly and easily. In addition, that same design simultaneously produces an Authentic form, as well as HTML and PDF output and the associated stylesheets. Based on your design, StyleVision auto-generates standards conformant XSLT 1.0 stylesheets with XPath 1.0 expressions. It also includes complete implementations of the powerful new XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 specifications from the W3C. These new versions include significant improvements and new features that improve code stability and reusability, as well as an impressive array of new functions and operators. In addition, XSLT 2.0 support in StyleVision is schema-aware. Schema-awareness provides additional mechanisms for error isolation, simplified debugging, and enhanced code performance. In all, XSLT/XPath 2.0 allow you create stylesheets that are much more powerful and highly efficient.

Altova® XMLSpy® includes a powerful XSLT 1.0/2.0 debugger for troubleshooting and perfecting XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 stylesheets. Testing and perfecting XSLT stylesheets can be a complicated, time-consuming process. With the XMLSpy XSLT debugger, you can step through and debug even the most intricate stylesheets quickly and easily. XMLSpy includes a complete implementation of the powerful new XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 specifications, and the XSLT debugger allows you to debug both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 stylesheets.

To facilitate quick, error-free XSLT development, Altova® XMLSpy® includes full support for XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 editing, visual transformation, debugging, and profiling. Helpful features include context-sensitive entry helpers, an XPath 1.0 / 2.0 builder and analyzer, a powerful XSLT debugger that helps you test and perfect your code line-by-line, and an XSLT 2.0 profiler that delivers detailed metrics to help you eliminate bottlenecks and optimize your XSLT code quickly and easily.

With its unique approach to XSLT stylesheet development, Altova® StyleVision® abstracts away the underlying XSL syntax, allowing you to create XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 stylesheets visually, using drag-and-drop functionality, which takes considerably less time and reduces the occurrence of errors. In StyleVision, you create one graphical design that simultaneously produces standards-conformant XSLT 1.0/2.0 and XSL:FO stylesheets for transforming XML or database data into HTML as well as Word/RTF, and PDF formats. You can view and save the standards-based XSLT stylesheets at any time during the design process.

Altova StyleVision 2006 is the ultimate visual stylesheet designer for transforming XML and database content into HTML, PDF, and Word/RTF output, and creating electronic forms. It is fully standards compliant and supports XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XSL:FO, CSS, JavaScript, and all major databases. StyleVision 2006 is optimized to facilitate single source publishing. In one simple step you can access XML and/or database data, process it, and render it into eye-catching HTML pages, PDF reports, Word/RTF documents, and intuitive Authentic electronic forms. StyleVision now includes capabilities for designing advanced Web pages, including support for cascading stylesheets (CSS) and Javascript. It even has a built-in HTML importer that converts HTML pages into XML files, XSLT stylesheets, and XML Schemas. Numerous templates for presenting industry standard XML vocabularies such as DITA, DocBook, and P3P are provided. StyleVision also generates electronic forms for use with Authentic 2006, Altova’s free XML and database content editor. Authentic forms let business users directly query and edit XML documents or relational databases without being exposed to the underlying technology. The visual design paradigm used in StyleVision is so straightforward; you simply drag and drop project contents and design elements into your working stylesheet, and you are automatically prompted when options exist. You can preview your output at any time in XSLT 1.0/2.0, HTML, Word/RTF, XSL:FO, PDF, and Authentic view, so you always know how your project is coming along. Stylesheets designed with StyleVision can be based on XML Schemas, DTDs, and databases and can support business logic validation, table handling, input formatting, date control, and much more. All these features combine to make Altova StyleVision 2006 the ultimate tool for developing multi-purpose stylesheets.

Apache Xalan is a popular open-source XSLT processing component developed by the Apache XML Foundation. Stylus Studio XSLT tools provide seamless integration with the Xalan XSLT Processor, enabling you to execute, debug, and optimize your XSLT stylesheets using the Xalan XSLT processor. No additional downloads are necessary — the latest version of Apache Xalan-J is bundled. This tutorial provides an overview of how to use the many features and functions in Stylus Studio that are geared towards accelerating development of Xalan applications including how to transform XML using XSLT stylesheets and Xalan.

Stylus Studio's XSLT tools provide integrated authoring support for EXSLT — powerful extensions to XSLT 1.0 enabling you to automate and simplify many tasks including computing dates and times, performing mathematical computations, string manipulations and more. This tutorial provides a brief overview on how to configure Stylus Studio to use EXSLT in conjunction with various industry-standard XSLT processors including Apache Xalan-J and Saxon 6.5.

With XSL Editor you can easily create, edit, test and validate XSLT documents. The content assistant will provide the elements, attributes and attribute values specific for XSL and additionally the elements from the target document. Transformations can be configured to run the XSL you are creating.

The XSL-List Blog covers everything you ever needed to know about the W3C Extensible Stylesheet Language, including XSL/XSLT news, what's new with XSLT 2.0, XSLT technical issues and more. Bookmark the RSS or ATOM feed today.

Check out dotXSL, free XSLT designer tool for turning XML into web pages (XML2HTML). dotXSL is freeware, so you can use it for any purpose. dotXSL features WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop, ease of use, multi-tabbed professional developer's interface, modern look and feel, tons of advanced features, XSL/Xpath/CSS programming etc. dotXSL is great for XML reports, pages and sites. It also has XSL component feature, which is the ability to build XSL code that will work with virtually any XML, not just the XML it was designed to work. This is achieved by creating XML2XML mapping before XML is actually fed to XSL code. For instance, web menu can be created with many different XML structures - wouldn't be nice to create XSL component that will render it - and then use this XSL code with any XML? dotXSL supports all popular XSLT processors (MSXML, Saxon, Xalan, libxslt with PHP etc.). It also has publish feature for easy upload to web site, as well as live XML publishing feature to PHP (for example if you want to add live RSS to your web site). There are too many features to mention here, but entire Help System is on the web site so you can see for yourself. All of this is neatly explained in Flash Videos you can play on web site and get started in minutes - all FREE!

Stylus Studio provides several tools that allow you to follow XSLT processing and detect errors in your stylesheets. To use these tools, you must use the processors displayed in the Debug and back-mapping enabled section of the Processors page on the Scenario Properties dialog box. These processors include Stylus Studio's XSLT processor, Apache Xalan-J, MSXML .Net, and Saxon 6 and 8. If you use the MSXML XSLT processor or some other XSLT processor, you cannot use the Stylus Studio debugging and backmapping tools. This XSL tutorial covers the following topics:

Steps for Debugging XSL Stylesheets, Using XSL Breakpoints, Viewing Processing Information, Using Bookmarks, Determining Which XSL Template Generated Particular Output, Determining the Output Generated by a Particular XSL Template, Profiling XSL Stylesheets, Handling Parser and XSL Processor Errors, Debugging Java Files.

In addition to writing XSLT manually in the XSLT text editor, Stylus Studio provides a graphical tool, the XSLT mapper, that allows you quickly compose XSLT without writing any code. This XSLT tutorial describes the XSLT mapper, how to use it, and its relationship to the XSLT displayed on the XSLT Source tab. Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper covers the following topics:

Overview of the XSLT Mapper, Source Documents, Target Structures, Mapping Source and Target Document Nodes, Working with XSLT Instructions in XSLT Mapper, Processing Source Nodes, Creating and Working with Templates, Creating an XSLT Scenario

Stylus Studio provides many features for creating, updating, and applying XSL stylesheets. This tutorial covers the following topics:

Getting Started with XSLT, Tutorial: Understanding How Templates Work, Working with Stylesheets, Creating Stylesheets That Generate HTML, Specifying Extension Functions in Stylesheets, Working with Templates, Using Third-Party XSLT Processors, Validating Result Documents, Post-processing Result Documents, Generating Formatting Objects, Generating Scalable Vector Graphics, Generating Java Code for XSLT, XSLT Instructions Quick Reference

Juxy is a library for unit testing XSLT stylesheets from Java. It is best suited for the projects where both Java and XSLT are used simultaneously. Juxy features include: - Ability to invoke individual xsl templates and pass them any parameters. - Ability to setup stylesheet parameters and global variables. - Ability to setup current node before transformation. - Integration with JUnit. - Transparent support for document fragments returned as transformation result. - Easy result verification with sophisticated XML assertion mechanism. - Ability to trace execution of the sylesheets instructions. - Support for custom URIResolver. - Ant task for batch verification of XSLT stylesheets.

An XSL Generator for visually generating XSL stylesheets. Load one or more data sources, and specify an output content model (specified using XML Schema/DTD, or build it on the fly as you map). Stylus Studio's XSL generator supports built in functions, Java extension functions, and other XSL data constructs. Supports synchronized, 2-way editing of XSL stylesheet code.

XSLT tools for advanced XSLT 1.0 or XSLT 2.0 development, including a visual XSLT Mapper, Editor, Debugger, Profiler, and more! Stylus Studio includes XSLT editing and debugging support for industry XSLT processors: Saxon, MSXML, System.XML, Xalan, etc.