Although XSLT and XQuery are adept at handling XML documents, much of the information in an enterprise is not in XML format. This presentation demonstrate some of the data integration tools in Stylus Studio that can be used to build adapters for transforming non-XML documents to use both within Stylus Studio and in external applications.

Alchemist XML IDE, is an advanced XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE). Alchemist adds powerful new features, again pushing the innovation envelope that helped establish Alchemist in the market. Alchemist's best-in-class features for working with XML, XSL, XSLT, XPath, SQL/XML, code generation, database to XML mapping and many other XML technologies. You can download a free 30-day copy from their website.

Powered by unique patented and patent-pending XG3™ technology, the DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator is the industry's first and only true network device capable of offloading overtaxed servers by processing XML, XSD, XPath and XSLT at wirespeed. The XA35 ensures that time and capital invested in new applications produce results. The flexibility of the XA35 allows it to be installed in any number of different locations within the enterprise to offload Web and application servers from the arduous task of XML processing.

The Stylus Studio Convert to XML module provides XML data conversion tools for getting any data into XML. Convert .txt, binary, EDI, EDIFACT, x12, DBASE, and thousands of other file formats into XML. You can use Convert to XML to convert a single document, or to build reusable converters that let you open flat files as XML documents anywhere in Stylus Studio. Two online videos demonstrate how Convert to XML can help you on your next XML data conversion project: (1) Introduction to Convert to XML covers the basics and (2) EDI to XML Mapping with Stylus Studio walks you through a more advanced EDI to XML mapping.

XML Viewer for visualizing XML data structures. Stylus Studio includes an XML tree-view for viewing large tree-structured documents, an XML grid view for visualizing relational or tabular structured XML data, and a text view for viewing XML code.

Tools and wizards to convert HTML to XML. Separate a web page's data and layout with Stylus Studio.

Stylus Studio XML Editor features intelligent XML Editing, including XML syntax coloring, XML code sensing, and XML code completion, well formedness checking and XML validation. The Intelligent XML editing feature is your personal XML guide, right there at your fingertips, helping you get through any XML development challenge.

Stylus Studio's XML-to-XML Mapper is a flexible XML data integration tool offering visual XML mappers for getting data from-and-to virtually any data format. Stylus Studio's XML Mapper employs a standards-based approach to XML mapping, electing to implement the underlying XML mapping code in either XSLT or XQuery rather then relying on proprietary DOM-like program code generation schemes which cannot be easily customized, and are not scalable. Download a free 30 day trial of Stylus Studio XML Data Mapping tools.

XML/SWF Gauge is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web gauges and dials from dynamic data.

XML/SWF Slideshow creates attractive web slideshows from dynamic image files and data.

XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic XML data.

Visual XML mapping tools. Supports XML-to-XML Mapping (using XQuery or XSLT), Database-to-XML Mapping, HTML-to-XML Mapping, XML-to-HTML Mapping, EDI to XML Mapping, Convert to XML, live Web service data to XML Mapping. Free trial download.

Xml-Batch-Converter is a small tool (10 KB) to match Xml-files with a Xsl-Stylesheet and create an output-file for each input. Subfolders can be used as input, the program will add folders in the output-root. It's possible to declare parameters using the associated configuration file, the tool may produce ASCII, UTF-8 or UTF-16. It is a NET.1.1 - tool, so the Microsoft Runtime is required. The vendor uses this tool to create the Html-Version of his domain.

Ektron CMS400.NET makes your content more flexible and accessible than ever before – enabling you to unlock the value of you information and guide visitors to the right information.

Berkeley DB XML is a native XML database engine for use within your product. Made available as a C++ library with language bindings for Java, Perl, Python, PHP, and Tcl, it integrates directly into your application (it is not a standalone database server). It provides XQuery access into a database of document containers. XML documents are stored and indexed in their native format using Berkeley DB as the transactional database engine.

First of all JDeveloper 10G is targeted toward rapid web application building, utilizing all the achievements of the J2EE World: web service, EJB, MVC frameworks, XML, etc. Oracle JDeveloper 10G allows you to conduct all full development cycles for complex systems - from UML diagram-based concepts to debugging, profiling and deployment.

AlotSoft (http://www.alotsoft.com), a web service integration solution provider, is the first company that provides customized XML parser/generator/validator/editor that conform to specific industry XML schema standards.

Sleepycat Software has released Berkeley DB XML 2.0.7, an open source "application-specific, embedded data manager for native XML data" based on Berkeley DB. It supports the July working drafts of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0. It includes C++, Java, Perl, Python, TCL and PHP APIs. This is the first public release in the 2.0 series.

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Sleepycat Software this week announced the general availability of Berkeley DB XML 2.0, a major upgrade to its open source database for telecommunication infrastructure and enterprise data centers.