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  Subject: General praise and feedback
Author: Bruce Johnson
Date: 30 Jul 2002 10:11 AM
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To the support & development team:
I have been using an evaluation version of Stylus Studio to try some fairly complex XML-to-XML mappings, and it’s going very well. Tell your development team they have built a fantastic product – eXcelon is definitely in the lead in the area of automatic XSLT generation. We were truly amazed that the mapping GUI is non-destructive to manual changes made to the XSLT source. You made a wise choice to allow this, because 80% of what we need can be handled by the drag-and-drop method, but some manual XSLT is required as well. Please continue to allow manual XSLT editing along with the drag-and-drop mapping functionality.
You’ve done all the hard parts beautifully, but I have a few usability suggestions that would be icing on the cake:
- It should be easier to search for elements in the XML-to-XML mapping view. It can be tough to “eyeball” it for big documents.
- The source XML tree (the left side) in an XML-to-XML mapping does not seem to correctly support a mouse wheel for scrolling. Although it might be an MFC bug, it would be worth trying to fix. It would be very helpful, because there’s often a lot of looking around in the document, yet the scroll bar is on the left side, which is unusual (but understandable in this context). Mouse wheel support would be the perfect thing.
- When you edit a property of a mapping relationship (e.g. “Passes Value” or “Does For Each”), there is no need to show a message box when the value doesn’t change. I sometimes accidentally click on “Passes Value” instead of “Does For Each”. But when I click on the correct one, the “Passes Value” edit box loses focus without changing its value, causing a message box reading “The destination already has a value link!” I think you could safely suppress this and similar dialogs in all cases. Consider the VB forms designer as a model, which always does its work silently.
- Bruce
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