Stylus Studio® X16 XML Feature Comparison Matrix

Compare editions of Stylus Studio® to determine the one that best meets your needs. We recommend Stylus Studio® XML Enterprise Suite for advanced data integration projects, and have compiled a list of the top-ten reasons to choose the Enterprise Edition. Please note that Stylus Studio® XML Home Edition is restricted to student and non-commercial home usage.

Stylus Studio® X16 XML Editions
Home Professional Enterprise
OS Platforms
64-bit
XML Editing Tools
Sense:X Intelligent XML Editing
Intelligent (XML Schema/DTD aware) code sensing and auto-completion, including XML files using included or imported XML Schema.
Support for Multi-Gigabyte Size XML Files
Configurable XML syntax coloring for elements and attributes
Works with any XSLT processor or any XML Schema processor
Works with any XQuery processor
Synchronized XML Text View
Syntax coloring, code highlighting, intelligent auto-completion
Line and column numbers
Code folding to simplify document editing
Auto-completion for CDATA and XML comments
Synchronized XML Tree View
Tree control for expanding hierarchical XML documents
Load large XML files (+10MB)
Create entity references, processing instructions, comments, CDATA, toggle whitespace, and more
Synchronized XML Grid View
Export XML to Microsoft Excel  
Sort XML columns in ascending/descending order  
XML row operations: insert before/after, move up/down, delete  
Add nested XML table  
Rename XML element / attribute columns  
Use URIs to compare namespaces  
XML Differencing
Visually compute differences between XML files in a Tree View  
Step through XML differences in files (Next, Previous)  
Split screen and merged modes for both Tree and Text view  
Expand All Changes / Collapse Identical XML Blocks  
Optionally resolve or ignore XML entity references and XML namespaces  
Optionally compare or ignore XML comments, XML element content, whitespace, and text formatting (tab spacing, CR, LF, for example), XML attributes, XML processing instructions  
Visually compare folders  
Optionally optimize computation of XML differences for large XML documents (+50k nodes)  
Support for multiple XML input files for advanced XML differencing operations  
Configure XML Differencing colors and fonts  
Go-to XML file  
XML Formatter
Canonicalize XML files
XML-Well Formedness Checker
Integrated back-mapping for error reporting
Integrated XML Validator
Supports XML Schema/DTD Based XML Validation
Includes a built-in XML Schema/DTD Validator
Multiple error reporting (step through errors)
Back-mapping traces error messages to source document code
Open XML Validation Architecture
Integrated support for third-party XML parsers and validators
MSXML 3.0, 4.0, 6.0 SAX
MSXML 3.0, 4.0, 6.0 4.0 DOM
Microsoft .NET XML 1.0 and 2.0 Parser (System.XML)
Java built-in XML parser
Xerces-C++ 2.7
XSV 2.10-1
Saxon 8.9 (bundled with Stylus Studio)
XML Generator
Create XML instance from DTD
Create XML instance from XML Schema
Create XML instance from EDIATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12    
General XML Editing Support
Comment/Uncomment selected region
Line numbering/go-to Line
Copy/Paste, Undo/Redo
Find, Find Next, Replace (supports regular expressions)
Support for over 300 file-encoding formats (UTF-8, UTF-16, EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, and so on)
Print/Print Preview
Line wrapping
XML Code Folding
XML-Aware Spell Checker
Configurable personal dictionary  
Change, Ignore, Ignore All  
Replace, Replace All, Suggest Alternatives  
XML Aware — Skip Element/Attribute names, etc.  
Supports different English language dialects  
Highlight spelling errors as you type in Text View  
Accessible from short-cut menu in Text View  
HTML WYSIWYG Editor Tab
Fonts , Colors and Block Formats (h1, h2, ...)    
Bullet and Numbered Lists.    
Indentation and Text Justification.    
Tables Authoring.    
Inline CSS editing.    
Images.    
Bread crumbs bar which allows to select any element in the path to the root.    
Allow to change any HTML element's properties and see the result in real-time.    
Integrated Spell Checker.    
Turns any HTML document into well-formed XML    
XML Publishing Tools
Visually design HTML+CSS and XSL:FO output    
Generate Beautiful XML Reports using XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery 1.0    
PDF Output Preview    
Support for any Data inputs including Relational, EDI, Web services and XML documents    
Backmapping from output preview to XML Publisher design screen    
Support for RenderX XEP    
Support for Apache FOP    
Rich Formatting: Tables, lists, text blocks, images, fonts    
Flow Control: Support for repeating elements, conditional statements, etc.    
Integrated XML Namespace Management    
Multi-Tab Properties Window    
Conditional formatting and dynamic properties bound to XPath    
Undo, Redo, Copy, Paste    
Integration with Stylus Studio XQuery Tools and XSLT Tools    
Integration with Stylus Studio XML Pipeline    
XML Pipeline Tools
Visually Design XML Data Services (XML Applications)    
Customized Java Deployment Options (DataDirect XQuery, Saxon, XEP, Java built-in processors)    
Configurable Execution Framework: Specify different XML/XSLT/XML Schema/XSL:FO and XQuery Processors    
XML Pipeline Debugging (Variables, Breakpoints, View Output, Set watches, etc.)    
Integrated Cross-Language Debugging — Step into XSLT Debugger or XQuery Debugger    
Zoom in/Zoom out, Undo / Redo, Copy — Paste    
Snap to Grid, Save to Image    
Support for any XML Operation (converting, validating, tranforming, querying, publishing, etc.)    
Advanced flow control: Conditional Pipeline execution based on outcome of validation, XPath, etc.    
Develop and Deploy ETL, EII, and EAI applications.    
Generate Java or C# Program Code to Execute XML Pipeline.    
Schema Tools
XML Schema Editor
Visual XML Schema Editor with inline editing
Round-trip XML Schema design (synchronized 2-way editing)
Refactoring of XML content models to global complex type definitions
Generate sample XML fragments from XML Schema components
Generate XML instance document from XML Schema
Simplify XML Schema view (collapse implicit schema components)
Fully configurable XML Schema display (display facets, restrictions, attributes, and so on)
XML Schema Simple Type Editor
Export XML Schema Component graphic to .jpg or .emf file
Support for Import / Include XML Schema
Find all constructs that reference global elements, simple global types, complex global types.
Show/Hide XML Schema annotations
XML Schema Generator
Generate XML Schema from DTD
Generate XML Schema from XML instance document
EDI to XML Schema conversion for ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12    
XML Schema Documentation Generator
Regular XML Schema Documentation layout (X3P Stylesheet)  
XML Schema-based Output Validation
Validate results of XSLT transformations
Validate results of XQuery transformations
Configurable XML output validation settings via Scenario Properties    
Relax NG Editor
Visual Schema Editor with inline editing  
Round-trip XML Schema design (synchronized 2-way editing)  
Support Drag & Drop and Copy & Paste for schema refactoring  
Support for navigating Include and external reference  
Support for XML Schema built-in simple types  
Support for facets (Relax NG parameters)  
Integrated Schema validation  
Support for external Relax NG processors  
Export Schema Component graphic to .jpg or .emf file  
DTD Editor
Visual DTD Editor
Convert DTD to XML Schema
Fully integrated support for DTD-based XML editing and validation
Full OASIS Catalog Support Allows Off-Line Development
Supports catalog nesting through delegation    
Sense:X integration (list available Public IDs)    
Understands both Text-Mode and XML-Mode catalogs    
Support for FIXML, DocBook, HIPAA, and many other Industry Standard XML Vocabularies    
87 pre-built industry standard catalogs    
More than 600 DTDs and 2500 XML Schemas    
Integrated with the Project View File System    
XQuery Development Tools
XQuery Editor
Support for January 2007 XQuery 1.0 Recommendation  
Syntax help for XQuery language constructs  
Code sensing and XQuery auto-completion  
XQuery Code Folding  
XQuery Mapper
True visual XQuery mapping  
Synchronized XQuery source code and visual mapping Views (2-way editing)  
Optional, synchronized and fully editable split-screen interface displays both visual XQuery mapping model and XQuery source code  
Use a live Web Service call as a data source for an XQuery mapping project.  
Support for "FLWOR" expressions (For, Let, Where, Order by, Return)  
Support for joins of multiple sources  
Support for conditional statements  
Support for user-defined Java extension functions  
Support for global variables  
XML Schema-Aware XQuery Processing
Support for Saxon 8.9 (bundled with Stylus Studio)    
Universal XQuery Mapping
Support for January 2007 XQuery 1.0 Recommendation  
Use a Variety of different data sources as inputs for an XQuery mapping    
XML instance document  
XML Schema or DTD  
Generate XQuery from EDI — ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12    
SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, MySQL, MySQL Community Edition, IBM Informix, PostgreSQL    
Any flat file (CSV, dBase, binary, and so on)  
Live XML Web service    
One Click Intelligent AutoLink
Find automatically a match on the target schema  
Create link operation based on the element cardinality.  
Autolink a single element or an entire sub tree.  
Can be interrupted when working on very large schema.  
XQuery Debugger
Support for January 2007 XQuery 1.0 Recommendation  
Set/toggle breakpoints  
Step In/Out/Over  
Variables window (show all variables and values relative to current context)  
Watch window (XPath expressions or variable names)  
Support for debugging XQuery extension functions  
Seamlessly step from XQuery code into a Java method and back  
Step through user-defined Java method in built-in Java Editor  
Set breakpoints in Java and/or XQuery code  
True cross-language debugging (Java, XQuery)  
XQuery Output Window
View incremental output tree (as it is being built)  
Toggle between Text, Tree, and Browser views (at any time)  
Refresh XQuery output  
Save XQuery results to file  
Support for Third-Party XQuery Processors
Saxon 8.9 (bundled with Stylus Studio) (Schema Aware) XQuery Processor  
DataDirect XQuery    
Validate XQuery Output
Validate XQuery output against XML Schema  
Configurable using XQuery scenario properties    
XQuery Profiler
Generate performance profile of XQuery code    
Save performance analysis as HTML    
XQuery performance profiler Back-mapping    
Click on a line in the Profiler report to highlight source in input document    
XQuery URI Resolver
Access to Advanced File Systems  
Access to Relational Databases  
Access to EDI Data Sources    
XML Deployment Testing Capabilities    
Automated Program Code Generation for XQuery
Generate C# Code to run XQuery application    
Generate Java Code to run XQuery application    
Query Plan
Visually Display XQuery execution plan    
Optimize the XQuery Application    
XSLT Development Tools
XSLT 1.0/2.0 Editor
XML Schema-Aware XSLT 2.0 Processing Support    
Full support for XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, and XPath 2.0
Single-click XSLT transformation
Back-mapping of XSLT output to XML input source
Integrated XSLT processor
Open XSLT architecture
XSLT template refactoring
XSLT template Stack window
XSLT editing views modularized by template
XML content model window (displays visual model of input document)
XSLT Parameter editing tab
Full Editing Support for Third-Party XSLT processors
Java built-in processor
Microsoft .NET 1.0 and 2.0 XSLT Processor (System.XML 1.0 and 2.0)
MSXML 3.0
MSXML 4.0
MSXML 6.0
Saxon 8.9 (bundled with Stylus Studio)    
Integrated XSLT Debugging Support for Third-Party XSLT processors
Microsoft .NET 1.0 XSLT Processor (System.XML 1.0)
Saxon 8.9 (bundled with Stylus Studio)    
Sense:X for XSLT: Intelligent XSLT Editing
Syntax help and auto-completion of XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XSL:FO and HTML tag sets
XSLT Code Folding
Intelligent auto-completion of XPath expressions and functions & function prototypes
XSLT Scenario Properties
Specify XSLT input source/output file
Support for joins of multiple sources
Support for Java code generation using Saxon 8.9 and the Java built-in processor
URI Resolver
Deploy Stylus Studio data sources to server    
Resolve Stylus Studio URI to work with Saxon or Java built-in processor    
XSLT Output Validation
Validate XSLT transformation output against XML Schema  
Configurable using XSLT scenario properties    
XSLT 1.0/2.0 Debugger
True XSLT debugging
Set/Toggle XSLT breakpoints
Single step-through XSLT (Step In/Step Out/Step Over)
XSLT Variables window (Display all Variables and Associated Values Relative to Current Context)
XSLT Watch window (XPath Expressions or Variable Names)
XSLT Template Stack Window
Support for Debugging XSLT Extension Function (Saxon)
Seamlessly step from an XSLT template into a Java method and return
Step through Java code in integrated Java Editor
Set breakpoints in Java code
True cross-language debugging (Java, XSLT, VBScript/JScript)
Integrated Watch, Variables, and Call Stack windows
XSLT Output Window
Incrementally view XSLT output tree as it is being constructed
Toggle XSLT output between Text, Tree, and Browser views
Refresh XSLT output
Save XSLT output to file
XSLT Scenario Properties
Specify input/output files
Specify XSLT parameters, XSLT processor, XSLT profiling, and XSLT validation, and other XSLT settings
Save XSLT scenarios as required
True XSLT Mapping
Round-trip editing of XSLT source code and visual mapping views (synchronized 2-way editing)  
Synchronized XQuery source code and visual mapping views (2-way editing)  
Support for conditional XSLT processing: xsl:for-each, xsl:if, xsl:choose  
Support for both named templates (xsl:call-template) and matched templates  
Support for visual editing of external user-defined Java functions  
Support for XPath functions  
Support for XSLT mapping involving multiple data sources  
Modularized per-template XSLT editing views  
Preserve XSLT mapping project layout  
Create/Change target XML Schema on the fly  
Support for External Parameters  
Universal XSLT Mapping
Use a variety of different data sources as inputs for an XSLT mapping  
XML instance document  
XML Schema or DTD  
EDI — ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12    
Live XML Web service    
Preserve XSLT mapping project layout  
Create/Change target XML Schema on the fly  
One Click Intelligent AutoLink
Find automatically a match on the target schema  
Create link operation based on the element cardinality.  
Autolink a single element or an entire sub tree.  
Can be interrupted when working on very large schema.  
XSLT 1.0/2.0 Profiler
Generate performance profile of XSLT transformation    
Save performance analysis as HTML    
XSLT performance Profiler back-mapping for troubleshooting    
Automated Program Code Generation for XSLT
Generate C# Code to run XSLT application    
Generate Java Code to run XSLT application    
XPath Development Tools
XPath 1.0/2.0 Evaluator
Evaluate and test any XPath 2.0 expression  
Visualize resulting XPath node-set  
Back-mapping of XPath results to input document  
Save XPath results  
Sense:X for XPath 2.0
Context-sensitive XPath code Sensing and auto-completion
Syntax coloring and code completion of standard XPath functions
Visual XPath expression generator
Create XPath expressions from Grid View and Tree View (Grid view not available in Home Ed.)
XML Mapping Tools
True Visual XML-to-XML Mapping
Round-trip engineering: synchronized visual and code views (2-way editing)  
Optional, split-screen interface for visual XML mapping and source code in XSLT  
Optional, split-screen interface for visual XML mapping and source code in XQuery  
Generate XML mapping code in either XSLT or XQuery  
Intuitive visual, drag-and-drop XML mapping interface  
Preserve XML mapping project layout  
Create/Change target XML Schema on the fly  
Aggregation (N-to-1) XML mappings (from multiple supported inputs to an output)  
Support for data sources bound to variables to an output)  
Universal Data Mapping Input Architecture
Map from any data input format to XML  
XML instance document  
XML Schema or DTD  
EDI — ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12    
SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, MySQL, MySQL Community Edition, IBM Informix, PostgreSQL    
Any flat file (CSV, dBase, Binary, and so on)    
Live XML Web service    
Support for Programmatic XML Data Manipulation
Support for Java XSLT extension functions
Embedded scripting support (JScript/VBScript)
Legacy Data Integration, Data Conversion Tools & EDI Tools
Convert any Data Format into XML
EDI — ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12    
Any flat file (CSV, TSV, dBase, Binary, email, .ini, HTML, RTF, and others)    
Built-in support for over 100 popular file formats    
Express custom EDI messages in Standard Exchange Format (SEF)    
Design Custom XML Converters
Visual SEF (Standard Exchange Format) Editor    
Specify regular expressions to match patterns in data    
Define regions within a file    
Support for line-oriented and/or column-oriented data    
Specify character separators, and over 100 other criteria    
EDI Data ConversionATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12
Migrate EDI data to XML    
Convert ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12 data schemas to XML Schema    
Generate XQuery from EDI — ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12    
Convert to XML Wizard
Auto-detect file encoding    
Infer data file layout    
Visual editing of XML converter    
Integrated XML conversion Preview Window with Backmapping    
Import/Export Data Wizards
Convert CSV to XML    
Convert Microsoft Access, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, MySQL Community Edition, IBM Informix, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase to XML    
Generate valid XML instance from XML Schema  
EDI to XSD converter — ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12    
Fixed-width file to XML    
Java and XML Development Tools
Java Code Generator
Generate Java code to deploy XSLT or XQuery to server runtime    
Generated code reflects transformation's scenario properties    
Fully configurable code generation (processor, public/private/main methods, and so on)    
Support for XML Pipelining — run XSLT, followed by XSL:FO in series    
Generated code uses standard JAXP XML processing code    
Access any data source from Java code (ATIS/EANCOM/EDIFACT/Edig@s/HIPAA/HL7/IATA/X12, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MySQL Community Edition, IBM Informix, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, flat files, Web services, and more)    
Generated code works with Saxon processor    
Supports post-processing options including XML Schema validation    
JSP Editor
JSP code syntax coloring
JSP code completion
JSP 1.0/2.0 validation
JSP browser preview
Java to XML Binding Generator
Add Java files to project    
Java Editor
Real-time Java syntax checking
Java code syntax coloring
Compile Java code / report warnings and errors
Sense:X for Java (code sensing and auto-completion)
Support for Java debugging (implements JDWP)  
Web Services Development Tools
Web Service Call Composer
Browse UDDI Registry    
Create/send Web Service Call    
Receive/Save/Preview Results    
Save Web Service as data service for data mapping projects    
Integration with Java code generator    
WSDL Editor
Visually Design WSDL Interfaces    
Open WSDL file, Create WSDL file    
Import WSDL Documents    
Print WSDL file, Save WSDL Diagram    
General Editing Support
File Explorer
Browse universal data Sources
Introspect any data source
Supports drag-and-drop operations
Open/Create/Rename/Delete/Copy/Move file operations
Invoke XML Deployment Adaptors    
General Application/User Interface
Windows XP look-and-feel
Comprehensive customization menu
New Windows XP-like product icons
Live Update
View line / column / character encoding
XML Preview Window
Backmapping of Preview results to Source pane
Multiple views (Text, Tree, Internet Explorer)
Save results to file
Preview XSLT transformations
Preview XQuery results  
Preview Web Service Calls    
Preview XML/SVG
Preview EDI/EDIFACT/X12/HL7/IATA/EANCOM data conversions    
Preview flat file to XML conversions
Command line utilities/standalone components
Stylus Studio XSLT Processor
Stylus Studio XQuery Processor  
Stylus Studio XML Schema/DTD Validator
Enterprise License Manager
Concurrent License Metering
Invoke XML Deployment Adaptors    
XML Project Window
Manage XML project folders
Access WebDAV, FTP data source
Access Web Service data source    
Access Custom File Systems    
Source control integration
Check In/Check Out
Get Latest Version/Undo Checkout
Add/Remove from source control
Integration with Microsoft VSS, Clearcase, CVS
Auto-back up – Automatically saves copy of last-saved document
SQL Editor
SQL Editor features
Syntax Coloring
Scalable Preview Result
Preview Result Export to File
Built-in support for all major database vendors
SQL execution can stopped
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