Chapter 1 Getting Started with Stylus Studio® 2008


Stylus Studio ® 2008 (Stylus Studio) is an integrated development environment (IDE) for XML and related technologies. Stylus Studio allows you to design, develop, and test XML applications using its intuitive graphical interface, textual editors, and debuggers for XML, XML Schema, DTD, XQuery, XSLT, Web services, and Java.

Figure 1. Stylus Studio's XML Pipeline Editor

Stylus Studio includes modules for:

  • XML
  • XQuery
  • XSLT
  • XML Pipelines
  • XML reporting
  • Relational data sources
  • DTD
  • XML Schema
  • Web services
  • Java
  • Converting non-XML files to XML, and vice versa

Each module has one or more editors to help you author, edit, and debug XML applications.

This chapter provides a tour of the basic operations Stylus Studio provides with each of its modules. It also includes information about opening files in any module, using projects to organize files, and setting options that affect all modules.

This chapter is organized as follows:

XMLSCHEMA-DEV Blog

XML Schema-DEV is an active community for XML Schema-releated development - join the discussion on XML Schema standards, tools, implementations and more. Bookmark this RSS or ATOM feed today!

XML Schema Tutorial

An XML Schema Tutorial that explores real-world XML Schema development issues, XML Schema examples and various use cases.

XML Editing Views

Stylus Studio includes three synchronized XML editing views: Text View, Tree View, and Grid View, allowing you to work with and edit XML documents in whatever way suits you best.

XSL-List Blog

XSL-List is a discussion forum on the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), covering the XSL specification, XSL processors, tools, user questions, trends and more. Bookmark this RSS or ATOM feed now!

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