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The Stylus Scoop March 2006 - Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 Available Now!Dear Stylus Studio Friend, Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 XML Enterprise Edition is now available, brimming with the powerful new features and enhancements – many from customers – that you've come to expect from the world's most innovative XML IDE. We're confident that Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 XML Enterprise Edition will radically simplify your next data integration project, so give it a try for free today. Also this month, we've got new online video tutorials on XML Schema development, webcasts, and competitive product information. All good stuff, to be sure, but the feature we're most proud of is the one sent in by a Stylus Studio user, reporting how Stylus Studio is lending a helping hand in the hurricane Katrina reconstruction efforts in New Orleans. All this and more in this month's Stylus Scoop! Sincerely, Table of Contents:
Now Available: Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 XML Enterprise EditionDownload a free trial of the latest and greatest release of the award-winning, industry-standard XML development environment, Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 XML Enterprise Edition today. Q: What's new in this release? Q: And why
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purchase Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 XML Enterprise Edition? Working with XML Schemas in Stylus StudioStylus Studio provides the world's most intuitive and powerful XML Schema tools for all your XML data modeling needs. A new online video demonstration provides a comprehensive overview of this easy-to-master tool set. An Introduction XML Schema Development in Stylus Studio covers the following topics:
The Stylus Studio QuickStart Training WebcastThe Stylus Studio QuickStart Training Webcast is a great way to learn how to use our powerful XML tools and data access components to develop standards-based data integration applications. Join us this Thursday for a live presentation covering the following topics:
The Stylus Studio QuickStart Training Webcast runs this Thursday at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5). Sign up today! Competitive Product InformationThis month, Stylus Studio asks an open question to the XML community: Just how slow is the competition, anyway? Several weeks ago, we posted a review of competitors, a proprietary XML processor used in other tools. We stated that in our own informal performance tests, the competiton was an order of magnitude slower than the Saxon XML processor. These findings were independently corroborated. Here's what an IT consultant specializing in financial XML and data modeling observed: "I was doing a small XML task, regrouping the information in a document into a different structure... I was using a competitive product to write and run a suitable XSLT 2.0 transformation. Eventually, though, I found a bug in the implementation of grouping functions... I switched to my laptop ... I selected Saxon 8B as the XSLT 2.0 engine. It ran the stylesheet correctly, but more importantly, it ran at least ten times faster than the native code implementation in the competition. Now, that is something I wasn't expecting. This is the first time where I have seen a huge performance boost by moving from a native code solution to a Java solution ... they can no longer claim an automatic performance advantage." (Click here to read the full quotation) So how slow is the competition? It's difficult to say with real certainty as it doesn't provide any integrated XSLT or XQuery profiling tools like Stylus Studio does. Stylus Studio: Helping Hurricane Katrina Reconstruction EffortsLast September, millions of lives were changed in a day by a cruel and wasteful storm. Today, reconstruction efforts are ongoing, and we're proud to note that Stylus Studio is able to perform a small but important role in the Gulf Coast's recovery. Rafiki Cai, co-founder of the Digital Freedom Institute (DFI) and a Stylus Studio user, wrote to tell us how Stylus Studio is helping: "I'm on the ground in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, working as a volunteer, on the rebuilding of the area after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the consequent breeching of the levees. We have hundreds of volunteers that are flowing into the city. We're developing a system to automate the process whereby when a volunteer is entered into our CRM database they are also plotted on to the Volunteer Map. Stylus Studio has the tools and utilities to help us develop the mapping solution that we needed, enabling us create the underlying systems infrastructure needed to facilitate rebuilding this great city." We've always known we had a powerful and innovative XML IDE, one that's helped us look into the solar system and provide insurance to millions of people, but we're hard-pressed to think of any use of Stylus Studio that makes us prouder. Thank you, Rafiki, for taking time to share your story with us. We wish you, and everyone involved in the Gulf Coast recovery, all the best. True Stylus Studio Stories:In this week's issue of CRN Magazine, Mario Morejon, Technical Editor at CRN Test Center writes: "[Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2] is powerful and unlike its competitors, follows most XML development standards ... Stylus' XML Schema editor is simple to use ... Stylus Studio leads the industry in adhering to most leading XML parsers and validators [providing] integrated support for Apache's Xalan-J, Microsoft's MSXML .Net, and Saxon 6 and 8, [as well as] its own XSLT processor. In addition, developers can use Microsoft's MSXML DOM and SAX parsers, .Net XML parser and Apache's Xerces-J ... CRN engineers were impressed with the implementation of XQuery and its integration with Stylus' XML mapping technology." Tell us why you use Stylus Studio! Email us and we'll respond! Stylus Studio
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