Stylus Studio® Awards, Reviews & Related Media Coverage

May 17, 2016
Press Release: Stylus Studio X16 is Now Available

November 20, 2015

Progress Software (DataDirect Technologies/Stylus Studio) - Top 50 Bestselling Publisher Award 2014-2015



November 20, 2015

Progress Software (DataDirect Technologies/Stylus Studio) - Top 100 Bestselling Product Award 2014-2015



November 20, 2015

Progress Software (DataDirect Technologies/Stylus Studio) - Top 100 Bestselling Product Award 2014-2015



April 24, 2014


February 27, 2013

Best XML Publisher

Progress Software (DataDirect Technologies/Stylus Studio) - Top 50 Bestselling Publisher Award 2012-2013


April 30, 2012

Best XML Publisher

Progress Software (DataDirect Technologies/Stylus Studio) - Top 25 Bestselling Publisher Award 2011-2012


April 30, 2012

Best XML Tool

Stylus Studio was awarded the a Bestselling Product Award from ComponentSource for 2011-2012: Stylus Studio XML Professional - Top 50 Product Award


March 26, 2010

ComponentSource BestSelling Products 2009-2010

Stylus Studio Ranks Among Best Selling Products

Stylus Studio XML Professional received the Top 50 Product Award from ComponentSource by ranking among the best selling products for 2009-2010.

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July 28, 2008

DATABASE Trends and Applications

DataDirect Bundles Data Integration Offerings

DataDirect Technologies announced the availability of a new offering that combines DataDirect Technologies' existing XML-based technologies into one package, with a single installation.

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July 25, 2008

Application Development Trends

DataDirect Offers Data Integration Suite

"DataDirect Technologies on Monday announced a suite of data transformation/aggregation solutions for developers that combine three of its XML-based tools. The new DataDirect Data Integration Suite includes the company's XQuery, XML Converters, and Stylus Studio solutions in a single package."

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January 29, 2008

IT Jungle

Four Hundred Stuff

"Stylus Studio 2008 is a suite of software that provides developers with a plethora of tools for doing all kinds of stuff with XML. Did we say plethora? How about an embarrassing overabundance, per this list of more than 400 XML capabilities on the vendor's Web site. If it can be done in XML, it's likely supported by Stylus Studio 2008 Enterprise Edition."

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December 14, 2007

Stylus Studio XML IDE

Stylus Studio updates its XML data integration suite.

"Stylus Studio, which specializes in XML tools and components for data integration, released its 2008 XML Enterprise Suite this week. The new version includes productivity tools for programmers, including drag-and-drop editor for designing a Web service interface."

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October 10, 2007

Stylus Studio XML IDE

Stylus Studio XML IDE - Providing tools to work efficiently with XML

"Extensible Markup Language, more popularly known as XML, has found its uses in many areas of software products. Though XML offers a lot of features and uses, it's hard to develop with and maintain without good tools. This review discusses such a tool [Stylus Studio] that would help XML and Java developers use XML efficiently."

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April 26, 2007

Simplify XML Conversion

Simplify XML Conversion

A specialized feature of the converters is the ability to convert messages by working within DataDirect’s Stylus Studio environment. You can create a custom conversion in Stylus Studio and save it as a template to reuse.

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April 6, 2007

Stylus Studio Solution

EDIFACT to XML - Stylus Studio Solution

"It [Stylus Studio] can virtually handle any EDI message, even those which are not known to Stylus Studio itself! Secondly, it can easily be intergrated in Java programs, which suits perfectly in the XI context. And, last but not least, its licensing cost is fair and affordable."

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March 1, 2007

ASP Review: Sophisticated XML Editing on a Budget

ASP Review: Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite - Sophisticated XML Editing on a Budget

ASP.NET Pro Magazine Reports: "Along with the complexity associated with schemas with deep hierarchies and the variants created to handle data integration and transformation, unassisted hand coding of complex XML today is reserved for patient geniuses and überhackers. For the rest of us, products like Stylus Studio make the process considerably less painful, and even, well, fun at times."

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January 18, 2007

Industry Briefing

Industry Briefing: DataDirect’s XQuery Provides XML Collaboration

DataDirect XQuery is an implementation of XQuery that can query XML, relational data, SOAP messages, EDI, or a combination of data sources while supporting the XQuery for Java API (XQJ) and all major relational databases.

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January 8, 2007

XQuery hits its stride

XQuery Hits its Stride

XQuery got more buzz at this year’s conference than in years past. Jonathan Robie noted he’s seen a sea change in attendee response. Whereas he used to get only confused stares and basic questions, now the discussions are getting more sophisticated.

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December 20, 2006

CRN Product of the Year

CRN Magazine Product of the Year: Stylus Studio 2007 XML Suite

Stylus Studio, an industry leading provider of XML tools and data integration components, received the Product of the Year Award for Web Development from CRN Magazine, the newsweekly of vital information for business and technology integrators.

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December 7, 2006

Q&A With Jonathan Robie

Q&A: Getting a grip on XQuery

Jonathan Robie, XQuery technology lead at DataDirect Technologies, a subsidiary of Progress Software Corp., is one of the prime movers behind the XQuery standard. He spoke with Computerworld about XQuery's importance and its effect on business IT users.

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October 10, 2006

XML Solutions Without the Hassle of Coding

Dr. Dobb's Approves of Stylus Studio 2007

Dr. Dobb's Reports: "Unlike procedures that use code to process data flows, Stylus Studio uses graphical map diagrams to elegantly control many data sources using validations and conditions based on XML Schemas, XSLT and XQuery."

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October 10, 2006

Review: Create Powerful XML Solutions Without Coding

CRN Magazine Recommends Stylus Studio 2007

CRN Reports: "DataDirect Technologies' Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite comes with two new tools -- XML Pipeline and XML Publisher -- that help developers create powerful XML solutions without coding. "

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September 28, 2006

Zap Think Report Findings

DataDirect XQuery 2.0 A Key Component for SOA

An independent report from ZapThink on DataDirect XQueryTM version 2.0 concludes that the performance challenges imposed by very large XML messages potentially threatens the viability of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations, and that DataDirect XQuery version 2.0 is robust enough to overcome these challenges when working with such messages. "

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September 1, 2006

XML Productivity Through Innovation.

This Is A Tool That I Can Grow To Love

Tuc Goodwin Reports: "I was recently presented with the opportunity to do a review on an XML software editing tool, Stylus Studio 2006 Enterprise Edition, release 3. My assumption was that I would have a nice IDE, some nice color coding display and perhaps a wizard or two. Boy was I wrong. The Stylus Studio program is truly a studio effort. This is a tool that I can grow to love."

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April 18, 2006

New Report On XML Data Integration Tool

New Report On XML Data Integration Tool

WebProNews Reports: "A recently released report by ZapThink touts the ability of DataDirect's standards-based XQuery, a java component for integrating relational and XML data, to address the challenges involved in data integration and allow the user to determine runtime infrastructure. "

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April 7, 2006

Stylus Studio 2006 Makes Querying XML Easy!

Stylus Studio 2006 Makes Querying XML Easy!

Developer Pipeline Reports: "Stylus’ XML Schema editor is simple to use and can automatically generate Schemas from XML data and DTDs. Through a Schema documentation wizard, developers also can create XML Schemas directly from EDIFACT, including X12 and its transaction set. XML Schemas generated from converted EDI files can validate XML data captured from those files. "

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April 4, 2006

Simplify XML Data Integration

Stylus Studio Enhances XML-To-EDI Support

WebProNews Reports: "Stylus Studio's EDI-to-XML and XML-to-EDI tools now support hundreds of message and transaction set types of EDIFACT and X12 - across dozens of versions - allowing EDI to be used as easily as XML as input to XSLT and XQuery programs. And those same programs can write output through the adapter, generating EDI transparently and automatically."

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April 1, 2006

Simplify XML Data Integration

Simplify XML Data Integration

SQL Server Magazine Reports: "The new release features updated support for both XQuery 1.0 and Extensible Style Language Transformations (XSLT) 2.0, both of which have integrated support for DataDirect XML Converters. The XML Converters are Java components that let you read and write data, whether your data source is XML, relational, EDI, or legacy data. Additional features include Folding XML Code support and integrated support for the Saxon SA 8.6 processor."

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March 29, 2006

New Book on XQuery

New Book on XQuery

Billtrippe.com Reports: "Stephen Buxton, who is Director of Product Management for Mark Logic, has co-authored a new book, Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in Context. It’s a honking 848 pages, which doesn’t surprise me. Along with the folks at DataDirect (who market Stylus Studio and DataDirect XQuery), Mark Logic really represents both the thought leadership and a growing center of excellence on XQuery."

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March 27, 2006

CRN Reviews Stylus Studio

CRN: Querying XML With Stylus Studio 2006

CRN Reports: "[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."

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February 6, 2006

Stylus Studio overachieves with XML

Network World: Stylus Studio is Beautiful!

Network World Reports: "DataDirect could be accused of being overachievers - Stylus Studio is a smorgasbord of tools. The user interface of the Integrated Development Environment is beautiful"

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February 6, 2006

Sys-Con Australia: XQuery Co-inventor Speaks Out

Sys-Con Australia: XQuery Co-inventor Speaks Out

Sys-Con Australia: "Anyone interested in knowing how to get started with XQuery, or what features are upcoming, will be pleased to know that there's a new interview with XQuery co-inventor Jonathan Robie just gone online."

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December 15, 2005

SD Times: Stylus Studio Supports Newest XML Standards

SD Times: Stylus Studio Supports Newest XML Standards

SD Times Reports: " DataDirect Technologies in mid-November released Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition, the latest revision of its XML IDE, with updates to support the newest XML standards, including XQuery and the X12 ANSI standard for EDI transaction interchange."

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December 1, 2005

SD Times: Stylus Studio Supports Newest XML Standards

ASP.NET Pro Magazine: Stylus Studio Launches XML Converters

ASP.NET Pro Magazine Reports: "Stylus Studio announced the availability of DataDirect XML Converters. These Java components provide bi-directional, programmatic access to virtually any data source as XML. DataDirect XML Converters allow developers to seamlessly stream non-XML data as XML to industry-leading XML processing components, including Apache's Xalan XSLT Processor, and the Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processors."

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November 23, 2005

CNET's Top Pick: Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition

CNET's Top Pick: Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition

Paul Hughes, Contributing Editor, CNET Download.com says in this week's Download Dispatch newsletter: "If you're a high-powered XML developer, chances are you already know about Stylus Studio, one of the most high-power IDEs around for XML. Whether you've heard about it or not, though, anybody who works with XML would do well to check out Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Edition 2006, a major release that just came out last week. Just as it always has, Stylus Studio cuts your dev time by giving you stable, intuitive, well-designed tools that work the way you expect them to, but this release adds even better standards conformance and a lot of new functionality, including powerful XML Converters, screen-saving XML code-folding, a new EDI conversion and validation wizard, and updated XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 support."

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November 22, 2005

The Case for XQuery

The Case for XQuery

XML use is widespread across modern information systems in all industry, government, and academic sectors. The core technologies for processing XML (XML, XSLT, XPath, XML Schema, and others) are maturing steadily - thanks to support from standards bodies like the W3C and OASIS, and from major industry players such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. XML is also the basis for a growing body of industry standards for data exchange, and it is well on its way to becoming a mainstream technology for data integration. XML is transforming not just data - it is transforming information processing in general.

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November 16, 2005

Question What You Read—With XQuery

Question What You Read—With XQuery

EContent Magazine Columnist Robert J. Boeri reports: "I asked the same question of representatives at Data Direct, a subsidiary of Progress Software (which developed Stylus Studio software and Data Direct's XQuery for Java). Larry Kim, XML product manager at Data Direct, demonstrated how to use Stylus Studio's XQuery to analyze CSV Web logs and ferret out the name of a site and its users trying to access a Web server. Larry also pointed out that not only was XQuery a very compact language, but it could be applied to groups of XML files, different from the usual file-at-a-time orientation of other XML standards. Jonathan Robie, Data Direct's XML program manager and editor of several XQuery-related standards at the W3C, repeated this theme."

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November 11, 2005

Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition Simplifies Data Integration

Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition Simplifies Data Integration

XML Journal Reports: "Stylus Studio, the provider of XML development tools and components for advanced data integration, has announced the immediate availability of Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition, the latest revision of its award-winning XML IDE. The new release provides a significant upgrade in usability and XML standards conformance, and many new features further simplify XML data integration tasks faced by developers."

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November 11, 2005

DataDirect Launches XML Converters for Accessing Any Data Source as XML

DataDirect Launches XML Converters for Accessing Any Data Source as XML

XML Journal Reports: "Stylus Studio, provider of XML development tools and components for advanced XML data integration, has announced the immediate availability of DataDirect XML Converters, high-performance Java components that provide bi-directional, programmatic access to virtually any data source as XML. DataDirect XML Converters allow developers to seamlessly stream non-XML data as XML to industry-leading XML processing components including Apache's Xalan XSLT Processor, and the Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processors."

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November 3, 2005

W3C Close In on Key XML Specs

W3C Close In on Key XML Specs

InternetNews.com's Clint Boulton Reports: The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) had a landmark day for XML development, recommending XSLT 2.0 and XML XQuery 1.0 as standards for transforming and querying XML... XML tools maker DataDirect Technologies earlier this year said 52 percent of 550 XML developers surveyed have started working with XQuery 1.0.

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October 17, 2005

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1871309,00.asp

Flexibility Is Key to Access

eWEEK's Peter Coffee Reports: "Also available from DataDirect is the Stylus Studio IDE (integrated development environment) for XQuery programming , combining XML editing with XQuery debugging and other related capabilities."

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October 4, 2005

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/05/10/04/1834242.shtml

NewsForge Reports: Stylus Studio Offers Free Upgrade to Users of Competitive Products

NewsForge, the Online Newspaper for Open Source and Linux Reports: Customers who Purchased Competitive Products Can Now Obtain a Free Upgrade to Stylus Studio 6 XML Enterprise Edition, the World's Best XML IDE

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September 6, 2005

Learn XQuery in 10 Minutes: New 10 minutes to XQuery article now available.

Learn XQuery in 10 Minutes: New 10 minutes to XQuery article now available.

The Stylus Studio Web site published a new article from Dr. Michael Kay to teach newbies XQuery in ten minutes. Kay is coauthor of the W3C's XSLT specification and maintainer of the Saxon XSLT processor. The article is free and available online now.

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August 30, 2005

Deploying XML Data Services with Stylus Studio

ZapThink Report: Deploying XML Data Services with Stylus Studio

Stylus Studio 6 XML Enterprise Edition from DataDirect Technologies is a mature XML Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that offers developers a complete set of capabilities for increasing XML development productivity. In particular, the latest release augments their popular XML editor, XSLT debugger, and other XML tools with extensive legacy data integration capabilities, enabling developers to create XML data services in either Java or .NET environments that access a wide range of legacy data formats and systems. The key to Stylus Studio’s success with customers is the completeness of their offering as well as their platform-neutral delivery approach, unlike the platform-specific offerings of its competitors.

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August 27, 2005

Data Direct Offers XQJ Tutorial: Provides Intro to the XQuery API for Java

Data Direct Offers XQJ Tutorial: Provides Intro to the XQuery API for Java

"The XQuery API for Java, currently under development as JSR 225, lets programmers have the best of both worlds," the authors say, "using XQuery for XML programming and data integration, with full access to the J2SE and J2EE platforms. XQJ allows a Java program to connect to XML data sources, prepare and issue XQueries, and process the results as XML.

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August 19, 2005

Stylus Studio Wins SQL Server Magazine's Readers Choice Award for Best XML IDE

Stylus Studio Wins SQL Server Magazine's Readers Choice Award for Best XML IDE

In the September issue SQL Server Magazine, Senior Associate Editor Dawn Cyr writes, "This year, heavy [hitter] ... DataDirect Technologies rose above the competition to dominate the development space ... DataDirect Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition is an advanced XML IDE that provides a comprehensive set of XML tools and features for working with XML, XQuery, SQL/XML, Web services, and many other XML technologies. The product's feature set includes synchronized, visual XML editing views; comprehensive XSLT development support; support for visual XQuery editing, XQuery mapping, and XQuery debugging; and support for visual XML Schema editing."

"Recognition from customers in the industry is an honor and is the ultimate 'seal of approval' for the products that won," said Michele Crockett, Associate Publisher, SQL Server Magazine. “The SQL Server Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards were started as a way for readers to choose and recommend the best technology products in the industry. The awards program gives readers the opportunity to voice their opinions and for leading technology companies to receive the recognition they deserve."

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July 20, 2005

XML Journal: A Worldwide Call to End the Oppressive Tyranny of Pay-per-Features

XML Journal: Stylus Studio® offers Unprecedented Employee Discount for Everyone

XML Journal: Stylus Studio® today announced that for the first time in history, its employee discount on the Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition is being extended to XML developers everywhere through July 31, 2005. "Developers will pay the same great price Stylus Studio® employees pay - not a cent more," said the company in an announcement.

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July 20, 2005

SoftsLists: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition Wins 5 Stars Rating

SoftsLists: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition Wins 5 Stars Rating

Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition is the world's most powerful XML IDE for working with any XML technology. Stylus Studio® provides editors, debuggers, and utilities for simplifying your next XML project. Some of the highlights of Stylus Studio® include an XML Editor with integrated parser and validator, a visual XML Schema Editor, a DTD editor, XML Mapping tools, Web Service tools, XML import/export tools, Relational Database to XML conversion tools, Java and XML support, XML document wizards and more.

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July 20, 2005

SoftsLists: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition Wins 5 Stars Rating

Soft20: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition Wins 5 Star Award

Stylus Studio® is the only XML IDE to provide fully integrated development support for all popular industry XML processing components, including Apache Xalan, Xerces, MSXML, Saxon, System.XML, XSV, etc. It is also the first and only XML IDE to provide round-trip, visual editing and mapping views for XML Schema, XSLT and XQuery allowing you to edit either a visual model or the underlying XML code in a synchronized way. Furthermore, with Stylus Studio®, there is no need to install/purchase a "suite" of 6 or more different applications - you get everything you need all in one powerful, comprehensive XML IDE!

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July 15, 2005

SD Times: XML IDE Generates Java Code - Stylus Studio® update also now converts EDI schemas

SD Times: XML IDE Generates Java Code - Stylus Studio® update also now converts EDI schemas

SD Times Reports: Also new is support for converting schemas based on the Electronic Document Interchange format to XML, as well as support for the working draft of the XQuery 1.0 specification, established by the W3C standards body in April. XQuery, which searches applications for XML code, and XSLT, which transforms the code to other formats, are critical to enterprise data integration.

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July 15, 2005

Windows IT Pro: New and Improved! Create Advanced XML Data Integration Applications

Windows IT Pro: New and Improved! Create Advanced XML Data Integration Applications

Windows IT Pro Reports: DataDirect Technologies announced Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition, a tool for advanced XML data integration projects. The software includes tools for XML mapping, XML data modeling, Web services development, and legacy data integration. The new release includes tools for Java code generation for XQuery and XSLT stylesheets, new XML Schema tools including EDI/EDIFACT document conversion, a new File Explorer window for managing complex files, a new XML text view that lets you view two documents side by side, and a canonical XML converter.

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July 2, 2005

XML Journal: A Worldwide Call to End the Oppressive Tyranny of Pay-per-Features

XML Journal: A Worldwide Call to End the Oppressive Tyranny of Pay-per-Features

XML Journal: Stylus Studio® today issued a call to the global community of XML developers, to celebrate their independence from incomplete and over-priced XML IDEs. With the new product launch of Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition, which the company describes as "the most powerful and productive XML IDE for developing, debugging and now, deploying advanced XML applications," XML developer productivity - says Stylus Studio® -will be preserved for generations to come, safeguarding the hard-earned independence and the rights of XML developers everywhere.

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June 28, 2005

XML Journal: A Worldwide Call to End the Oppressive Tyranny of Pay-per-Features

DMReview: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition from Stylus Studio®

DMReview, Covering Business Intelligence, Integration & Analytics reports: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition from Stylus Studio® is packed with powerful new tools for Java code generation, EDI/EDIFACT document conversion and XQuery application development. This is a comprehensive tool for advanced XML data integration projects, including tools for XML mapping, XML data modeling, Web services development and legacy data integration.

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June 13, 2005

Database Trends and Applications: DataDirect Technologies Announces Stylus Studio® XML Enterprise Edition Release 3

Database Trends and Applications: DataDirect Technologies Announces Stylus Studio® XML Enterprise Edition Release 3

DBTA Reports: "The new edition of Stylus Studio® allows software developers and integration architects to generate code for XQuery and XSLT stylesheets and deploy that code to a live production server or application. It also captures the settings specified in the XQuery and XSLT scenarios--the choice of XML processor, parameters, input/output files, and post-processing options, for example--and reflects them in the generated Java code."

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June 8, 2005

Business Integration: Stylus Studio® Announces Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition

Business Integration: Stylus Studio® Announces Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition

Stylus Studio® announces the release of Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition, the newest edition of the award winning Stylus Studio® XML IDE. Packed with powerful new tools for Java code generation, EDI/EDIFACT document conversion, and XQuery application development among others, Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition is the world's most comprehensive tool for advanced XML data integration projects.

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June 8, 2005

InfoWorld: Stylus Studio® offers tool for XML data integration projects

InfoWorld: Stylus Studio® offers tool for XML data integration projects

Stylus Studio® announced the release of Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition, comprehensive tool for advanced XML data integration projects. The IDE offers new tools for Java code generation, EDI/EDIFACT document conversion, and XQuery application development, as well as tools for XML mapping, XML data modeling, Web services development and legacy data integration. Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition, Release 3 is available now priced starting at $995 for a single-user license, with volume discounts available.

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June 7, 2005

Java Developers Journal: Stylus Studio® XML 6 EE Generates Java Code

Java Developers Journal: Stylus Studio® XML 6 EE Generates Java Code, New Version Adds Choice and Innovation

JDJ Reports: Packed with powerful new tools for Java code generation, EDI/EDIFACT document conversion, and XQuery application development among others, Stylus Studio® 6 XML Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive tool for advanced XML data integration projects, and includes tools for XML mapping, XML data modeling, Web services development, and legacy data integration. The company says its new release raises the bar for XML developer productivity, setting a new standard for quality, innovation and value in XML tools industry.

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May 19, 2005

ContentWire: Increasing XML Developer Productivity

ContentWire: Increasing XML Developer Productivity

ContentWire Reports on a serious challenge facing software developers and integration architects today - the lack of choice and innovation in quality XML tools, particularly for solving advanced XML data integration applications. Read how Stylus Studio® can help!

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May 19, 2005

SQL Server Magazine: More details on SP4 and XQuery

SQL Server Magazine's Kevin Kline reports on XQuery in SQL Server 2005

As I’ve tried to educate myself more about SQL Server 2005, one area that seems more grey than black and white is XQuery. From what I’ve gathered, XQuery is a sort of XML/SQL hybrid. There’s a cool interview [conducted by Stylus Studio®] with Michael Rys.

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May 3, 2005

ADT Magazine: Microsoft MVPs Petition for XQuery Support in Whidbey

ADT Magazine: Microsoft MVPs Petition for XQuery Support in Whidbey

ADT Reports: 'But XQuery is more than just a cool database query language, says Larry Kim, XML products manager at DataDirect. XQuery is actually an important middleware integration technology for simplifying Web services and implementing SOAs. In fact, DataDirect sees XQuery as a core infrastructure component that is, in the words of the petition, "too important a technology to be dropped from Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0..."'

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May 2, 2005

Petition für XQuery

Petition für XQuery (German)

German IT Publication, dot.net Magazin reports: "XQuery steht für XML Query Language (manchmal auch XQL abgekürzt) und bezeichnet eine vom W3C spezifizierte Abfragesprache für XML-basierte Datenbanken. XQuery ist dazu gedacht, aus großen XML-Datensammlungen einzelne Teile herauszusuchen."

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May 2, 2005

We want our XQuery

ZDNET: We Want our XQuery

ZD Net's Joe McKendrick reports on how the folks at Stylus Studio® — and ostensibly, about 120 other Microsoft partners — are not happy about Microsoft's decision to drop XQuery from .NET

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May 2, 2005

Can XQuery Be Saved on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Larkware: The Daily Grind

Mike Gunderloy of Larkware Reports: Help Support XQuery on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (Whidbey) - Microsoft is dropping XQuery support. Stylus loves XQuery, so they're organizing an online petition and e-mail campaign.

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May 1, 2005

ContentWire:  XQuery Adoption Rate Soaring Among XML Developers

ContentWire: XQuery Adoption Soaring Among XML Developers

ContentWire, a publication covering vertical technology sectors, e-business, and new economy news reports on the Stylus Studio® XQuery Industry Study.

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April 28, 2005

ADT Magazine: Microsoft MVPs Petition for XQuery Support in Whidbey

LinuxWorld Magazine: XQuery Petition Circulates Among .NET and XML Communities

LinuxWorld Reports: This development may simply be amusing to some members of the Java community, which supports XQuery through their work in JSR 225: An XQuery API for Java, and thus has no quarrel with how XQuery is being handled in their world.

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April 28, 2005

Can XQuery Be Saved on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Can XQuery Be Saved on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0?

.NET Developer Journal Reports: Stylus Studio® is Asking the Community of Microsoft and XML Developers to Get Involved.

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April 28, 2005

Survey: 50%+ of Enterprise Devs Using XQuery

Survey: 50%+ of Enterprise Devs Using XQuery

Vance McCarthy Reports: More than half of all XML developers are working with XQuery, and another sizeable group expects to start before the end of the year That’s according to a DataDirect Technologies survey just released of some 550 "XML developers" (which DataDirect defines as including a wide range of XML and database professionals)."

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April 27, 2005

Beyond Tables: Dealing with the Convergence of Relational and XML Data

Beyond Tables: Dealing with the Convergence of Relational and XML Data

Developers are under increasing pressure to work with heterogeneous information. The advent of XML provided a data representation suitable for both regular (database tables) and irregular content, and was a significant step forward, but representation alone is not enough. We need a powerful standardized method for querying that data as well. XQuery fulfills that need."

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April 23, 2005

Gilbane Report: Convinced of XQuery's Core Benefits

Gilbane Report: Convinced of [XQuery's] Core Benefits

Bill Trippe, a content management analyst with the Gilbane Report writes about a recent chat with Jerry King, VP of XML Products at DataDirect Technologies, stating: "I am involved in a project now where XQuery is the central technology, and I am convinced of its core benefits for this client and for others."

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April 22, 2005

Survey Finds XML Devs Flocking to XQuery

InternetNews.com: XML Buffs Laud XQuery

InternetNews.com reporter, Clint Boulton reports: "If a recent survey is any indication, demand for a standard way to see a database table as an XML document is blossoming." Read the entire report now!

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April 20, 2005

Survey Finds XML Devs Flocking to XQuery

Survey Finds XML Devs Flocking to XQuery

Open Enterprise Trend's Vance McCarthy reports that more than half of all XML developers are working with XQuery, and another sizeable group expects to start before the end of the year.

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April 1, 2005

XML Made Easy... And Free

XML Made Easy... And Free

University Business, the Magazine for College and University Administrators reports: Stylus Studio® introduces the Stylus Studio® 6 Home Edition, Release 2. It's a value-priced XML development environment for home and student users, featuring tools for XML, XSL, XSLT, XML Schema and Document Type Definitions. The new Stylus Studio® release adds a completely revamped XML Schema Editor, updated support for XSLT 2.0 editing and debugging, and hundreds of customer-requested usability enhancements which simplify learning of advanced XML concepts. Users can download and try Stylus Studio® 6 Home Edition free for 30 days (or take advantage of the $49 academic pricing option).

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March 28, 2005

XQuery Adoption Rate Soaring Among XML Developers - Industry Survey Shows Widespread Use

XQuery Adoption Rate Soaring Among XML Developers - Industry Survey Shows Widespread Use

XML Journal Reports: "DataDirect Technologies, the industry leading provider of XML and XQuery development tools and XQuery processing components for data integration, announced that 52% of XML developers have already started working with XQuery in the last 12 months and another 33% have plans to start using XQuery in 2005. This is just one of many key findings of a newly published, comprehensive XQuery Industry Study conducted by DataDirect Technologies of 550 software professionals representing a dynamic range of small, medium and large companies across dozens of industries from 48 countries."

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March 28, 2005

eWEEK Picks Excellence Award Finalists

Stylus Studio® Selected as eWEEK Excellence Award Finalist

Stylus Studio® 6 is selected as a finalist in the EWeek excellence awards in the productivity category. According to EWeek: "In the five years we've been running the Excellence Awards program, we've been impressed with the field of entered candidates. This year, however, the Excellence Awards judges—eWEEK analysts and members of the eWEEK Corporate Partner Advisory Board—found the process of determining finalists especially challenging."

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March 28, 2005

Developers Flock to XML Query Spec

Developers Flock to XML Query Spec

Eweek Reports: A new survey of developers using XML has found that a vast majority are using or plan to use XML Query even before it becomes a standard because of the language's ability to simplify data extraction.

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March 28, 2005

Waiting to XQuery

Waiting to XQuery

ZDNET's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) columnist Joe McKendrick Eweek Reports:

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March 21, 2005

Larkware Reviews Stylus Studio® 6 XML Professional Edition Release 2

Larkware Reviews Stylus Studio® 6 XML Professional Edition

LarkWare's Mike Gunderloy says: "I'm with those who want an XML IDE, a program that actually understands more about the XML technologies than I do, and that helps keep me from making too many terribly boneheaded mistakes. Stylus Studio® is a darned good example of such an IDE, and if you work extensively with XML you may find that it's just what you need to enhance your productivity immensely."

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March 18, 2005

XML/Web Services Journal Reviews Stylus Studio® 6 XML Professional Edition, Release 2 - An Integrated Tool with Breadth

XML/Web Services Journal Reviews Stylus Studio® 6 XML Professional Edition, Release 2 - "An Integrated Tool with Breadth"

Sys-Con's XML/Web Services Journal Reporter - Brian Barbash Says: "XML Development - the term can mean many different things given the technologies currently available. At the center of it all is XML Schemas, DTDs and instance documents. Building out from the base there's XSL, Web Services and XQuery just to name a few. Because of this, it's not uncommon for a developer to have several tools, each specialized in one of those technologies. Stylus Studio®, however, provides an integrated environment for XML development with broad support for the various technologies. This review covers its capabilities in some of the major areas."

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March 15, 2005

MSDN SQL Server Developer Center

MSDN SQL Server Developer Center

The MSDN SQL Server Developer Center picks-up Stylus Studio®'s recent interview with Dr. Michael Rys on XQuery, XML, and SQL Server 2005, the latest in a series of interviews of industry leading XQuery personalities, produced by Stylus Studio® for the Stylus Studio® Newsletter.

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March 10, 2005

Oracle Developer Network XML Technology Center

Oracle Developer Network XML Technology Center

The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) XML Technology Center picks-up a recent article with Dr. Daniela Florescu, on the short and long term vision for XQuery. The article was produced by, and featured in 'The Stylus Scoop', the official newsletter of the Stylus Studio® XML developer community.

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March 7, 2005

Stylus Studio® Takes a Big Step

Stylus Studio® Takes a Big Step

EWeek's Jim Rapoza says: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Professional Edition Release 2 adds compelling new features to the already very good XML and Web services editor...

One of the most useful new features in Stylus Studio® 6 Release 2 is the inclusion of solid visual editing capabilities for XML schema files. Using this feature, it was much easier to edit and create a large and complex XML schema. Also welcome was the ability to use the Convert to XML feature to convert EDI files into XML formats. This worked fairly cleanly and proved to be a simple process for anyone who has mapped legacy data formats into XML.

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March 1, 2005

Stylus Studio® Release 2 Offers EDI-to-XML Mapping

Stylus Studio® XQuery Innovator Awards, Call For Entries

XML Journal Reports: New Award To Recognize XQuery Innovators

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February 16, 2005

Stylus Studio® wins Top Honors from CNET's Download.com

Stylus Studio® wins Top Honors from CNET's Download.com

This powerful environment provides extensive functionality for developing XML applications. Stylus Studio® XML Professional Edition's convenient, tabbed interface lets you easily manage multiple documents. Add new buttons by dragging and dropping, and toggle panels just as easily. The preview window opens the document in Internet Explorer. Work with a DOM tree diagram, a grid representation, or raw XML text complete with highlighting and indenting. Numerous wizards assist in creating XML applications and converting among formats. You can map the schema of an XML file to the schema of another XML file, useful if you need the same information in several forms. As the last steps, you can debug your style sheets and design a Web service call without writing any code. Professionals will find the functionality-to-price ratio reasonable.

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February 10, 2005

A Love Affair with Stylus Studio®

A Love Affair with Stylus Studio®

Stylus Studio® might as well be called "Swiss Army Knife Studio" as there is not one thing it does not have the capability to do. From analyzing and viewing your XML, Stylesheets, and now XQuery in any which way you could ever want to, digging down into the heart of a transformation for performance tuning in ways you didn't even realize was possible.

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February 7, 2005

Stylus Studio® XML Professional Edition, Release 2 Now Available!

Stylus Studio® XML Professional Edition Released!

ADT News reports: "This adds a whole mess of new features to an already-excellent XML development environment. New stuff includes a new XML schema editor, XQuery and XPath updates, EDI-to-XML mapping, a new XML grid view, and a new utility for converting legacy files to XML. You can download a 30-day evaluation to check it out for yourself."

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February 2, 2005

Stylus Studio® Release 2 Offers EDI-to-XML Mapping

Stylus Studio® Release 2 Offers EDI-to-XML Mapping

The latest release of Stylus Studio® XML Professional Edition includes new features designed to improve usability, along with full support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)-to-XML mapping.

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January 31, 2005

Bamk Systems and Technology Online, part of the InformationWeek Media Network

XQuery's Impact on the Fiancial Industry

The coming year will bring many new developments to XQuery, the highly anticipated language for querying and creating XML documents, that will ultimately lead to a complete overhaul in the way banking software applications are built. Primarily queried from relational databases, business-critical data is increasingly required to be exchanged and processed as either XML data, or a combination of XML data and relational data. Recognizing this, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed XQuery as a uniform language for data exchange. In the same way that SQL provides a query language for relational databases, XQuery will provide a common language for accessing both XML and relational data stores. The promise XQuery brings to dramatically simplifying and accelerating data integration and querying XML is unprecedented. The emerging standard will revolutionize data exchange and the way applications are developed, deployed and utilized.

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January 20, 2005

Integration Developer News

Integration Developer News: XQuery Trends in 2005

Integration Developer News'Vance McCarthy discusses XQuery trends with Stylus Studio®'s Jerry King.

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January 7, 2005

DataDirect Predicts 2005 Will Be XQuery's Year

DataDirect Predicts 2005 Will Be XQuery's Year

XML-Journal reports that DataDirect is forecasting that 2005 will be a year in which a complete overhaul in the way software applications are built will occur.

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January 7, 2005

2005 Will See XML's Powerful Next Wave

2005 Will See XML's Powerful Next Wave

Open Enterprise Trends' Vance McCarthy chats with Jerry King, Stylus Studio® General Manager, on XQuery development trends in 2005.

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January 5, 2005

DataDirect Predicts 2005 Will Be XQuery's Year

DataDirect Technologies Announces Top 10 XQuery and XML Predictions for 2005

XML Mania — The Definitive XML Source reports on DataDirect's predictions on XQuery development trends in the next year.

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December 16, 2004

The Stylus Scoop Interviews XQuery and XML Schema Expert Priscilla Walmsley

The Stylus Scoop Interviews XQuery and XML Schema Expert Priscilla Walmsley

Editor Ivan Pedruzzi interviews Ms. Priscilla Walmsley on XQuery and XML Schema technologies, and their impact on database application development trends.

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November 22, 2004

KMWorld XQuery Article: Mark Logic and Stylus Studio partner

Mark Logic and Stylus Studio Partner

KMWorld - Mark Logic and Stylus Studio have formed an alliance that calls for integration of Stylus Studio’s XQuery development environment into Mark Logic’s Content Interaction Server.

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November 15, 2004

SD Times: With Stylus Studio® 6, XML Mapping Goes Both Ways: Transformation-defining text can be edited, redisplayed graphically

With Stylus Studio® 6, XML Mapping Goes Both Ways

SD Times reporter Edward J. Correia chats with Stylus Studio® Product Architect Ivan Pedruzzi about the new functionality in Stylus Studio® 6 XML Professional Edition.

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November 9, 2004

The Code Generation Network Interviews Dr. Michael Kay

The Code Generation Network Interviews Dr. Michael Kay

In an interview with the Code Generation Network, Dr. Michael Kay says: I'm doing some consultancy work with XML and XSLT users, which is great because it keep me in touch with what people are doing out in the real world, and I'm doing some work with product integrators, like Stylus Studio, who have released a new version of their XML toolkit that integrates Saxon debugging and profiling.

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October 18, 2004

ADT Magazine Review: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Professional Edition

Review: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Professional Edition

"Overall, this is a mature product that works quite well, and was capable of handling all the XML-related tasks that I threw at it." — Mike Gunderloy, MCSE, MCSD .NET, MCDBA, Contributing Editor ADT Magazine.

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October 7, 2004

WebServices Pipeline: Stylus Studio® 6 XML Pro Released

Stylus Studio® 6 XML Pro Released

Stylus Studio® 6 includes enhanced tools and support for XSLT 2.0, XQuery, XML Schema, and XML mapping. New features of version 6 include Convert to XML, a utility for converting legacy or non-relational data into any XML format, and XML Grid View, a spreadsheet-like interface for editing tabular XML data.

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Aug 19, 2004

ADT: Focusing on XQuery

Focusing on XQuery

ADT's Peter Bochner talks about XQuery with DataDirect President, Rick Reidy: Rick Reidy likes to call DataDirect "the Switzerland of data access." The XQuery query language specification has become a focus of DataDirect's, Reidy says. This fall, the company will beta test a database-independent XQuery engine that integrates conventional relational databases with XML data sources using XQuery. XQuery adherents believe the language will change server-side programming as much as Java servlets did. XQuery is designed to query collections of XML data -- not just XML files, but anything that can appear as XML, including relational databases.

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July 16, 2004

EWEEK: Stylus Studio® Has WYSIWYG View

Java Releases Ramp Up Productivity

Peter Coffee talks about XQuery with Jonathan Robie at JavaOne 2004: "Creating XML from relational databases is like report writing," said Jonathan Robie, XML program manager for DataDirect Technologies, of Bedford, Mass., while briefing eWEEK Labs at JavaOne. Records are best presented to people with HTML but best exchanged among processes with XML, Robie said. The flip side is that "XML data has hierarchy and sequence; relational data has neither," said Robie. Integrating data from these two worlds is a challenge developers would do well to start considering now because it's clear that most new projects will be XML-based but that legacy SQL data and established SQL skills will persist in the community for decades to come.

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February 2, 2004

PC Professionale - Product Review

Stylus Studio® is reviewed in PC Professionale (Italian)

Stylus Studio® is a highly flexible tool that greatly helps in the development of XML based applications. The sweet spot for Stylus Studio® is the set of functionality centered on XSLT transformations. You can click a section of an HTML document, result of an XSLT transformations, and immediately understand which sequence of template invocations have been involved in the generation of that part of the result. Productivity is highly enhanced by the Stylus Studio® XSLT step-by-step debugging and back-mapping functionality, even more when you are dealing with stylesheets developed by multiple authors.

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February 2, 2004

EWEEK: Stylus Studio® Has WYSIWYG View

Sonic's XML Editor Widens Database Support

Although XML and Web services have gotten a lot of attention as core technologies for the Internet and for enterprises, good tools for creating and editing XML-based content are still scarce. But there are some exceptional ones among the few that are available, and eWEEK Labs found that the latest version of Sonic Software Corp.'s Stylus Studio® maintains its position as one of the better options.

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December 1, 2003

PC Magazine Italy: Stylus Studio® Review

Stylus Studio® reviewed by PC Magazine Italy (Italian)

Stylus Studio® 5.0 is the perfect solution for professional web architects; it provides developers with a set of advanced tools for the creation and handling of XML documents. The most interesting new feature is the XQuery editor, debugger and profiler, compliant with the latest W3C draft specifications; it allows the creation of complex XML queries involving joinining, ordering, aggregation and filtering. All this is made even simpler by the presence of a visual mapper that allows the creation of complex XQuery by visually linking source and target structures.

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November 11, 2003

ITWEB: Progress sets new standard for XML development with Sonic Stylus Studio® 5.0

Progress sets new standard for XML development with Sonic Stylus Studio® 5.0

"Stylus Studio® 5.0 makes building SOAP servers and clients a breeze. The ability to request the SOAP messages from a server directly and build a style sheet to process those messages in an interactive environment will ease development of future applications," says Mike Basile, system development for Aramark, a world leader in providing managed services, including food, facility and other support services and uniform and career apparel.

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November 7, 2003

Week IT (Italy): Product Review

IT Week (Italian): Stylus Studio® Product Review

"Stylus Studio® 5.0 makes building SOAP servers and clients a breeze. The ability to request the SOAP messages from a server directly and build a style sheet to process those messages in an interactive environment will ease development of future applications," says Mike Basile, system development for Aramark, a world leader in providing managed services, including food, facility and other support services and uniform and career apparel.

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November 1, 2003

Internet Professionell reviews Stylus Studio® 5.0 (German)

Stylus Studio® 5.0 is reviewed in Germany's Internet Professionell Magazine (German and English translation)

Stylus Studio® 5.0 wins high praise from a leading German IT publication for its comprehensive feature set.

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September 4, 2003

XML Journal Comments on new XML Editor 5.0

Sonic Software Releases Sonic Stylus Studio® 5.0 Integrated Development Environment for XML

XML-J News Desk reports on the release of powerful new IDE for XML

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September 3, 2003

EBizQ Times Reports on Stylus Studio® 5.0

Sonic Sounds Psyched About Latest Stylus Studio® Release

Sonic Software has debuted Sonic Stylus Studio® 5.0, its XML IDE. With this release, it "raises the bar for XML IDEs by delivering the most advanced XQuery tool on the market today. Stylus Studio® 5.0 provides visual mapping, editing and debugging of XQuery with industry-leading support for the May 2003 W3C XQuery specifications." Release 5.0 couples the Stylus Studio® XSLT and XML editors with XQuery tools, making Stylus Studio® "the most productive XML data integration tool available today"

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September 1, 2003

EE Times Reports on Stylus Studio® 5.0

Sonic Software Releases Sonic Stylus Studio® 5.0

CMP Media's EE Times, the industry source for engineers and technical managers worldwide reports on the release of Stylus Studio® 5.0.

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