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Every now and then I find something that feels so right that I need to talk about it. Michael Kay's XSLT book and Tony Graham's Unicode: A Primer were in that category, but now I've got a bit of software I'm really happy with. Architag's XRay is a beautifully simple bit of work which makes hand-coding XML and XSLT a lot easier. It lets you put up multiple editing windows for you documents and stylesheets, as well as output windows which let you see the raw transform results or a Web-browser view of those results if they happen to be HTML. As you make changes in one window, you see the results in another. Going back and forth is easy, though I'm wishing my monitor wasn't a paltry 15" deal. I reported on it for XML.com as part of the XML 2000 show floor review, but this is the first that I've had time to really use it. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/12/xml2000/showfloor.html It's only for Windows, as I believe it uses Internet Explorer and MSXML (3.0 - support for real XSLT) underneath, and I don't know how well it'll scale. It's probably not the best tool for managing transforms of 3.2MB documents using 1.1MB style sheets. There's very little extra support for writing here - it checks your work, but it doesn't do the work for you. On the other hand, it's really nice to see something which lets you do simple work simply. It's a beta (0.9.1), and I crashed it using the indent document feature. Otherwise, it's been stable. It's available, and for free, at: http://architag.com/xray/ Leave it to a training company to come up with a tool like this, which assumes you have a brain and can use it with the help of immediate feedback! Cool. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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