Product Variants

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Altova XMLSpy 2012 Enterprise Edition [New Licence]

Altova XMLSpy 2012 Enterprise Edition [SMP Renewal]

Altova XMLSpy 2012 Professional Edition [New Licence]

Altova XMLSpy 2012 Professional Edition [SMP Renewal]

Other product variants may be available, please contact us or request a call back if you cannot see what you are looking for.

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Product Information

Altova XMLSpy 2012 R2 is a best-selling XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies. It offers a leading XML editor and graphical schema designer, code generators, file converters, debuggers, profilers, database integration, chart creation, support for XSLT, XPath, XQuery, WSDL, SOAP, XBRL, JSON and Open XML (OOXML), plus Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins and more.

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New Features

New in XMLSpy 2012 R2

• EPUB 2.x support - support for the EPUB 2.x standard for electronic publications - edit, validate and preview EPUB documents
• Zip and OOXML support extended to Professional Edition - now you can work with Open XML (OOXML) and use the ZIP archive tools in the Professional Edition
• Faster start-up - improved performance when starting XMLSpy - it launchs in almost half the time previously required
• Support for logical files in IBM iSeries databases - enhances database integration by supporting logical files, which are specific to IBM iSeries
• Ability to escape/unescape XML characters - easy command for escaping/unescaping characters to be included as text/XML.

New in XMLSpy 2012

• HMTL 5 support - provides context sensitive editing help in both static entry helper windows and drop-down menus that offer allowed element and attribute choices as you type
• CSS3 support - XMLSpy CSS editor now supports CSS3 in addition to CSS2.1
• JDBC database driver support - supports JDBC drivers in addition to existing ODBC and ADO options
• Java API - includes a new, native Java API, giving Java developers an easy way to automate XMLSpy
• New samples for API use - ships with code samples in JScript, C#, and Java
• Find in project - the power of the Find in Files and Find in Schemas functionality in XMLSpy has now been extended to XMLSpy Projects.

New in XMLSpy 2011 R3

• Digital signatures for XML documents - assign digital signatures to XML documents via XML Signature technology
• Support for PXF (Portable XML Forms) - PXF (Portable XML Form) is a revolutionary new file format for saving and distributing portable XML forms for use with Altova Authentic
• Support for .NET 4.0 scripting - R3 adds support for the latest version, .NET 4.0
• Ability to add additional .NET assemblies for scripting - bringing even more flexibility and power to the scripting environment
• New spell checker with improved dictionary support - adds a completely new spell checker that provides support for more languages, as well as extended support for language peculiarities.

New in XMLSpy 2011 R2

• Embed external files in XML - embed files such as images directly into XML files encoded in Base16 or Base64
• Customisable documentation generation - use StyleVision to customise document generation templates
• Enhancements to chart creation functionality - new customisation options and chart types including Stacked Bar charts, Area charts, Stacked Area charts, Candlestick charts and more
• Sorting of global elements, types, etc. in schema view - sort some or all components of a schema (elements, types, etc.) with just one click
• Refactoring support for XML Schemas - quickly locate all the instances of a global element or type across a schema – and all imported and included schemas – and then rename that component in each place it occurs.

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Licensing

Installed User Licence

Install and use the Altova software of any PC up to the number of licenses purchased. For example, if you purchase a 5 User Installed License, you may install and run the Software on 5 machines and all 5 users can use the software at any given point in time.

Named User Licence

Per each Named User Licence, one individual may install and use the Altova software on up to 5 computers, provided they are the sole user of the software and are not using more than one copy at any one time.

Concurrent User Licence

Install the Altova software on any number of PC's up to 10 times the number of licenses purchased, provided that only the permitted numbers of users use the software at the same time.

For example, if you purchase a 5 User Concurrent License, you may install the Software on up to 50 machines (Permitted Number of Users 5 multiplied by 10 = 50). Although the Software maybe installed on up to 50 machines, only 5 users may use the software at any given point in time.

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Editions

Altova XMLSpy Professional Edition

• View and validate XML and DTD files, XML Schemas, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, Open XML (OOXML) and other file types.
• Includes an XML editor for powerful editing of XML files with support for XML differencing, project-wide find and replace and more.
• Graphical XML Schema designer with DTD tools
• Enhanced XSLT support with an XSLT debugger
• XPath support with an XPath analyser, auto-completion and generation
• XQuery debugger
• Support for databases including SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Visual Studio integration and Eclipse integration
• ZIP archive tools.

Altova XMLSpy Enterprise Edition

• Supports all the features of the Professional edition, plus:
• Web service design with a graphical WSDL editor and doc generator and support for SOAP 1.1/1.2
• Code generation ability for Java, C# and C++
• XLST profiler
• XQuery Profiler
• Graphical XBRL taxonomy editor
• Charting tools
• XML digital signatures.

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Subscriptions

Purchase of the Altova Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) provides you with a range of benefits including free updates and technical support.

SMP provides:

• Free access to new releases and maintenance updates during your active subscription period (specific to the product (s) you own).
• Priority technical support via a web-based support form. Typical response times are 1-2 business days within Europe.
• Mechanism to report bugs and software faults directly to Altova.

SMP is available as either a yearly purchase, or a 2 year purchase and must be purchased at the same time, or within 30 days, of purchasing an Altova product. SMP can be renewed but must be done so before your existing subscription expires (up to 90 days in advance). It is strongly recommended that you purchase SMP with your product.