Subject: [xsl] [ANN] MarrowSoft Xselerator 2.5 Release From: "Trace Wilson" <trace_wilson@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 06:59:20 +1000 |
MarrowSoft Xselerator 2.5 Release ================================= - The professional programmers XSL IDE and Debugger Yes, the new and improved Xselerator 2.5 has arrived, with XSL-FO & SVG support and an even more powerful debugger, which includes stepping backwards! This release is available to everyone, even if you've downloaded Xselerator before - give it another go! Maybe we've given you just what you want. It is also a free upgrade to everyone who has purchased Xselerator. - more info: http://www.topxml.com/xselerator So what's new in 2.5? ===================== In brief: --------- - XSL-FO and SVG plug-in support; - Greater improvement in the debugger, intellisense, query analyzer - Support for your own defined namespaces (the intellisense integrates with it); - A template navigator window; - Stepping into imported/included stylesheets; - Integration with TopStyle, and more .... read on Now that you have been tempted, here are the new features in detail, but first everyone ... : Download the latest trial (http://downloads.topxml.com/xselerator/setup.zip) Output viewing -------------- ** Yes, Xselerator now supports SVG and XSL-FO! - Support for SVG and XSL-FO rendered output viewing (SVG requires Adobe SVG viewer plugin, XSL-FO requires external FOP engine); - Optionally set output browse, HTML, SVG and XSL-FO view modes to call default external display application. Attribute Value Intuitive (Intellisense) ------------------------------------ ** Improved intuitive - it even picks up the options for templates from your included/imported stylesheets. Have a look at the User defined prefixes for creating your own schema intellisense. - Attribute value intuitive for XSL/XSLT and HTML attributes; - Powerful XSLT attribute value intuitive gives, for example, suggestions for <xsl:call-template> @name attribute and <xsl:with-param> @name attribute, even for your included/imported stylesheets; - HTML style attribute values can use BradSoft TopStyle (v2.5) to create CSS style values; Debugger --------- ** Now quicker, faster and loads of new features, such as stepping backwards and stepping into imported stylesheets. - Stepping into included/imported stylesheets; - Infinite recursion detection and maximum limit recursion checking (and debugging up to recursion point); - New Step-over, Step out of, Step backward, Run to end and Restart capabilities; - Debug to error position - allows debugging to continue even when some critical errors are encountered; - Improved breakpoint features:- - Breakpoints now independent of bookmarks; - Unlimited numbers of breakpoints on input XML and XSL - Unlimited number of breakpoints on each line; - XML breakpoints now settable on all node types; - New short-cut keys for breakpoint activity; - Set breakpoints on line by clicking editor gutter - appropriate element on line is automatically selected; - Improved breakpoint condition processing performance; - New breakpoint disabling/enabling feature; - Save and restore of set breakpoints on stylesheets between Xselerator sessions; - Visual indication of when breakpoint has been set on a position that may not be stopped on - Enhanced Built-in Rule template displays and processing; - New look debugger toolbar buttons; - Save and restore of set watches between Xselerator sessions; - Improved incremental output analysis - right-click on output to find the XSL (and context XML node) that generated the output - Performance enhancements; Enhanced stylesheet navigation ------------------------------ ** Here are loads of time-savers. Ever get tired of looking for a template in your code? You're at a <xsl:call-template> or <xsl:apply-template> call and you quickly want to go to it? What about imported/included stylesheets? - Open included/imported stylesheet at cursor; - Right-click and select Goto template at cursor; - Template Navigator - shows all templates within the current (and imported/included) stylesheets - allows you to sort the view by alpha or order. - Single-click and you go to the template in the editor, double-click and you go to the template in the editor and the window closes. User Defined Prefixes -------------------- ** Speed up your XSLT development by not getting trapped with typo's, create your own namespace prefixes, so that you have your own configured intellisense. See the configured XSL-FO and SVG files for examples on how easy this is to set up. - New UDP (User Defined Prefixes) feature allows the configuration of namespace prefixes to work with your specific schema's - offering element/attribute/attribute value intuitive (intellisense). Each defined UDP can be configured with its own highlighting colours; - Supplied with UDP configuration files for XSL-FO and SVG Enhanced encoding support -------------------------- ** Displays Unicode characters (according to font availability) - Direct support for over 50 encodings (including UTF-7, full ISO-8859-x, Big5, Shift-JIS etc. - dependant on Windows version and capabilities); - Enhanced encoding detection and conversion; - Transformation output encoding detection XPath Query Analyser --------------------- ** Many new features, such as specifying keys and variables. - Complex query execution - offering the ability to execute XPath queries that return non node-set results; - Query Environments - allows keys and variables to be defined and used in XPath queries; - Query against debugger environment - allows current debug session defined variables, params and keys to be used within XPath expression Editing ------- ** Something all us Microsofties griped about - where is the Tab and Shift-Tab support?? It has arrived. If you like large files - you'll immediately notice the editor performance. - Tab and Shift-Tab now perform block indent and unindent (when lines selected); - XML tidier - prettifies your XML/XSLT by inserting indentation (W3C HTML Tidy can still be used); - Check well-formedness and validation (against DTD/Schema) buttons; - Interaction between Auto and Extended Auto tag completion options (turning off Auto tag completion but having Extended Auto tag completion on means that all close tags are added to the unclosed tag list automatically) - Improved editor performance; Snippet Library -------------- ** Some more time-savers. If you haven't tried out the Snippet Library and create you own quick snippets, like your <xsl:choose> syntax - then give it a try. But now you can set hotkeys and where you want the cursor to land when you've inserted your snippet. - Hotkeys for favorites - add you own Hotkeys; - Cursor positioning within a snippet when inserted. Transformation Engine configuration ---------------------------------- - Up to 16 transformation engines may now be configured (with example configurations for popular transformation engines); - MSXML4 internal transformation support added ** Note: For some of these new above features, please check the Options|'Environment Options' tab to switch on the new features. Take 2.5 for a free test drive! ====================== This download is available to everyone. So if you have tried out Xselerator before - give it another go! Download Xselerator 2.5 trial (http://downloads.topxml.com/xselerator/setup.zip) Xselerator sells for $125. For multiple license discounts, please check our great pricing at http://www.topxml.com/purchase/xseleator.asp Xselerator has become a market leader in XSLT developement. To mention only a few customers are Microsoft, Avanade, ICL MC, Boeing, Intel, Toyota, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, Bridgestone/Firestone, Zurich Insurance Company, Bank of America, GlaxoSmithKline, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, CSC, Intel, Adobe Sysems, Siemens, Pfizer, Merrill Lynch, XEROX, etc. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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