[February 25, 2015] |
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Altova Continues Tradition of Robust Standards Support in its Latest Release
Altova® (http://www.altova.com)
announced today the release of Version 2015 Release 3 of its desktop
developer tools and server software products. This latest release
delivers updated standards support for XPath/XQuery 3.1, innovative new
tools for XPath and XQuery development, Web Services Security support,
and much more.
"We are delighted to continue to add extensive support and functionality
to our tried and true developer tools by incorporating customers' most
requested features, like Web Services Security," said Alexander Falk,
president and CEO of Altova. "It is feedback from our customers that
enables us to keep our tools on the cutting edge of what is really
needed in the competitive developer tools space."
New features are detailed below.
XMLSpy 2015r3:
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Support for XPath 3.1 and XQuery 3.1 adds to support for
previous versions of the standards. New features in the 3.1 version
include maps and arrays, which increase the flexibility and processing
speed of XPath and XQuery statements significantly. Now, it's easy for
customers to harness these advantages in XMLSpy.
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Significant enhancements to the XPath/XQuery Window in
XMLSpy provide another boost of power for XSLT and XQuery developers.
With new features such as Builder and Evaluator modes, enhancements to
entry helpers, ready-to-use code snippets for complex expressions, and
more, XPath and XQuery development is now faster and much easier to
test.
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To meet increasing demand for end-to-end security of Web services
transactions, XMLSpy now supports authentication based on the Web
Services Security (WS-Security) standard via client
certificates as well as calling Web services via HTTPS.
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Support for XBRL Extensible Enumerations is now provided in the
XMLSpy XBRL Taxonomy Editor. Extensible Enumerations leave taxonomy
editors free to augment the list of allowed values for a concept. This
is particularly important for allowing enumeration alues in multiple
languages.
MapForce 2015r3:
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String processing of input and output components in MapForce
enables the classification of any text file component (XML, JSON, EDI,
CSV, FLF, or FlexText) to be set as a string instead of as a file.
This is useful when encountering data that is not stored in a file,
but arrives in the form of a string of characters. Similarly, it may
be necessary to generate data in a particular format that is not
intended to be saved in a file, but instead will become a portion of a
larger output stream.
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FlexText support for Regular Expressions is an enhancement
added to the FlexText utility for parsing and converting text files in
MapForce. Support for regular expressions improves flexibility for
processing complex files.
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As described for XMLSpy (above) MapForce also now provides support for Web
Services Security and other security extensions in data
integration projects that consume Web Services data.
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Updated data format support in MapForce includes Excel 2013 as
well as additional EDIFACT and X12 EDI standards.
StyleVision 2015r3:
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XBRL Table Linkbase 1.0 support in StyleVision makes it even
easier to render multi-channel XBRL reports. When an XBRL Taxonomy
that contains table linkbase(s) is specified as a source data
structure in a StyleVision design, StyleVision can now access this
information and generate any table automatically, based on its defined
properties. You can refine the appearance of the table even further
using the XBRL Table Wizard, if desired. Support for XBRL Table
Linkbase speeds report design considerably.
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As with XMLSpy, StyleVision now supports XPath 3.1 in addition
to previous versions of the standard.
RaptorXML Server:
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Support for processing XPath/XQuery 3.1 (see above)
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Significant improvements to the Python interface of RaptorXML
Server provide numerous new features for XML and XBRL processing.
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Support for XBRL Extensible Enumerations (see above)
StyleVision Server & MapForce Server:
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StyleVision Server and MapForce Server provide high-performance
automation of report generation and execution of data mapping projects
defined in StyleVision and MapForce, respectively. Consequently, these
server products support the new features listed in the StyleVision and
MapForce sections above.
For more details and a complete list of all of the new features included
in version 2015r3, check out: www.altova.com/whatsnew.html.
About Altova
Altova® is a software company specializing in tools that assist
developers with data management, software and application development,
mobile development, and data integration. The creator of XMLSpy® and
other award-winning products, Altova is a key player in the software
tools industry and the leader in XML solution development tools. The
company offers a complete line of desktop developer software for XML,
SQL, and UML; high-performance workflow automation server products; and
a cross-platform mobile development platform. Altova focuses on its
customers' needs by offering a product line that fulfills a broad
spectrum of requirements for software development teams. With over 4.8
million users worldwide, including 91% of Fortune 500 organizations,
Altova is honored to serve clients from one-person shops to the world's
largest organizations. Altova is committed to delivering
standards-based, platform-independent solutions that are powerful,
affordable and easy-to-use. Founded in 1992, Altova is headquartered in
Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria.
Altova, MobileTogether, MissionKit, XMLSpy, MapForce, FlowForce,
RaptorXML, StyleVision, UModel, DatabaseSpy, DiffDog, SchemaAgent, and
Authentic are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Altova GmbH in
the United States and other countries. The names of and references to
other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of
their respective owners.
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