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XML Tools Support for DataDirect XQuery

Stylus Studio, DataDirect's award-winning XML IDE is just one of the XML application development tools that complements DataDirect XQuery. A plug-in for the popular Eclipse platform is also available.


Both Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite and the Editor for Eclipse provide support for DataDirect XQuery and offer the following abilities:

  • Browse relational data sources to configure connections
  • Write and test DataDirect XQuery queries
  • Drag and drop from data sources to help create XQuery path expressions
  • View query results
  • Automatically generate simple Java classes that run a query using DataDirect XQuery's implementation of the XQJ API (XQJ)

More about Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite

Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite is an XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE), designed to support a wide variety of XML technologies, including the following features that help speed development of DataDirect XQuery applications.

  • XQuery Editor — provides syntax coloring, code folding, auto-completion and automatic indenting, and allows ad-hoc queries.
  • Database Connections Window — simplifies creation of XQuery queries that access relational data.
  • XQuery Mapper — a visual tool that lets you create XQuery transformations that map multiple input data sources into an output XML structure. Supports two-way editing between the mapper visual representation and the XQuery source.
  • XQuery Debugger — lets you simulate XQuery execution step-by-step, or backmap from the query result into the XQuery source to understand which part of your query is responsible for each part of the output
  • XML Publisher — lets you generate HTML or XSL-FO (PDF, PostScript) reports by visually creating XQueries based on one or more XML, EDI, or Relational data sources.
  • XML Pipeline — lets you create complex XML applications consisting of multiple XML operations, such as XQuery processing, XML Schema validation, XPath-based flow control, nested pipelines and more. Fully supports pipeline and XQuery-level debugging.

There's so much more to say about this award-winning XML IDE. Visit the Stylus Studio web site for more information and XML IDE resources.

More about Editor for Eclipse

The Editor for Eclipse (DataDirect XQuery Edition) is an Eclipse plugin that provides XQuery and generic XML support in a widely used Java development environment. This plugin is fully integrated with DataDirect XQuery, and provides the following:

  • XQuery Editor — provides syntax coloring, code folding, auto-completion and automatic indenting, and allows ad-hoc queries.
  • Database Connections Window — simplifies creation of XQuery queries that access relational data.
  • XQuery Perspective — lets you focus on the components used for XQuery development.