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XML Tools Support for DataDirect XQuery®

Stylus Studio® 2007 XML Enterprise Suite, 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® 2007 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® 2007 XML Enterprise Suite

Stylus Studio® 2007 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.