Editor's review
Altova MissionKit 2010 for Enterprise XML Developers combines XML development and data integration tools based on the development environment XML Spy. XMLSpy Enterprise is a XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies.
This development package is for the enterprise XML developer. Developer who needs access to advanced XML, XBRL, web services, style sheet design, and data integration capabilities and additional support for XML-aware file/directory differencing and merging, advanced XML-based file management, and Semantic Web development. The tools that are contained in the kit include XML Spy, MapForce, StyleVision, DiffDog, SchemaAgent and SemanticWorks. The XML Spy is a development environment that has modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies. It offers the top XML editor, schema designer, code generator, file converters, debuggers, profilers, support for XSLT 1.0/2.0, XPath, XQuery, XBRL, WSDL 1.1/2.0, SOAP, databases, Office 2007 (OOXML), JSON, Visual Studio, Eclipse, and so on.
MapForce Enterprise is a graphical data mapping, conversion, and integration tool that maps between any combination of XML, database, flat file, EDI, Excel 2007 (OOXML), XBRL, and/or Web service. The conversion then is done or a set of mapping code is generated. Style Vision provides a drag-and-drop stylesheet designer. The style sheet generated helps transform XML, XBRL, and database content into HTML, PDF, RTF, Word 2007 (OOXML), and e-Forms output. It supports XSLT 1.0/2.0, XSL:FO, CSS, JavaScript, and all major databases. DiffDog is a tool for finding differences and works in XML environment. SchemaAgent helps visualizing and managing XML Schema, XML instance, WSDL, and XSLT file relationships. SemanticWorks is a graphical RDF/OWL editor for the Semantic Web. Truly an integrated environment and is available for trial. Do try out in your actual situation to find if it is the right choice. It is likely to be, it seems to take care of everything! Strictly for specialists.
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