[ANN] Altova ships v2005 Products with support for XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, XQuery, Eclipse in XMLSpy, M

[Altova Announcements]

1) Altova Announces General Availability of 2005 Product Line

Altova announces General Availability of version 2005 of its entire product line, which includes end-to-end support of the W3C's important forthcoming XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery specifications. Many other new features have also been added to Altova's applications, including automated function building, Eclipse integration, relational database content editing, and the revolutionary SchemaAgent that enables visual management of complex schemas and their components in workgroups.

XMLSpy 2005, MapForce 2005, StyleVision 2005, and Authentic 2005 are immediately available for download and FREE 30-day evaluation at:
http://www.altova.com/download; and for purchase via the Altova Online Shop at: http://www.altova.com/order. Existing Altova customers with a valid Altova Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) are eligible for a free upgrade to version 2005 production software.

For more information on everything new in Version 2005 please visit:
http://www.altova.com/whatsnew.html.

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While supplies last, you'll get a free 20GB Apple iPod with every purchase of the Altova Enterprise XML Suite plus the one or two year Altova Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) from Altova or its subsidiaries. So, for example, if you purchase a five pack of licenses for your development team, you'll receive five free iPods - one for each new user on your team! Certain export limitations and legal restrictions apply. See http://www.altova.com/ipod_promo.html for details.

The Altova Enterprise XML Suite 2005 includes Enterprise Editions of XMLSpy 2005, MapForce 2005, and StyleVision 2005 - the three best selling XML development tools on the market. The suite delivers all the capabilities of the individually purchased products, but at a considerable savings. For more details about the suite and its pricing benefits, visit:
http://www.altova.com/suite.html.

Altova SMP provides free major software updates, maintenance releases, and priority technical support for the duration of the support period. Please see our SMP page for more details at:
http://www.altova.com/support_package.html.

We bought 500 iPods to give away during this holiday promotion, but demand is expected to be very high, so don't delay! Once they're gone, this offer must end. To place your order, visit the Altova Online Shop at:
http://shop.altova.com.

3) FREE Altova XSLT 1.0/2.0 and XQuery Engines

The exact same XSLT and XQuery processors that are used within Altova XMLSpy 2005 and across Altova's product line are now available as free downloads from our web site. The Altova XSLT 1.0 Engine is fully compliant with the W3C XSLT 1.0 specification, the Altova XSLT 2.0 Engine is conformant with the latest working draft of the new XSLT 2.0 specification, and the Altova XQuery Engine is conformant with the XQuery 1.0 specification working draft. Each engine is packaged as a Windows executable with command-line control and is suitable for use in both client- and server-side application development. They are offered under free software licenses.

To download these free processors, please visit:
http://www.altova.com/resources_xsltengine.html.

 

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Altova announces General Availability of version 2005 of its entire product line, which includes end-to-end support of the W3C's important forthcoming XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery specifications.

Can anyone confirm from first-hand observation that the "current" and "document" functions are now supported in the StyleVision 2005 auto- calculation builder? What about the "key" function?

As you can deduce, my applications make heavy use of indirect references to shared resources, so support for these functions is critical.