Stylus Studio V5.1 173h Recent Changes and Fixes

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These notes contain information specific to the current release of Stylus Studio, V5.1 173h.

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Recent Changes and Fixes in Stylus Studio 5.1 173h

The following changes are introduced in V5.1 173h:

• Bug Fixes
• DB-to-XML preview window may not get properly populating when executing a SQL/XML query
• XSLT based XML-to-XML mapper may not display some children elements when using XML Schema as the source or target structure
• XSLT based XML-to-XML mapper may generate invalid namespace declarations
• XSLT based XML-to-XML mapper may report “Mapper Data Population Error” even if the source XSLT is correct
• XSLT XML-to-HTML WYSIWYG component may corrupt <input> elements

Recent Changes and Fixes in Stylus Studio 5.1 173g

The following changes are introduced in V5.1 173g:

• Enhancements to DB-to-XML Data Sources - DB-to-XML data sources, introduced in Build 173d, provide you with the ability to connect to and query a relational database, and to render the query result (relational data) as XML. Build 173g adds Stylus Studio's scenario functionality to DB-to-XML data sources: DB-to-XML data source scenarios give you the ability to create and save multiple sets of connection settings (database type, database server URL, and username and password) with a single SQL/XML query.
• Bug Fixes

Recent Changes and Fixes in Stylus Studio 5.1 173d

New Features

The following new features are introduced in V5.1 173d:

• Access to Relational Databases - Now you can query relational databases directly from Stylus Studio, render query results as XML, and write data back to the database. Query results returned by the DB to XML data source you define can be used in Stylus Studio anywhere you use an XML document.
  
  Using the intuitive DB-to-XML Data Source editor, you create a DB to XML data source which contains
• The connection settings you need to connect to the database server,
• The name of the database you want to query,
• And the SQL/XML you want to execute once you are connected

The DB to XML Data Source editor makes it easy to compose SQL/XML. WHen you connect to a database, the editor displays a tree showing the tables and columns associated with that database. To create SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE statements, you just drag the object and drop it on the editor's SELECT or UPDATE tabs, and Stylus Studio does the rest.

Stylus Studio supports several popular databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, DB2, and Sybase. And you can use DataDirect SequeLink, which is bundled with Stylus Studio, to connect to any ODBC-compliant database.

• XSLT Mapper Enhancements - The XSLT mapper has been greatly enhanced for Release 5.1, incorporating many of the powerful ease-of-use features of the popular XQuery mapper. The XSLT mapper allows you to graphically compose a stylesheet -- complete with comples XSLT instruction, XPath functions, user-defined Java functions, and logical operators -- without writing any code. As you build your stylesheet in the mapper, you can toggle to the XSLT Source tab in the XSLT editor and see the code that Stylus Studio is writing for you. You can make changes and additions directly to the source and see those changes reflected in the mapper when you display it.
  Other improvements to the XSLT mapper in Release 5.1 include:
• GUI tools to speed creation of named and matched templates
• Filters that allow you to display only those links that have been defined for the current template
  
  
• Support for the W3C November 2003 XQuery Specification - Stylus Studio’s XQuery processor has been significantly upgraded to support all new functions and grammar changes established by the November 2003 W3C XQuery Specification.
• Support for XPath 2.0 - The XML editor now supports both XPath 1.0 and Xpath 2.0. The default XPath processor supports Xpath 1.0, but you can change to 2.0 by clicking a button on the XML editor toolbar.
• Web Service Call Scenarios - The Web Service Call Composer now lets you create scenarios to determine which SOAP clients perform best in your application environment. SOAP clients supported in Stylus Studio 5.1 include MS SOAP Toolkit, MS .NET, and Apache Axis
• Catalog Support Enhancements - Stylus Studio Release 5.1 continues to strengthen its industry-leading catalog support with six new catalogs and updates to eleven -- 87 catalogs in all, and well over 2,200 schemas, *.ent and *.mod supporting files and *.xml tables. Enhancements for Release 5.1 include the addition of
• National Retail Federation's Association for Retail Technology Standards catalog
• Sun J2EE 1.4 schemas
• Web services and WS-I schemas, including WS-Managability, WS-AtomicTransaction, and WS-Coordination
• OASIS Common Alerting Protocol standard support
• Electronic Markup Code schemas
• PRISM publishing industry standard schemas

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