XML-based applications often require the use of an XSLT engine for performing transformations, an XQuery engine for executing queries, and/or an XML parser for well-formedness checking and validation.
Altova makes the same engines that drive its award-winning XMLSpy, MapForce, and StyleVision XML development tools available for use in your custom applications. Now you can use the very engines that have helped make Altova software the industry’s leading XML development toolset in your own applications - free of charge!
AltovaXML 2008 is an entirely free download that includes the Altova:
- XML validating parser
- XSLT 1.0 engine
- XSLT 2.0 engine (schema-aware)
- XQuery 1.0 engine (schema-aware)
AltovaXML2008 includes COM, Java, and .NET interfaces so that it can be used from a variety of different applications. You can also call its functionality from the command line. There is no license key code required to activate AltovaXML 2008, and you may use it in your applications royalty-free.
AltovaXML 2008 features include:
- Well-formedness checking
- Validation based on DTD or XML Schema
- XML transformations via XSLT 1.0
- Schema-aware XML transformations via XSLT 2.0
- XML queries and transformations via XQuery
- Ability to execute XSLT and XQuery transformations on OOXML data in Microsoft® Office 2007 documents
- Ability to execute XSLT and XQuery transformations on XML files stored in ZIP archives
- Support for processing Java, C#, JavaScript, and VBScript in XSLT stylesheets
- Support for XInclude and XPointer
- Command line operations
- COM interface
- Java interface
- .NET interface
AltovaXML 2008 is the only royalty-free processor to support schema-awareness in XSLT 2.0 and XQuery. The ability to access schema information provides several advantages, including isolating errors, simplifying debugging, and enhancing the performance of stylesheet and XQuery code.
AltovaXML 2008 is standards-based in full compliance with the respective W3C standards released by the W3C on January 23, 2007.
W3C standards supported include: XML 1.0, Namespaces in XML, XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0, XPath 1.0, XPath 2.0, XML Schema 1.0
ISO standards supported include: Office Open XML (OOXML)
AltovaXML 2008 is a an executable file that contains all of the engines and capabilities listed above. It is available in English and German-language versions.
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