I'm very excited to announce the new v2015r3 release of XMLSpy today. XMLSpy continues to be the de-facto industry standard for XML Editing and we take that responsibility very seriously by adding support for new standards, improved technologies, as well as features that just make our users' work more productive every release.
This latest version of XMLSpy adds the following new features:
Let me tell you a little bit about each one of those features...
Published by OASIS, Web Services Security is an extension to the SOAP protocol designed to add security functions such as authentication to SOAP messages themselves for end-to-end security of complex Web services transactions. These measures add to those provided on the transport layer by HTTP security.
New options have been added to the SOAP Request Settings Dialog - shown in the screenshot below - which is accessed via the SOAP menu, allowing you to enable and edit HTTP security settings and WS-Security settings.
XBRL projects often require "extensible enumerations", which leave extension taxonomy editors free to augment the list of allowed values for a concept. This is particularly important for allowing enumeration values in multiple languages as well as reusing existing domain hierarchies as fact enumeration values.
XMLSpy 2015r3 now supports extensible enumerations with multi-language labels in the XBRL Taxonomy editor.
For more information on What's New in the other products of the Altova MissionKit desktop developer tools and our Server product family, please take a look at the "What's new" page on our website and at the Altova Blog.
This latest version of XMLSpy adds the following new features:
- Support for XPath 3.1 and XQuery 3.1
- Significantly extended XPath/XQuery tab
- Support for Web Services Security and other security extensions
- Support for XBRL Extensible Enumerations 1.0
- Support for custom fonts in Output Windows
Let me tell you a little bit about each one of those features...
Support for XPath & XQuery 3.1
The RaptorXML engine at the core of XMLSpy now fully supports the updated XPath 3.1 and XQuery 3.1 specifications, which were published as W3 Candidate Recommendations in December of 2014. New capabilities in XPath and XQuery 3.1 include:- Maps
- Arrays
- Support for JSON: parse-json, json-docs, serialize to JSON
- Lookup operator “?”
- Arrow operator “=>”
- New functions, e.g., sort, contains-token, parse-ietf-date
Significantly extended XPath/XQuery tab
The XPath/XQuery tab, which was augmented with innovative support for XQuery Update Facility in XMLSpy 2015, just got even more powerful for XSLT and XQuery developers. The new features - shown in the screenshot above - include:- Builder mode, offering a list of operators, expressions, and built in functions, which you can insert in your current expression by double clicking. Functions are inserted with their arguments indicated by “#” placeholders, making it easy to build expressions quickly and error-free. You can view a description of each item by hovering your mouse over it in the list. When you’re finished building an expression, click over to Evaluator mode to test the results.
- Enhanced entry helpers now display the description of built in functions, and then show helpful function and listentrymeter details as you type, speeding development and ensuring accuracy.
- Ready-to-use code snippets for complex statements such as FLWOR and XQuery Update expressions are provided in the Operator/Expression pane in Builder mode, allowing you to read a description of each and insert the expression at the cursor by double clicking.
- Nine tabs are even more useful for developing and testing complex expressions. Once you have composed an XPath or XQuery statement on one tab, switching to a new tab lets you build and analyze the results of a new expression – but when you switch back to the previous tab, the expression and results are still there. This allows you to switch back and forth between multiple expressions that you develop side-by-side and incrementally make changes to each one of them, preserving both the expression AND the result for each tab.
Support for Web Services Security & other extensions
In response to increasing demand for end-to-end security of Web services transactions, XMLSpy 2015r3 now supports authentication based on the WS-Security (Web Services Security) standard via client certificates and calling Web services via HTTPS.Published by OASIS, Web Services Security is an extension to the SOAP protocol designed to add security functions such as authentication to SOAP messages themselves for end-to-end security of complex Web services transactions. These measures add to those provided on the transport layer by HTTP security.
New options have been added to the SOAP Request Settings Dialog - shown in the screenshot below - which is accessed via the SOAP menu, allowing you to enable and edit HTTP security settings and WS-Security settings.
Support for XBRL Extensible Enumerations
XML Schema's xs:enumeration feature allows enumerated types to be defined. Such types have a fixed list of allowed values that cannot be changed until the next version of the schema is published.XBRL projects often require "extensible enumerations", which leave extension taxonomy editors free to augment the list of allowed values for a concept. This is particularly important for allowing enumeration values in multiple languages as well as reusing existing domain hierarchies as fact enumeration values.
XMLSpy 2015r3 now supports extensible enumerations with multi-language labels in the XBRL Taxonomy editor.
For more information on What's New in the other products of the Altova MissionKit desktop developer tools and our Server product family, please take a look at the "What's new" page on our website and at the Altova Blog.
