EditiX 5.1 review

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EditiX is a cross-platform XML editor designed to help web authors and application programmers take advantage of the latest XML and XML-related technologies such as XSLT / FO and XSD Schema.

License: Shareware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 15011K
Developer: JAPISoft
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Price: $39.00
Updated: 15 Dec 2006
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EditiX is a cross-platform XML editor designed to help web authors and application programmers take advantage of the latest XML and XML-related technologies such as XSLT / FO and XSD Schema.

EditiX provides users with an extensive range of XML functionality within a refined IDE that guides you with intelligent entry helpers. EditiX has realtime XPath location and syntax error detection.

Helpers are also provided with context syntax popup supporting DTD, Schema and RelaxNG. EditiX supports multiple templates and project management.

User can apply XSLT or FO Transformation and show the result with a dedicated view. All the process can be managed by shortcuts. EditiX includes default templates with XML, DTD, XHTML, XSLT, XSD, XML RelaxNG, SVG,MathML and XML FO.

Here are some key features of "EditiX":
XSLT Editor and Debugger (1.0 and 2.0)
XML Differencing
XQuery Schema Generator (DTD, W3C XML Schema, XML Relax NG) from XML documents
Syntax error and document xpath location on-the-fly
FTP, WebDAV, ZIP, JAR support
Validation of XML documents against DTD/XML Schema/RelaxNG Unicode
Context sensitive content assistant based on XML Schema, DTD, XML RelaxNG Pretty formatting
XSLT / XSL-FO / DocBook transformation Convert DTD,XML Schema,XML RelaxNG
Powerful XPath builder/research DTD Caching for offline usage
Multiple criterias research (attribute,element,namespace...) XInclude
Project management Pretty print
Template support Drag'n drop for copying / moving nodes
Fully customizable (user preference, application descriptor) Default templates for XML, DTD, XSLT,  DocBook, XHTML,  XML RelaxNG, MathML, SVG, XSL-FO, ANT
OASIS XML Catalog
JAXP support for plugging a new parser or a new transformer.

Limitations:
30 days Evaluation.

What's New:
Global performance improvement
The first text characters are displayed in the tree
The tree text node is selected on a full text selection
The XPath on-the-fly includes text selection
The redefine element is managed for W3C Schema content assistant
RTF rendering for FOP
Various problems on cardinalities with the content assistant for W3C schema fixed
Tag delimiters were removed for a custor at the location 0
'All' connector for W3C Schema
include element for W3C Schema fixed
Graphics preview for FO
Tree actions could not operate when editing multiple documents
Buttons size for the XSLT mode
When trying transforming and closing the OK button could be disabled after
Some dialogs location and size couldn't be saved
FOP Renderer fixed
FOP Error line fixed
Line added after each element when generating a W3C Schema
Namespace declaration ignored when generating a DTD,W3CSchema,RelaxNG document
Apos character not replaced by an entity while formatting inside an XSLT document
Unicode management for XPath expressions.

Requirements:
Java 1.4 or later.
Note to Mac OS X 10.3 users: We advise you to update to Mac OS X 10.3.2+ and Java 1.4.2 before running EditiX.

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