Chapter 1 Getting Started with Stylus Studio


Stylus Studio 6 (Stylus Studio) is an integrated development environment (IDE) for XML and related technologies. Stylus Studio allows you to design, develop, and test XML applications using its intuitive graphical interface, textual editors, and debuggers for XML, XML Schema, DTD, XQuery, XSLT, and Java.

Figure 1. Stylus Studio's XML Schema Diagram Editor

Stylus Studio includes modules for working with:

  • XML
  • XQuery
  • XSLT
  • DTD
  • XML Schema
  • SQL/XML
  • Web services
  • Java

Each module has one or more editors to help you author, edit, and debug XML applications.

Using Stylus Studio with RenderX XEP

RenderX XEP is a production-quality engine that converts XSL:FO into PDF or PostScript files. You can use RenderX XEP in place of the Apache FOP engine to render PDF files from Stylus Studio.

Technology Companies That Use Stylus Studio

Technology companies can't always handle every technology that they come across. That's why when it comes to XML, they look to Stylus Studio to guide them. Check out which top technology companies are looking to the future with Stylus Studio.

Support for US National Library of Medicine (NLM) Document Type Definitions

Stylus Studio provides support for editing and validating XML documents using US National Library of Medicine data models. In this tutorial, we'll provide a step-by-step overview of how to use the NLM DTD's in Stylus Studio!

Berkeley DB XML and Stylus Studio

Develop XML applications for Berkeley DBXML with Stylus Studio integrated tools support for SleepyCat Software's DBXML. Open, Query and Save XML to and from Berkeley DB XML directly from within the Stylus Studio XML IDE.

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