Editor's review
This is a software tool that can create impressive HTML pages, RTF documents or PDF/Word documents from XML/database data.
Altova StyleVision 2010 Professional Edition is a powerful visual XSLT style sheet designer for graphically designing templates. These templates can professional looking HTML and RTF output from XML or database data and create intuitive authentic electronic forms. It is standards compliant and conforms to XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, CSS, JavaScript, and most major databases. The built in HTML importer automatically converts an HTML page into an XML file, XSLT style sheet, and XML Schema allowing web designers to migrate to XML easily and quickly. StyleVision abstracts the complexity of creating style sheets. It uses drag-and-drop functionality and advanced entry helper windows to create a graphical design for publishing your data in multiple formats. StyleVision auto generates standards-conformant XSLT and XSL:FO style sheets based on your design, as well as the corresponding output in HTML, RTF, PDF, Word 2007+, and Authentic forms, enabling true single source, multi-channel publishing with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Range of templates provided handle standard XML vocabularies such as DITA and DocBook. You can build your own templates for use with other products from Altova such as Authentic 2010, Altova`s WYSIWYG XML and DB content editor. Authentic forms let business users directly access and edit XML documents or databases. The visual design interface offers two different paradigms for designing presentation output: in a document-flow or layout-based model. You can even upload a blueprint image to use as a guide for your design template. Output or XSLT 1.0/2.0 code can be viewed at any time. If you handle multiple formats for document publishing and need to simplify it by the ability to define a single style sheet, here is the tool for you! Interface may look a little cluttered initially but you get used to it.
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