Altova XMLSpy Now Supports New ECMA Office Open XML File Formats

June 4, 2007; 05:51 AM
Altova® ( http://www.altova.com ), creator of XMLSpy® and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced exclusive support for the ECMA Office Open XML File Formats – the new open standards utilized by the 2007 Microsoft Office system – in XMLSpy 2007 Release 3. With support for the ECMA formats, XMLSpy users can extract, edit, query, and transform XML data from within Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Microsoft Office Excel 2007 documents. XMLSpy provides full validation of data in the Open XML file type, intelligent entry helpers, and support for the development of XSLT and XQuery transformations for publishing or utilizing the data in other applications.

Open XML is an ECMA International industry standard and is the new default document format for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Open XML files are zipped archives containing document content according to the standard's defined XML dialect. For more information on the ECMA Open XML file formats, please visit: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm

“Organizations save vast amounts of information in Microsoft Word documents and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, but until now, that content could not be re-used in an extensible, programmatic way,” said Tim Hale, Director of Marketing for Altova. “Thanks to the Open XML document formats, however, that data is now standards-based; and the new capabilities in XMLSpy make it highly interoperable and easy to process, providing huge advantages to business people and application developers.”

"Altova XMLSpy 2007 is the first XML development tool we know of that allows developers to extract, edit, query, and transform XML data from within documents that use Office Open XML Formats – the new file type used by the 2007 Microsoft Office release,” said Joe Marini, Group Manager of the Visual Studio Industry Partners program at Microsoft Corp. “This gives XMLSpy users a head start in developing applications that utilize and process content in what is sure to be the predominant business data format."

XMLSpy 2007: Support for 2007 Microsoft Office system

Altova XMLSpy is the world’s best-selling XML editor and the industry standard XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related technologies. With support for the Open XML Formats in XMLSpy 2007r3, users can, for example:

• Create an XSLT 2.0 transformation to publish data in Microsoft Office Word 2007 or Excel 2007 documents for use on the Web or a corporate intranet
• Use XQuery to extract and aggregate financial data from Microsoft Office Excel 2007 documents into an XML form for mapping to Web services, EDI messages, etc
• Manually edit Open XML data and then save it back to a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document to test the outcome of changes that will be made in an application under development

To learn more about how XMLSpy 2007 works with Microsoft Office documents visit Altova’s Microsoft Office feature page at: http://www.altova.com/features_office_2007.html

For more information on all the capabilities of Altova XMLSpy 2007, visit: http://www.altova.com/products/xmlspy/xml_editor.html

In addition to extracting and processing Office Open XML data in XMLSpy, developers can use the royalty-free AltovaXML™ engine to access data from 2007 Microsoft Office documents and execute XSLT and XQuery transformations on it in their own applications. AltovaXML is currently the only XSLT/XQuery processing engine that provides the ability to repurpose and re-use the vast amount of user data being created in the 2007 Microsoft Office release.

This week, at Microsoft Tech*Ed 2007 in Orlando, Altova engineers will conduct live product demonstrations in Booth #908, highlighting XMLSpy’s new capabilities for working with XML data within the 2007 Microsoft Office system, as well as new features just released in Altova’s other XML development, data management, UML modeling, and Web services tools.

Tech*Ed 2007 is Microsoft’s premier annual conference for IT pros and developers, dedicated to providing technical training, information, and resources to help users maximize their Microsoft investment. For five days, approximately 12,000 attendees will interact with experts, collaborate among peers, and engage in trainings focused on Microsoft’s innovative technologies to move businesses forward. For more information on Tech*Ed 2007, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007

Availability and Pricing

Altova XMLSpy 2007 is currently available with pricing starting at (USD) $499. XMLSpy may be purchased directly from the Altova Online Shop at: https://shop.altova.com

To download a 30-day free trial of XMLSpy 2007, visit: http://www.altova.com/download/xmlspy/xml_editor_enterprise.html

AltovaXML is available under a free software license with no key code required. To download and use AltovaXML royalty free, visit: http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html

About Altova

Altova accelerates application development and data management projects with software and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, Altova is the choice of over 3 million clients worldwide, including virtually every Fortune 500 company. Enabling customers ranging from vast development teams in the world’s largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova’s line of software tools fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs. Altova is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Object Management Group (OMG) and is committed to delivering standards-based platform-independent solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy to use. Altova was founded in 1992 and has headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria. Visit Altova on the Web at: http://www.altova.com

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