Tutorials XMLThe enhanced grid view feature of the XML Spy is an advanced feature which shows the hierarchical structure of the XML document using a set of nested components. These components can be expanded and collapsed easily and gives a view of the tree like structure of the document. It also allows you to manipulate the document easily. You can use the drag and drop features along with this feature in XML Spy. The enhanced view of the XML Spy also has a data table view and this offers data to be viewed in a tabular form. The tabular view resembles the excel spreadsheets and it achieves this by taking the attributes and sub elements into the table format.
The data base table format is well integrated with the Enhanced grid view and you can switch between both the views for every element literally. The table contents can also be edited using the drag and drop feature of the Enhanced grid view feature. Using these controls and features you can easily work with the enhanced grid view like working on excel sheets.
The XML documents a Web service description language files or the WSDL files can be edited using the context sensitive WSDL view of the XML view. The XML schema uses a flexible Meta language to structure the XML documents. Since the XML schemas are supposed to be extremely complex to understand the Schema editor simplifies the document by showing the Xml Schema elements graphically. Unlike every other tool available the XML schema of the XML Spy allows you to be directly involved by giving you access to manipulate the schema using the advanced feature of dragging and dropping elements along with intelligent editing options.
The XML Spy's Authentic view allows you to view documents which have been created authentically. The authentic view enables users to access information and allows then to directly capture the content in any XML document or XML databases without having them to know or understand the technology behind the façade. Users while entering information would do it directly like they are working on a word processor but in the background the information enters the XML document or run in a relational database.
The XML Spy's Authentic view is also license free software and it can be distributed to many users simultaneously without any restrictions. The Introduction of the Authentic view in XML Spy gives you the freedom to enter to data in any way you like for example in text view, or word processor style or even in XML itself. You can also use this feature called authentic view to get a preview of the style in which the business users will finally view the document. In addition to all of this the XML relational databases can be the basis for the authentic forms and this allows the business users to edit data in the databases with ease and not much complications. While making changes all the changes made are saved directly on to the data base.
This is another feature which you can use to view the XML document in browser style. You can view the data as and when modified in the HTML format by using the browser view option of the XML Spy. The XML Spy browser view can also be used to edit the HTML format if you have XSL style sheet along with the XML Spy. The browser view allows you to take a look at the document in enhanced grid view or text view along with a browser view. You can use al these option together by just switching windows. However the integrated browser would require at least internet explorer version 5 or higher.
XML Spy offers the XML validation window which has a large number of features to help you create a document which is valid, and that does not require further validation. Intelligent features of the XML Spy validation window like the code completer and the drag drop feature, and number lines help to create an error free document which can be validated easily.
XML Spy Download Link
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PDF User and Reference Manuals and Tutorials
http://www.altova.com/documentation/reference_manual_XML_tutorial.html
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