• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio
  • Starting Stylus Studio
  • Updating an XML Document-Getting Started
  • Working with Stylesheets - Getting Started
  • Stylesheets That Generate HTML - Getting Started
  • Using the XSLT Mapper - Getting Started
  • Debugging Stylesheets - Getting Started
  • Defining a DTD - Getting Started
  • Defining an XML Schema Using the Diagram Tab - Getting Started
  • Opening Files in Stylus Studio
  • Working with Projects
  • Customizing Toolbars
  • Specifying Stylus Studio Options
  • Defining Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Using Stylus Studio from the Command Line
  • Managing Stylus Studio Performance
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 14: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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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:

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

About Stylus Studio Home Edition

Stylus Studio Home Edition is a value-priced XML IDE that provides an excellent way to learn about and work with XML and its related technologies. Stylus Studio Home Edition offers many of the features of Stylus Studio XML Professional Edition, including support for many of the modules listed in the previous section. Modules that are not supported in Stylus Studio Home Edition include the following:

Furthermore, not every feature of supported modules is available in Stylus Studio Home Edition. The XML Editor's Grid tab is available only in Stylus Studio XML Professional Edition, for example. Other features supported only in Stylus Studio XML Professional Edition include:

Documentation that describes these features is identified with an alert like the following:

The XML Editor Grid tab is available only in Stylus Studio XML Professional Edition.

In This Chapter

This chapter provides a tour of the basic operations Stylus Studio provides with each of its modules. It also includes information about opening files in any module, using projects to organize files, and setting options that affect all modules.

This chapter is organized as follows: