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Release Notes for Stylus Studio® X16 XML Enterprise Edition

This document contains information specific to the current release of Stylus Studio® X16. Consult the Stylus Studio Release Notes that are part of the Stylus Studio X16 installation package for other important information.

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Build BL1987z - September 14 2026

• Java Editor: hitting F1 opens wrong JDK JavaDoc URL
• Replace Oracle Java JRE with Corretto OpenJDK 1.8
• Update Stylus XML Converters to build 1902
  • UI Installer throws error with Java 9+
  • Support for X12 versions 7050, 7060, 8010, 8020, 8030, 8040, 8050, 8060, 8070
  • JSON adapter BOM-skip never skips the BOM (|| instead of && makes branch always-reset)
  • JSON adapter: configurable content= URI property for the body-content key
  • JSON adapter: accept encoding= URI property
  • BOMDetector returns endian-neutral 'UTF-32' charset after stripping UTF-32LE BOM, decoder defaults to BE and mis-decodes
  • Wrong description returned for JSON URI property arraytoobj
  • JSON toXML: property names containing ':' produce XML that namespace-aware parsers reject
  • X12: internal acknowledgment-code lookup reported as a data error (DDEE0008 Value 9 not in codelist 716)
  • Per-element namespace declarations are written incorrectly to SAX, DOM, StAX and XSLT results
  • Installer: disk-space check reports "not enough space" for any install path that is not a drive-letter-rooted absolute path
• Update Stylus XQuery: new JDBC driver for Microsoft SQL Server Version: 6.0.0.001957 (F003175.U002068)
• Java Editor: new Java Language service based on javax.tools and javax.lang.model
• XML Sample Generator: allow to randomly create optional elements/attributes
• Update signing certificate
• Java Editor: when running java compiler split classpath elements in multiple lines. When running java command line split parameters in multiple lines

Build BL1987x - December 20 2024

• Tip Of the Day does not load
• XSLT Editor: Custom processor does not show the transformation result in the tree preview window
• XSLT Editor: Custom processor does not show the post processor result in the browser preview window
• Locked temporary files should be deleted when Stylus Studio shuts down

Build BL1987w - December 10 2024

• Update Stylus XQuery to build 1001. Previous build 1000 was missing ddxqaxis.jar
• XML Pipeline Debugger, does not catch exception while decoding the operation output
• XQuery Editor interprets non XML output to be always UTF-8. Pay attention to option ddtek:serialize
• Add support for private Open JDK (version 9, 11, 21 ), simply copying JDK to \bin\jdk

Build BL1987v - October 15 2024

• Replace DataDirect XQuery with Stylus XQuery
• Replace DataDirect XML Converters with Stylus XML Converters
• Stylus Studio is now an IVI Technologies product

Build BL1987u - August 28 2023

• XSLT SenseX crashes with some peculiar xpath expressions

Build BL1987t - August 2 2022

• Saxon does not output CDATA sections
• XML Schema Diagram: deleting SimpleType->Restriction->Enumeration crashes Stylus Studio 64bit
• Some xml schemas make Stylus Studio crash
• XSLT Editor: xsl:output attribute standalone is not implemented
• Update signing certificate for signing the installer executable 2022
• Upgrade Xerces schema processor to the version 3.2.3
• sign executables with 256 bits hash for Windows 11

Build BL1987r - November 9 2020

• Make sure docking windows stay proportionally sized between debug sessions
• Fixed regression that prevented watch points and variables to show all variable values

Build BL1987q - July 23 2020

• Updated executable certificates
• Input XML URL with non ASCII chars like # throw a generic error when running Saxon
• Delete table row in XML Publiasher freezes Stylus Studio
• SQL Editor tries to connect to a different database if a connection error occurs in scenario dialog
• Update DataDirect XQuery to build 5.0.0.0870
• Update DataDirect XML Converters to build 6.2-1893bd
• Support for SQL Server Azure Managed Instance
• Support for Oracle 12rc2
• Saxon Schema Validation: use file url to reference schema instead of file path
• Debug Windows did not refresh until user clicks Debug menu
• Characther # in file path creates multiple problems in Stylus Studio

Build BL1987o - November 1 2017

• Update DataDirect XQuery to build 5.0.0.0817: inported library file locked on static error
• Update XML Converter to build 6.2-1893ao

Build BL1987m - April 4 2017

• XSLT Editor: do not limit the stack depth, let the processor handle open loops
• Disable High DPI aware property which prevents Windows to auto scale on High DPI device like Microsoft Surface
• Remove outdated reference to Microsoft Common Control manifest which prevent to run on Microsoft Surface
• Update bundled VC++ 2015 runtime to Update 3
• Update Saxon to version 9.7.0.15
• Update XML Converter to build 1893ai
• XML Editor: Grid View (CTRL + F) searching upward can trigger a crash.

Build BL1987l - December 9 2016

Build BL1987r - December 7 2016

• XQuery Mapper SQL Insert block throws "unsupported parameter" when it gets selected
• EDI To XML Editor: Reject "_" in SEF definition names
• Remove support for TigerLogic
• Update XML Converters to build 1893af
• Fix XQuery back-mapping marker position for function calls spanning multiple lines
• Remove .ipdb and .iobj from the distribution

Build BL1987j - November 10 2016

• Update DataDirect XQuery to build 5.0.0.0808
• Update XML Converter to build 1893ad
• stylusaxis.jar missing from 64-bit
• Update Saxon to version 9.7.0.11
• Toolbar registry values crash Stylus Studio at startup
• Fix initial size for Open File and Project ClassPath dialogs

Build BL1987i - September 13 2016

• XSLT mapping tool should recognize any Java extension class regardless the parameters and return type
• Update XML Converter to version 6.2-1893aa
• Pipeline non inline Java Code Generator is missing template bin\Plugins\templates\JavaClassTemplate.java
• Debugging a pipeline with XSLT nodes may produce a wrong result when the XSLT processor is Java built-in
• XSLT mapping tool crashes after removing schema from source panel
• Enhancements for Activation Key Broadcast (IPV6, Log diagnostic)
• Open file dialog may occasionally crash when sorting files by date

Build BL1987h - August 10 2016

• XML Pipeline document can crash on close, when annotation nodes are created in some peculiar order
• Stylus Studio no longer prompts for saving classpath relative to project
• ClassPath Dialog prompts the same warning multiple times
• Make ClassPath Dialog resizable
• Confusing message when validating unsaved document with custom schema validator
• Open File Dialog redrawing problems when resizing
• installer for 64 bit creates installation registry keys for 32 bit only

Build BL1987g - July 14 2016

• XSLT to Java Cross debugging no longer work
• XSLT to Java Cross Debugging does not work when Saxon Byte Code Generation is on
• Do not generate C# code for XML Converters for .NET
• Disable XML Converters when Running .NET XslCompiledTransform
• XML Mapper - registering java extension should use namespace java: classname
• Distribute JRE with Stylus Studio
• Add support for a private copy of the JRE installed in the Stylus Studio Folder
• Java built-in XSLT processor: when an error occurs throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sf/saxon/s9api/SaxonApiException
• Java Error Message states minimal requirement Java version 1.5 instead of 1.8
• Maintenance Installer does not replace macros in the examples files and examples project
• Output Window keeps popping up at startup

Build BL1987f - June 18 2016

• Invoking spell checker may crash XML Editor on 64 bit

Build BL1987e - June 8 2016

• Saxon locks include/import file after running transformation
• XslCompiledTransform strips ignorable whitespace in the XSLT source

Build BL1987d - June 7 2016

• Disable Stylus Studio Resolver for XslTransform and XslCompiledTransform
• XslCompiledTransform does not work on 64-bit
• Custom XSLT processors activate only Preview Window Text
• MSXML6.0 DOM Parser stops after the very first XSD validation error
• Support "Associate Schema to Project Folder" for MSXML schema processors
• Update XslCompiledTransform wrapper's certificate to SHA 256 bit

Build BL1987c - May 27 2016

• PDF Preview crashes when using a plugin different from Adobe Acrobat Reader
• When External Preview is selected, FOP post processing result still goes to Preview Window

Build BL1987b - May 21 2016

• Update Saxon to version 9.7.0.5
• Saxon throws "XPDY0002: The context item for axis step is absent" when assigning an XPath expression to a global variable