Release Notes for XML Instance 1.1

Welcome

Thank you for your interest in XML Instance, the schema-driven XML editor with support for all major XML schema dialects. Extensibility's leadership in schema technology allows XML Instance to be one of the first schema-driven editors that allows for the creation, editing, and management of data-oriented XML documents, messages, and configuration files.  These release notes are provided to help you better understand the capabilities of the product.  Your feedback is very important to us and we encourage you to contact us with questions or problems. For specific feedback on a problem encountered using the software please use our online Problem Report. For general comments on your needs or software enhancements please use our online Feedback Form. 

Based on the feedback we have received since the release if XML Instance 1.0, we’ve made the following enhancements to XML Instance 1.1: 

• XSLT stylesheet transformation facility
• Data import from an ODBC data source
• Support for all encoding types supported by Java (some encoding types require the Internationalized version of the Java Runtime Environment)
• Improved namespace support  
• New options for customizing document display

We are confident that you will find XML Instance an invaluable solution to the development and deployment of your XML initiatives. 

Important Notes for XML Instance 1.0 Users:   

• For best performance, XML Instance 1.1 should be used with JRE 1.3, available for download at www.java.sun.com or via the maximum download of XML Instance.   XML Instance 1.1 will not run with a JRE version under 1.2.2.  

• To maintain the "content view" document displays created in version 1.0, you must copy the contents of the "presentations" folder found within the XI10 directory and paste into the "presentations" folder found within the XI11 directory. The default locations for your XML Instance folders are C:\Program Files\Extensibility\XI10 and C:\Program Files\Extensibility\XI11.    

Selected Features of XML Instance-

• “From scratch” creation of well-formed XML documents
• Real-time validation against an XML schema or DTD
• Error reporting for streamlined XML development
• Support for existing and emerging schema dialects, including DTD, XDR, SOX v2.0 and a sub-set of XML-Schema (XSDL, April 7)
• Import from an ODBC source
• Customizable document displays 
• Highly intuitive and graphical editing and navigational environment
• Drag and drop editing within the user interface

Current Limitations

XML Schema Definition Language (XSDL) support is based on a subset of the April 7th, 2000 working draft:  XML Instance will validate against more features of this emerging schema specification in future releases.

Datatype support will be expanded:  Validation of all datatypes is not complete.  XML Instance will not validate data against datatypes: interval, UUID, URI,  binhex, binbase64.  

'Extends' feature of SOX schemas not supported:  refinement by extension within SOX schemas is not supported in the conforming XML files.

Limitations of the internal java help browser:  Printing performance and HTML formatting may be improved by using web browser for viewing help documents (see Edit>Preferences to set browser path).

We plan on adding support for these issues as well as new features in future releases of XML Instance. 

Thank You

Thank you for working with XML Instance. We hope you find it provides you the ideal platform to create and manage your XML documents. If you have any questions please contact us at: support@extensibility.com.