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Altova SchemaAgent® 2008 provides powerful capabilities for visualizing and managing the relationships between XSLT stylesheets, XML Schemas, and XML instances.

By viewing relationships between XSLT stylesheets and other files in SchemaAgent, you’re able to get a visual representation of your XML information architecture and immediately understand how any changes you make will impact related files. In addition, because SchemaAgent allows you to create and change relationships between files graphically, you can easily reuse existing components and reduce redundant development efforts.

When you drag an XSLT file from the SchemaAgent explorer pane onto the design pane, SchemaAgent® 2008 represents it as a graphical component, which, when expanded, reveals details about any imported or included XSLT files, imported schemas, and inline schemas, as well as defined namespaces.

A right-click menu allows you to insert any referenced, related, or linked XSLT, XML Schema, and/or XML instance documents into your design. SchemaAgent represents these as detailed graphical components connected with lines color-coded to describe the relationships between files (referenced, included, etc.) In addition to viewing these relationships and details, you can use drag and drop functionality to import or include one XSLT file in another. And, if you’re working with an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet, you can import an XML Schema to take advantage of the schema-aware features of version 2.0. You simply drag a connector between the file you need to link to the import or include section of the other component to make the connection. SchemaAgent automatically inserts a valid import or include statement in the target XSLT or XML Schema file and propagates the changes to the affected files.

In addition to support for XSLT files, SchemaAgent provides powerful functionality for visualizing and managing XML Schema , XML instance, and WSDL files, as well as viewing files used in Altova MapForce data mapping projects.

Once your design is complete, you can save it as a SchemaAgent design file (.SAD) or as an image (.PNG) to preserve the visual representation of your file relationships and facilitate communication with both technical and non-technical team members. You can also print the design for hard-copy documentation.

See how graphical management of XSLT stylesheets and other XML-based files will immediately increase the productivity of your development team. Download a free trial of SchemaAgent today!