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Altova is a leading provider of XML software development tools with offices in Beverly, Mass., and headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

The privately held company was founded in 1992 and has been actively involved in the XML market from the early conception of XML. Altova's XML Spy is the leading choice of all Fortune 500 and Global 1,000 companies, with over half a million registered users worldwide. Altova is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Services Interoperability Consortium (WS-I). The company was originally established in Vienna, Austria, in 1992. Since then our focus has been on providing our customers with outstanding software tools. Altova is a well-known software provider for European TelCos and developed search engine technology used in telephone directory CD-ROMs and Internet services to this very day.

Altova has been actively involved in XML software technologies since 1998 and released the first version of XML Spy in February 1999.

XML Spy has been stated in the PC Magazine Editors' Choice as the most perfect tool for XML application developers, schema designers and XSL style sheet creators.

With XML Spy IDE as the industry standard for developing software applications, it builds on the success of the award-winning 3.5 product by becoming the first true IDE to include full support for the W3C XML Schema 1.0 final recommendation. It also adds complete ODBC database access functionality, specific support for SQL Server 2000 and is available for the Windows platform only and supports Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP.

In addition, the new version 4.4 contains many improvements in the areas of Web Services Interoperability and XML Schema Conformance, as well as usability enhancements in the XSLT Designer product and various bug fixes across all functionalities. XML Spy now offers a comprehensive and easy-to-use product family to facilitate all aspects of Advanced XML Application Development (as listed below).

Products
XML Spy now offers a comprehensive and easy-to-use product family to facilitate all aspects of Advanced XML Application Development.

XML Spy 4.4 Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
XML Spy 4.4 IDE is the industry leading solution for XML-based applications, making it easy to create and manage XML documents, stylesheets, and schemas. It is the essential power tool for XML application developers.

XML Spy 4.4 IDE builds on the success of the award-winning XML Spy 3.5 product, by adding advanced functionality such as complete support for the official W3C XML Schema final recommendation, enhanced ODBC database access, and much more. XML Spy 4.4 IDE provides the power and flexibility needed to work with XML content in the most sophisticated production environments, greatly improving how businesses create and use information on the internet.

XML Spy 4.4 XSLT Designer
The XML Spy 4.4 XSLT Designer is an innovative new approach to automate writing of complex XSLT Stylesheets using an intuitive, drag-and-drop user interface. Use the XSLT Designer to create advanced electronic forms for use with the XML Spy 4.4 Document Editor.

XML Spy 4.4 Document Editor
The XML Spy 4.4 Document Editor is the easiest word-processor style free-flow WYSISYG editor for XML documents. The Document Editor supports electronic form-based data input, graphical elements, tables, as well as real-time validation using XML Schema. Available as stand-alone application or browser plug-in.

XML Spy 4.4 Document Framework
The XML Spy 4.4 XSLT Designer and XML Spy 4.4 Document Editor together form the XML Spy 4.4 Document Framework, a complete solution for working with XML content in real-world production environments such as web publishing, knowledge management or e-commerce.

XML Spy 4.4 Suite
The XML Spy 4.4 IDE and XML Spy 4.4 Document Framework together form the XML Spy 4.4 suite, the most comprehensive tool Suite for Advanced XML Application Development (AXAD)!