[announce] ALTOVA Inc., Announces DocBook Support and Web Services Interoperability Enhancements in XML Spy 4.4 Suite

["Larry E. Kim" <larry@altova.com>]

[announce] ALTOVA Inc., Announces DocBook Support and Web Services
Interoperability Enhancements in XML Spy 4.4 Suite

Beverly, MA, May 29, 2002 - Altova, Inc. (www.xmlspy.com) today
announced the release of the XML Spy 4.4 Suite, a comprehensive
product-line of developer tools for advanced XML application
development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.4 Integrated Development
Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.4 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.4
Document Editor. XML Spy 4.4 Suite is available immediately as a free
upgrade to current XML Spy 4.x Suite customers.

The following is a detailed summary of several key new features in XML
Spy 4.4 Suite:

- In co-operation with open industry consortiums such as the Web
Services Interoperability Organization, the XML Spy 4.4 Suite includes
enhanced web services standards conformance in the SOAP client &
debugger.
- DocBook Editing Support - The XML Spy 4.4 XSLT Designer and XML Spy
4.4 Document Editor now include full support for CALS & HTML tables, in
addition to semantic tables. CALS tables are a widely adopted syntax for
SGML-based representation of complex tables allowing a publisher to
visually express complex data representations.  CALS & HTML tables
support enable the XML Spy 4.4 Document Editor to support DocBook
editing.  DocBook is a widely adopted XML content model for describing
books, articles, and other prose documents such as technical
documentation.
- The XML Spy 4.4 IDE and the XML Spy 4.4 Document editor now offer a
built-in multi-language spell-checker with support for English (British,
US, Canadian), German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch,
Swedish, and other languages.  In addition, separate English language
medical and legal dictionaries are included.


XML Spy 4.4 Pricing and Availability

The XML Spy 4.4 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase
from the XML Spy Online Shop, www.xmlspy.com/order.  All current XML Spy
4.x Suite customers are eligible to receive the new XML Spy 4.4 Suite as
a free upgrade for their respective orders.  See website for complete
price-list including, multi-user or concurrent-user licenses, or contact
sales@xmlspy.com.


Live demonstrations of XML Spy 4.4 Suite will held at the following
industry tradeshows:
- VSLive!, #100, NYC, June 16-19, http://www.vslive.com/2002/ny/
- Web Services Edge, #520, NYC, June 24-27,
http://www.sys-con.com/east2002/
- OracleWorld EU, Copenhagen, June 24-27, http://oracle.com/oracleworld/
- TechEd EU, #J11, Barcelona, July 1-5,
http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/


About Altova

Altova is a leading provider of XML software solutions with offices in
Beverly, MA 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 Extensible Markup Language. Altova's
XML Spy is the leading choice of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies.
Altova's XML Spy product line is the best-selling XML tools suite and
has won the leading industry awards. Altova is a member of the W3C and
the Web Services Interoperability Organization.

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products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective
owners.


For more information, press only
Larry Kim, Marketing Director
978-816-1612,=20
larry@altova.com