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Welcome to Liquid Studio
The Liquid Studio product suite includes a graphical XML development environment that will simplify the development of XML Schema, JSON Schema, XML Documents and JSON Documents in your enterprise. Along with a variety of graphical and text editors, it also provides Web Services tools, a Data Mapping tool for transforming Database, EDI, Text File, Web Service and XML data, a Data Differencing tool for comparing XML, JSON and Text files, and a powerful Code Generator.
Liquid Studio features include:
Graphical XML Schema (XSD) Editor
- A graphical visualization of your XML Schema.
- Graphical representations of all XML Schema Element and Data Type content.
- In-place name and type editing.
- A text representation of your XML Schema.
- Auto-complete Intellisense.
- Color coded syntax highlighting.
- Global Component Locator to quickly find content across multiple included schema.
- Property Grid to allow quick editing of the selected items properties and facets.
Graphical JSON Schema (JSON) Editor
- A graphical visualization of your JSON Schema.
- Graphical representations of all JSON Schema Element and Data Type content.
- In-place name and type editing.
- A text representation of your JSON Schema.
- Auto-complete Intellisense.
- Color coded syntax highlighting.
- Property Grid to allow quick editing of the selected items properties and facets.
Graphical XML Document Editor
- A graphical visualization of your XML Document.
- Tree and tabular grid views.
- A text representation of your XML Document.
- Auto-complete Intellisense.
- Color coded syntax highlighting.
- XML Document validation against the XSD schema.
- Well Formed XML Document validation.
- XML Document formatting (pretty printing).
Graphical Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) Editor
- A graphical visualization of your WSDL.
- Graphical representations of all WSDL content.
- A text representation of your XML Schema.
- Auto-complete Intellisense.
- Color coded syntax highlighting.
Web Service Client
- Bind to a Web Service.
- Supports Soap 1.1, Soap 1.2, HTTP GET & HTTP POST.
- Creates sample requests from WSDL files.
Graphical Data Mapper
- A graphical visualization of data mapping between multiple data sources and targets.
- Drag and drop interface for data mapping.
- Supports Database, EDI, Text File, Web Services and XML data transformations.
- Generates mapping code in XSLT and C#.
XQuery and XSLT Step Through Debuggers
- Supports XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 1.0 & 2.0.
- Provides essential debugging functionality: breakpoints, local variables, local content, watch expressions, call stack.
- Choice of XSLT engines.
Data Differencing Tool
- Supports comparing XML, JSON and Text File.
- Advanced heuristic algorithms are used to examine the source files to determine whether attributes and elements are new, deleted or have moved..
- A host of XML aware options allow you to filter out the changes that are not of interest (e.g. whitespace, comments, or processor directives).
Getting Started
The following simple Tutorial provides a quick overview to create an XML Schema using Liquid XML Studio:
Creating your first XML Schema
Get to know the Liquid XML Studio User Interface:
Liquid XML Studio User Interface Guide
View a detailed list of the Liquid XML Studio graphical notations for XML Schema:
Liquid XML Studio Graphical Notations for XML Schema
Learn about the W3C XML Schema standard:
W3C XML Schema Tutorial
See Also
WSDL Editor
Data Diff Tool
XML Editor
Web Service Test Client
XSD Editor