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Altova StyleVision

Your single, drag-and-drop report designer lets you publish data in HTML, PDF, Word, and eForms simultaneously. Automate your multi-channel publishing via auto-generated XSLT stylesheets or StyleVision Server!

StyleVision Highlights

  • Drag-and-drop report builder
  • Reports in HTML, PDF, text, and Word
  • eForm creation
  • Support for generating charts and graphs
  • Table and chart wizards
  • Intelligent entry helpers
  • Design templates
  • Support for barcodes
  • Support for watermarks
  • Support for XSLT 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
  • XPath 1.0/2.0/3.1 expression builder & evaluator
  • XPath Debugger
  • Support for CSS and JavaScript
  • Advanced stylesheet functions

Each report you build in StyleVision automatically generates output in HTML, PDF, Word, RTF, and pure text, as well as the corresponding XSLT or XSL:FO stylesheet for each format.

Visual Report and Stylesheet Designer

StyleVision takes the complexity out of XSLT coding by allowing you to build reports and forms visually. You simply drag and drop to create sophisticated designs for publishing XML, XBRL, or database data in multi-channel formats.

Designing XSLT stylesheets for report generation in StyleVision is a highly flexible, visual drag-and-drop process facilitated by intelligent menus and entry helper windows. Advanced stylesheet functions help you define conditional templates, auto-calculations, rich input formatting, and more.

It’s easy to get started in StyleVision. You can even base your design on an existing Word document – this is infinitely easier than hand-coding XSLT!

Multi-channel Report Designer

StyleVision is ideal for designing multi-channel or multi-format publishing of business reports. Whether you need to publish XML, database, or XBRL data – or a combination thereof, it’s easy to design sophisticated reports using StyleVision’s drag-and-drop design paradigm.

Your one design simultaneously creates a compelling business report in Web and print ready formats including HTML, PDF, RTF, Word, and text.

You can automate your multi-channel report publishing projects using the generated XSL stylesheets or via the high-performance StyleVision Server.

XML to PDF, HTML, Word, and text

StyleVision makes it easy to transform XML content into reports that address business goals. Each design you create in the StyleVision XML publisher generates your XML report in multiple channels for print and the Web. The corresponding XSLT and XSL:FO stylesheets are also generated for easy automation.

Since PDF documents are paginated, StyleVision includes special XSL:FO options including bookmarks, tables of contents, cover page design options, headers and footers, and so on.

Use StyleVision to publish:

  • XML to PDF
  • XML to HTML
  • XML to Word (or RTF)
  • XML to pure text

Combine data from multiple XML Schemas or DTDs in a single report design, or add other sources such as relational database or XBRL files. StyleVision makes it easy with a visual design paradigm, intelligent entry helpers, conditional templates, and more.

Database Reporting

As with XML reports, it’s easy to publish database reports in HTML, PDF, Word, and text formats based on a single StyleVision design.

All major relational databases are supported in a single product version.

  • Firebird 2.5, 3
  • IBM DB2 for iSeries v6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
  • IBM DB2 8, 9.1, 9.5, 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 11.5, 11.5.7
  • Informix 11.70, 12.10, 14.10
  • MariaDB 10, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6.5, 10.9.2
  • Microsoft Access 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2019
  • Microsoft Azure SQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019
  • MySQL 5, 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8, 8.0.25, 8.0.28
  • Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, 18, 19
  • PostgreSQL 8, 9.0.10, 9.1.6, 9.2.1, 9.4, 9.6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.1, 14.5
  • Progress OpenEdge 11.6
  • SQLite 3.x
  • Sybase ASE 15, 16
  • Teradata 16

Database report building functionality includes:

  • Support for relational and XML content in leading DBMSs
  • Database connection wizard
  • Built-in database query window
  • Direct SQL SELECT statement entry
  • And more

It’s easy to connect to back end data using the Database Connection Wizard, which includes ADO, ODBC, or JDBC options. Once connected, the StyleVision presents you with a list of the available views, tables, and system tables, and the Preview Window lets you to see the data while you’re selecting the tables and views to use in your database reporting design.

As you’re designing a database report, it is useful to view the content of the database you’re connected to. The StyleVision Database Query window provides an intelligent SQL editor with auto-completion. You can also let StyleVision autogenerate SQL statements by dragging database objects from the browser pane onto the SQL editor or selecting them using the right-click menu. Alternatively, you may import and edit existing SQL scripts.

To create your design, simply drag and drop elements to the desired location on the design pane. Advanced database reporting features like grouping based on the XSLT 2.0 standard, inline Primary and Foreign key creation, and support for Database Views enable you to add complexity and dynamic functionality to your multi-channel reports.

XBRL Rendering and Publishing

An important way to harness the benefits of XBRL is rendering reports in print and web formats for various stakeholders. StyleVision’s visual design model radically simplifies XBRL-related rendering, reporting, and analysis, making it possible for business domain experts without deep XML expertise to leverage the full power of XBRL.

Specialised functionality for publishing XBRL reports includes:

  • XBRL Table Wizard
  • XBRL Chart Wizard
  • US-GAAP mode for automated table generation
  • Period Properties dialog for XBRL filtering
  • Advanced filtering with XPath
  • Support for iXBRL (Inline XBRL)
  • Interactive navigation (e.g., for XBRL footnotes)
  • Report generation in HTML, PDF, Word, and text from a single design

XBRL Table Wizard

To create a straightforward XBRL report, you simply drag and drop a taxonomy financial statement onto the design pane as an XBRL table. The XBRL Table Wizard makes it easy to customise the table structure and specify the concepts to include in the report. In the case of the US-GAAP taxonomy, you can simply select US-GAAP mode to have StyleVision automatically render the data according to this information.

When your taxonomy contains XBRL Table Linkbase definitions, StyleVision will render the table automatically based on the specified parameters, making it quick and easy to publish XBRL tables in your reports.

XBRL Chart Wizard

Similarly, StyleVision provides a wizard for automatically generating charts of XBRL data in your reports. You can customise the data rendered in your charts simply by selecting the desired category or series values (Concept and Period are the defaults) in the properties dialog box. The Period Properties dialog box allows you to filter by XBRL periods, which simply describe the length of time for which a particular concept is being reported (i.e., instant, duration, or forever), so that you can make meaningful comparisons.

Automatic iXBRL Generation

Because iXBRL embeds XBRL in a human-readable HTML document, it’s an efficient means of decreasing the complexity of preparing and publishing financial reports while enabling the use of XBRL data by investors and other market participants.

To make rendering this output even easier, StyleVision includes an iXBRL Wizard for US-GAAP taxonomies that will automatically generate an iXBRL document based on definitions in the presentation linkbase.

When you load a US-GAAP taxonomy as a data source in StyleVision, the iXBRL Wizard will allows you to select which tables to create and to configure other options. Then, it will autogenerate the corresponding iXBRL document.

Design Enterprise Forms for Altova Authentic

For solutions requiring interactive electronic forms based on XML documents and/or SQL databases (including XML documents stored in leading relational database management systems), StyleVision’ visual design capabilities can be used to create dynamic and interactive enterprise forms for Authentic. In fact, each design you create for web and print output also automatically generates and Authentic form.

You can begin an e-Form design from scratch, or from an existing Word document, or based on the blueprint of an existing paper-based form. Form designers work with the same visually-oriented, drag-and-drop approach used when creating StyleVision reports, so Authentic forms can be considered one of the many StyleVision output format types, but form designs also offer many additional features optimised for interactive and dynamic enterprise forms.

Authentic e-Form Advantages:

  • Sophisticated content editing capabilities for business users
  • Real-time input validation
  • Browser-plugin and desktop deployment options for flexible implementation
  • Multi format publishing – end users can generate multi-channel output with the click of a button

Advanced Features

StyleVision includes numerous advanced features for stylesheet, report, and eForm design:

  • Sophisticated chart and graph generation
  • Visual Studio and Eclipse integration
  • Reusing existing XSLT
  • Use of CSS and composite styles
  • XPath editor and debugger
  • Open XML support
  • JavaScript functions and JavaScript editor
  • Java, C#, and Visual Basic application integration
  • COM and Java APIs with extensive interfaces

StyleVision Server

StyleVision Server is high-performance server software that takes advantage of the power of today’s parallel computing environments to automate multi-channel business report publishing.

StyleVision Server renders XML, SQL databases, and/or XBRL data into HTML, RTF, PDF, pure text, or Microsoft Word files based on StyleVision stylesheets and supporting design elements saved as PXF files.