How does Authentic fit with other Altova tools?
Altova XMLSpy® 2010, MapForce® 2010, and StyleVision® 2010 can all be used to develop information management frameworks that integrate Authentic as the content entry and editing component. The Authentic e-Forms through which users create XML and database content in Authentic are created using Altova’s stylesheet designer, StyleVision. The same design that was used to create the Authentic e-Form also autogenerates industry-standard stylesheets that can be applied to users’ content at any time to produce output in HTML, RTF, PDF, and Word 2007 (OOXML). In addition, when XML content is authored in Authentic, it is then typically transformed, saved to a repository, or accessed via a Web service. Altova’s developer tools, XMLSpy and MapForce, provide advanced functionality for performing these types of XML operations. XMLSpy also provides support for working with database data entered in Authentic, and MapForce offers powerful mapping capabilities for integrating XML, database, flat file, E
