xs3p

Stylus Studio uses a nice XML Schema documentation generator called xs3p.

Stylus Studio

Bugs?

 The expression context for the XPath query functionality does not define the default namespace.  Therefore, there is no way to search for elements in most documents, i.e. documents that have a non-empty default namespace.  How did they miss that one?

The query v.1 button keeps getting reselected when I type text into the query box even after I have explicitly chosen v.2.  I have to type first, then select v.2.

XPath2 querying is sketchy.  There is no mention of it in the documentation.  The expression "for $x in (1, 2, 3) return $x" generates a warning dialog box with no text in it.  "(1, 2, 3)" works.

Visual Studio

The way Visual Studio 2003 handles web projects sucks.  You must create a virtual directory on IIS that contains not only your binaries, but also your source.  Weird.  Also, VS2003 cannot handle filenames that start with a dot -- such as Subversion .SVN files.  I found an article that shows how to work with ASP.NET with a standard local project:

ASP.NET Applications without Web Projects

Stylus Studio

I discovered Stylus Studio, a great XML editor from Sonic.  It does all the usual XML, Schema, DTD stuff, but also edits XSLT and XQuery -- with interactive debugging.  I found out about it from a comment by Michael Kay on the Saxon mailing list.