Which XMLSpy Edition Do I Need?

The table below shows the features included in the
Enterprise and Professional Editions of XMLSpy 2025.

XMLSpy is also available in the Altova MissionKit, a software development suite of industrial-strength XML, SQL, and UML tools featuring XMLSpy and other award-winning products - all at a special discounted price.

EnterpriseProfessional
32-bit version
64-bit version
AI Assistant
XML Editing & Validation
SmartFix validation & well-formedness checking
Integration with installed RaptorXML Servers for hyper-fast validation
Text view with syntax coloring & code completion
Grid view with code completion
Authentic eForms view
Browser view
Project management with source control system support
Find & replace across a project and/or multiple files
XML differencing
3-way XML differencing
Assigning & verifying XML digital signatures
Embedding external files (e.g., images) in XML
Multi-language spell checker
XML viewer
XML Schema / DTD Tools
Support for XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1
Graphical XML Schema Editor
Sample instance generation from Schema/DTD
DTD <=> XML Schema conversion
Database schema <=> XML Schema conversion
Schema/DTD generation from use cases
Extended validation of naming and coding conventions
Refactoring support for XML Schemas
User-defined sample values for XML instance generation
Schema-based code generation
Fixed & customizable XML Schema documentation
XSLT Tools
Support for XSLT 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0
XSLT editor
XSLT Info window
XSL Outline window
XSLT debugger
XSLT back-mapping
XSL Speed Optimizer
XSLT profiler
Support for Java, C#, JavaScript, VBScript in XSLT
XPath Tools
Support for XPath 1.0, 2.0, and 3.1
XPath Analyzer
Intelligent XPath auto-completion
XPath Debugger
Automatic XPath generation for XML nodes
XPath execution across a project and/or multiple files
XQuery Tools
Support for XQuery 1.0 and 3.1
XQuery Editor
XQuery Update Facility Editor with results preview
XQuery Debugger
XQuery back-mapping
XQuery Profiler
HTML & CSS Tools
HTML editor for HTML5, HTML4, & XHTML
CSS editor for CSS3 & CSS2.1
Markdown Tools
Markdown editor
Rendering Markdown docs in built-in Browser View
YAML Tools
YAML editor
Validating YAML against JSON Schema
Validating YAML against YAML schemas
Chart Tools
Chart creation from XML data
Chart visualization of profiler data
Generation of charts with XSLT and XQuery
JSON Tools
Support for JSON, JSON5, JSON Lines, JSON with Comments
JSON Grid View
JSON Editor
JSON Schema Editor & Generator
JSON Validator
Support for BSON (binary JSON) type in JSON Schema
Chart creation from JSON data
JSON <=> XML conversion
XML Schema <=> JSON Schema conversion
Transforming JSON with XPath, XSLT, and XQuery
JSON Schema extensions for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager
Supported Databases
Firebird 2.5, 3, 4
IBM DB2 for iSeries® v6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
IBM DB2® 8, 9, 9.5, 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 11.5, 11.5.7
Informix® 11.7, 12.10, 14.10
MariaDB 10, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6.5, 10.9.2, 10.11, 11.2, 11.4
Microsoft Access™ 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2019
Microsoft® Azure SQL
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022
MySQL® 5, 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8, 8.0.25, 8.0.28, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
PostgreSQL 8, 9.0.10, 9.1.6, 9.2.1, 9.4, 9.6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.1, 14.5, 15,16
Oracle® 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, 18, 19
Progress OpenEdge 11.6
SQLite 3.x
Sybase® ASE 15, 16
Teradata 16
ZIP Archive Tools
Accessing, modifying, and editing files in ZIP archives
Editing, validating, and previewing EPUB 2.x files
Microsoft Office / OOXML Tools
Viewing & editing Open XML in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Transforming OOXML with XSLT
Processing OOXML with XQuery
XBRL Tools
Validation & editing of XBRL instance files
Integration with installed RaptorXML+XBRL Servers for hyper-fast validation
EDGAR filing validation
Graphical XBRL Taxonomy Editor & Wizard
XBRL Table Linkbase editor with real-time preview
XBRL Report Packages viewing and validation
Point-and-click XBRL Formula editor
XULE editor and processor
Fixed & customizable XBRL documentation
EDGAR filing validation
Support for OIM (Open Information Model) 1.0: XML/CSV/JSON transformation & validation
Apache Avro Tools
Validation & editing of Avro schemas
Avro View for viewing & searching Avro instances
Web Services Tools
HTTP Testing Window
Graphical WSDL 1.1/2.0 editor
Fixed & customizable WSDL documentation
SOAP client ( 1.1/1.2)
Web Services Security support
SOAP debugger
Program Code Generation
Royalty-free code generation in Java, C#, C++
Automation Support
Scripting environment & forms editor
OLE support
ActiveX Control
Command-line interface
Global Resources
Configure / switch to multiple deployment environments
Deep integration with Altova MissionKit tools
Multi-purpose IDE Integration
Visual Studio® integration
Eclipse integration