Altova® (http://www.altova.com), creator of the industry-leading XMLSpyXML editor and other popular XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced the availability of its FREE Authentic® RSS Editing Solution. A comprehensive, forms-based application developed for use with Altova Authentic 2007 Desktop Edition, the solution enables users to create, edit, and manage valid RSS 2.0 documents for publication on the Web. In addition to a helpful users' guide, the solution documentation provides a step-by-step overview of how this solution was developed and also indicates how a similar strategy could be used to solve other standards-conformance issues. The Authentic RSS Editing Solution and accompanying documentation are freely available on the Altova Web site.

The free Altova Authentic RSS Editing Solution uses intuitive electronic forms to help guide the creation of valid RSS documents. This forms-based approach gives non-technical, business users an easy way to create and maintain RSS feeds, allowing them to focus on their content and not the underlying XML code. Using this simple, free solution, Web content editors, like PR professionals and marketing managers, can easily create valid RSS feeds that will keep subscribers up-to-date on their latest Web site news.

The Altova Product Marketing team originally began building the RSS Editing Solution as simple tool for their PR Manager to use in publishing RSS feeds about press releases and newsletters. They soon realized, however, that the solution would also be useful to other organizations and could help illustrate how easily Altova's software tools can be used to build similar business solutions. Created exclusively using products from the Altova MissionKitâ„¢ - Altova XMLSpy, MapForce®, StyleVision®, UModel®, and Authentic - the Authentic RSS Editing Solution is built to comply with the RSS 2.0 specification. RSS 2.0 is an XML-based specification, but one that lacks an official XML Schema and diverges slightly from XML standards, presenting some development challenges and making for a very interesting case study.

”At Altova, we like to use our own software tools to solve everyday business issues,â€� said Tim Hale, Director of Marketing for Altova. ”The fact that we can create a free solution, like the Authentic RSS editor, that anyone can use is a huge bonus. What's more, by publishing the case study, developers can learn from our experiences and apply the knowledge in their own development projects, or they can download a free trial of the Altova MissionKit and modify this solution at will.â€�

The RSS Editing Solution is based on the Altova Authentic Desktop Edition. Both Authentic and the Authentic RSS Editing Solution are available at no charge and can be downloaded at: http://www.altova.com/components

For details on how Altova's product marketing team used Altova tools to create the Authentic RSS Editing Solution visit: http://www.altova.com/rss_casestudy

In addition to the Authentic electronic forms for end users, the RSS Editing Solution download package contains all the files needed to customize or extend the application, including XML Schemas, MapForce data mapping files, XSLT stylesheets, UML diagrams, and project documentation. The products in the Altova MissionKit can be used to modify these files and the solution, or they can be used to build new applications, perhaps solving similar standards-conformance issues. To try the Altova MissionKit free for 30-days visit: http://www.altova.com/missionkit

About Altova

Altova accelerates application development and data management projects with software and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, Altova is the choice of over 3 million clients worldwide, including 91 percent of the Fortune 500. Enabling customers ranging from vast development teams in the world's largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova's line of software tools fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs. Altova is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Object Management Group (OMG) and is committed to delivering standards-based platform-independent solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy to use. Altova was founded in 1992 and has headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria. Visit Altova on the Web at: http://www.altova.com

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