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One of the most significant new features in the Stylus Studio 2006 XML Enterprise Edition is the new support for schema-aware queries and stylesheets. A new article by Dr. Michael Kay, founder of Saxonica, explains why schema-awareness in XSLT and XQuery is something that you should consider using all the time. It's similar to the situation with XML itself: you can create and manipulate XML documents without ever validating them against a Document Type Definition or schema, but many experts will tell you that that's not good practice in anything other than a throw-away use-once application. An Introduction to Schema-Aware Queries and Stylesheets covers the following topics:

• Why should your XSLT and XQuery applications be schema-aware?
• Several basic and advanced schema-aware XSLT and XQuery examples
• The syntax for writing schema-aware functions in XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0
• Validating XSLT and XQuery input and output files
• The key benefits of XML schema-awareness

This is third article in a series of XQuery articles from Dr. Michael Kay, including: Learn XQuery in 10 Minutes, and An Introduction to the XQuery FLWOR expression. Learn all about schema-aware XSLT and XQuery processing in Stylus Studio today!