Treebeard is a text editor that allows the editing and loading of an XSLT document and an XML document at the same time.

Treebeard also can apply the XSLT to the XML and display the output for further editing/saving.

Introduction
Often XSLT is used in a background process. For example, transforming an XML document into an HTML page. The process used to write an XSLT document, at least for me, was to write the XSLT in a text editor, save it to a server, and then run the page to see if it transformed correctly.

This is a very tedious process if one is just learning XSLT. Most commercial XSLT editor / IDEs are rather expensive, especially if you are an individual just trying to learn XML / XSLT.

Target Audience
If you just got back from Barnes and Noble with your spankin new XSLT book, and are bummed out because it didn't come with anything for you to run the examples with - here you go.

Treebeard will also fill the need for small business' who are just getting started with XML/XSLT, are on a tight budget, or don't quite need a full featured IDE.

Here are some key features of "Treebeard":

· Syntax highlighting
· Code Completion
· Template browser
· Simple path builder
· Plug-able XSLT transformer
· Load files from a URL
· Installer for most platforms
· OS independent
· Output in HTML, text, or PDF
· Find with regular expression support
· XML tree view or plain text view
· Bundled with Xerces2-J, Xalan2-J, and Saxon
· Apache FOP with Preveiw & PDF saving
· UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1 support

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This version is mainly a port from the internal desktop to the proper desktop, and the attempt to add scripting. Treebeard now runs a Java shell (called BSH) that canrun scripts written in Java.
· The addition of scripting is going to add a whole new flavor to Treebeard. There are a few bug fixes in this release as well, but not much to write home about. This whole release's focus was on usability changes (mostly trying to fix the UI).