A communiqué from Lori Pike announces the availability of ActiveState's version 1.2 release of the Komodo IDE, which now has full XSLT editing and debugging on Linux and Windows. Komodo is "a cross-platform integrated development environment for open source technologies and XSLT programming. It is optimized for programming languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl and now features cutting-edge XSLT and PHP editing and debugging capabilities. Support for consuming Web services has also been added. This release also offers significant performance improvements over previous versions. Komodo has all the features of a professional IDE, such as a language aware editor, graphical debugger, regular expression toolkit for Perl, and distributed development support. The intuitive environment is also ideal for occasional programmers, with syntax checking, AutoCompletion, and a powerful debugger to catch errors fast, as well as tutorials, templates, and online documentation." A non-commercial license is available for $29.50, and previous Komodo releases are available for free educational use.

From the announcement:

Key new features in Komodo version 1.2 include:

• Performance: significantly improved debugging performance and resource memory management
• XSLT debugger: takes the pain out of XSLT by making it simple to find problems in both input data and code
• XSLT automatic output preview: eliminates time-consuming steps so you can view your transformation results immediately
• PHP: PHP AutoCompletion, syntax checking and debugging plus debugging of PHP files locally or on a remote Web server
• Web services: consume Web services for Perl, Python or PHP
• Tcl editing & debugging with a membership to ASPN Tcl: use Komodo's syntax checking and debugging with Tcl