• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
  • Java API Overview
    • Data Access
    • Package Summary
    • Stylus Studio URL Schemes
  • Invoking an Adapter Programmatically
  • Deploying Applications
  • Custom File Systems
  • Adapter Properties
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Data Access

The Stylus Studio Java API provides access to non-XML data stored as flat files (EDI, CSV, RTF, and others) and on relational data bases (SQL Server, Oracle, and others), and to XML data available via Web services and stored in Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB XML database. Figure 506 illustrates the different ways you can use the Stylus Studio Java API to access XML and non-XML data from Java applications or from XQuery or XSLT code.

Figure 506. Accessing Data Sources with the Stylus Studio Java API

All data access relies on the Stylus Studio custom URL schemes - you use Stylus Studio's adapter: URL scheme to access non-XML data stored as a flat file (EDI, CSV, and others). Other Stylus Studio URL schemes ( db:, ws:, and others) are used to access XML and non-XML data stored on relational databases and provided by Web services. The classes in the com.stylusstudio.converter package were designed to work with the adapter: URL scheme. If you are using any of the other Stylus Studio URL schemes, you simply need to register the Stylus Studio URI resolver in your Java code. Note that Stylus Studio generates this code automatically when you generate Java code for XSLT and XQuery using certain processors, such as the Stylus Studio built-in processor, the DataDirect XQuery processor, and processors from Saxon and Xalan.

See Stylus Studio URL Schemes to learn more about custom URL schemes in Stylus Studio.