• 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
  • Invoking an Adapter Programmatically
    • The adapter: URL Scheme
    • Constructing Your Own Adapter URL
    • Example - demo.java
  • Deploying Applications
  • Custom File Systems
  • Adapter Properties
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Invoking an Adapter Programmatically

The Stylus Studio Java API allows you to access and convert non-XML files to XML, and vice versa. Adapters can be invoked programmatically, in an XQuery application, for example, allowing you to treat non-XML data as XML, manipulate it as needed, and, optionally, write it back to its source in its original format.

Stylus Studio provides adapters for over one dozen common file formats (binary, comma- and tab-separated values, EDI, and others).

This section provides background information on using Stylus Studio adapters in your applications, and it describes demo.bat, a simple Java program installed with Stylus Studio.

This section covers the following topics: