• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
  • Creating XML Documents
  • Using Document Wizards to Create XML
  • Updating XML Documents
  • Using the Text Editor
  • Updating DOM Tree Structures
  • Using the Grid Tab
    • Layout of the Grid Tab
    • Features of the Grid Tab
    • Moving Around the Grid Tab
    • Selecting Items in the Grid
    • How Grid Changes Affect the XML Document
      • Types of Changes that Affect the Document
    • Working with Rows
    • Working with Columns
    • Working with Tables
  • Diffing Folders and XML Documents
  • Using Schemas with XML Documents
  • Converting XML to Its Canonical Form
  • Querying XML Documents Using XPath
  • Printing XML Documents
  • Saving XML Documents
• 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
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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How Grid Changes Affect the XML Document

When you make a change to the document structure or content on the Grid tab, those changes are reflected immediately in the underlying XML document. You can see your changes affect the document on the Text tab.

Consider the following excerpt from books.xml.

<authors>
               
	<author>David A. Chappel</author>
               
	<author>Tyler Jewell</author>
               
</authors>
               

            

If you move the rows in the authors table, for example, as shown in Figure 133,

Figure 133. Moving a Row Affects XML

the underlying XML changes accordingly:

<authors>
               
	<author>Tyler Jewell</author>
               
	<author>David A. Chappel</author>
               
</authors>
               

            

Types of Changes that Affect the Document

The following changes, all of which can be made using Grid tab, affect the underlying XML document:

Changes you make affect the current instance only. For example, in the example shown in Figure 133, only that instance of the nested table is affected. If you add a column to books/book, however, every instance of books/book gets that new column.