• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
  • Overview of Convert to XML
  • Choosing an Input File
  • The Convert to XML Editor
  • Parts of an Input File
  • Working with Regions
  • Working with Fields
  • Controlling XML Output
  • Creating an Adapter
  • Using Adapters in Stylus Studio
    • Built-In Adapters
    • How to Open a File Using an Adapter
    • Executing an Adapter from the Command Line
  • More About Converting EDI
  • User-Defined Adapters Properties Reference
• 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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Using Adapters in Stylus Studio

You can use adapters to open any file as XML anywhere in Stylus Studio. For example, you might want to use a text file ( .txt) as the source document for XQuery Mapper. When you open a file using an adapter, the adapter engine converts that file to XML on-the-fly, using the settings defined in the adapter you select.

You can also use the Stylus Studio Java API to invoke an adapter programmatically to convert any file using the adapter you specify. See Invoking an Adapter Programmatically for more information on this topic.

This section covers the following topics: