The XML Publisher Canvas

When you create an XML Publisher report, Stylus Studio starts the XML Publisher and displays a new report ( untitled.report). The canvas representing the report is empty, as shown here.

Figure 440. Empty Canvas in a New XML Publisher Report

The canvas represents the report's body, and all of the work you do when building a report - inserting XML data, tables, text and text blocks, and conditional expressions - takes place within the context of the body.

A useful way to think of the body is as the <body> tag in an HTML document - everything that you do on the report canvas would be described between the <body> and </body> tags in an HTML document. This metaphor is represented by the Body glyph ( ) in the canvas navigation bar at the top of the canvas - everything you subsequently add to the report canvas will be represented as a child of the report's body.

See How Data is Represented on the Canvas and More About the Navigation Bar for more information.

DTD Generator

Stylus Studio's DTD Generator supports the automatic generation and association of both internal and external DTDs based on XML instance documents.

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