• 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
  • Getting Started with XQuery in Stylus Studio
  • An XQuery Primer
  • Understanding FLWOR Expressions
  • Building an XQuery Using the Mapper
  • Working with the XQuery collection() Function
    • Using the collection() Function in Stylus Studio
    • How the collection() Function is Processed
    • Creating a Database Connection
    • Creating a collection() Statement
    • Other Ways to Register a Database Configuration
  • Debugging XQuery Documents
  • Creating an XQuery Scenario
  • Generating XQuery Documentation
  • Using XQuery to Invoke a Web Service
  • Generating Java Code for XQuery
• 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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Working with the XQuery collection() Function

Support for the XQuery collection() function is available only in Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite and Stylus Studio DataDirect XQuery Suite.

As implemented in Stylus Studio, the XQuery collection() function allows you to include relational database tables and views in your XQuery as if they were XML documents. (The collection() function is implementation-specific - different vendors have implemented it in different ways. In some implementations, for example, the collection() function takes as its argument a URL that specifies an XML document.)

This section describes how to work with the collection() function in Stylus Studio.

Watch it! You can view a video demonstration of this feature by clicking the television icon or by clicking this link: watch the XQuery Collections video.

A complete list of the videos demonstrating Stylus Studio's features is here: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_videos.html.

This section covers the following topics: