• 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: Working with WSDL Documents
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
  • The Stylus Studio XML Publisher
  • Building an XML Publisher Report
  • Choosing a Report Format
  • Working with Data Sources
  • Adding Data to a Report
    • How to Add Data to a Report
    • Example: Dropping a Repeating Node
    • How Data is Represented on the Canvas
    • More About the Navigation Bar
  • Working with Report Components
  • Generating Code for an XML Publisher Report
  • Example: Building an XML Publisher Report
  • Properties Reference
• 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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Example: Dropping a Repeating Node

As described earlier, the data source - whether it is an XML document, a relational database table, an EDI file converted to XML, or some other XML data source - is represented as a data model in the data sources panel. The glyphs used for the nodes are based on the object they represent in the data source, as shown here.

Figure 456. Glyphs Used to Represent a Data Source

For this example, we use books.xml as the report's data source. When we drop the book repeating element on the canvas, we select Insert Table > Populated Columns from the short-cut menu. Stylus Studio creates a table with five columns, one for each of the child nodes in the book repeating element, as shown in Figure 458.

Figure 457. Table Created Automatically Using Repeating Element Child Nodes

The following table summarizes the types of components you can create and automatically populate with data based on the node type.

Table 158. Components for Repeating and Non-Repeating Nodes

Repeating Nodes	Non-Repeating Nodes
Text	Text
Image	Image
If	If
Table (either a table with three empty columns, or a table with one column for each child node of the repeating element)	-
Repeater	-
List	-

See Working with Report Components for information about specific components.