• 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
      • Example
    • 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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How Data is Represented on the Canvas

Data is represented by glyphs that contain an XPath expression. The composition of these XPath expressions varies based on the context of the component in which the data is being included. The glyph might contain just an element name, or it might display a longer XPath expression if it represents data whose context is not established by the containing component.

Example

The context for the table component shown in Figure 458 is the video repeating element from the videos.xml document. You can see this if you select the table in the canvas and look at either the

Figure 458. Value Glyphs on the XML Publisher Canvas

The following table shows the different types of XPath expressions you might see in an XML Publisher report.

Table 159. Explanation of XPath Expressions in Data Glyphs

Data Glyph	Contains	Description
	The current context	The XPath expression for context is a dot. To make this easier to see in the glyph, Stylus Studio adds the element name in parentheses following the dot.
	An element (or attribute) name	If the context is established by the containing component, the data glyph contains only the element or attribute name.
	A full XPath	If the context for the data is not established by the containing component, Stylus Studio displays the full XPath needed to resolve it.