• 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: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Extending Stylus Studio
  • Custom XML Validation Engines
  • Custom Document Wizards
  • Custom File Systems
    • Working with the Custom File System Java API
    • Registering a Custom File System
  • Using Stylus Studio with Berkeley DB XML
• Chapter 14: Stylus Studio Reference

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Custom File Systems

Custom file systems are available only in Stylus Studio XML Professional Edition.

Stylus Studio supports several standard file systems, including Windows, WebDAV, and FTP. You can use Stylus Studio's custom file system feature to define your own file system and register that file system with Stylus Studio. A custom file system can be any data source (XML, XQuery, DTD, for example) with a Java API.

Once you register a custom file system with Stylus Studio, it is displayed in the File > Open and File > Save dialog boxes.

Figure 295. Custom File System in Open Dialog Box

The process of creating a custom file system in Stylus Studio involves two main steps:

These steps are described in greater detail in the following sections.

In this section

This section covers the following topics: