How to Open a Table or View as an XML Document

To open a table or view as an XML document:
1. Display the Open dialog box.
2. Click the Relational DB icon.

Two new tabs appear: Browse and URL Builder.

3. Click the URL Builder tab.

4. Complete the connection settings as described in Specifying Connection Settings.
5. Click the Connect button.

The databases for the server you connected to appear in the URL Builder tab. For example:

6. Expand the tree diagram to locate the table or view you want to open as an XML document. For example:

7. Click the Open button.

Stylus Studio opens the table or view as an XML document in the editor you were using when you displayed the Open dialog box. in this example, the authors table was opened as a source document in the XQuery Mapper.

Notice that the document name contains the connection settings used to define the URL in step 4.

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