This view presents in a tree-like fashion the database connections configured in the preferences page. You can connect to a database simply by expanding the connection node. The database structure can be expanded up to column level. Oxygen XML Developer plugin supports multiple simultaneous database connections and the connections tree provides an easy way to browse them.
Data Source Explorer View
The following objects are displayed in the Data Source Explorer view:
-
Connection -
Catalog (Collection) -
XML Schema Repository -
XML Schema Component -
Schema -
Table -
System Table -
Table Column
A
collection (called catalog in
some databases) is a hierarchical container for
resources and further
sub-collections. There are two types of resources:
XML resource - an XML
document or a document fragment, selected by a previously executed XPath query.
non XML resource
Note: For some connections you can add or move resources into a
container by dragging them from:
- Project view;
- the default file system application (Windows Explorer on Windows or Finder on Mac OS X, for example);
- or from another database container.
The following actions are available in the view's toolbar:
- The
Filters button opens the
Data Sources / Table Filters
Preferences page, allowing you to
decide which table types will be displayed in the Data Source
Explorer view. - The
Configure Database Sources
button opens the Data Sources
preferences page where you can configure both
data sources and connections.
