This view presents in a tree-like fashion the database connections configured from menu . You can connect to a database simply by expanding the connection node. The database structure can be expanded up to column level. Oxygen XML Editor 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 by 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 resourceThe following actions are available in the view's toolbar:
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.
Configure Database Sources
button opens the Data Sources
preferences page where you can configure both
data sources and connections.