Load Data source: XML file
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This is XSLfast when you start it:
There is no XML structure displayed in the XML window on the upper left hand. The working sheet is empty.
The commands in the inspector window show the properties of the page because there are no elements on the sheet currently selected.
When there are elements on the sheet, the inspector will display the corresponding properties for the selected element.
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XSLfast will ask you what you would like to do:
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Choose the option "New layout" and click "Ok".
Now what you need first is a data source, which is an XML file. XSLfast will ask you to set a data source when you open a new layout.
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Load your XML file into XSLfast:
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After you have loaded the XML file, it is displayed in the XML window, showing nodes and subnodes.
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You can close or open the nodes with the "directory" symbol by clicking the minus or plus symbol to see which nodes they contain.
Now you can see all the nodes the file is made of, like Report, ProductGroup, Product and Properties and the nodes they contain, like ProductGroupID or Name. The entire contents of the XML file are sorted into these nodes.
You do not see the actual contents of the file, though. Some XML files can have rather huge proportions and you only need the general structure of the file to work with in the first place.