• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
  • Creating XML Documents
  • Using Document Wizards to Create XML
  • Updating XML Documents
  • Using the Text Editor
  • Updating DOM Tree Structures
  • Using the Grid Tab
    • Layout of the Grid Tab
    • Features of the Grid Tab
    • Moving Around the Grid Tab
    • Selecting Items in the Grid
    • How Grid Changes Affect the XML Document
    • Working with Rows
    • Working with Columns
    • Working with Tables
  • Diffing Folders and XML Documents
  • Using Schemas with XML Documents
  • Converting XML to Its Canonical Form
  • Querying XML Documents Using XPath
  • Printing XML Documents
  • Saving XML Documents
• 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: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Layout of the Grid Tab

The Grid tab consists of a tool bar and a display area. The tool bar has buttons to perform actions and operations on both the grid itself and on the underlying XML document represented in the grid. An example of the former is the ability to show the child elements of the document's root element; they are hidden by default. An example of the latter is the ability to add a new instance of an element or to change a value. These operations are also accessible from the XML > Grid Editing menu, as well as from the grid shortcut menu (right-click on the grid).

The tool bar also includes a query field, which allows you to enter an XPath expression to query the XML document. Results are displayed in the Query Output window, which appears when you run the query if it is not already displayed. See Querying XML Documents Using XPath for more information on this feature.

The display area shows the XML document, both its structure and content, rendered in a tabular, or grid format.