Actions Available at Container Level

In a Berkeley DB XML repository, the actions available at container level in the Data Source Explorer view are as follows:

Add Resource

Adds a new XML resource to the selected container.

Rename

Allows you to specify a new name for the selected container.

Delete

Removes the selected container from the database tree.

Edit indices

Allows you to edit the indices for the selected container.

Refresh

Performs a refresh for the sub-tree of the selected node.

Properties

Displays a dialog box with a list of properties of the Berkeley container (such as container type, auto indexing, page size, validate on load, compression algorithm, number of documents, etc.)

The fields of the dialog box are as follows:

• Granularity:
  • Document level - Good option for retrieving large documents.
  • Node level - Good option for retrieving nodes from within documents.
• Add / Edit indices:

  • Node - The node name.
  • Namespace - The index namespace.
  • Index strategy:

    • Index type:
      • Uniqueness - Indicates whether the indexed value must be unique within the container.
      • Path type:
        • node - Indicates that you want to index a single node in the path.
        • edge - Indicates that you want to index the portion of the path where two nodes meet.
      • Node type:
        • element - An element node in the document content.
        • attribute - An attribute node in the document content.
        • metadata - A node found only in the metadata content of a document.
      • Key type:
        • equality - Improves the performances of tests that look for nodes with a specific value.
        • presence - Improves the performances of tests that look for the existence of a node regardless of its value.
        • substring - Improves the performance of tests that look for a node whose value contains a given sub-string.
    • Syntax types - The syntax describes the type of data the index contains and is mostly used to determine how indexed values are compared.