Database Perspective

The Database perspective (Window > Open perspective > Database) allows you to manage a database, offering support for browsing multiple connections at the same time, relational and native XML databases, SQL execution, XQuery execution and data export to XML.

This perspective offers database specific support for:

Oracle Berkeley DB XML Database
eXist XML Database
IBM DB2 (Enterprise edition only)
JDBC-ODBC Bridge
MarkLogic (Enterprise edition only)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Enterprise edition only)
MySQL
Oracle 11g (Enterprise edition only)
PostgreSQL 8.3 (Enterprise edition only)
Documentum xDb (X-Hive/DB) 10 XML Database (Enterprise edition only)
Documentum (CMS) 6.5 (Enterprise edition only)

The XML capabilities of the databases marked in this list with "Enterprise edition only" are available only in the Enterprise edition of Oxygen XML Editor. The non-XML capabilities of any database listed here are available also in the Academic and Professional editions of Oxygen XML Editor by registering the database driver as a generic JDBC driver (the Generic JDBC type in the list of driver types) when defining the data source for accessing the database in Oxygen XML Editor.

The non-XML capabilities are:

browsing the structure of the database instance
opening a database table in the Table Explorer view
handling the values from XML Type columns as String values

The XML capabilities are:

displaying an XML Schema node in the tree of the database structure (for databases with such an XML specific structure) with actions for opening/editing/validating the schemas in an Oxygen XML Editor editor panel
handling the values from columns of type XML Type as XML instance documents that can be opened and edited in an Oxygen XML Editor editor panel
validating an XML instance document added to an XML Type column of a table, etc.

For a detailed feature matrix that compares the Academic, Professional and Enterprise editions of Oxygen XML Editor please go to the Oxygen XML Editor website.

Note: Only connections configured on relational data sources can be used to import data to XML or to generate XML schemas.

The perspective provides the following functional areas:

Main menu - provides access to all the features and functions available within Oxygen XML Editor.
Main toolbar - provides easy access to common and frequently used functions. Each icon is a button that acts as a shortcut to a related function.
Editor area - the place where you spend most of your time, reading, editing, applying markup and validating your documents.
Data Source Explorer - provides browsing support for the configured connections.
Table explorer - provides table content editing support for inserting new rows, deleting table rows, cell value editing, export to XML file.