Defining XML Data Sources

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In order to make it easy for people who had prior experience in Morfik AppsBuilder or who are working with both Browser Application and Web Application projects, Morfik has made working with XML Data Sources to be just like working with regular tables.

You can see in Figure 1 the Table designer in the Morfik Workspace, with an XML Data Source being defined.

Figure 1 - A new XML based table being created in the Morfik Table designer.

Morfik AppsBuilder, when you are working in a Browser project, will always treat the XML based data source as being a table. It is, however, a much simpler database handling engine than a full blown relational database and will therefore have a more limited range of data types which you can use to define your table, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 - List of data types which can chosen for a field in an XML-based table.

In Figure 3 you can see the Table designer in Morfik workspace being used to create a regular database table with the same fields as those in the table being created in Figure 1. Notice that apart from a difference in the data type naming the designer works in exactly the same way. This similarity makes alternating on projects which use XML data sources or relational databases very easy.

Figure 3 - A new table being created in the Morfik Table designer using a relational database in a Web project (AppsBuilder).

[edit] See Also

• Working With XML Data
• Entering XML Data