5.1 XML perspective

Perspectives are a way to look through different views to a a project. Depending on the role of the developer (whether a Web developer, or a Java developer, or an EJB developer, etc.). And also depending on the tasks that the developer must perform, the developer uses a different perspective. The XML perspective is the perspective for XML development in the Application Developer. It contains several editors and views that can help a developer in building XML files, XML Schemas, DTDs, stylesheets, and integrating between data extracted from relational databases and XML. To open the XML perspective select

Window—>Open Perspective—>XML

Figure 5-1 XML perspective

The XML perspective (Figure 5-1) contains four sections:

￿The view on the top left of the perspective shows the Outline view for the active editor; in this case the XML editor is active.

￿The view on the top right shows the active editors

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IBM Version 5 manual XML perspective, Window-Open Perspective-XML