The Tamino X-Plorer displays the contents of Tamino XML Server in a navigation tree, thus allowing you to explore and manipulate its contents.

The features of the Tamino X-Plorer are summarized below.

Explore databases

• Connect to Tamino servers and their XML databases.

• Navigate and browse through collections, groups of schemas and groups of instances.

• Display the contents of documents in the standard formats XML, HTML, TXT, GIF, JPG, BMP, TIFF and SVG.

• Define different views for the document contents.

• Browse through very large amounts of data using highly sophisticated fetch options, filter mechanisms and display options.

Query a database

• Query and display instances or fragments of instances.

• Specify and execute queries directly.

• Save and load queries.

• Define different result views.

Maintain the structure and contents of a database

• Define, update and undefine existing schemas.

• Insert, update and delete existing instances. Multiple insertions and deletions of instances are supported.

Display, create and edit objects in a database

• For schemas, invoke the Tamino Schema Editor.

• For XML instances, invoke an appropriate external tool or start an application.

• For non-XML instances, invoke an external tool which supports the corresponding media type (for example, Adobe Reader for PDF).

Support for developing Tamino applications

• Invoke useful tools for application development, for example, a tool which generates test data for a specific doctype.

View externally maintained data

• View administrative data such as security data or server extensions of a Tamino XML Server.

• View WebDAV-enabled collections which contain documents controlled by a WebDAV server.