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At the top of the BaseX window, the menu bar resides. It houses all important features of the BaseX GUI. Use the ''Database'' menu to [[Graphical_User_Interface#Database Management|create and manage your XML databases]]. The ''Editor'' menu gives you access to a variety of tools and options for working with files. The ''View'' menu lets you toggle between the bars and panels described below. The ''Visualization'' menu offers you a comprehensive set of data representations that will help you to understand your data even better. Use the ''Options'' menu to set your preferences regarding real-time execution, colors, fonts, and packages.
Right below the menu bar, you can find the ''Buttons'' bar and just below that the ''Input Bar''. The ''Buttons'' bar offers you a wide range of shortcuts, mostly for menu options, such as managing databases and displaying views and visualizations, but also for navigating through your data. With the [[Graphical_User_Interface#Input Bar|''Input Bar'']], you can query your data using three different kinds of query syntax.
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The ''Status Bar'' is situated at the bottom of the BaseX window.
The BaseX [[Graphical_User_Interface#Editor|editor]] consists of the ''Project'' view, a file browser with optional input fields for searching files, and the actual ''Editor'' panel with buttons for creating, opening, saving, searching, executing and debugging your files.
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In addition to that, the ''Result'' view displays the output of queries and database operations and the ''Info'' view shows you information about database processes and query execution.
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To gain further insights into your data, you can choose to display various [[Graphical_User_Interface#Visualizations|visualizations]] such as ''Map'', ''Tree'', ''Folder'', ''Plot'', ''Table'' and ''Explorer''.
The BaseX GUI is a great place for creating and managing your XML databases.
To '''create a new database''', select ''Database'' → ''New'' from the menu and browse to an XML document of your choice. You can start with the {{Code|factbook.xml}} document, which contains statistical information on the worlds' countries. It is included in the {{Code|etc}} directory of our [https://basex.org/download full distributions] ( ZIP Package and Windows Installer) or can be downloaded [https://files.basex.org/xml/factbook.xml here] (1.3 MB). In the ''Create Database'' dialog, specify the path to your input file and the name of the new database. If you leave the input file field empty, an empty database will be created. Click the ''OK'' button to create the database.
'''Note:''' You can also use the GUI's [[Graphical_User_Interface#Editor|editor]] to create and edit your own XML document. Just specify it as input file for the creation of a new database after saving the document to disk.
'''Note:''' You can also access the menu options ''New'', ''Open & Manage'', ''Properties'' and ''Close'' from BaseX's Buttons bar.
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=Editor=
If you right-click on an XML document in the ''Project'' view, the selected file will be parsed and bound to the context item:
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==Project View==
The ''Input Bar'' is situated on top of the main window. It offers you three different modes to query your XML databases: '''Find''', '''XQuery''' and '''Command'''.
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The upcoming example queries can all be used with an instance of the <code>factbook</code> database:
