Graphical User Interface

Requirements

You need to have Java installed. If you don't know how to install it, please visit java.com.
We assume that you are familiar with a shell at a basic level.

Download

Download BaseX version for your operating system here.
In this example we assume that the basex.jar file is stored in the directory /basex.

Run the GUI

Go to the directory where the basex.jar is stored (> cd /basex) and execute:

> java -cp BaseX.jar org.basex.BaseXGUI

If you have downloaded the installer, the exe-file or the mac package. You can just start the BaseX executable and the BaseXGUI is coming up.

First Operations

To get to know BaseX, we advise to run some of the following operations to see how it works and get your first indentations.

Create a database/collection

Go to Database/New menu you can choose a folder of xml files or a single xml file to either create a single xml file database or a collection with a bunch of xml files.

Furthermore there are tabs for parsing, indexes and full-text options.

Parsing

Here you can change settings for the parser and choose a file for your xml catalog.

Indexes

Here you can choose what indexes to be created with the database: text index, attribute index and path summary are available

as indexes.

Full-Text

Here you can activate the full-text index. Furthermore some more options can be set, like language, wildcards and a stopword list.

See also

BaseX Standalone, BaseX Server, Getting Started Guide, Advanced User Portal