The Adaptive Server External File System Access feature provides access to operating system files as SQL tables. This appendix describes the use of the native XML processor with the File System Access Feature. For more detailed information, see the Adaptive Server Component Integration Services User’s Guide.
When you use the File System Access feature, you create a proxy table that maps an entire directory tree from the external file system, using Adaptive Server’s Component Integration Services (CIS) feature. Then you use the built-in functions of the native XML processor on the data in the proxy table to query XML documents stored in the external file system.
With External Directory Recursive Access, you can map a proxy table to a parent directory, and to all its subordinate files and subdirectories.
