This section will help you getting started.. It assumes that you
Start
Tamino Workbench. You will see the following:

The applications starts with opening the navigator. You can add a new database by typing the URL of the database. The URL is stored for later use.
If you press the load button you are asked to identify yourself (user identification and password). If Tamino Security is not in place you can just accept the fake values and click on the connect button (NB: password is required even if Tamino Security is not setup).
If you want to delete a URL, press <CTRL> <DELETE>. If you pressed Load you will see all available Tamino collections within this database:
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If you click on one of the collections you will see all
defined Document types within this collection. In the example at the left side the test
collection XLINKTEST is opened (XLINKTEST is the test data that is used to test XLink
Server, which is an application that enables you to join documents using a subset of
XLink/XPointer). If you click on a document type the next window is opened (user). |

If you would next press on Query you will see the first document of all selected documents (user). The left list contains the document ids of all loaded documents. The result is presented in a tab (Document text and Treeview).
The text control above the tab contains the filter expression that is used to narrow the result. You can change this expression to limit the result, e.g. contact/mobile (Select all users with a mobile, assuming that mobile number is optional).
You may change the XML content and save the result by clicking on the button Store. The status bar of the parent window shows the outcome of your modification. You may want to validate your changes before you process your document by clicking on button Validate. If you want to change another document, then you need to select a new document in the left list.
You may also create a complete new document. The best way to do this is to click on button New. This will result in a new document with all Elements/Attributes filled with valid data. This generation is accomplished using the schema definition of the document (TSD3). Of course you can also use an existing document. In that case you must remove the document id (ino:id) before you store the document.
The import and export function can be used to import documents from and to your file system.
For the export the current selected documents are used to export these documents to a directory on your file system. For the import you must selectively pick the documents you want to load into Tamino. This version also accepts import of non-xml documents. Export of non-xml documents is not yet supported.
You can also use the treeview View in order to modify an existing document (this restricted use will be dealt with in the next version). The purpose of the treeview is that you can create a valid document by adding and modifying XML Nodes. The current version does not support the creation of new XML Nodes (using the schema definition so that the result will well-formed and valid).

Any changes that you accept will be directly reflected in the text editor.
If you want to delete a document, simply click on button Remove. This action will remove the current selected document. The document itself will remain in the text editor, with the document id removed. This enables you to undo the removal. As soon as you select another document the deleted document can not be restored anymore.

The next two tabs, stylesheet and result are used to build a XSLT stylesheet for the current document. You can test the result of your stylesheet by clicking on the Result tab. You will see the result of the transformation in the Internet Explorer control (which requires Internet Explorer version 5 or above).
As you can see, this version supports code insight for the most common attributes of the stylesheet elements. This version also supports XSL:FO.
The last tab shows you the Tamino schema of the current document type.

Beside the above mentioned functions you will also see buttons for
The last new feature of this version is the validation of your XML content. With this version you can check

The above example is the result of clicking on the Validate button, which is a submenu of Validate. The highlighted line is near or on the detected line in error.