In this example, the container will manage a few thousand documents modeling an imaginary parts database. Begin by using the following command to create a container called parts.dbxml:

dbxml> createContainer parts.dbxml

Creating node storage container with nodes indexed

A successful response indicates that the container was created on disk, opened, and made the default container within the current context of the shell. Next populate the container with 3000 XML documents that have the following basic structure:

<part number="999">
    <description>Description of 999</description>
    <category>9</category>
</part>

Some of the documents will provide additional complexity to the database and have the following structure:

<part number="990">
   <description>Description of 990</description>
   <category>0</category>
   <parent-part>0</parent-part>
</part>

Use the following putDocument command to insert the sample data into the new parts container.

dbxml> putDocument "" '
for $i in (0 to 2999) 
return 
  <part number="{$i}">
    <description>Description of {$i}</description>
    <category>{$i mod 10}</category>
    {
      if (($i mod 10) = 0) 
      then <parent-part>{$i mod 3}</parent-part> 
      else ""
    }
  </part>' q

As the query executes, one line will be printed for each document inserted into the database.