This function is provided to give a BELTS user the opportunity to explore the various XML documents stored for content within the system. This functionality is not required for normal use of BELTS, but may be useful for people wishing to develop further functionality on top of BELTS.

This function is provided as a problem-solving aid in BELTS. It serves to manually regenerate the XML cache created for content as they are made known to the system and may be used if, for some reason, the XML cache is corrupted or out of date.

This function allows a BELTS content manager to manually request the latest updates from a content provider, rather than waiting for the next scheduled update. This function is useful, for example, if it is known that new content has been made available upstream and it is desired to access it straight away.