Some questions about ibatis.net

[Chen, Xuguang]

Hi,All:
    
    I am a new guy for ibatis.net. I meet some questions about
ibatis.net(1.9.1&1.6.1).
    Would you help me?
 
    1. I don't want to put the ibatis's config files at the same folder with
web.config. Can I set the path myself?
        Such as put the SqlMap.config file in config\ folder.
            2. Can I encrypt database connection in SqlMap.config except for
embedded?
        *           3. When I try to embed ex-properties file in
SqlMap.config, I meet an error.
        *              My file like this
        *              <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
        *             <sqlMapConfig
xmlns="http://ibatis.apache.org/dataMapper";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; >
        *            .....
        *             The error message is :
        *             The element 'sqlMapConfig' in namespace
'http://ibatis.apache.org/dataMapper <http://ibatis.apache.org/dataMapper> '
has invalid child element 'properties' in namespace
'http://ibatis.apache.org/dataMapper <http://ibatis.apache.org/dataMapper>
'. List of possible elements expected: 'providers, database, alias,
typeHandlers, sqlMaps' in namespace 'http://ibatis.apache.org/dataMapper
<http://ibatis.apache.org/dataMapper> '.        
        *              How to do it?
       By the way,  I tried <sqlMapConfig
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="SqlMapConfig.xsd">, but failed too. 
           
    Sorry for posting three questions first time.

            Thank you very much!  
        *       

Best Regards,