通过源码，我们可以看到SqlSessionFactoryBuilder 通过XMLConfigBuilder 去解析我们传入的mybatis的配置文件， 下面就接着看看 XMLConfigBuilder 部分源码：

/**
 * mybatis 配置文件解析
 */
public class XMLConfigBuilder extends BaseBuilder {
  public XMLConfigBuilder(InputStream inputStream, String environment, Properties props) {
    this(new XPathParser(inputStream, true, props, new XMLMapperEntityResolver()), environment, props);
  }

  private XMLConfigBuilder(XPathParser parser, String environment, Properties props) {
    super(new Configuration());
    ErrorContext.instance().resource("SQL Mapper Configuration");
    this.configuration.setVariables(props);
    this.parsed = false;
    this.environment = environment;
    this.parser = parser;
  }
  
  //外部调用此方法对mybatis配置文件进行解析
  public Configuration parse() {
    if (parsed) {
      throw new BuilderException("Each XMLConfigBuilder can only be used once.");
    }
    parsed = true;
    //从根节点configuration
    parseConfiguration(parser.evalNode("/configuration"));
    return configuration;
  }

  //此方法就是解析configuration节点下的子节点
  //由此也可看出，我们在configuration下面能配置的节点为以下10个节点
  private void parseConfiguration(XNode root) {
    try {
      propertiesElement(root.evalNode("properties")); //issue #117 read properties first
      typeAliasesElement(root.evalNode("typeAliases"));
      pluginElement(root.evalNode("plugins"));
      objectFactoryElement(root.evalNode("objectFactory"));
      objectWrapperFactoryElement(root.evalNode("objectWrapperFactory"));
      settingsElement(root.evalNode("settings"));
      environmentsElement(root.evalNode("environments")); // read it after objectFactory and objectWrapperFactory issue #631
      databaseIdProviderElement(root.evalNode("databaseIdProvider"));
      typeHandlerElement(root.evalNode("typeHandlers"));
      mapperElement(root.evalNode("mappers"));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new BuilderException("Error parsing SQL Mapper Configuration. Cause: " + e, e);
    }
  }
}

通过以上源码，我们就能看出，在mybatis的配置文件中：

1. configuration节点为根节点。

2. 在configuration节点之下，我们可以配置10个子节点， 分别为：properties、typeAliases、plugins、objectFactory、objectWrapperFactory、settings、environments、databaseIdProvider、typeHandlers、mappers。