topic Re: xml metadata in Alfresco Archive

xml metadata

gokceng — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:49:12 GMT

hi, I'was looking at the xml extractors. I need something different. My nodes are not type of xml. My nodes have some custom properties and some of them are xml. For example, var dummy = <rootNode><node1>value1</node1><node2>value2</node2><node3>value3</node3&

Re: xml metadata

mrogers — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:25:51 GMT

Either you extract the xml values and put them into some sort of queryable structure that you can search against or you will need to use full text search for your text data.

Re: xml metadata

gokceng — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:31:28 GMT

thanks for your reply. can you give an example for "queryable structure" or "using full text search"? I mean how can I get a queryable strcuture or make Alfresco usable for full text search.

Re: xml metadata

invictus9 — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:46:16 GMT

thanks for your reply. can you give an example for "queryable structure" or "using full text search"? I mean how can I get a queryable strcuture or make Alfresco usable for full text search.

Full text search refers to the thing that Google does – words are indexed, in context, and you can construct queries on those words. The way full text search works in Alfresco removes the XML context, though, much like HTML is stripped off web pages on Google searches.

Queryable structure implies a structure that the Lucene search engine knows about and can build indexes for, and can be efficiently searched. The content type and its metadata form the queryable structure. So, if your document has a set of metadata properties, node1, node2, etc, you can push the document content out to the document properties. They will then be indexed and made searchable. In effect, you are telling the search engine that "value1" is a significant piece of data, but only in the context of "node1" meaning.

Re: xml metadata

gokceng — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:45:56 GMT

thank you for your replies invictus9 and mrogers. I will look at the points you mentioned.