topic Re: Find content using an id and idref in Alfresco Archive

Find content using an id and idref

kooktroop — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:53:23 GMT

I need to be able to find any give piece of XML content using an id/idref within an XML file. This, at the moment, is so I can render an XML file and obtain information required by the XSLT (to present the content properly) from another XML file using an id/idref. As I am familiar with XSLT let me e

Re: Find content using an id and idref

arielb — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:54:29 GMT

we certainly do not have a good solution for you right now. what you're looking for is search for structured xml content - which is an interesting and hard problem. the best solution i have for you - which is not a great solution by any means is to use the parseXMLDocuments(form_name) function to retrieve all documents created by that form and create your own hash of idrefs in xsl. since this processing time is all at page creation - it only has an impact on your dev environment (page generation will be slow) - but your production environment will not have any impact from this. please file a feature request for this at http://issues.alfresco.com

Re: Find content using an id and idref

kooktroop — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:13:20 GMT

I am going to try out;

In Alfresco, my understanding is that we could store everything in one directory with the id as the filename, then just use Alfrescoâ€™s XML loading function: parseXMLDocument() to do something like <xsl:value-of select=â€parseXMLDocument( contentreference/@idref )/nameâ€ /> and we would get the output of output.xml in the above example.

The only downfall here is that from the editing user's point of view (in our case) there would be over 1,000 content items with filenames like pu_ae_act-idalt_tsk-idalt or rm_ft_phs-projini_stage-projini in one directory.

Failing that, I am going to try out your suggestion. Thanks for the response - I am really looking forward to seeing what kind of solution you guys come up with.