Connecting doc and xml

[digitx]

Hi,

as i am quite a newbie, the following question might be quite stupid:

Does alfresco support content indexing by using a pair of files where one file is the document itself and the other file is a xml file describing the contents of the document to index?
Files will habe the same name, but other post-fix…for instance:

aDocumentFile.pdf
aDocumentFile.xml

Thank you very much.

ingo

[andy]

Hi

There is no per-document configuration of indexing.

PDF docs are converted to a text representation for indexing.
Some meta data may be extracted on to attributes of the document.

Why do you want this?

Regards

Andy

[digitx]

Hi and thanks for your reply.

i'd like to add meta info to the document when doing the scan.

Our MFP is able to…:

a.) Encode MetaData into the file name (e.g. date, time, user (20060821_author_invoiceNo.doc)) as well as…

b.) adding a configurable and dynamically filled metaData.xml and file to a scanned document (There will be 2 files after scanning. e.g.: document123.doc, document123.xml)

This is to de-centralize scanning documents into DMS, like for instance eCopy does. So, what i'd like to do is parse that xml file for buzzwords and categorise it accordingly.

Regards,

Ingo

[dschmalz]

b.) adding a configurable and dynamically filled metaData.xml and file to a scanned document (There will be 2 files after scanning. e.g.: document123.doc, document123.xml)

Ingo, did you consider using an Alfresco Content Package (.acp), which is a zip file containing both the file and an XML document describing the meta-data? Then, you could use an Alfresco rule to automatically import acp files into a specific space.

It would of course require the XML containing the meta-data generated by your tool to be transformed into the Alfresco DTD. Try to put a file in a repository, update its meta-data and export the space that contains it through the admin console to have a look at the acp files.

Hope this helps,
David

[digitx]

Seems as if this might be a possible solution for my problem
Do you know, in which part of the alfresco documentation that issue can be found?

thanx, ingo

[dschmalz]

You can have a look at:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Export_and_Import#Alfresco_Content_Package_.28ACP.29_File_Format

It seems that Alfresco has not released any XML schema that covers the meta-data . I would suggest that you run manually an export of a space containing a few files, unzip the acp and have a look at the content :-).

David

[digitx]

:lol:

thx