XML Indexer

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Introduction

The XMLIndexer factory Service allow to create a GenericXMLIndexerService and a MetadataXMLIndexerService. The GenericXMLIndexerService is not implemented yet. A MetadataXMLIndexer operate over a collection of homogeneus XML documents bound to a specific MetadataCollection, this indexer can be populated, updated, recreated and queried.

Implementation Overview

XMLIndexer consist of two parts:

  • MetadataXMLIndexer
    MetadataXMLIndexer provides the functionalities to retrieve, update, store MetadataElements into Metadata Collections.

The Service expose the following operations:

    • AddElements(Documents[]) --> void<tt>
      This operation take a list of Documents and adds them to the current collection. A Document is a pair of id and a String representation of the XMLDocument. This operation can be used to update elements already stored given the same ids.

Dependencies

=== Usage Examples ===