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Attributes and Fields
In addition to being a collections of objects, a Metadata Node also contains two types of
elements, called "Attributes" on page221 and "Fields" on page230. These are name/value
pairs, where the name is case-insensitive.
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An Attribute is a read-only, system-defined element which holds certain information
about a certain node in the Metadata structure. This information can be static (e.g. the size
of a physical page) or evaluated on-the-fly (e.g. the number of documents in a group).
Attributes are non-repetitive (i.e. name is unique) and do not persist through Metadata
recreation.
For an overview of Attributes and in which Node objects they are available, see the
"Metadata Attributes reference" on page222.
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A Field is a read-write, user-defined element which holds custom information about a
certain node in the Metadata structure. Fields are repetitive (i.e. the same field may
appear multiple times) and persist through Metadata recreation.
They are each stored in a collection container object (a MetaAttributeCollection and a
MetaFieldCollection, respectively).
As is the case with Nodes, both collections share a number of methods and properties. The
Fields collection however has additional methods to support multiple entries with the same
name, which is forbidden with attributes.
Node properties and methods reference
This topic gives detailed information about all properties and methods of the Node object. The
availability of a property or method with an actual Node object, however, depends on the type
of the Node: "MetaJob" on page189, "MetaGroup" on page192, "MetaDocument" on
page195, "MetaDatapage" on page199, and "MetaPage" on page202.
Properties
Attributes
Returns the attribute collection (MetaCollection) of the current node. See "Attributes" on
page221.
Count
Not available in MetaPage
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