Custom metadata

You define custom metadata in the Content Manager using Metadata Schemas. You can use the Content Delivery APIs to define queries on custom Component metadata or custom Page metadata.

The following is an example of Custom Metadata for Components, published to the file system:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<component-meta id="12">
	<title>SDL offers benchmark comparison of Internet strategies</title>
	<owning-publication id="20"/>
	<version major="2" minor="1"/>
	<schema id="99"/>
	<created timestamp="2003-07-13T23:58:00"/>
	<modified timestamp="2003-07-14T22:58:00"/>
	<first-published timestamp="2003-07-15T22:58:00"/>
	<last-published timestamp="2003-07-17T22:58:00"/>
	<categories>
		<category name="News">
			<keyword>internet</keyword>
			<keyword>company</keyword>
		</category>
	</categories>
	<custom-meta>
		<meta>
			<embeddate type="dateTime">2003-06-05T12:08:00</embeddate>
			<text type="normalizedString">some meta text</text>
			<number type="decimal">123456789</number>
			<exlink>http://www.msn.com</exlink>
		</meta>
	</custom-meta>
</component-meta>