System metadata for Pages

When a page is published, the following metadata is published:

  • Item information

    • ID
    • Title
    • Page template used for publishing the page
    • Minor Version
    • Major Version
    • Publication ID
    • Owning Publication ID
  • Date / time

    • Creation
    • Modification
    • Initial Publication
    • Last published
  • Location information:

    • Complete file system path of Page
    • Complete URL of Page (appended after document root URL)
  • Categorization information:

    Categories and Keywords
    used for profiling and personalization, and for searching. These elements are always published, but can be empty if you have not yet assigned Categories and Keywords to an item such as a Page or Component.

The following is an example of Page Metadata, published to the file system:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<page-meta id="26">
  <title>Home page</title>
  <author />
  <owning-publication id="1"/>
  <version major="2" minor="1"/>
  <created timestamp="2010-01-13T23:58:00"/>
  <modified timestamp="2011-08-24T12:23:00"/>
  <initial-publication timestamp="2010-09-13T04:35:00"/>
  <last-publication timestamp="2010-11-17T21:22:00"/>
  <categories>
    <category Name="Wines">
      <keyword Id="51" Name="Burgundy" TaxonomyId="7">
    </category>
  <categories>
  <path>/news/page.html</path>
  <url-path>/news/page.html</url-path>  
  <template id="23"/>
</page>