Default properties on Node

[McDonnell, David]

Hi All,

Is there any way to specify default properties for all nodes that will be
set when a node is created?? 

My reason for wanting to do this is I'm using custom properties for a
document publishing system, eg status which could be one of 'live', 'devel',
and I want a node to have this property set to 'devel' when it is created. I
could write code to assume that if status is unset, it should be interpreted
as 'devel' but this adds alot more complexity. 

Cheers,
Dave