On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Nikolay Georgiev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > what would be the advantage of meta data saved as Mixin over just a node. > Can I search Mixings thourh XPath?
yes, see [0]. cheers stefan [0] http://www.day.com/specs/jcr/1.0/6.6.3.2_Type_Constraint.html > > Thanks, > Nikolay > > On 08/31/2011 10:40 AM, Stefan Guggisberg wrote: >> >> hi nikolay >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nikolay Georgiev >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I would like to implement 2 things and maybe you can give me some >>> advice how to do it: >>> >>> 1) I want to add Metadata to every node. >>> Possible solution: add a node called metaData and and the metaData as >>> properties belonging to this node. What do you think? Or are there >>> better ways? >> >> you could e.g. define a custom mixin node type and assign it to specific >> nodes >> by calling Node.addMixin(). >> >>> 2) Some specific nodes should inherit other nodes, in a way that the >>> metaData in the super node is also metaData in the subnode. How can I >>> implement this? >> >> if the 'super node' is always a parent of the 'derived' node you could >> write some custom code which does traverse the parent hierarchy until it >> finds the 'meta data'. >> >> cheers >> stefan >> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Nikolay >>> >
