I´m newbie in this, but may be I can help. We are developing with newsML. It's an xml schema for media types. It's using by Reuters, AFP, Wall Street Journal, etc. The newsML it's the standard for www.IPTC.org. So you can have metadata and the images embebed or a reference, and any other type.
-----Mensaje original----- De: Vadim Gritsenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Jueves, 22 de Julio de 2004 09:34 a.m. Para: xindice-users@xml.apache.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: How to search for MetaData? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm running Xindice 1.1b4 in a tomcat 5.0.19 environment and I want to >search for stored documents by using the MetaData Information, Xindice >assigned to the documents. > >It was no big problem to import and export both, XMLResources and >BinaryResources. Also the assignment of SystemMetaData (CreationDate, >ModificationDate) and CustomMetaData (based on Dublin Core) could be >realized. But how can I query the database (for example per XPath) and >search for specific documents using the MetaData-Information. > >My first idea was to store the MetaData inside the XMLResources and query by >XPath, but this doesn't work with binary objects of course. > >I didn't find any functions for querying MetaData in the DB:XML API. > >Perhaps anyone can help me? > > Unfortunately, such function is not implemented. If you can, you can implement it and send patches to the dev list for incorporation into xindice. Thanks, Vadim