18.1 How Automatic Property Extraction Works

Internally Documentum uses the following two object types for managing Automatic property extraction for XML elements:

• dm_xml_application (supertype: dm_folder): Used for creating a folder under the \System\Applications folder in Docbase to store the XML configuration objects (dm_xml_config).

• dm_xml_config (supertype: dm_document): Specifies the XML configuration file to be used for the specified XML application.

The property extraction rules need to be specified within the XML configuration file. Once you have created the XML application folder and saved the XML configuration file within it, you need to set the a_category attribute of the content file. DFC queries this attribute and detects the Automatic Property Extraction rules to be applied to the content file based on its XML configuration file. You, however, need to ensure that the dm_xml_application folder and the dm_xml_config application file have exactly the same names, since Documentum...