DCT reuse

boskovuk

Our current DCT has two separate sections, one for content another one for metadata.

The application will need to support several datacapture templates and each one of them will be structured in the same way. The metadata portion of each DCT will be identical.

Is there are some way to keep the definition of metadata in a single DCT, so all other datacapture can be able to reference it and reuse it easily?


This would give us ability to change metadata DCT and the changes being automatically pulled in all other datacapture files.


This is the metadata portion of DCT:
<item name="metadata">
<label>Metadata</label>
<database deploy-column="f"/>
<replicant min="0" max="13">
<item name="name">
<label>name</label>
<text required="t" size="30"/>
</item>
<item name="language">
<label>lang</label>
<select required="t">
<option label="english" value="eng"/>
<option label="french" value="fre" selected="t"/>
</select>
</item>
<item name="content">
<label>content</label>
<text required="t" size="30"/>
</item>
<item name="scheme">
<label>scheme</label>
<select>
<option label="ISO8601" value="ISO8601"/>
<option label="ISO639-2" value="ISO639-2"/>
<option label="gccore" value="gccore"/>
</select>
</item>
</replicant>
</item>


TS Server: Version: 6.1.0 Service Pack 1
Platform: Solaris 9

Adam Stoller

(a) Is there some reason you do not want to use the separate metadata capture functionality for capturing / storing your metadata as EAs?
(b) you could probably use an <inline> directive within your DCTs to include the entire metadata capture portion of the code in each of your content DCTs.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com