BDB::XML::Document

A Document is the unit of storage within a Container.

A Document contains a stream of bytes that may be of type XML or BYTES. The Container only indexes the content of Documents that contain XML. The BYTES type is supported to allow the storage of arbitrary content along with XML content.

Document supports annotation attributes.

Class Methods

allocate

Allocate a new object

Methods

self[attr]

Return the value of an attribute

self[attr] = val

Set the value of an attribute

content

Return the content of the document

content=(val)

Set the content of the document

encoding

Return the encoding

id

Return the ID

initialize(type = BDB::XML::XML)

initialize(content = "")

Initialize the document with the type (or the content) specified

name

Return the name of the document

name=(val)

Set the name of the document

to_s

to_str

Return the document as a String object

types

Return the type of the document

types=(val)

Set the type of the document