Description

Records in the system are stored in an XML form. Attached to the record is various configurable metadata, such as the time it was inserted into the database and by which user. Records are stored in a RecordStore database and retrieved via a persistent and unique document identifier. The record data may be retrieved as a list of SAX events, as regularised XML or as a DOM tree.

Implementations

• record.MinidomRecord
  A DOM based record using the Python Minidom binding
• record.FtDomRecord
  A DOM based record using Fourthought's cDomlette binding
• record.LibxmlDomRecord
  A DOM based record using libxml's binding
• record.SaxRecord
  A SAX based record

API

Function	Parameters	Returns	Description
__init__	data, ?xml, ?docid		The constructer takes the data which should be used to construct the record. This is implementation dependant, eg a DOM node or a list of SAX events.. It also optionally may take the raw XML which was parsed, and a document identifier.
get_xml		string	Return the raw XML for the record
get_dom		domNode	Return the dom document node for the record
get_sax		list of saxEvents	Return the sax events for the record (list of strings)
process_xpath		data	Given an XPath, process it and return the results. The XPath may be parsed ( tuple of object and internal format) or a string