COLLECTION

Used in

Servers

Metadata (Browse)

Parent elements

Syntax

<COLLECTION_INFO > No Attributes (r)(m)<TAG... /> </COLLECTION_INFO >
(r): Attribute or child element is required. (m): Child element can be used multiple times.

Description

Returns information describing a collection of documents in the metadata repository.

Notes

See GET_COLLECTION_INFO for request.
When GET_COLLECTION_INFO collection="tags", the information returned describes the individual elements within the published documents that can be searched and how those elements are indexed.

Examples for COLLECTION_INFO

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF8"?>
<ARCXML version="1.1">
  <RESPONSE>
    <METADATA>
      <COLLECTION_INFO>
        <TAG value="/metadata/idinfo/keywords/theme/themekey" indextype="VARCHAR" />
        <TAG value="/metadata/idinfo/descript/abstract" indextype="STRING" />
        <TAG value="/metadata/idinfo/citation/citeinfo/title" indextype="STRING" />
        <TAG value="/metadata/idinfo/citation/citeinfo/geoform" indextype="VARCHAR" />
        <TAG value="/metadata/idinfo/citation/citeinfo/pubdate" indextype="DOUBLE" />
        <TAG value="/metadata/dataqual/cloud" indextype="DOUBLE" />
        ...
      </COLLECTION_INFO>
    </METADATA>
  </RESPONSE>
</ARCXML>