Document metadata properties

[mguinness]

When the includeProperties option is set to true the metadata is included in the output. Would it be possible to expose a new property on the FilterReader class as a dictionary? I can put a PR together if you have no objections.

[Sicos1977]

Sure ... if you make it optional

[Sicos1977]

I just released a new package https://www.nuget.org/packages/IFilterTextReader/1.6.1

[mguinness]

New package works great, thanks!

[mantis]

@Sicos1977 and @mguinness the only problem with this is that it's possible to have meta data properties are duplicated e.g.

Names: foo
Names: bar

In this scenario, the dictionary generates a key already exists exception. I'll log a separate issue for this also

[mguinness]

Out of interest what is the output of filtdump of an example file? I imagine the tags are coming from different sections in the file. Changing the field type to List<KeyValuePair<string, object>> would work.

[mantis]

@mguinness - sorry, I didn't rush back to this - in this case it's the same section, but the 'different sections' is also a problem

CHUNK: ---------------------------------------------------------------
Attribute = {2C443B1E-F1E2-404F-974D-E21FEF8E70AA}\Names
idChunk = 13
BreakType = 2 (Sentence)
Flags (chunkstate) = (Value)
Locale = 2057 (0x809)
IdChunkSource = 13
cwcStartSource = 0
cwcLenSource = 0

VALUE: ---------------------------------------------------------------
Type = 31 (0x1f), VT_LPWSTR
Value = "Test A"

CHUNK: ---------------------------------------------------------------
Attribute = {2C443B1E-F1E2-404F-974D-E21FEF8E70AA}\Names
idChunk = 14
BreakType = 2 (Sentence)
Flags (chunkstate) = (Value)
Locale = 2057 (0x809)
IdChunkSource = 14
cwcStartSource = 0
cwcLenSource = 0

VALUE: ---------------------------------------------------------------
Type = 31 (0x1f), VT_LPWSTR
Value = "Test B"

---

  <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
        xmlns:TestSchema="http://test">
     <TestSchema:Names>
        <rdf:Bag>
           <rdf:li>Test A</rdf:li>
           <rdf:li>Test B</rdf:li>
        </rdf:Bag>
     </TestSchema:Names>
  </rdf:Description>

Now, whilst we changed to <string, object> - and i'm going to look at this again soon - for some reason, I seem to recall thinking that including the schema into the output would be useful: Pretty sure I found that <string becomes 'Names' - so if a purpose is to allow an application to filter on a specific filter lets say the meta data property output doesn't let you identify the same name from different paths if there is a conflict. So for example, I have

Where we have System.Title, title and Title.

One of them is dc:tittle - the other is TestSchema:Title - and presumably the System.Title is the default document title outside the metadata. This I think is the issue that you were hitting on?

[mguinness]

Thanks for the reply. The example you cited seems more like an array of names. Can you upload a small example document?

[mantis]

@mguinness - it was indeed an array of names - sample image uploaded below: (hopefully github doesn't modify it)