Hi Kendall, One popular approach is to maintain an additional metadata.xml document, which contains all metadata for the documents stored in a database. Here is a simple example for maintaining a timestamp: ____________________________
* Creation: db:create('db', <meta/>, 'metadata.xml') * Insertion: let $path := 'new-doc.xml' let $doc := <xml/> let $meta := element doc { attribute path { $path }, element timestamp { current-dateTime() } } return ( db:add('db', $doc, $path), insert node $meta into db:open('db', 'metadata.xml')/meta ) * Retrieval: let $path := 'new-doc.xml' return db:open('db', 'metadata.xml')/meta/doc[@path = $path] * Deletion: let $path := 'new-doc.xml' return ( db:delete('db', $path), delete node db:open('db', 'metadata.xml')/meta/doc[@path = $path] ) ____________________________ Cheers, Christian On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Kendall Shaw <kendall.s...@workday.com> wrote: > Unless there is now a standard way to associate metadata with documents and > collections, is there a preferred method? > > I could try to ensure that there is always a unique id that can be derived > from combination of an id attribute or element in the document + the > document’s document uri, then have separate metadata documents that are > associated with the unique id. Is there an obviously better approach? > > Kendall