topic Re: Simple metadata editor sample in ArcObjects SDK Questions

Simple metadata editor sample

ThomasWaenke — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:01:46 GMT

I need to automate some metadata editing tasks and used the 'simple metadata editor' sample as an example. In this example the following line updates the Title property.

propertySet.SetProperty("idinfo/citation/citeinfo/title", simpleEditorForm.Title);

With this method only one property/value can be written.
In my case I have some properties that allow multiple values like 2 email addresses under the same property name. How can I do this? I tried an object array as parameter but it did not work.

Thanks,
Thomas

Re: Simple metadata editor sample

ThomasWaenke — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:51:24 GMT

I changed my code and make use of the IXmlPropertySet Interface instead of IPropertySet

IMetadata metadata = (IMetadata)fc;
IPropertySet pset = metadata.Metadata;
IXmlPropertySet psetX = (IXmlPropertySet)metadata.Metadata;
string sValue = "myemail@company.com";

psetX.SetPropertyX("idinfo/ptcontac/cntinfo/cntemail", sValue,
              sriXmlPropertyType.esriXPTText,
              esriXmlSetPropertyAction.esriXSPAAddDuplicate, false);

metadata.Metadata = (IPropertySet)psetX;

This duplicates the email property in the metadata. But now another problem came up. The following snippet shows a part of the metadata

- <timeperd>
- <timeinfo>
- <mdattim>
- <sngdate>
<caldate>09.2010</caldate>
</sngdate>
- <sngdate>
<caldate>10.2010</caldate>
</sngdate>
</mdattim>
</timeinfo>
<current>ground condition</current>
</timeperd>

I need multiple <sngdate><caldate>xxxxxxx</caldate></sngdate> values.

With the method shown in my code and using the "idinfo/timeperd/timeinfo/mdattim/sngdate" property I can duplicate it, but the result are empty <sngdate></sngdate> nodes. When I duplicate the "idinfo/timeperd/timeinfo/mdattim/sngdate/caldate" property I get two <caldate> nodes between the <sngdate> parent nodes which is also wrong.

Is there a way to solve this with the SetPropertyX method?

Thanks,
Thomas

Re: Simple metadata editor sample

JamesMacKay — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:57:25 GMT

Hi Thomas,

I think this documentation will help: http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisengine/ArcObjects/esriGeoDatabase/IXmlPropertySet_SetPropertyX.htm

Cheers,
James

Re: Simple metadata editor sample

ZeljkoVujaklija1 — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:51:26 GMT

You probably solved your problem by now, but here is solution for someone else.

int counter = 0;
for (int counter=0; counter++; counter<10)
{
    xmlPropSet.SetPropertyX(""idinfo/timeperd/timeinfo/mdattim/sngdate", "", esriXmlPropertyType.esriXPTText, esriXmlSetPropertyAction.esriXSPAAddDuplicate, false);
    xmlPropSet.SetAttribute(String.Format(""idinfo/timeperd/timeinfo/mdattim/sngdate[{0}]/caldate", counter), "value", "<some date value>", esriXmlSetPropertyAction.esriXSPAAddOrReplace);
}