A configuration file is used to define what directories the IFilter should index, and what information from each xml file should be extracted to Index Server.

The configuration file is in XML format and supports the Xpath syntax for specifying nodes and attributes. Click here to see a sample file.


Directory Specific Configuration

• separate configurations for each physical directory to be searched
• automatically include all sub folders
• specify a default configuration for all directories that are not explicitly identified
• directory format supports normal file system paths or UNC aliases

XPath syntax

• configuration file supports Xpath syntax for identifying property, content and linkedFile nodes
• support recursive descent for specifying content nodes

Property Nodes

Property nodes are used to identify each item in an XML file that should be emitted to Index Server as a catalog property

Each property node definition supports the following attributes:

Attribute
name	friendly property name that will be listed in the Index Server catalog
type	data type for the property. Supported types are string, Boolean, float, double, dateTime, long, longArray, stringArray
Xpath	a valid Xpath that will identify the node in the XML file that contains the value to be emitted to Index Server

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Content Nodes

Content nodes are used to identify each item in an XML file that should be emitted to Index Server as contents (for full text searches). Each content node requires a valid XPath attribute. If the XPath returns more than one node, the contents value emitted to Index Server will be the text of all returned nodes.

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linkedFile Nodes

A linkedFile node is used to indicate an item in an XML file that contains a reference to an external file as its value. When the IFilter encounters one of these nodes, it will allow the registered filter for the specific file type to process the file and will emit the results as contents of the source XML file. The external file does not need to be in the same path or sub-path as the XML file.

Each linkedFile node definition supports the following attributes:

Attribute
Xpath	a valid Xpath that will identify the node in the XML file that contains the path of the linked file
relativePath	a Boolean setting that indicates whether the path to the linked file is relative to the path of the source XML file

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