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      <td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Metacat Properties File</p></td>
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  <p>Metacat Server has many dynamically settable properties.  All of them 
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  are kept in the Metacat.properties file.  Most can be set from within
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  the build file when you first install Metacat.  The following is a summary
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  of each property and its function.</p>
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      <td><b>Property</b></td>
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      <td><b>Description</b></td>
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      <td><b>Possible or default value</b></td>
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      <td>user</td>
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      <td>The username that Metacat uses to access the backend database.</td>
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      <td>&nbsp;</td>
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      <td>password</td>
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      <td>The password that Metacat uses to access the backend database.</td>
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      <td>&nbsp;</td>
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      <td>defaultDB</td>
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      <td>The JDBC connection string that Metacat uses to connect to the backend
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      database.</td>
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      <td>jdbc:oracle:thin:@server.domain.com:1521:Metacat</td>
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      <td>dbDriver</td>
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      <td>The JDBC driver to be used to access the backend database.</td>
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      <td>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</td>
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      <td>dbAdapter</td>
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      <td>The name of the RDBMS Adapter Class that Metacat uses to get specific
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          features in the backend database.</td>
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      <td>edu.ucsb.nceas.dbadapter.OracleAdapter</td>
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      <td>initialConnections</td>
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      <td>The number of initial connection that Metacat creates to the database.</td>
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      <td>5</td>
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      <td>incrementConnections</td>
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      <td>The number of connections that are created when Metacat needs more 
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      connections.</td>
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      <td>5</td>
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      <td>maximumConnections</td>
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      <td>The maximum number of database connection Metacat can make.</td>
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      <td>10</td>
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      <td>config-dir</td>
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      <td>directory where the style-sets exist</td>
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      <td>/opt/tomcat/webapps/metacat/lib</td>
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      <td>default-style</td>
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      <td>the style-set to use if qformat is set to 'html'</td>
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      <td></td>
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      <td>xmlcatalogfile</td>
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      <td>The default file type catalog file location.<br>
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      DEPRECATED</td>
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      <td>/opt/tomcat/webapps/xmltodb/catalog.txt</td>
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      <td>siteCode</td>
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      <td>The code for the current site.</td>
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      <td>NCEAS</td>
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      <td>accNumSeparator</td>
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      <td>The separator that is used to separate the three parts 
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          of the accession number: codename, sequence and revision number.
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           changing this parameter will likely break the application, so make
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           sure you know what you are doing.  It should be synchronized with 
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           the Client application.</td>
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      <td>. (period)</td>
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      <td>saxparser</td>
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      <td>The SAX parser to be used to <a href="./saxparser.html">parse</a> 
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      XML documents.</td>
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      <td>org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser</td>
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      <td>servletpath</td>
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      <td>The path on the local machine to the Metacat Servlet.</td>
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      <td>/knb/servlet/metacat</td>
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      <td>htmlpath</td>
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      <td>The path to the HTML server for this Metacat context.  This is where
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      the Metacat web interface would be served from.</td>
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      <td>/knb</td>
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      <td>packagedoctype</td>
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      <td>The doctype of a package file.  The system will only recognize documents
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      of this type as a <a href="./packages.html">Package</a> files.</td>
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      <td>-//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN</td>
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      <td>accessdoctype</td>
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      <td>The doctype of an access control list (ACL) file.  The system will 
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          only recognize documents of this type as an <a href="./acontrol.html">Access</a> 
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          files.</td>
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      <td>-//NCEAS//eml-access-2.0//EN</td>
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      <td>server</td>
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      <td>The server on which this Metacat server runs.</td>
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      <td>dev.nceas.ucsb.edu:8090</td>
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      <td>authclass</td>
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      <td>The authorization plugin to use.  In this example, LDAP.</td>
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      <td>edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.AuthLdap</td>
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      <td>ldapurl</td>
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      <td>The path to your LDAP server (if LDAP authentication is being used.</td>
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      <td>ldap://ldap.nceas.ucsb.edu:389/</td>
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      <td>ldapsurl</td>
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      <td>The path to your LDAP server with SSL support.
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          (if LDAP authentication is being used and if your LDAT server is set
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          with SSL support.) 2 ports are used to listen: 389 for plain sockets 
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          and 636 for SSL Sockect. If your LDAP server is not set to support SSL
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          this property should be the same as ldapurl, else Metacat will
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          retieve an error.</td>
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      <td>ldap://ldap.nceas.ucsb.edu:636/</td>
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      <td>ldapbase</td>
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      <td>LDAP base parameters for the LDAP server.</td>
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      <td>o=NCEAS,c=US</td>
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      <td>referral</td>
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      <td>The type of ldap referrals you want to use.  Eithe 'follow', 'throw' or 
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      'none'.  See the ldap documentation for further information</td>
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      <td>follow</td>
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      <td>deltaT</td>
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      <td>The default delta T used for <a href="./replication.html">replication</a>.</td>
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      <td>60</td>
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      <td>replicationpath</td>
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      <td>The relative path to the replication servlet.</td>
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      <td>/knb/servlet/replication</td>
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      <td>replicationlog</td>
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      <td>Location of the replication log file.</td>
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      <td>/logs/Metacatreplication.log</td>
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      <td>dtdPath</td>
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      <td>Path to which DTDs are uploaded.</td>
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      <td>/opt/tomcat/webapps/knb/dtd/</td>
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      <td>dtdURL</td>
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      <td>The HTTP accessable URL to the DTD files specified in dtdPath.</td>
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      <td>http://server.domain.com/knb/dtd/</td>
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      <td>datafilepath</td>
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      <td>The path to which you want data files uploaded.</td>
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      <td>/opt/tomcat/webapps/knb/data</td>
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      <td>certPath</td>
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      <td>path to the SSL keys for secure transmissions.</td>
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      <td>/opt/tomcat/webapps/metacat/lib</td>
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      <td>administrators</td>
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      <td>The administrators parameter lists the accounts that are allowed to
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          perform administrative actions such as rebuilding indices for 
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          documents. The list can can contain more than one account separated
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          by colons.</td>
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      <td>Default:&nbsp;&nbsp;
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          <code>uid=jones,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org</code>
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      <br><br>Examples:&nbsp;&nbsp;
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          <code>uid=localadmin,o=ucnrs.org</code>
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    <tr><td colspan="3"><b>Additional parameters probably not needing to be changed</b></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>configured</td><td>Configuration flag, currently not used.</td><td>false</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>version</td><td>Release version.</td><td>1.5.0-</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>maximumConnectionAge</td><td> </td><td>120000</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>maximumConnectionTime</td><td> </td><td>60000</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>maximumUsageNumber</td><td> </td><td>100</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>runDBConnectionRecycleThread</td><td> </td><td>off</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>cycleTimeOfDBConnection</td><td> </td><td>30000</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>forcereplicationwaitingtime</td><td> </td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>eml2_0_0namespace</td><td>Namespace of EML 2.0.0 documents.</td><td>eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>eml2_0_1namespace</td><td>Namespace of EML 2.0.1 documents.</td><td>eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.1</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>eml2_1_0namespace</td><td>Namespace of EML 2.1.0 documents. Currently unused, reserved.</td><td>eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.0</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>physicaldoctype</td><td> </td><td>-//ecoinformatics.org//eml-physical-2.0.0beta6//EN, -//ecoinformatics.org//eml-physical-2.0.0beta4//EN</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>entitydoctype</td><td> </td><td>-//ecoinformatics.org//eml-entity-2.0.0beta6//EN, -//ecoinformatics.org//eml-entity-2.0.0beta4//EN</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>packagedoctypeset</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
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    <tr><td>httpserver</td><td> </td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>junittesturl</td><td>The url of the test server.</td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>replicationerrorlog</td><td> </td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>schemaPath</td><td>Path to installed XSD schemas.</td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>schemaURL</td><td>URL to installed XSD schemas.</td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>inlinedatafilepath</td><td>Path for storing data that was extracted from <code>inline</code> element of EML documents.</td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>context</td><td>The name of the servlet context</td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>debuglevel</td><td>Verbosity of debugging messages.  Higher numbers means more debugging detail.</td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>datafileflag</td><td> </td><td>datafile</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>datafilesizelimit</td><td>Limit on file size for uploaded data files.</td><td>1000</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>defaultcontenttype</td><td> </td><td></td></tr>
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    <tr><td>query.ignored.params</td><td>Parameters that are passed through to XSLT style sheets without modification.</td><td>enableediting,foo</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>usexmlindex</td><td>Flag indicating whether to use the traditional xml_index table or not.  This needs to be set on startup, and once set to false can not be changed back to true without significant database modifications.  Setting this option to 'false' also slows down queries significantly, but it does allow arbitrarily deep dcoument paths.  Not recommended to change this setting -- data loss may result.</td><td>true</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>app_resultsetsize</td><td>Used for the setting the size of resultset that is processed at a time for applications like morpho</td><td>400</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>web_resultsetsize</td><td>Used for the setting the size of resultset for search done using browser</td><td>900</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>queryresult_string_length</td><td>Used for the setting the size of queryresult_string in queryresult table</td><td>4000</td></tr>
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    <tr><td>xml_returnfield_count</td><td>Value of xml_returnfield.usage_count should be more than this value for records to be entered into xml_queryresult</td><td>0</td></tr>
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