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  <P>Metacat provides functionality for inserting, updating, and deleting
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  XML documents in the database. Inserted or updated documents are read, checked 
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  for validity, decomposed into nodes and inserted into the db. Document validity 
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  is checked if a valid DTD is provided.
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  <P> <img alt="architecture diagram  of write action" src="metadatawrite.gif">
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  <P> <b>Operations</b>
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    <li>INSERT - A new XML document is inserted into the DB with given unique
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    docid. The client must specify the docid.</li>
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    <li>UPDATE - A document is provided to update a document that already
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    has a valid docid.  The original document is archived, then overwritten.</li>
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    <li>DELETE - Document is archived, and pointer in xml_documents is moved
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    to xml_revisions, efectively deleting the document from public view but
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    preserving the revision for the revision history.</li>
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  <p>Insertions, updates and deletes are passed to Metacat as servlet parameters.
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  The following is an example of a web form that can perform these tasks.</p>
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    &lt;html&gt;
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    &lt;head&gt;
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    &lt;title&gt;MetaCat&lt;/title&gt;
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    &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="metacat/style/rowcol.css"&gt;
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    &lt;body class="emlbody"&gt;
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    &lt;b&gt;MetaCat XML Loader&lt;/b&gt;
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    &lt;p&gt;
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    Upload, Change, or Delete an XML document using this form.
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    &lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;form action="http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/metacat/servlet/metacat" method="POST"&gt;
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      &lt;strong&gt;1. Choose an action: &lt;/strong&gt;
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      &lt;input type="radio" name="action" value="insert" checked&gt; Insert
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      &lt;input type="radio" name="action" value="update"&gt; Update
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      &lt;input type="radio" name="action" value="delete"&gt; Delete
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      &lt;input type="submit" value="Process Action"&gt;
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      &lt;br /&gt;
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      &lt;strong&gt;2. Provide a Document ID &lt;/strong&gt;
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      &lt;input type="text" name="docid"&gt; (optional for Insert)
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      &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;input type="checkbox" name="public" value="yes" checked&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Public Document&lt;/strong&gt;
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      &lt;br /&gt;
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      &lt;strong&gt;3. Provide XML text &lt;/strong&gt; (not needed for Delete)
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      &lt;textarea name="doctext" cols="65" rows="15"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
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      &lt;strong&gt;4. Provide DTD text for upload &lt;/strong&gt; (optional; not needed for Delete)
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      &lt;textarea name="dtdtext" cols="65" rows="15"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
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  <p>Once inserted into the database, the document looks like the following:</p>
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  <PRE><b>SQL> select * from xml_nodes where docid='NCEAS:1'</b> <br>
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NODEID NODEINDEX NODETYPE   NODENAME        NODEDATA               PARENTNODEID ROOTNODEID DOCID  
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     1           DOCUMENT   eml-dataset                                                  1 NCEAS:1
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     2         1 ELEMENT    eml-dataset                                       1          1 NCEAS:1
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     3         1 TEXT                                                         2          1 NCEAS:1
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     4         2 ELEMENT    meta_file_id                                      2          1 NCEAS:1
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     5         1 TEXT                       NCEAS:1                           4          1 NCEAS:1
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     6         3 TEXT                                                         2          1 NCEAS:1
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     7         4 ELEMENT    dataset_id                                        2          1 NCEAS:1
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     8         1 TEXT                       Dist.ssd01                        7          1 NCEAS:1
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     9         5 TEXT                                                         2          1 NCEAS:1
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    10         6 ELEMENT    title                                             2          1 NCEAS:1
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    11         1 TEXT                       Insights on community            10          1 NCEAS:1
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                                            dynamics
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    12         7 TEXT                                                         2          1 NCEAS:1
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    13         8 ELEMENT    originator                                        2          1 NCEAS:1
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    14         1 ATTRIBUTE  description     Names and addresses of           13          1 NCEAS:1
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                                            principal investigator
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  <p>If you follow the parentnodeid pointers you can recontruct this document.
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  The <a href="./metacatdb.html">Metacat Database</a> section provides more details
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  on the storage of XML documents.</p>
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