metadata

Is the usage of identity insert good with metadatatables.

Hi, I have several tables within my database that contains nothing but "metadata". For example we have different grouptypes, contentItemTypes, languages, ect. the problem is, if you use automatic numbering then it is possible that you create gaps. The id's are used within our code so, the number is very important. Now I wonder if it i...

Access PNG Metadata

How can I access/remove PNG metadata? I'm looking for a Mac application or a PHP snippet. ...

Appending metadata to a newly created image via php?

I have php script that creates a temporary watermark image for users that are not logged in. The original image contains IPTC (metadata) information that I would like to retain, however, when the watermark is applied and imagejpeg is called, all metadata is removed. Any ideas how I can maintain the metadata or re-apply metadata after i...

Examples of Metadata Editing

I'm working on a new application that is basically a "library" type app similar to iPhoto or iTunes, i.e. the user enters data into the app and it handles storage rather than the user storing files himself. [Skip to last para for the meat of the question.] What is different about my approach is that I want the user to define the fields ...

Is it possible to retrieve the swf metadata within the actionscript of a flex project?

I know that it is possible to add swf metadata to the compile command as a command option, but I can't find any documentation on how to access these metadata within the actionscript during runtime. We're trying to add a version number to the swf during compile time and then somewhere in our app we would retrieve it during runtime, here i...

From a Sybase Database, how I can get table description ( field names and types) ?

I have access to command line isql and I like to get Meta-Data of all the tables of a given database, possibly in a formatted file. How I can achieve that? Thanks. ...

Encrypted and encoded XML representation of X.509 Certificate for SAML metadata

I order to set up SSO and function as Service Provider with my Identity Provider I need to specify which certificate I want to use for signing and encrypting in the exchanged metadata XML file. But how do I create the encrypted and encoded representation (like below) of my certificate so it can be put into the XML. What process do I need...

Edit Metadata of PDF File with C#

Hello, i searching for methods or libarys to edit metadata of a pdf file like the programm becypdfmetaedit. I want to write a program and i need this opton in this program. Perhaps you have some samples for c#. Thanks ...

WCF Metadata on separate port and not SSL

Hi all, Pretty new to complex WCF configs and have looked around, but couldn't clearly answer this. I'm looking for a yes this is possible and ideally a sample or no, this is not possible. Question: Can you separate out the Metadata (WSDL) from a secure transport (SSL) service and make it plain old HTTP? We have a WCF service that is...

java annotations: library to override annotations with xml files

Java has annotations and that is good. However, some developers feel that it is best to annotate code with metadata using xml files - others prefer annotations but would use metadata to override annotations in source code. I am writing a Java framework that uses annotations. The question is: is there a standard way to define and parse m...

Reading "People Tags" inserted by Windows Live Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery gives you the ability to mark a person's face and apply a tag to it. I understand it inserts tags directly into the file rather than store it off in a database or accompanying metafile anywhere. So if that's true, what data is it inserting and how is it formatted? ...

How to draw a class's metaclass in UML?

If class A is created by its __metaclass M, how does the arrow look in UML? The stereotype syntax seems to be related. I didn't look in Python UML tools yet. ...

how to extract metadata from html files using java

hi ive been doing a project in which metadata for various filetypes(html, xml etc.,) are needed. are there any existing api's to do the above. ideas and suggestions regardin the above are welcome. thanks in advance. ...

Convert XML based configuration to Annotations

Is there any Utility available to convert XML based config files (say in Spring or Hibernate) to Annotations? If not would it be worthwhile to build such a tool? ...

How to add help prompt attributes to Business Objects in MVC and display in View

How can I provide some form of Attribute against my Business Objects in my ASP.Net MVC application so that I can pick up the help texts in the View and have them appear as pop-up hover help texts like this: <%= Html.TextBox("PostalCode", Model.PostalCode, new { title = "Please enter your postal code." })%> I want to be able to g...

ASP.NET MVC 2 - Implementing custom Metadata and Validator Providers

With the preview 2 release of ASP.NET MVC 2, we now have base classes to implement our own custom providers for metadata and validation. Specifically, with ModelMetadataProvider and ModelValidatorProvider. There isn't a lot of documentation on these yet (just released yesterday as a preview, so I'm neither surprised nor disappointed). ...

How to access file metadata with Python?

Hi, I'm trying to write a program in python that retrieves and updates file metadata on windows. I've tried searching on Google regarding what modules to use but I haven't found anything very concrete or useful. Some people suggested the stat module which can give you info such as file access and last modification. But I'm looking to r...

How do I simply retrieve timestamp of recording from DV (as in DV tape) AVI files?

I am looking for a way to retrieve or extract the timestamp of the recording from DV AVI files. The timestamp should be part of the AVI file's metadata. The files were originally imported from DV to PC and a DV format in an AVI wrapper. A library providing an API - or a command-line tool would be ok. I am going to be using this on Mac, ...

Explanation about Annotations

Hi, Can anyone please explain what the following two paragraphs mean, in simple english? (Taken from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cwt08025.html) "Annotations are more flexible in terms of how you use them, with options for whether the annotation information is to be included in class files output by the c...

Edit Metadata of PDF File with C/C++?

Could anyone please provide me a sample C/C++ code to read and edit PDF Metadata? If it is XMP, what else to do? Thanks, Suranjit Paul ...