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Mapping Element

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010

<Mapping path='XPath' attr='propName' propset='GUID' type='varType' sep-str='separator' post-str='postString' ignore-whitespace='yes|no' strip-tags='yes|no' shallow='yes|no' mode='append|prepend|overwrite' />

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute

Description

path

Required. Specifies an XPath to the XML node from which to retrieve content.

attr

Specifies the property name of the created crawled property. Required only when the element is not part of a MappingGroup.

propset

Optional. Specifies a string representing a hexadecimal propset GUID. Overrides the default property set. Applies only when the element is not part of a MappingGroup.

type

Optional. Specifies a variant type specification that overrides the default variant type. Applies only when the element is not part of a MappingGroup element.

sep-str

Optional. Specifies the separation string when the path matches more than one XML node.

Default: A single space character.

post-str

Optional. Specifies a string to append to the extracted content.

Default: An empty string.

ignore-white-space

Optional. A yes value indicates that consecutive white-space characters are replaced with a single space. A no value indicates no mapping of multiple white spaces.

Default: yes

strip-tags

Optional. A yes value indicates that child-element tags are stripped from the extracted content. For example, when the path matches an element that contains child elements. A no value indicates that the subelement tags are kept in the extracted content. You should not use no if the crawled property is mapped to a searchable managed property.

Default: yes

shallow

Optional. A yes value indicates that only text from the matching elements is extracted. A no value indicates that text from all descendant XML elements is extracted also.

The following example assumes that the path attribute contains an XPath expression that matches the body element.

<body>
Some text
  <sub-body>  more text</sub-body>
End of body
</body>

When shallow="yes", only Some text and End of body are extracted. When shallow="no", more text is also extracted (together with Some text and End of body) because it is in a descendant subelement of <body>.

Default: no

mode

Optional. Defines the behavior when another Mapping element or MappingGroup element has mapped content to the same property name. Applies only when the element is not part of a MappingGroup.

Default: append

mode Attribute

Value

Description

append

Adds the new content to the end of the existing content.

prepend

Adds the new content to the beginning of the existing content.

overwrite

Overwrites the existing content.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Name

Description

XMLMappings

Specifies a set of mappings from XPath expressions to crawled properties.

MappingGroup

Maps the contents of child Mapping elements to a crawled property.

SubTree

Defines a common base path for contained Mapping, MappingGroup, and SubTree elements.

Example

The first code section provides sample XML input. The second code section provides an associated XML Mapper configuration that maps title, size, and keywords to the crawled properties mytitle, mysize, and mykeywords.

<Document>
  <title>My title</title>
  <size>128</size>
  <keywords>
    <keyword>math</keyword>
    <keyword>biology</keyword>
  </keywords>
</Document>
<XMLPropertiesCreator>
  <propset>d6ee4933-09c4-46e3-a5e4-b3787cb4a090</propset>
  <type>31</type>
  <XMLMappings>
    <Mapping attr="mytitle" path="//title"/>
    <Mapping attr="mysize" path="//size" propset="38c35ad5-69ee-4776-886f-95961a73d52d" type="3"/>
    <Mapping attr="mykeywords" path="//keyword" sep-str=","/>
  </XMLMappings>
</XMLPropertiesCreator>

See Also

Concepts

Custom XML Item Processing

XML Mapper Schema (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)