How to Access Publication Meta Data in Reach using XSL

Question

Hi, 
 I'm wondering how can i access the metadata of a publication in Reach using XSL (e.g. when working with html_custom). 
 
 Thanks, 
 Nikku

Steve Layland · Accepted Answer

Hi Nikku,

It appears that you may have encountered an issue in the version of Reach (Content Delivery) that you are using. Can you please open a support ticket and include the details and the version of Content Delivery that you see in Reach->Manage Application->System Status.

The good news is that there is a relatively simple alternative solution.

The publication/language property data is stored in the underlying Content Delivery database in the path /db/LiveContent/publications/languages/<publication id>/<language code>.xml. Within this file, the fields are stored as <configitem name="<field name>" value="<field value>"/>

You can read this file into your XSL and then extract values from it. For example:

<xsl:param name="pub.meta.path" select="concat('/db/LiveContent/publications/languages/', $pub.id, '/', $pub.lang, '.xml')"/>

Then for each value that you need:

<xsl:param name="my.meta" select="doc($pub.meta.path)//configitem[@name='my.meta']/@value"/>

Here I'm extracting the value for the field "my.meta".

Hope this helps,

Regards,
Steve

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