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# ChildMetadataFieldSections

A list of sections, in the configuration file, that contain settings for extracting metadata into structured metadata fields.

When you set this parameter, the field specified by MetadataFieldName will not have a value. Instead it will have sub-fields and the connector extracts metadata into those sub-fields. The sub-field names and values are configured in the configuration sections that you name using this parameter.

Example

Imagine a web page that contains the following HTML.

    <div class="comments">
        <div class="comment">
            <div class="id">Comment1</div>
            <div class="title">Title</div>
            <div class="text">The comment text</div>
        </div>
        <div class="comment">
            <div class="id">Comment2</div>
            <div class="title">Title</div>
            <div class="text">The comment text</div>
        </div>
        <div class="comment">
            <div class="id">Comment3</div>
            <div class="title">Title</div>
            <div class="text">The comment text</div>
        </div>
    </div>

To extract the comment IDs, titles, and text into structured metadata fields, you could use a configuration similar to the following.

    [MyTask]
    ...
    MetadataFieldSections=Comments

    [Comments]
    MetadataFieldName=comment
    MetadataSelector=div.comments div.comment
    ChildMetadataFieldSections0=ExtractCommentID
    ChildMetadataFieldSections1=ExtractCommentTitle
    ChildMetadataFieldSections2=ExtractCommentText

    [ExtractCommentID]
    MetadataFieldName=id
    MetadataSelector=:scope > div.id

    [ExtractCommentTitle]
    MetadataFieldName=title
    MetadataSelector=:scope > div.title

    [ExtractCommentText]
    MetadataFieldName=text
    MetadataSelector=:scope > div.text

This would result in the following structured document metadata.

    <xmlmetadata>
        <comment>
            <id>Comment1</id>
            <title>Title<title>
            <text>The comment text</text>
        </comment>
        <comment>
            <id>Comment2</id>
            <title>Title<title>
            <text>The comment text</text>
        </comment>
        <comment>
            <id>Comment3</id>
            <title>Title<title>
            <text>The comment text</text>
        </comment>
    </xmlmetadata>

Type: | String
Default: |
Required: | No
Configuration Section: | Any section specified by MetadataFieldSections, ChildDocumentMetadataFieldSections, or ChildMetadataFieldSections
Example: |
    ChildMetadataFieldSections0=ExtractCommentID
    ChildMetadataFieldSections1=ExtractCommentTitle
    ChildMetadataFieldSections2=ExtractCommentText
See Also: |

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Version 25.4 | Last updated October 2025

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Connector Framework Server 25.4

Topic Title: ChildMetadataFieldSections