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An advanced feature is the use of the XML attribute strategy on a top level metadata field for example Title, Description, Authors, RightsOwner.

We have three four possible values for the attribute

  1. KEEP → Don't overwrite the old value for this field if it was not empty

  2. OVERWRITE

    • Overwrite the old value for this field

    • This is the default strategy for simple fields which are fields that contain a textual value such as Title and Description.

  3. MERGE

    • Only allowed for complex fields which are fields that contain sub fields, such as Authors, Keywords and Categories.

    • Merge the new sub fields with the existing sub fields

    • This is the default strategy for complex fields

  4. SUBTRACT

    • Only allowed for complex fields

    • Removes the values from the existing values.

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