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diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/connectors/properties.txt b/doc/server/plugins/connectors/properties.txt index ae8bf0caa..ef408916e 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/connectors/properties.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/connectors/properties.txt @@ -24,11 +24,20 @@ Properties adds a new dictionary to client metadata instances that maps property file names to PropertyFile instances. PropertyFile instances contain parsed XML data as the "data" attribute. +The XML data in a property file is arbitrary, but a matching ``.xsd`` +file can be created to assign a schema to a property file, which will +be checked when running ``bcfg2-repo-validate``. For instance, given:: + + Properties/dns-config.xml + Properties/dns-config.xsd + +``dns-config.xml`` will be validated against ``dns-config.xsd``. + Usage ===== Specific property files can be referred to in -templates as metadata.Properties[<filename>]. The +templates as ``metadata.Properties[<filename>]``. The data attribute is an LXML element object. (Documented `here <http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html#the-element-class>`_) |