Most metadata structures are predefined.
Like
class/@name
,
package/description
, and
tips/tip
, are the simplest. They can be evaluated to a single value or an
array of values, by such an XPath expression.
Metadata value types are not limited to String , as you can see, Meta Facility provides many convenient methods for metadata inquiries, converting the result values into Boolean , Integer , Long , Short , Float , Double and Date , or arrays of them.
Even the
localized/
metatree in
