Documents checked into a Content Engine object store require a class. A document can be classified manually, with a user selecting the document's class, or it can be classified automatically when the document is checked in. Content Engine provides an extensible framework that enables an incoming document of a specified MIME, or content, type to be automatically assigned to a target document class, as well as setting selected properties of that target class based on values found in the incoming document. A classification component, or classifier, does the work of assigning a document class. One such classifier packaged with Content Engine is XML Classifier, which provides support for automatically classifying documents of content type text/xml. For more information about the XML Classifier, see Understanding the XML Classifier.
In addition to the XML Classifier, you can add custom classifiers to your site. A custom classifier implements the Java
DocumentClassifier
interface. Custom classifiers are typically coded by a developer and managed by an administrator
using Enterprise Manager. See Document Classification Concepts for more information about creating custom Java™-implemented classifiers.
NOTE Automatic document classification is not enabled by default in Enterprise Manager.