Access and Modify Text Documents

Description

Access the meta data of text documents, and access and modify the content of text documents.

Details

The class TextDocument provides an abstraction over the concept of text documents and attached meta data which is stored in following attributes:

Author

Object of class character containing the author names.

DateTimeStamp

Object of class POSIXlt containing the date and time when the document was written.

Description

Object of class character containing additional text information.

ID

Object of class character containing an identifier.

Origin

Object of class character containing information on the source and origin of the text.

Heading

Object of class character containing the title or a short heading.

Language

Object of class character containing the language of the text.

LocalMetaData

Object of class list containing additional meta data in form of tag-value pairs which is local to each individual text document.

Author(s)

Ingo Feinerer

See Also

meta and DublinCore which provide a unified interface for meta data management.