Question: Is node author considered a node attribute?

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Posted by idcm on November 22, 2010 at 5:28pm

Hi

I am trying to distinguish between node fields (title, body, cck fields) and all the other descriptive bits of information that are associated with the node. What would you call author, publish date, update date, NID, tax terms, node path, node outline placement, node input filter, etc. Would you call them node attributes? They are like metadata but not officially.

thoughts?
c

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A bit of a grey area.

Posted by cdesautels on November 29, 2010 at 1:55pm
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A bit of a grey area. Technically, every part of a node can be called an attribute. You could go nuts trying to label these things. I think the important distinction is between content data and utility data.

Chris Desautels

I'm inclined to agree with

Posted by michaelscappa on November 29, 2010 at 2:12pm
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I'm inclined to agree with Chris on this. If you think of a node as an object in a traditional OOP sense, then yes, all of those things would be considered attributes.

thanks guys c

Posted by idcm on November 29, 2010 at 2:46pm
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thanks guys
c

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