Automatic Property Extraction (APE) is a functionality that allows you to automatically assign the value of a specified template XML element to a specified document attribute and vice versa.

During our tour in this chapter, we saw that APE works only with the following Web Publisher widgets: Textline, checkbox, and choice.

We further saw how Documentum uses dm_xml_application and dm_xml_config objects to manage APE.

We then studied a simple example to create an XML application in Documentum and tested it for sample content created in Web Publisher. We also looked at examples using APE to populate repeating attributes and for two-way attribute extraction.