Getting started

Metadata Editor is a tool for creating and editing metadata for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The properties that can be edited include libraries, release, attributes and extended SDK information.

Metadata are contained in files named as <apiname>.metaxml. For example, the filename for phone_parser_api would be phone_parser_api.metaxml.

  1. Before you can edit metadata files, you need to have a project for them in the Carbide.c++ environment. To do this, either:
  2. To work with the files, do either of the following:
  3. You can then edit the metadata files by changing, for example, libraries, release, attributes and extended SDK values. Metadata Editor automatically validates the structure of the XML when you save the file.