METS Java Toolkit / Procedural Construction
Draft Version 1.0 (alpha) 2002/03/15

The general recursive rule for procedural construction of a METS file is:

1. The root document content model is the <mets> element
2. For each element in the content model, instantiate the appropriate element object, set its attributes, define its content model, and then add itself to the content model of its parent:

Mets mets = new Mets ();
mets.setID ("1234");
...

  MetsHdr metsHdr = new MetsHdr ();
  metsHdr.setRECORDSTATUS ("Prod");
  ...

    Agent agent = new Agent ();
    agent.setROLE (Role.CREATOR);
    ...

      Name name = new Name ();
      name.setContent (new PCData ("S. L. Abrams"));
      ...

    agent.getContent ().add (name);
    ...

  metsHdr.getContent ().add (agent);
  ...

mets.getContent ().add (metsHdr);
...

  DmdSec dmdSec = new DmdSec ();
  dmdSec.setID ("abc");
  ...

    MdWrap mdWrap = new MdWrap ();
    mdWrap.setMDTYPE (Mdtype.DC);
    ...

      XmlData xmlData = new XmlData ();

        Any any = new Any ("my", "descMD");
        any.getAttributes ().add (new Attribute ("my",
                                  "attr", "value"));
        ...

          ...

        any.getContent ().add (...);
        ...

      xmlData.getContent ().add (any);
      ...

    mdWrap.getContent ().add (xmlWrap);
    ...

  DmdSec.getContent ().add (mdWrap);
  ...

mets.getContent ().add (dmdSec);
...

mets.validate ();
mets.marshal (System.out);