Thanks for your answer,

I try to use the Repository for storing Files, and especially XML- 
Files. Unfortunately when importing these XML-Files with WebDav  some  
files are not imported as nt:file/nt:unstructured but in binary  
from.  So I need to convert the files from binary representation to  
unstructured repo-imported content.
Thats basically what I am trying to do.
Normally I would not have to bother as the xml-mime -type should  
trigger the web-dav client to import my content as xml content, not  
binary. But this does not work for all the files I have.

thanks
Eric


Am 02.07.2006 um 07:35 schrieb Jukka Zitting:

> Hi,
>
> On 7/1/06, Eric Peukert <eric.peukert@mail.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>> I try to convert a node and its node-type after it was already  
>> created.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea how that can be achieved?
>
> You can add or remove the mixin types of a node, but you can not
> change its primary type. The best way to achieve the what you are
> trying to do, is make an in-memory copy of the node content, remove
> the node from the workspace, and create a new node with the copied
> content but a different primary type.
>
> What is your use case for trying to do this? The primary type is a
> fundamental property of a node, even more than its name that can be
> changed with Session.move(). You can think of the primary type of a
> node as the class of a Java object, i.e. there is no way to change
> that short of making a manual copy of the instance.
>
> If this is common use case for you, you might want to consider having
> a more generic primary type and using mixin types for dynamic node
> typing.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
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