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+Embedded Documents
+==================
+
+Embedded documents are documents with schemas of their own that are part of
+other documents (as items within an array).
+
+Embedded documents enjoy all the same features as your models. Defaults,
+validators, middleware. Whenever an error occurs, it's bubbled to the `save()`
+error callback, so error handling is a snap!
+
+Mongoose interacts with your embedded documents in arrays _atomically_, out of
+the box.
+
+## Definition and initialization
+
+When you define a Schema like this:
+
+ var Comments = new Schema({
+ title : String
+ , body : String
+ , date : Date
+ });
+
+ var BlogPost = new Schema({
+ author : ObjectId
+ , title : String
+ , body : String
+ , date : Date
+ , comments : [Comments]
+ , meta : {
+ votes : Number
+ , favs : Number
+ }
+ });
+
+ mongoose.model('BlogPost', BlogPost);
+
+The `comments` key of your `BlogPost` documents will then be an instance of
+`DocumentArray`. This is a special subclassed `Array` that can deal with
+casting, and has special methods to work with embedded documents.
+
+## Adding an embedded document to an array
+
+ // retrieve my model
+ var BlogPost = mongoose.model('BlogPost');
+
+ // create a blog post
+ var post = new BlogPost();
+
+ // create a comment
+ post.comments.push({ title: 'My comment' });
+
+ post.save(function (err) {
+ if (!err) console.log('Success!');
+ });
+
+## Removing an embedded document
+
+ BlogPost.findById(myId, function (err, post) {
+ if (!err) {
+ post.comments[0].remove();
+ post.save(function (err) {
+ // do something
+ });
+ }
+ });
+
+## Finding an embedded document by id
+
+`DocumentArray`s have an special method `id` that filters your embedded
+documents by their `_id` property (each embedded document gets one):
+
+Consider the following snippet:
+
+ post.comments.id(my_id).remove();
+ post.save(function (err) {
+ // embedded comment with id `my_id` removed!
+ });