Hi David,

Thank you very much for pointing out that article.

xdmp:document-filter() accepts a node parameter. Since the DLL is on the
filesystem, does this mean I need to ingest the DLL into ML first before I
can pass it to xdmp:document-filter() ?

Regards,
Danny

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:29 PM, David Ennis <[email protected]>
wrote:

> HI.
>
> [other than some hooks for custom search extensions], MarkLogic does not
> have a way to directly run code external to itself. You always need to
> bridge to this other code as you have seen in the MLJAM example.
>
> However.. Looking at your use case, consider the fact that MarkLogic can
> extract interesting metadata from over 100 different file formats.. DLL
> (Windoes Executable) is one of them (lister under 'other'
>
> https://docs.marklogic.com/guide/search-dev/binary-document-metadata
>
> So, maybe your goal is reachable by using ML to do the extraction for
> you...
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> David Ennis
>
>
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> On 2 September 2015 at 21:17, Danny Sinang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone here tried running Windows executable files from within XQuery
>> scripts ?
>>
>> I've got a VBScript that can read the version info of any given DLL, and
>> I'd like to invoke it from an ML scheduled task and store the version info
>> inside MarkLogic.
>>
>> The list of DLLs to read is stored in an XML file inside MarkLogic.
>>
>> I think I can probably use MLJAM to make the OS run the VBScript, but I'm
>> wondering if there's a solution out there that involves less components /
>> moving parts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Danny
>>
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