MarkLogic Server 11.0 Product Documentationxdmp.documentFilter
xdmp.documentFilter( doc as Node, [options as Object?] ) as Node
Summary
Filters a wide variety of document formats, extracting metadata and text, and returning XHTML. The extracted text has very little formatting, and is typically used for search, classification, or other text processing.
Usage Notes
This function is part of a separate package which may generate temporary files. These temporary files are not supported by encryption at rest.
This function requires separate converter installation package starting with release 9.0-4, see MarkLogic Converters Installation Changes Starting at Release 9.0-4 in the Installation Guide for All Platforms.
Document metadata is returned in XHTML meta elements.
The document title is in the title element.
The format of the document is returned as a MIME media type
in a meta element with the name "content-type".
Metadata values with recognized date formats are
converted to ISO8601.
If the document has metadata but no text, like an audio
or video document, the XHTML will have a head element but
no body element.
If Microsoft Office documents (for example, xslx) are password-protected, they cannot be successfully filtered.
If Microsoft Office documents (for example, xslx) are password-encrypted, they cannot be successfully filtered.
Example
// Basic example
xdmp.documentFilter(cts.doc('some.pdf'));
// Filters the PDF file stored in the database with URI 'some.pdf'
Example
// Including an options object in the call
xdmp.documentFilter(cts.doc('some.pdf'), {pdfbookmarks: false});
// Produces filtering output with PDF bookmarks excluded.
Example
xdmp.documentFilter(
xdmp.httpGet("http://www.marklogic.com/images/logo.gif").toArray()[1])
// Produces output similar to the following, derived from data in
// the response to an HTTP GET request.
//
// <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
// <head>
// <meta name="content-type" content="image/gif"/>
// <meta name="filter-capabilities" content="none"/>
// <meta name="size" content="2199"/>
// </head>
// </html>
Example
// The doc is binary and is converted by the xlsx file
// The binary is a fake one since the real one is too long to list here
var doc = "D0CF11E0A1B11AE1000XXXXXXX"
var node = new NodeBuilder();
var bin = node.addBinary(doc).toNode();
var options={"extension":"xlsx"};
xdmp.documentFilter(bin,options);