Hi Todd,

I thought you said the blob contained hexBinary. In that case, just get it as string, cast it to xs:hexBinary, and pass that to binary {} constructor. That is not the case? What kind of values can your xsi:type attribute have? Can you give a small sample?

Kind regards,

Geert

*Van:* gene...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto: gene...@developer.marklogic.com] *Namens *Todd Gochenour *Verzonden:* zaterdag 25 februari 2012 18:54 *Aan:* MarkLogic Developer Discussion *Onderwerp:* Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Processing Large Documents?

My question is, what happened to the /file_blob/@xsi:type attribute. Was it interpreted by MarkLogic or just discarded or is it there but my query fails to properly ask for it? Could it be that the element is already known by MarkLogic as hexBinary and so a cast to hexBinary is going in the wrong direction? I tried it without the cast with just { binary( $file_blob ) } but extracting and saving a PDF, I still couldn't get Adobe to open it. I'm now looking at the insert-document options cause I think its here I need to set mime-type.