On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Augusto Callejas
<email@hidden> wrote:
> i'd like to retrieve the value of the kMDItemTextContent metadata attribute
> for a given file. the MDItem reference does not provide this
More specifically, the MDItem reference specifically mentions it's not
supported (in the very next sentence after the extract you quoted).
> any idea on how mdimport does this in a programmatic fashion?
It calls the GetMetadataForFile() function in the importer for the
given file. Importers are built on the CFPlugin architecture.
But if it really is a .txt file, you might be better off writing your
own importer ;)
Hamish
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