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Old 05-19-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Not unless you have another script to extract the name of the script and run it.
There is no way, AFAIK, to invoke something directly from the command line that lives inside an xml file. Mainly because it has to be "decoded" or parsed out of xml.