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Re: binaries in an xml file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Gordon-Schlosberg)
Mon Apr 17 01:32:25 2000
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:20:04 -0500
From: Ari Gordon-Schlosberg <regs@nebcorp.com>
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[Lewinsohn <jlewinso@netvision.net.il>]
> i'm trying to embed a binary file withing an xml file.
> i don't wont to use an entity but must literaly include the binary file
> inside.
> any suggestions?
>
Yup. Base64 encode it and stick it in a CDATA field. Look at section 5.2
in RFC 1521: Base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding and 2.7 in the XML 1.0 spec.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1521.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-cdata-sect
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