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- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- To: Mike Lepley <mlepley@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:51:47 -0700
Mike Lepley wrote:
>
> Thanks!
>
> I also found another interesting solution, which doesn't use an ENTITY. You
> could add an encoded binary file in the XML document, like so:
>
> <PICTURE>
> <NAME>my_picture.jpg</NAME>
> <BINARY Type="64">l;jqwuALQLWEKufdlk1sadfjl1JF</BINARY>
> </PICTURE>
>
> and decode the binary when the XML document is received.
>
> What do you think?
Embeddeing a Base64 encoded document works fine ... but that wasn't the
problem you originally posed, namely keeping the two documents apart!
- Dave
> > You could use a MIME "multipart/related" document (see www.ietf.org,
> > there's an RFC). The unparsed entity declaration for the binary file
> > would use a URI referring to the related binary file.
> >
> > - Dave
> >
>
> > Mike Lepley wrote:
> > >
> > > I was wondering what others have been doing when a machine needs to send
> a
> > > binary file (such as a picture) AND an XML document which references the
> > > binary file as an ENTITY.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to bundle the binary file and the XML document and send
> it
> > > together?
> > > Or does one have to parse the XML and then request the binary
> > > file? Or other?
> >
>
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