RE: Images embedded in XML

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Dumb question:  In general, is it a good idea to 
send any blob like this or would it be better 
to keep it out of the XML and put it say elsewhere 
in a MIME multipart message?  What use is 
there for putting unqueriable large datatypes 
into a DOM?

Len 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Darshan Singh [mailto:darshan@PerfectXML.com]

IMHO, CDATA section is not a good way to hold binary data (because then
you'll never be able to represent three byte sequence '5D 5D 3E' (hexr for
']]>').

To save binary data as part of XML you'll have to use Base64 encoding. I
don't have Java code that illustrates that, but following article might be
useful just to get an idea:
XML and binary data
http://www.PerfectXML.com/articles/xml/binary.asp