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RE: image in XML file

• From: Jun Fujisawa <fujisawa@t...>
• To: sam th <sam@u...>
• Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:49:57 +0900

At 12:51 PM -0500 00.7.6, sam th wrote:
> > My suggestion on this matter would be to Base64 encode the data.  This
> > increases the size, but Base64 does not use any illegal characters.
>
>In AbiWord, this is the approach we use (we have an XML file format).  our
>stuff looks like so:
>
><data>
><d name="pic1">
>base64encodedstuffgoeshere
></d>
></data>

The 'data' URL scheme described in RFC2397 might be a better choice.
It also uses base64 encoding but has an advantage that we can use unified
syntax to reference both linked and embedded images.

<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt>


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Jun Fujisawa
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