• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: Seairth Jacobs <seairth@b...>
• Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:02:24 -0400

Seairth Jacobs wrote:

> Why not use a CDATA section, as in:
> 
>     <![CDATA[image binary here]]>

Because characters in the range 0x00 to 0x1F, other than CR, LF, TAB,
can't be used in XML files at all, not even as &#x0; or the like.
You have to encode them with Base64 or some private hack.

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