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From: Michael Emmel <mike@j...> >Is it possible to include binary data in a XML document and follow the >spec. It is possible to have binary data in an XML *document* but it is not possible to have (unencoded) binary data in an XML text *entity*. A document is constructed from entities. An entity is usually a file. An entity is either text or binary (NDATA) but not both. You can use Base64 encoding to stick non-text data inside elements: <!DOCTYPE foo [ <!NOTATION base64 SYSTEM "put URL of base 64 code here, or omit this string" ... ]> <foo> ... <binary-data notation="base64">...</binary-data> ... </foo> CDATA marked sections are only a shorthand mechanism for data which has a lot of "&" or "<" characters which you might find tedious to delimit into entity references. It is not a mechanism for embedding raw binary, per se. Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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