[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: How to use binary data with XML?
xml wrote: > Using mime attachments and such is so inefficient... would they really > opt for storing binary object attributes using text-encoding approaches? MIME parts can be and often are binary. For example when you view a GIF or JPEG image on the Web (i.e. using HTTP), they are transmitted quite efficiently as a MIME message of Content-Type: image/jpeg and Content-transfer-encoding: binary. It is SMTP protocol that results in transmission with a Content-transfer-encoding: base64 though ESMTP can handle binary data as well. > > ...I'm used to seeing binary and text mix and > if the binary was inside of a (predictable) XML tag that would be > just dandy! > Dandy, but something else than XML... this can be your own private data format. Oh darn that inconvenient spec :-) Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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