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RE: Image (bitmap) in XML document

• To: "'Handoko'" <st018509@a...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Image (bitmap) in XML document
• From: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@A...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:24:19 -0800

> From: Handoko [mailto:st018509@a...]

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> XML Document is all text (am I right?). So to display an 
> image we can ref to a 
> certain URL (or directory). I want to ask, how to display an 
> image that is a 
> part of recordset query. How can it referred? Do we need to 
> save the image to 
> a file???

You can, if you want. Alternatively, you can wrap the XML into a MIME
multipart envelope, include the image as an attachment, and reference it via
a "cid:"; href. One other option is to encode the image in a textual format
and embed it directly as element content. Base64 is typically used for this
approach.

If adopting the last approach, it may be a good idea to also include
relevant metadata. For example:

  <image type="image/gif" encoding="base64">
    ...base64-encoded data....
  </image>

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