Binary Data in XML?

Paul Prescod papresco at technologist.com
Sat Oct 18 00:02:57 BST 1997


Mike Sample wrote:
> 
> Is there a standard way to include binary data directly within an
> XML/RDF document? 

No. 

>Or must one use indirection or ad-hoc encoding 

Yes.

I think that it is probably a good thing that you can always know that
an XML document is completely textual. 

 Paul Prescod

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