Re Binary data in XML

[Terry Allen]

Mike Sample writes:
| Is there a standard way to include binary data directly within an
| XML/RDF document? Or must one use indirection or ad-hoc encoding such
| as:
| 
|   <foo href="http://somewhere.com/the_data.bla"/>
| 
| or
|   <foo enc="hex">A103EF92B7</foo>

Not a standard, but you might consider

   ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-data-03.txt

which expires tomorrow.  I don't know whether the author expects to
update it.  It defines a data URL like

  data:[<mediatype>][;base64],<data>

in which the payload is encoded in base64 and the mediatype is a MIME
type.  It's SGML/XML-safe.

Regards,


Regards,

  Terry Allen    Electronic Publishing Consultant    tallen[at]sonic.net
                   http://www.sonic.net/~tallen/
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