Bundling binary files and XML documents

[David Brownell]

Mike Lepley wrote:
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I also found another interesting solution, which doesn't use an ENTITY.  You
> could add an encoded binary file in the XML document, like so:
> 
> <PICTURE>
>    <NAME>my_picture.jpg</NAME>
>    <BINARY Type="64">l;jqwuALQLWEKufdlk1sadfjl1JF</BINARY>
> </PICTURE>
> 
> and decode the binary when the XML document is received.
> 
> What do you think?

Embeddeing a Base64 encoded document works fine ... but that wasn't the
problem you originally posed, namely keeping the two documents apart!

- Dave


> > You could use a MIME "multipart/related" document (see www.ietf.org,
> > there's an RFC).  The unparsed entity declaration for the binary file
> > would use a URI referring to the related binary file.
> >
> > - Dave
> >
> 
> > Mike Lepley wrote:
> > >
> > > I was wondering what others have been doing when a machine needs to send
> a
> > > binary file (such as a picture) AND an XML document which references the
> > > binary file as an ENTITY.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to bundle the binary file and the XML document and send
> it
> > > together?
> > > Or does one have to parse the XML and then request the binary
> > > file?  Or other?
> >
> 
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