Re: [xml] Embedding images

[Matt Sergeant <matt sergeant org>]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Adrian Feiguin wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Adrian Feiguin wrote:
> >
> > > How can I use libxml to embed a large pixmap in a file? I don't want to
> > > use a different file for the image, I wan't to embed it in my main
> > > document. Is that possible? How? Any documentation? What about embedding
> > > BLOBs, like a gif file, is there any documentation/examples available?
> >
> > The "standard" way to do this is to use base64 encoding, and putting the
> > data in the content of a tag. There is no direct support for decoding this
> > in XML parsers, but it's pretty easy to do manually.
>
> Thanks for the info, can you give me a link to documentation/examples,
> if any?

XML-dev's archives are full of this sort of thing, as a Google search for
"XML base64 binary" will turn up.

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