Re: [xml] Newline handling

["Piotr Gaczkowski" <doomhammerng gmail com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 04:22:58PM +0200, Piotr Gaczkowski wrote:
>
> binary data in XML is impossible in general. And even if the xmlTextWriter
> did not tweak newline on output any conformant XML parser will normalize
> at parse time, it's mandatory from the spec
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-line-ends
> You're trying to use the wrong tool, read the spec. Or UUencode your
> data.

It's not that way. Actually I don't want to create XML stream
containing binary data, but write _only_ raw binary data, (ab)using
the xmlTextWriter API.

The program I'm writing was supposed to only return data in XML, but
there is a need now to return binaries in some cases. xmlTextWriter is
still the only interface to the world, so I'm trying to push those
BLOBs through it.

But maybe you're right and UUEncoding could be used instead.

-- 
Cheers,
Piotr Gaczkowski