MS Office and XML

[Andre Garzia]

On Dec 14, 2005, at 4:19 PM, MisterX wrote:

> There's rawa data in SQL.
>
> Being able to store binary data in a format is maybe unfriendly to  
> someone
> at one point but that's trivial compared to the advantages that  
> this feature
> brings or can bring to your apps ;)


Err... Xavier... Err... XML cannot contain binay data... it's on the  
spec... nothing forbids you to do that, but somewhere, in some old  
RFC, we all agreed we would not put binary data on XML files, you  
should uucode, base64 or create some sane way to pack binary data in  
XML, or you might end up with corrupted data as your xml travels  
different networks and different systems.

There are many ways to encode binary data for XML transportation...  
Inserting raw binary data into a XML node doesn't sound right for me.

Cheers
andre