Hi Kevin,
I would rather see binary as lower level than xml, not the other way round. Xml itself need to be ultimetely encoded in some binary form (such as UTF-8) to be written on the file, whereas encoding binary as (base64) xml is a less-than-optimal solution for both space and time.
By the way, I do currently use base64 for embedding binary in my XIndice database, but it's not a good solution.
Francesco
At 23.03 27/06/2002, you wrote:
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you could easily wrap binary within an xml document? Is this not possible due to encoding issues?
Kevin
- Francesco Bellomi "Use truth to show illusion, and illusion to show truth."
