XML to ASCII

[Demetri]

I have a web service which returns the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<GetImageResponse xmlns="http://someserver.com/">
<GetImageResult>
<xsd:schema>schema</xsd:schema>xml</GetImageResult>
</GetImageResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

This means I recieve an xml document with UTF-8 encoded
characters. What they actually are, are TIFF files that
have been stored in a sql server database.

My application calls the web service which inturn recieves
this xml data.

My question is, how do you translate it to ascii
characters. In otherwords I'm trying to write out the
contents of the image (TIFF file) - in effect allowing the
user to view the image (TIFF file) through their browser.

Any clues how to do so?

[Christoph Schittko [MVP]]

Demetri,

You can load you TIFF image into Bitmap object, save the image into
MemoryStream backed by a byte array, then encode the byte[] either via
Convert.ToBase64String() or XmlConvert.ToBinHexString(), which you can then
write to the web service output.

On the client you do the reverse ... save it to disk and display it or bind
the bitmap directly to a PictureBox, for example

--
HTH
Christoph Schittko [MVP]
Software Architect, .NET Mentor

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I have a web service which returns the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<GetImageResponse xmlns="http://someserver.com/">
<GetImageResult>
<xsd:schema>schema</xsd:schema>xml</GetImageResult>
</GetImageResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

This means I recieve an xml document with UTF-8 encoded
characters. What they actually are, are TIFF files that
have been stored in a sql server database.

My application calls the web service which inturn recieves
this xml data.

My question is, how do you translate it to ascii
characters. In otherwords I'm trying to write out the
contents of the image (TIFF file) - in effect allowing the
user to view the image (TIFF file) through their browser.

Any clues how to do so?