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Store compressed binary files with XML

I utilize XML to represent my data files. I also have several binary files I
want to attach to the XML file in compressed (zip) format. I prefer to keep
these in binary format to save space. To you have any suggestions? Note: I am
using the DotNet framework 2.0.
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David T
Nov 12 '05 #1
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dtorg wrote:
I utilize XML to represent my data files. I also have several binary files I
want to attach to the XML file in compressed (zip) format. I prefer to keep
these in binary format to save space. To you have any suggestions? Note: I am
using the DotNet framework 2.0.


What do you mean by "attach"? XML cannot contain arbitrary binary data.
Standard way to embed binary data into XML is to encode data using
Base64 oe BinHex encoding. If you don't need to embed data, you can
store in XML only references to binary data.

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Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCAD]
http://www.xmllab.net
http://blog.tkachenko.com
Nov 12 '05 #2

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