storing binary

[phil]

Newbie question

I have an application and want to store my program in XML - most of the
classes can be stored as ASCII text except that I also have a few bitmaps
too.

Is there any way to store binary objects within the same XML file but keep
everything else human readable

Any help will be very much appreciated

All the best
Phil

[Martin Honnen]

phil wrote:

Is there any way to store binary objects within the same XML file but keep
everything else human readable

Yes, you can encode the binary data, base64 encoding is one way. The
..NET framework has support for that in its XML parse and creation APIs,
e.g. the ReadElementContentAsBase64 method of XmlReader
<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlreader.readelementcontentasbase64.as px>
or the WriteBase64 method of the XmlWriter
<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlwriter.writebase64.aspx>
The framework also has support for binhex encoding with similar methods.

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