can xml contain images? 3

[nphani]

I have to display images from server and am planning to use xml for the data transfer. I have images in my database in the form of a BLOBs. I am not sure how to get those BLOBs into XML. How does XML handle images? I have seen many references where XML contains the path of the image on the server. But what if the images are stored in BLOBs? Can I put the whole BLOB into an XML tag?

Thanx in advance,
Phani

 

[winston1983]

XMl can handle images very well, but i am not sure about BLOBs, never tried it with them. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to send them over when transferring.

Regards,


Lewis Harvey
lewis@lharvey.com

 

[bbegley]

How do you handle the images? Do you include a reference to a seperate file, or does the xml file itself contain the image? If so, what kind of image do you use?

Brian
"There are 2 kinds of people in the world, those that divide people into two groups and those that don't. I belong to the second group." - tag line I stole

 

[BuGlen]

That depends on your schema and translation. One method would be to use the Base64 encoding methods and include the data in your XML data directly. Here is a good article that outlines the basics of this method:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/26/binaryxml.html

Hope this helps.

Glen Appleton

VB.Net student.

 

[bbegley]

Thanks for the link. It is very helpful.

Brian
"There are 2 kinds of people in the world, those that divide people into two groups and those that don't. I belong to the second group." - tag line I stole