XML and PDF...

[Peter Flynn]

Verner Jensen, �borg wrote:
Hi' Is it possible to store a PDF doc, as part of an XML?

No, not directly.
Should the PDF-part be encoded/wrapped or something,

Yes, that's possible. You just have to ensure that the encode will never
output non-XML characters, nor "<" or "&" unless you put it in a CDATA
section.
cause I can't figure out how the XML text format is able to hold binary data?

It can't. XML is a text file format.
The assignment is to extract the PDF from the XML - put it in an Oracle BLOB - and store it in an Ora-DB. The part which extract the PDF from XML - should this contain some kind of conversion (text => binary) ?

The code which extracts the encoded data would trigger a decoder which
would recreate the PDF document.

I realise it's a college assignment, but I have difficulty imagining any
circumstances in which I would want to do this. I'd be interested to know
what the person who set the assignment envisages.

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[Verner Jensen, Ålborg]

Hi'

Is it possible to store a PDF doc, as part of an XML? Should the PDF-part be
encoded/wrapped or something, cause I can't figure out how the XML text
format is able to hold binary data?

The assignment is to extract the PDF from the XML - put it in an Oracle
BLOB - and store it in an Ora-DB.

The part which extract the PDF from XML - should this contain some kind of
conversion (text => binary) ?

Any help, samples, eg. would be appreciated...
Rgds, Henrik