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xml-dev
RE: [xml-dev] Image (bitmap) in XML document
by Michael Brennan other posts by this author
Feb 28 2002 2:24AM messages near this date
RE: [xml-dev] Either ... or ... in Schema | [xml-dev] XML Standards Library 1.0 : Updated 1 March 2002
>  From: Handoko [mailto:st018509@[...].th]

<snip/> 

>  XML Document is all text (am I right?). So to display an 
>  image we can ref to a 
>  certain URL (or directory). I want to ask, how to display an 
>  image that is a 
>  part of recordset query. How can it referred? Do we need to 
>  save the image to 
>  a file???

You can, if you want. Alternatively, you can wrap the XML into a MIME
multipart envelope, include the image as an attachment, and reference it via
a "cid:" href. One other option is to encode the image in a textual format
and embed it directly as element content. Base64 is typically used for this
approach.

If adopting the last approach, it may be a good idea to also include
relevant metadata. For example:

  <image type="image/gif" encoding="base64"> 
    ...base64-encoded data....
  </image> 

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