Re: XML and PDF...

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.

///Peter, java groups removed from posting

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