[Expat-discuss] binary in XML?

Desmond Chan deschan3@attbi.com
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:27:56 -0700


Hi all,
	I am aware that it is not advisable to include binary in a XML document. 
 Yet I would like to know if and how I can use expat to parse a XML 
document with binary in it.
	For example,
	<file>
		<data length=100>...</data>
	</file>

	It is a file element with data of 100 bytes.  "..." is 100 bytes of binary 
data.  Is it possible to ask expat to simply copy 100 bytes of data to a 
buffer after it sees <data length=100>, then skips that 100 bytes and start 
parsing the doc as text from the end tag again?
	Thanks,

Desmond