July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
22h 32m
English
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hexBinary
One of the limitations of the XML 1.0 Recommendation is the lack of real mechanisms for dealing with binary data. Binary data can be referenced in XML documents using notations; however, under the 1.0 Recommendation, there is no way to include binary data within an XML document.
The ability to include binary data is one of the new features that comes with the XML Schema recommendation. The first way to include binary data in an XML document is to use the hexBinary datatype.
The hexBinary type is used to represent hex-encoded binary data. That is binary data that has been converted from binary form (111110110111) into a binary octet hexadecimal form (0FB7).
Many applications are capable of converting between hexadecimal and binary formats, ...