July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
22h 32m
English
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base64Binary
Another datatype that can be used to represent binary data in an XML document is the base64Binary type. This type is similar to the hexBinary type in that it allows you to include binary data in an XML document. Also, the base64-encoded binary is “text safe” as the encoding method uses only ASCII and EBCDIC characters in the encoding.
The base64Binary is a good type to use for including binary information in your documents because it is also a very common format, used for exchanging MIME documents via applications.