Ok thanks, i did read about using Base64 to decode it but my main issue 
is as you say understanding
what format it was decoded in the first place.  Please find a sample 
attached

thanks

JB



Aleksey Gureiev wrote:
> How the image is encoded into XML? Can you give an example?
> 
> Is it a CDATA section with Base64 or something else? If it's a known
> encoding, you just read it as an attribute / tag value and then decode
> using an appropriate decoder, then open the file in binary mode and
> save the decoded version there. If it's paperclip that accepts the
> XML, there's such thing as processors that you can use to write a
> processor that extracts the image and replaces the original XML file
> with the extracted thing.
> 
> In order to put the image back into XML, again you use the encoder
> (Base64, for example) and put the resulting value inside the tag.
> 
> Again, if you give a sample XML, I may be able to give more precise
> suggestions.
> 
> Cheers,
> - A


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