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 Attachments: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/4995/test.xml -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

