The XML declaration typically includes an encoding attribute, e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
All of the XML data that follows, including stuff in CDATA, will be interpretted using that encoding. The parser cannot "ignore" stuff within CDATA: it must interpret it, if only to find out when the CDATA ends!. Scott Nichol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pae Choi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 6:44 PM Subject: Re: binary data in SOAP > Base64ing makes sense. What about the CDATA section to > contain the binary data? It says about the "character data", > but the parser should skip the content of the section. I > haven't try that yet though. > > Does any try that before? Any comments? > > > Pae > > > > > > You do not send arbitrary binary data as XML. XML is "readable", i.e. > > it is character based. The typical encoding used is utf-8, which would > > not allow you to send arbitrary binary data. It is typical to base64 > > encode binary data, which increases its size 33%. Welcome to XML, which > > you can generally assume will be the worst-case serialization method in > > terms of size and speed. For size and speed, you might just use the > > serialization built into Java. > > > > The MIMEPartSerializer is for attachments. It will typically base64 > > encode binary data. The attachments are not part of the XML itself, so > > if you really want to carry XML payloads, you cannot use this. > > > > Scott Nichol > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marco Schulze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:25 PM > > Subject: binary data in SOAP > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > how is it possible to serialize binary data (e.g. FileStreams) via > > SOAP? > > > I saw a MIMEPartSerializer. Does this encode like binary data in an > > > eMail is encoded? This would be bad, because it gets much bigger by > > > this. Is it possible to serialize somehow with raw binary data? Does > > the > > > BeanSerializer automatically does encode streams (e.g. an image in a > > > FileInputStream)? > > > > > > I hope that I could make understandable what I mean... > > > > > > Thanks in advance for answers! > > > > > > Best regards, Marco ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
