best practice inserting bobs or images into xindice

[Don Saxton]

Hi  I am just beginning with Xindice 1.0. This is fun!   I have a couple questions.   I have IDREFs. e.g. reference from employee to boss. is there any more elegant way to resolve them,  say to Name, other than an additional fetch? I think I am looking for something like an SQL view.   I am aware that the ability to insert blobs was removed. I assume blobs were being used to store images, but didn't find a discussion about its replacement.  Now I wonder what is the current best practice for storing such ancilary parts.  Is it this: encode the binary as text chars and wrap in xml as cdata? Any restriction on the encoding? And finally is the i/o transformation a good job for XMLObject?   Thanks   Don