re: pdf file

I use the iText library to create a pdf file. However, i have no idea how to
pass the pdf file, like jpg using baseEncoding64 in xml. Is it feasible?

Thnaks

timothy ma and constance lee

timothy ma and constance lee wrote:
> pass the pdf file, like jpg using baseEncoding64 in xml. Is it feasible?

There are various proposals under development now for shipping binary
data "alongside" XML data, for use in SOAP and similar protocols. But
that's really a protocol-level idea rather than an XML idea.

To pack a PDF file into an XML document you'd have to convert it into a
form that's legal XML, such as base-64 encoding.

Another alternative, of course, would be to ship something other than
PDF and render it into PDF on the receiving end -- for example, transfer
the data as XML, then run it through an XSLT stylesheet to get XSL-FO
markup, and then running that through an FO renderer such as FOP which
can generate PDFs. Whether that makes sense or not depends on what
you're trying to accomplish.

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