Article:		Binary Killed the XML Star?
Subject:		Why imbed images in XML documents?
Date:		2003-11-29 16:49:03
From:		Michael Maron
Very simple question: why imbed images and other binaries in XML documents? There are hyperlinks for this!

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• Why imbed images in XML documents?
  2003-12-01 04:54:55 Tim Jansen [Reply]
  
  That's ok for documents on the web. But, for instance, if you create a document with your word prcessor and send it via email, you neither want to put all its images on a HTTP server nor do you want to send 20 files in the mail. Thus you need either to include the images in the XML directly, or some kind of standardized archive that contains the files (effectively MIME structures and DIME are both archives).