Article:		Transporting Binary Data in SOAP
Subject:		An error and two nits
Date:		2002-08-29 12:16:02
From:		Frans Jkt
1. The CDATA Section terminator is not "</XMLCDATA>", it is "]]>". 2. XML 1.0 does have a mechanism for handling binary components of a document, using "unparsed entities" and "notations". I do not blame the author for failing to advocate this solution, but I think it's worth at least a mention. 3. It's true that declaring Base64 binary data as a "String" can be misleading, but as I recall XML Schema has a datatype specifically to identify content as Base64 or BinHex binary content.

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