From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T10:44:10+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml difficulties

On 10/21/06, Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
>
> Show us the problem. There are many kinds of character sequences that are
> not allowed in XML data fields, and there are a number of ways to escape
> the data fields, but they have to be applied in order to work. Arbitrary
> data can't simply be dropped between XML delimiters, without certain
> precautions being taken.
>
>
> --
> Paul Lutus
> http://www.arachnoid.com
>

Hi Paul,

It sounds like you might have some experience in this area. Not to
hijack the OP, but could you possibly describe the process you would
go through if you had a completely random pile of binary barf that you
wanted to store as an XML attribute?

Would your process include using Base64?

Also, let's pretend that small size is desirable, but time spent
zipping is unacceptable.

Thanks in advance for any insight,
-Harold