Hi Shashi,

What I meant was, you can do:

JPEG -> base64 -> XML -> compress,

(and the size is comparable to JPEG -> XML assuming your JPEG data is 
significantly larger than your XML text data)

but you can't do:

JPEG -> base64 -> compress -> XML

as in the latter case you are back to a binary in XML problem.

I think it's theoretically possible to set the first case up as a streaming 
pipeline so that intermediate storage of all objects is not required, but 
whether there are any off the shelf implementations to do that I don't know.

Whether its acceptable performance for your application is harder to comment 
on.

Pete.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shashikala Shamarao" <shashikala_shamarao@y...>
To: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@t...>; <xmlschema-dev@w...>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Image information in XML


> Hi Pete,
>
> Yes, I did figured out. But I still do not know how efficient it will be 
> with regards to performance. That is for example, if we have lots of 
> images in each document, we need to base64 encode the images and then 
> compress it before embedding it into XML. I am currently testing this part 
> to analyse the performance.
>
> Thanks again
> Shashi
>
> Pete Cordell <petexmldev@t...> wrote:
>
> Hi Shashi,
>
> Yes. You can compress the whole of the XML message with the image data
> contained in it. Just looking at the JPEG part of a payload I did some
> quick tests and it seems that compressing would compensate for the base64
> expansion:
>
> JPEG file: 105,482 bytes (where , has its UK meaning)
> JPEG -> ZIP file: 105,417 bytes (implies JPEG is working well!)
> JPEG -> Base64 file: 144,346 bytes (includes some extra line feeds in
> addition to 4/3 expansion)
> JPEG -> Base64 -> ZIP file: 109, 293 bytes
>
> This does show that compressing can get back much of what you loose by
> Base64 encoding.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shashikala Shamarao"
> To: "Pete Cordell"
> ;
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Image information in XML
>
>
>> Hi Pete,
>>
>> Thanks for the response. Is it possible to compress the data after it has
>> been encoded.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shashi
>>
>> Pete Cordell
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Shashi,
>>
>> The normal approach is to base64 encode binary data
>> (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3548.html) (or hex encode). This does result
>> in some data expansion though. Every 3 bytes will be turned into 4. I
>> don't know of any other solution that would work with a standard XML
>> parser,
>> although some multiple file / out of band technique may work.
>>
>> Pete.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Shashikala Shamarao"
>> To:
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:06 AM
>> Subject: Image information in XML
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Currently I am stuck with a problem realted to image in XML.
>>>
>>> I want to know how can I send image information in XML like below.
>>>
>>> My XML response should look like:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> contains binary data
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> contains binary data
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> contains binary data
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I looked at multipart MIME, these define a boundary at the begining say
>>> "bounary1" and at the end of every content whose mime type is different,
>>> boundary will be defined. What I am wondering is, is it possible to
>>> define
>>> boundary for each element , so I can send the bit by bit
>>> information to the parser instead of waiting for the whole document to 
>>> be
>>> created in memory and then sending it to parser?
>>>
>>> Any answers would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Shashi
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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