Instead of the overhead with saving binary as Base64, I was wondering if you could directly store double-byte binary streams into XML files, using CDATA, or commenting it out, or something?
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Instead of the overhead with saving binary as Base64, I was wondering if you could directly store double-byte binary streams into XML files, using CDATA, or commenting it out, or something?
You can store it as CDATA, but there’s the risk that some byte sequences will evaluate to valid XML that closes the CDATA section. After a quick look at http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-cdata-sect, it seems you can have any sequence of chars except ‘]]>’. Have a look at what is a valid XML char too.