[Expat-discuss] How can I add a function to skip a setnumber of bytes

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Joe Wiemann writes:
 > The requirement is to have embedded graphics in a xml type file
 > format.. this file format does not have to follow the exact rules
 > of xml..
 > we just want the file format to be easy to follow and somewhat
 > readable by human eyes....

[from a different message...]
 > I know this is not following XML -- but I think I can get it to work -> I do
 > not want the overhead of doing mime encoding or anything like that.

  I'd suggest using some form of binary-to-text encoding anyway.  It
does not add enough overhead to make a real difference, and you should
be able to write very efficient encoder/decoder functions.  If you
want, you could probably borrow code from Python.  Take a look at the
Modules/binascii.c file in the Python source distribution for basic
encoding/decoding functions for uu-encoding, base64, and Mac hqx
encoding.
  If you want something that isn't XML, I'd suggest using something
that's obviously not XML so maintainers don't get confused down the
road.  Perhaps use a package format like a ZIP or JAR, and include
your XML and images there, with references from the XML to the
images.


  -Fred

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