RE: Datatype section, or Binary Large OBjects in Business Documen ts

["Hayes, Brian" <Brian.Hayes@Commerceone.com>]

> From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:wkammerer@foresightcorp.com]
> In "More on Finance Sub-group comments - the Image/Picture 
> Aggregate," I
> discussed separating file objects from the ebXML business core
> component, using a reference to a MIME payload object instead. 

Yes, this works quite well. This is also discussed, very briefly, in the
April 2000 xCBL newsletter, "How to Support BLOB Objects in SOX Schemas":
http://www.xcbl.org/newsletter/apr2000.html#16.   Since just a reference to
a BLOB is of limited use, there are xCBL "core components" Attachment and
ListOfAttachment. The Attachment element is a container for specifying the
"attached" document (SOX type URI) and associated information:
http://www.xcbl.org/xcbl30/structureref/xcbl30soxrefframe.htm. 

Cheers,
Brian Hayes