Binary attachments

[Espen Seland <Espen.Seland@kith.no>]

Newbie-Q:

I'm looking on ebXML Schemes for medical messages, which will contain
binary data. 

How are binary attachments put into an XML message, can it be sent _without_
converting the binary data to 7bit ASCII as a typical MIME-attachments (as
with use of SOAP)?

The messages will probably be sent by SMTP and/or X400 (depends on the user
systems).
Can attachments use another protocol, ie. FTP? Or is it preferable to send
it all over,
let's say, SOAP?

I hope you understand what I'm asking about ;-)

Regards,
Espen

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Espen Stranger Seland
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