Re: Storing binary data

Dear Vojtech,

You can POST with p:http-request and, with binary data encoded in 
base64, you can effectively store binary data to a URI. See the spec's 
"7.1.10.2 Request Entity body conversion" Section (part of p:http-request).

Rui


Toman_Vojtech@emc.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering whether we are not missing functionality for storing
> binary data. Something like a counterpart of p:data or p:http-request.
> For p:load, there is p:store, but suppose I fetch binary data using
> p:http-request and I want to store it to a URI - I can't. The only thing
> I can do at the moment is to let the pipeline return the (wrapped)
> base64 encoded data and store it outside of XProc.
> 
> I know that XProc really is not aimed for handling binary data, but
> since we already have steps such as p:xsl-formatter that store binary
> content, and p:data/p:http-request for loading binary data into XProc,
> perhaps a binary equivalent of p:store (which would take a c:data
> wrapped content and store it as binary data) could be useful. But maybe
> not for V1.
> 
> Regards,
> Vojtech