Is it possible to embed a .zip file in XML string in C#?

[sovitagar]

Hi,
I am doing a project in C# wherein i need to send a xml string from server to client using TCP connection. The xml string requires to contain some data which the client can parse.My question is whether we can embed/include a .zip file or any other file as a tag value within this xml string ?
Please help...
Thanks in advance!!!

[Dormilich]

in principle you cannot embed binary data in XML. of course you can insert the string representation of the binary data or base64 encoded data into the XML code. whether the XML parser on the other side can work with that is another question.

and of course you dramatically increase the XML’s file size doing that.

[sovitagar]

Thanks Dormilich!!!
You mean to say that we cannot insert any data apart from the string representation of the binary data into the xml string?
So there's no way to insert even a text file into a xml string?

[Dormilich]

it shouldn’t be too difficult to get the string representation of a plain text file’s text.

[sovitagar]

So can you help me out with embedding string representation of the binary data in a xml?
Like I don't know as to how can we embed the same in a xml...

[Dormilich]

I’d try file_get_conten ts() …

[sovitagar]

Well if you could help me out with something in C#....
Coz my project is in C#
Thanks So much!!!

[Dormilich]

I don’t know C#. just JavaScript and PHP.

[sovitagar]

Anyways...Thank s a ton!!! :)