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How can I transfer Word Docs, PDFs, JPGs as XML element text?

Hi there. I am sure this has been done before, but I have not found an example in my search thus far:

I am trying to transfer Word documents, PDF documents, and possibly JPGs into a data stream for sending as the value of an XML Element.

In other words, my .NET (C#) application will convert a .DOC file into the following:

<document>
<name>mythesis.doc</name>
<binary>ÐÏà¡±áÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿS J Begin to learn how to.... MSWordDoc Word.Document.8 ô9²q</binary>
</document>

(What's contained in <binary /> is the actual word document)

...And another application will open the XML file and extract a Word doc from the <binary /> tag, and save it as a .DOC file.

Make sense? My first thought was XML Web Services, but is there a more direct way? I am using C# here, but am familiar with VB.NET as well, so feel free to respond in either language if you have a useful idea.

At this moment I am drawing a blank. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Jason

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jasonwisdom

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Thank you...that worked. I now have a (what appears to be) byte-array representation of a Word Document, and I can Encoding.ASCII it into a string value or do whatever I need with it.

One last bit - When I later parse the XML file, how do I reconstruct the XML tag data into a Word Document? I saw how to rearrange a Bitmap file, but what about a .DOC or .PDF?

I realize this is extra, so I'll tack on an extra 50 points if you can show me the way.

Thank you.
Jason

jasonwisdom

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Ixnay on the extra estionquay. I won't have to retranslate it, it will be handled on the other side.

Thank you greatly! Your solution worked perfectly.

Jason