read xml nodes InnerText As pdf or jpg or png or word document

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Hello
I want to embed and retrive files such as pdf, word doc, jpg or png images In InnerText of XML nodes.
How can I change my files to String to insert into xml nodes?
please help me

Posted 16-Aug-11 23:05pm

moslemB

Updated 16-Aug-11 23:13pm

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Mycroft Holmes 17-Aug-11 5:09am

Can you clarify - are you hoping to turn image files into text?

moslemB 17-Aug-11 5:10am

yes
images file and word documnets and pdf file

Simon Bang Terkildsen 17-Aug-11 5:15am

Seems like an abuse of xml to me, xml is supposed to be human readable.
Do you mind me asking why you would want to do this? I'm sure there is a better solution.

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Solution 1

There are two possibilities:

Convert your file into a hexadecimal encoded byte string, and use that
Insert the file location as a string possibly as a CDATA item

Option 2 would be more appropriate as it would reduce the amount of data in the XML. However, it may be that XML is not the best solution to your problem.

Posted 16-Aug-11 23:20pm

Richard MacCutchan

Solution 2

if your purpose is to save multiple files together, making it easy to move or access related files, then I personally would use zip. If this has any interrest have a look at this article
C# Zip Files and/or Folders[^]

Posted 17-Aug-11 0:28am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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moslemB · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-18T18:33:00

Solution 3

the best way is read all bytes of file and convert that array of byts to Base64 and insert result text into innertext.

byte[] bytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(filename);
String str = Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);

Posted 18-Aug-11 18:33pm

moslemB

Updated 18-Aug-11 18:36pm

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