>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>If I got this as a value, what is it and can this be transformed into an image somehow?
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>>I have seen this when a Memo field containing binary Image value got read into XML using CursorToXML without the proper formatting.
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>But... cursortoXml() should format it properly if it's binary, using the CDATA[[ ... ]] syntax and Base64 encoded binary inside.
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>Ah, the value of "is binary" may differ :). "Is binary" should mean "is marked as nocptrans". If it is not marked as binary but contains binaries, i.e. characters which may be, ahem, not quite kosher by XML standards, well then - you get a malformed XML.

Yes exactly that happened to me once, so we had to add the flag 8 in the CURSORTOXML() flags Parameter.