>Blob=binary, jpg=binary, xml=NOT binary. You are trying to accomplish something which was never intended to work!

Then why is the data encoded in the xml with data type "base64binary"? I believe this should indeed work.


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>>Try the following:
>>
>>

>>Create Cursor curTest (image blob)
>>Append Blank
>>*!* Select a jpg file from your harddrive here:
>>Replace image with FileToStr(GetFile())
>>?CursorToXML("curTest", "lcTest", 1, 0, 0, "1")
>>?XMLToCursor(lcTest, "curTest2")
>>

>>
>>Observe that after the cursor has been translated to xml and back, the image field is no longer a BLOB, but a MEMO field.