xml code with Base64

[Enrique Arredondo]

Hi list.

Our vendor is requiering from us to send photos within the xml that I'm 
going to generate to them, So it should look something like this :

......
<Images>

                            <Image>

                                   <MaintenanceType>A</MaintenanceType>

                                   <Style>ZZ1</Style>

                                   <FileType>JPG</FileType>

                                   <FileSize>55</FileSize>

                                   <FileSizeUOM>KB</FileSizeUOM>

                                   <DPI>72</DPI>

                                   <ColorMode>RGB</ColorMode>

                                   <Background>WHI</Background>

                                   <OrientationView>FRO</OrientationView>


<ImageFile>/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/7QGEUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+0AAAAAABABLAAAAAEA

AQEsAAAAAQABOEJJTQQNAAAAAAAEAAAAeDhCSU0D8wAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAAOEJJTQQKAAAAAAAB

.....etc....</ImageFile>

                            </Image>

                      </Images>

How in the world can I do that within a filepro report ? I believe the 
maximum characters per dummy field is 255 chars. To convert to Base64 a 
jpg I'll use this script and then put the file in a place where filepro 
can pick it up when generating the XML :

#!/usr/local/bin/perl w

use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64);

open(FILE,

       '/usr2/tmp/file.jpg')

   or die "$!";

while (read(FILE, $buf, 60 * 57)) {

       print encode_base64($buf);

}