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Dear all

I am retriving a user information with his picture from a database.
My output field type of the picture is byte array.

What I want to do is to display the records with the pictures in a HTML file using XSLT.

Any advice ???

Thanks & Regards
Ameer

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You should store the picture to a file, jpg/gif etc. In the XSLT you generate the http tag to <image src="/path/file.jpg …>

Or you can have a DSP to write byteArray as a strem, in the XSLT generate the html tag pointing to the dsp <image src="/path/to/page.dsp …>

XSLT’s do not work directly with byteArrays.

Hope I explained in a clear way :smiley:

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Thanks for the explanation, but what am doing is I am enquiring information from oracle database and the images are stored as BLOB.
But I store these BLOB to a byte array, then I display the output as an XML. What I want to know how to display the bit array.
By the way, what is the DSP?

Thanks & Regards
Ameer

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DSP are Dynamic Server Pages, something “similar” to JSP’s but with IntegrationServer syntax to work with flow/java services.

XML only deals with text, no object. But one XML tag can contain a base64 binary data, which is at the end the image in text format.

I assume you have a XML document, and one of the elements contains this binary data, then google around and search for:

“XSLT binary data”

You will find information and places on what to do.

Good luck

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Thanks dear
I’ll google it

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XSLT will allow you to “package” the binary data into another format, but I don’t think you will be able to serve this data to a web client as an image without persisting it into a file first and referring the client to retrieve it through a URL.
I would like to know how you resolved this problem as a matter of interest. I would save the image into a file and insert the URL pointing to that file inside the HTML page you are generating using your XSLT stylesheet.

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I solved the problem
My xml element type is base64Binary.
This is what I did using xslt:
<xsl:variable name=“photo” select=“Element/Photo”/>

Regards
Ameer