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+<article lang="&language;" id="data">
+<title>Data URLs</title>
+
+<articleinfo>
+<authorgroup>
+<author><personname><firstname>Leo</firstname><surname>Savernik</surname></personname>
+<address><email>l.savernik@aon.at</email></address>
+</author>
+<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
+</authorgroup>
+
+<date>2003-02-06</date>
+<!--releaseinfo>2.20.00</releaseinfo-->
+
+</articleinfo>
+
+<para>Data URLs allow small document data to be included in the URL itself.
+This is useful for very small HTML testcases or other occasions that do not
+justify a document of their own.</para>
+
+<para><userinput>data:,foobar</userinput>
+(note the comma after the colon) will deliver a text document that contains
+nothing but <literal>foobar</literal>
+</para>
+
+<para>The last example delivered a text document. For HTML documents one
+has to specify the MIME type <literal>text/html</literal>:
+<userinput>data:text/html,&lt;title&gt;Testcase&lt;/title&gt;&lt;p&gt;This
+is a testcase&lt;/p&gt;</userinput>. This will produce exactly the same
+output as if the content had been loaded from a document of its own.
+</para>
+
+<para>Specifying alternate character sets is also possible. Note that 8-Bit
+characters have to be escaped by a percentage sign and their two-digit
+hexadecimal codes:
+<userinput>data:;charset=iso-8859-1,Gr%FC%DFe aus Schl%E4gl</userinput>
+results in
+<literal>Gr&uuml;&szlig;e aus Schl&auml;gl</literal>
+whereas omitting the charset attribute might lead to something like
+<literal>Gr??e aus Schl?gl</literal>
+</para>
+
+<para><ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt">IETF
+RFC2397</ulink> provides more information.</para>
+
+</article>
+