Elements with Binary content

[Olumide]

Dear Xercers,

I'm looking to create an XML element, e.g. <Binary>, that contains 
binary data. I know that the data should be in base64. What I'd like to 
know is if it is sufficient to simply dump the binary data between the 
<Binary> tags like so

<Binary>TWFuIGlzIGRpc3Rpbmd1aXNo...<Binary>

and if xerces capable of detecting that this data is in base64 and 
extracting characters or bytes from it or is this up to the custom handler.

Thanks,

- Olumide