Binary data in xml document

Hi,
I have some tables and I store binary data in varchar2 column. I want to create xml document from one of the table using xsql. What will happen to binary data? Can xml document takes care of binary data? I will appreciate, if I get the answer/solution for this.
Thanks
Prasanta De

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