Referencing Binary Items

This document describes techniques for referencing binary assets in other Sitecore items.

http://sdn.sitecore.net/Articles/XSL/Accessing%20Field%20Values.html
http://sdn.sitecore.net/reference/using%20sitecore%20query.html
http://sdn.sitecore.net/Resources/Shared%20Source/Shell%20Extensions/TreeList.html

In order to separate content from presentation, media items such as Flash, video and images are generally not referenced in HTML fields but in fields specifically provided to store such references

2. Field Types

Many of the Sitecore field types can be used to select media items; various forms are used to store references in the XML repository

3. Custom Field Types

Each of the field types described in the previous section provides some advantages and disadvantages over others

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