# Kettering XML and PDFs

**Category:** [NHS Spine & APIs Support](https://openhealthhub.org/c/nhs-spine/25)
**Created:** 2024-06-21 13:15 UTC
**Views:** 87
**Replies:** 0
**URL:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/kettering-xml-and-pdfs/2763

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## Post #1 by @chris.cooper

Hi All

I'm new and would like some help please.  I'm currently developing a service to send messages on MESH using the below spec. 

[https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/message-exchange-for-social-care-and-health-api#post-/messageexchange/-mailbox_id-/outbox](https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/message-exchange-for-social-care-and-health-api#post-/messageexchange/-mailbox_id-/outbox)

The service work well with plain text in the body. But now I need to send PDFs, I have seen that the best way may be using Kettering XML.  I have tried just simply sending a example as a body through the MESH API, but it fails (Bad Request).   What am I doing wrong?

Once I have got my simple Kettering xml sending, I would like to alter it, so I contains a pdf body.  Guessing this is sending a base 64 string of the pdf in the below section? 

Any help would be a help, thanks  
```

<ClinicalReport>
        <TextItem>
            <Cuid IdScope="Message">2</Cuid>
            <TextMarkupIndicator>-//IETF//DTD
                HTML//EN</TextMarkupIndicator>
            <TextBlock>
```

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