3.1.4.3 Requesting the Document Body from the Server

Because the body of the document is not returned as part of the Document class data, the client submits the value of the LinkId element (section 2.2.2.8) in a separate ItemOperations command request ([MS-ASCMD] section 2.2.1.10) to obtain the body of the document. The body of the document is returned as either text encoded with base64 encoding in the itemoperations:Data element ([MS-ASCMD] section 2.2.3.39.2) of the ItemOperations command response or as binary data, depending on the content type that the client requested. For details about how the client requests a particular content type in an ItemOperations command request, see section 3.1.5.1.