Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Notices

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions
	Introduction
	EXSLT Extensions
	Extension attributes (XSLT only)
	Additional serialization parameters
»	Extension functions
	Extension instructions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

saxon:string-to-base64Binary()

saxon:string-to-base64Binary($in as xs:string, $encoding as xs:string) ==> xs:base64Binary

This function takes as input a string and the name of a character encoding (for example "UTF8"). It encodes the contents of the string value as a sequence of bytes using a particular encoding, and returns the xs:base64Binary representation of this sequence of bytes.

For example, the call saxon:string-to-base64Binary("Dassel", "UTF8") returns the xs:base64Binary value whose lexical representation is "RGFzc2VsIA==".