saxon:string-to-hexBinary

Encodes a string to an xs:hexBinary value, using a given encoding

string-to-hexBinary($in as xs:string, $encoding as xs:string) ➔ xs:hexBinary

Arguments
	$in	xs:string	The input string
	$encoding	xs:string	The encoding of the input string
Result		xs:hexBinary

Details

Namespace: http://saxon.sf.net/

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:hexBinary representation of this sequence of bytes.