bin:encode-string

Encodes a string into binary data using a given encoding.

encode-string($in as xs:string?) ➔ xs:base64Binary?

Arguments
	$in	xs:string?	Input binary data
Result		xs:base64Binary?

encode-string($in as xs:string?, $encoding as xs:string) ➔ xs:base64Binary?

Arguments
	$in	xs:string?	Input binary data
	$encoding	xs:string	The encoding type to be used
Result		xs:base64Binary?

Namespace

http://expath.org/ns/binary

Links to specifications

EXPath Binary Module

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Supported encodings are: UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1 and US-ASCII.