bin:decode-string

Decodes binary data as a string in a given encoding.

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

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

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

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

decode-string($in as xs:base64Binary?, $encoding as xs:string, $offset as xs:integer) ➔ xs:string?

Arguments
	$in	xs:base64Binary?	Input binary data
	$encoding	xs:string	The encoding type to be used
	$offset	xs:integer	Offset in octets into the input data
Result		xs:string?

decode-string($in as xs:base64Binary?, $encoding as xs:string, $offset as xs:integer, $size as xs:integer) ➔ xs:string?

Arguments
	$in	xs:base64Binary?	Input binary data
	$encoding	xs:string	The encoding type to be used
	$offset	xs:integer	Offset in octets into the input data
	$size	xs:integer	Size in octets to operate over
Result		xs:string?

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.