saxon:hexBinary-to-string

Converts a binary value to a string, given its encoding.

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

Arguments

 

$input

xs:hexBinary

The binary input value

 

$encoding

xs:string

The character encoding

Result

xs:string

Details

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

This function takes as input an xs:hexBinary value and the name of a character encoding (for example "UTF8"). It interprets the contents of the hexBinary value as a sequence of bytes representing a character string in a particular encoding, and returns the corresponding string.