Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Conditions of Use

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:base64Binary-to-string()

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

This function takes as input an xs:base64Binary value and the name of a character encoding (for example "UTF8"). It interprets the contents of the base64 value as a sequence of bytes representing a character string in a particular encoding, and returns the corresponding string.

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