bin:decode-string

Decodes a binary value as a string.

decode-string($value as (xs:hexBinary | xs:base64Binary)?, $encoding as xs:string?:=(), $offset as xs:integer?:=(), $size as xs:integer?:=()) ➔ xs:string?

Arguments
	$value	(xs:hexBinary \| 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 1.0

EXPath Binary Module 4.0

Saxon availability

Available in XPath 2.0 and later versions. Implemented since Saxon 9.6. Requires Saxon-PE or Saxon-EE. Available for all platforms.

Notes on the Saxon implementation

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