bin:encode-string
Encodes a string into a binary value using a given encoding.
encode-string($value as xs:string?, $encoding as xs:string?:='UTF-8') ➔ xs:base64Binary?
Arguments | ||||
| $value | xs:string? | Input binary data | |
| $encoding | xs:string? | := 'UTF-8' | The encoding type to be used |
Result | xs:base64Binary? | |||
Namespace
http://expath.org/ns/binary
Links to specifications
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.