saxon:string-to-hexBinary

Encodes a string to an xs:hexBinary value, using a given encoding.

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

Arguments

 

$in

xs:string?

The input string

 

$encoding

xs:string

The encoding of the input string

Result

xs:hexBinary?

Namespace

http://saxon.sf.net/

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Available since Saxon 8.4.

Details

This function takes as input a string and the name of a character encoding (for example UTF8). It encodes the contents of the string value as a sequence of bytes using a particular encoding, and returns the xs:hexBinary representation of this sequence of bytes.

See also:

saxon:hexBinary-to-string()