XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

You're way, way off base. XML is about text. XOM is about XML. XOM will 
give you the text content of any element you like. It makes no effort to 
interpret that text. That's up to you. There's no reason to expect XOM 
to decode the base-64 text for you any more than it would turn the 
string "12" into the int 12 or the string "2005-09-07" into a Date 
object. There are an infinite number of different possible types that 
may be encoded in the text of the XML document. Base-64 is just one more 
possibility for which XOM offers no particular support.

You'll need to take the text XOM gives you and pass it to some method 
that decodes that as Base-64 data. However, XOM won't do that for you.

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