XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

There is code in Saxon to handle conversion of all the XMLSchema-defined
primitive types, including Base64.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

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> [mailto:xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Elliotte Harold
> Sent: 07 September 2005 19:23
> To: Perry.Hoekstra AT mpls.frb.org
> Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Base64 data
> 
> 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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