Jeni,
Have a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/samples/internet/default.asp?url=/do
wnloads/samples/internet/behaviors/library/webservice/default.asp for a
simple JavaScript base64 function. Add a couple of lines to write the
result to a file and you are sorted. Or for the external method have a
look at uuencode

Ciao Chris

XML/XSL Portal
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jeni Tennison
> Sent: 19 October 2001 10:20
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: ZHihui Li
> Subject:  Getting an image from base64-encoded data
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been asked off list what the best approach is in the following
> situation:
> 
> You have an XML document that contains an element that 
> contains a base64-encoded image, something like:
> 
> <Document_Type>
>   <IMAGE xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes"
>          dt:dt="bin.base64">SUkqAAgAAAAPAP4ABAABAAAAAA...</IMAGE>
> </Document_Type>
> 
> You need to get a .tif file that contains the binary data 
> encoded within the XML.
> 
> I suggested writing the content of the IMAGE file out into a 
> text file with XSLT and then converting from base64 to binary 
> through an external process. I wondered if anyone else had 
> other suggestions about how to deal with it? For example, 
> using extensions?
> 
> And thinking further than that... XML Schema has a couple of 
> binary data types - is this (decoding and writing out binary) 
> going to be a requirement that we encounter in future 
> versions of XPath/XSLT? Is it ever going to be XSLT's job?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your thoughts,
> 
> Jeni
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