Base64 as a data type is supported in XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0, and Saxon includes
some extension functions designed to make it more useful.

But I've no idea what you mean by "floating point text"!

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Gilbert [mailto:michael.s.gilbert@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 January 2006 01:37
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  any progress or suggestions on an xslt base64 decoder?
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am attempting to create an xslt document that will translate base64
> characters to human-readable floating point text (to support viewing
> via a web browser).
> 
> I was able to come across this work
> 
> http://gandhimukul.tripod.com/base64encoder.xsl
> http://gandhimukul.tripod.com/datamap.xml
> 
> which looks interesting, but not very well commented or simple.
> 
> Has there been any work toward supporting base64 conversion natively
> in a future xslt spec?  Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly
> appreciated.  Thank you.
> 
> Mike Gilbert