I need one particular base64 encoded XML element, i.e. <data>

The following call:

return inspect:type(http:send-request(...)//*:data)

returns the following: element()

From: Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 1:39 PM To: Yitzhak Khabinsky ykhabins@bellsouth.net Cc: BaseX basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Convert base64 to XML

It returns back base64 encoded XML.

Is it HTML or XML?

If you need to convert HTML, you can directly pass on binary data to html:parse.

What does inspect:type(http:send-request(...)[2]) return?

Best,

Christian

Mr. Grün,

As suggested, I tried the following, and it worked: return fetch:binary-doc(xs:base64Binary(http:send-request(...)//*:data)

It reduced three calls to two.

IMHO, it is a good idea to add such functionality to the Conversion Module: convert:base64-to-XML https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Conversion_Module

Much appreciated.

Regards, Yitzhak Khabinsky

-----Original Message----- From: Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 2:19 PM To: Yitzhak Khabinsky ykhabins@bellsouth.net Cc: BaseX basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Convert base64 to XML

Thanks. If your data is HTML, html:parse is the correct choice. fetch:binary-doc can be used to convert a binary item to a document node [1]:

let $b64 := xs:base64Binary(<data>PHgvPg==</data>) return ( fetch:binary-doc($b64), html:parse($b64) )

[1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Fetch_Module#fetch:binary-doc