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Hyoku KangSubject: How to open (or decompress) a Binary XML file
Author: Hyoku Kang
Date: 20 Feb 2009 07:41 PM
Hi,

I read the previous threads on this but I think this question is somewhat different from (Binary)<->(XML), since this is (Binary XML)<->(XML). Correct me if I'm wrong, but the binary_xml.html link on the homepage doesn't help me extract the necessary data.

The whole story goes like this. The server saves data as a XML file and compresses it as binary file to reduce the size of the file. In order to read the file I need to decompress it. (The header contains the size of the data, and other necessary data information)

The questions are:
1. I tried to open the file using "Convert to XML" option in the menu, but it only showed garbage data indicating it tried to show the binary data but in a invalid format (= not a readable information). Is there another menu option that I don't know?

2. I read that I can convert the binary with Base64, and I tried that. indeed it changed the binary to ASCII code, but it was someting like "APODASDJAKJDLAKSDA..." and I couldn't read any valid data such as "ATLANTA, 256 MILES" in XML format. Do I need to do something extra such as change the ASCII to XML? How would I do that?

I've been trying to solve this for 2 days now. Plz help me on this.

Best,
Daniel
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Tony LavinioSubject: How to open (or decompress) a Binary XML file
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 23 Feb 2009 08:21 AM
What method, mechanism or software was used to do the compression?
Do you have a link to that?
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Hyoku KangSubject: How to open (or decompress) a Binary XML file
Author: Hyoku Kang
Date: 27 Feb 2009 01:59 AM
Originally Posted: 27 Feb 2009 01:58 AM
After a couple of days' struggling, I was able to solve the problem. No commercial software is built for these kind of operations yet, since no standard can exist at the moment. I had to code in c, and specify each method according to how the compression of binary XML had been performed. Thanks for trying to help me though.
   
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