RE: Creating a binary file

> I'd like to create a (proprietary) binary file, on the 
> Windows platform, using a XSL transformation.

You can get 95% of the way with XSLT, by generating an XML
representation of the binary file. The final 5% will need some custom
code: for example, a home-grown serializer.

You will need to decide how to represent the bytes in your XML
representation. Most byte values (20-FF) can be represented using the
Unicode character whose codepoint is numerically the same as the byte
value. For the other values, various representations are possible, for
example a processing instruction <?x01?>. Or you might prefer to
generate the whole thing as base64 text and then convert it to binary as
a post-processing phase.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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