Re: Binary to XML Translation

Hi Ela,

> I want to translate a binary file to the human-readable XML format.
> Are there any tools already available that convert a binary file to
> XML? If no, then how do I go about doing it? I want to use XSLT for
> the translation.

The input to an XSLT transformation must be an XML document; you can't
use XSLT if the input is a binary file, so XSLT isn't an appropriate
language for this kind of translation.

I'm also not sure what kind of translation you have in mind. You could
encode the binary file as Base64 and wrap it in a <doc> element and
you would have an XML document, but it wouldn't be a very useful one
and it wouldn't be particularly human-readable. Probably you need to
write a filter that's specific to the binary format that you're using;
since you haven't told us what that is, I can't say whether there are
any tools already around that will convert from that binary format
into an XML format.

Cheers,

Jeni

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