RE: XSLT - Converting image to Base64

> > and by calling into Java you can probably read in the file and get the
> > sequence of octets to feed to that function.
>
> anyone know of a reliable extension that does this?

While gzip streams are part of "base Java" base64 encoding is not.
You may take any of the many hits while searching for "java base64".

There is one by Apache commons, one by code.google and many others.

Because I did not want to rely on anything "external" I wrote my own 
(short) base64 converter recently ...
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=363570#14590918


Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes,

Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
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Fixpack team lead
WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
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From:   tom tom <tomxsllist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   05/03/2011 01:42 PM
Subject:        RE:  XSLT - Converting image to Base64




> and by calling into Java you can probably read in the file and get the
> sequence of octets to feed to that function.

anyone know of a reliable extension that does this?


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> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:43:50 +0200
> From: Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  XSLT - Converting image to Base64
>
> tom tom wrote:
>
> > I need to take a jpeg / gif file as input and output it as base 64.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this using XSLT 2 (Saxon 9+) / extension 
functions.
>
> There is
> 
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions/octetstobase64binary.xml

> and by calling into Java you can probably read in the file and get the
> sequence of octets to feed to that function.
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/