MarkLogic 9 Product Documentationxdmp.binaryDecode
xdmp.binaryDecode( encoded as Node, encoding-name as String ) as String
Summary
Converts an encoded byte sequence, passed in as a binary node, from the specified encoding to a unicode string.
| Parameters | |
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| encoded | A binary node containing the encoded stream. |
| encoding-name |
Specifies the encoding to use when decoding the document.
Supported values include UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1.
The string specifed for the encoding option will be matched
to a registered encoding name using the Unicode Charset Alias Matching rules
(http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/#Charset_Alias_Matching).
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Example
xdmp.binaryDecode(
cts.doc("binary_doc_encoded_as_ShiftJIS.dat").root,
"UTF-8");
=> contents of document after decoding, in unicode characters