I need one particular base64 encoded XML element, i.e. <data> The following call: return inspect:type(http:send-request(...)//*:data) returns the following: element() From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 1:39 PM To: Yitzhak Khabinsky <ykhabins@bellsouth.net> Cc: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Convert base64 to XML

It returns back base64 encoded XML.

Is it HTML or XML? If you need to convert HTML, you can directly pass on binary data to html:parse. What does inspect:type(http:send-request(...)[2]) return? Best, Christian

Mr. Grün, As suggested, I tried the following, and it worked: return fetch:binary-doc(xs:base64Binary(http:send-request(...)//*:data) It reduced three calls to two. IMHO, it is a good idea to add such functionality to the Conversion Module: convert:base64-to-XML https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Conversion_Module Much appreciated. Regards, Yitzhak Khabinsky -----Original Message----- From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 2:19 PM To: Yitzhak Khabinsky <ykhabins@bellsouth.net> Cc: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Convert base64 to XML Thanks. If your data is HTML, html:parse is the correct choice. fetch:binary-doc can be used to convert a binary item to a document node [1]: let $b64 := xs:base64Binary(<data>PHgvPg==</data>) return ( fetch:binary-doc($b64), html:parse($b64) ) [1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Fetch_Module#fetch:binary-doc