I have images that are encoded in XML. Like..
I have the node <EmployeePicture>, but how can i render the pic embedded in XML through XSL?

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This can't be done without extensions, so it depends very much on the environment you are working in.

Michael Kay
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Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

would you like to explain a little bit- perhaps by listing down any of the solutions you had already implemented?

Thanks

..using bea weblogic 8.1 on XP machine

After some research, I have come up a java function (public static byte[] b64DecString(String s)) which converts the string into a byte array. The problem with this is that how can i 'use' this external function in my XSL? Do i need to upload the xsl on my server to get the java function work?

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I can't add anything to my previous response. You can't do this within the XSLT language. You will have to call out to some other technology, and the way you do it depends on your environment. You need (a) to convert the base64 to a stream of bytes or octets, (b) to write those bytes to a file, and (c) to generate in your HTML a link that points to that file. None of that is very difficult, but it's outside the scope of what XSLT can do, even in 2.0.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I have the java function as i wrote in an earlier reply. The function intakes the string and returns a byte array.

Now the problem is that I am having exception in calling java function from my XSL (XalanXPathException: The function number 'http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java:com.utilities.ConversionUtils.base64DecodeStr ing' is not available.)