Hi guys. I'm parsing an XML document with the Chilkat XML.net parser. I am trying to take the easy way out since I'd rather not have to write my own. The problem is that the Chilkat parser automatically performs a whitespace trim on a node's content when it returns the value with the .Content property. To get around this, I have tried using the .GetBinaryContent() to just give me everything. The problem I am having is that the method returns a byte array, and I am having trouble getting the string back out of this. I've tried System.Text.Encoding.[EVERYTHING!].GetString([byte array]) with no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

Josh Usovsky

Hello Josh,

Thanks for your post. As I understand, you want to convert Byte arrary to
string. I suggest that you can check ASCIIEncoding.GetString method, please
refer to the following MSDN article:

ASCIIEncoding.GetString Method
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/cpref/html/
frlrfsystemtextasciiencodingclassgetstringtopic.asp

Hope this helps.

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(E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi Tim, thanks for the follow up. I found that the content of the XML
> node was being returned as a base-64 byte array. I?m not quite surte
> of how to go about getting this back into an ascii string.

What *exactly* do you mean by "a base-64 byte array"? Base64 is a text
encoding of binary, so if something is base64 encoded the result should
be text, rather than a byte array. Do you mean that it's gone something
like:

Binary data (byte[])
to
Base 64 encoding (string)
to
Binary data (byte[]) via a normal encoding

?

If so, use the appropriate encoding to get back to the Base64 version,
and then Convert.FromBase64String to get the original binary. (If the
original binary was itself an encoded form of a text string, you've got
one more call to Encoding.GetString to make - again, with whatever
encoding was originally used for that step.)

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Thank you for the reply, Jon. The original data is just ASCII text from an xml file. The parser that I am using automatically trims white space from the node content. I need the white space, however, so I am using the parser object's getBinaryContent() method to return the content in binary form. It is *expecting* the content of the node to be base64-encoded in the file, and returns a byte[] containing the content. I have tried several converts and I still am not able to get back to the original string

Josh

(E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Thank you for the reply, Jon. The original data is just ASCII text
> from an xml file. The parser that I am using automatically trims
> white space from the node content. I need the white space, however,
> so I am using the parser object's getBinaryContent() method to return
> the content in binary form. It is *expecting* the content of the node
> to be base64-encoded in the file, and returns a byte[] containing the
> content. I have tried several converts and I still am notable to get
> back to the original string.

It sounds like you're basically trying to use the
getBinaryContentMethod in the wrong situation then. Why are you using
this particular parser?

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Hi Josh,

Could you post some code snippet which is able to demonstrate the problem?

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