xs:hexBinary

Construct a hexBinary value from an item value.

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Syntax

xs:hexBinary(item $value) => hexBinary

Description

This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and returns a value of type xs:hexBinary. If the argument is a literal, then the literal must be a valid lexical form of its type.

As specified in the respective section of the W3C recommendation XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, a value of type xs:hexBinary represents binary data as hexadecimal digits.

Argument

$value

item value

Example

  • Represent the header of files in JFIF used for JPEG graphics files:

    <format>
  <name>JFIF</name>
  <header name="SOI Marker">{ xs:hexBinary("FFD8") }</header>
</format>