I have seen a variation on this question from another DFDL user. Their binary data format was base64-encoded, and they wanted the DFDL parser to decode to raw bytes and then parse the resulting binary. In other words, they wanted a new enumeration for the dfdl:representation property.

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Tim Kimber, DFDL Team,
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From:        Steve Hanson/UK/IBM@IBMGB
To:        "Garriss Jr., James P." <jgarriss@mitre.org>,
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Date:        08/03/2013 16:00
Subject:        Re: [DFDL-WG] Can DFDL decode Base64
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No. We did consider support for xs:base64Binary but it did not make DFDL 1.0 spec.

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh@uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848



From:        "Garriss Jr., James P." <jgarriss@mitre.org>
To:        "dfdl-wg@ogf.org" <dfdl-wg@ogf.org>,
Date:        08/03/2013 15:30
Subject:        [DFDL-WG] Can DFDL decode Base64
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Some of the content that we are parsing is Base64 encoded.  I know this may be a bit of a stretch, but does DFDL decode Base64? --
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