How to decode a base64 image that is parsed from an xml

Question

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to decode a base64 image that is parsed from an XML. I was able to decode everything except for an image, and it resulted in weird characters such as
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I used sun.misc.BASE64Decoder()
Thanks in advance,
Squid

Answer 1

Hi,
I know that those are wierd characters because I have the correctly decoded data, and it looks different. Does any one know how to decode against the ASCII
I know the following code would decode my base64 image correctly, but i dont know how to do the same in java for the follwing C# line of code:
System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode(sXMLString,
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252));
Below is the entire C# code that successfully decode the base64 image from " test9.xml"
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Web;
namespace DecodeXML
class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
string sFileName = "test9.xml";
string sXMLString = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\NET 2.0 Projects\ThrowAways\SampleLabels\" + sFileName);
string resultString =
System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode(sXMLString,
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252));
XmlDocument oXML = new XmlDocument();
oXML.LoadXml(resultString);
XmlNode oLabel = oXML.SelectSingleNode("//LabelBody");
// removed the line that saved it to a string variable, because it converts the binary characters to
// incorrect text representations. However, by saving the bytes directly rectifies this
File.WriteAllBytes(@"C:\NET 2.0 Projects\ThrowAways\SampleLabels\" + sFileName + ".txt", Convert.FromBase64String(oLabel.InnerText));
Any suggestion is strongly appreciated.
Thanks,
Squid