XML Dump text becomes hex?

Tue May 27 16:05:00 CDT 2003

It's normal and presumably inherited from VBlob.

Charles Yeomans

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 03:29 PM, jeff benjamin wrote:

> Forgive me if this has been answered in the past. I could not find it 
> in the archives.
>
> I open a vdb with VAPP and do an XML Dump. The field defined as TEXT 
> named 'caption' has its data displayed in hex instead of ascii (see 
> example below). Is this normal and is there a way to change the 
> behavior?
>
> tia,
> jeff
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> 				<Record>
> 				<f n="RecID">1</f>
> 				<f n="caption">
> 					68 65 72 65 20 69 73 20 63 61 70 74 69 6F 6E 20
> 					74 65 78 74 20 74 6F 20 74 65 73 74 20 74 68 65
> 					20 78 6D 6C 20 64 75 6D 70 20 69 6E 20 76 61 6C
> 					65 6E 74 69 6E 61
> 				</f>
> 				<f n="filename">band </f>
> 				</Record>
>