Re: emacs-25 b6b47AF: Properly encode/decode base64Binary data in SOAP

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> As explained in my other message, originator (and other attributes)
>> could be sent by the debbugs server as either xsd:string or
>> xsd:base64Binary. debbugs.el does not know which encoding has been
>> applied, it must trust on consistent soap-client.el decoding.
>
> Does debbugs know the value is a text string?

debbugs.el knows for every attribute, whether it is a string or
something else. There're not so many attributes, see `debbugs-get-status'.

Best regards, Michael.