LPAD, XML and base64

[woody.hagar]

Hi everyone,

I am querying a couple of LDAP servers and retreving the data in an
XML format (-X), but I am running into a problem, and I am not sure how
to proceed. In XML, some of the attributes are in encoded ("base64")
while their counterparts in the standard out LDIF file is not
encoded...

So what gives? Why is LDIF decoded and not the XML? I have the same
flags (the implied -B for the xml produces no change) for both
ldapsearch, take a look:

->ldapsearch -u -h host -p 389 -s "subtree" -b "o=mybase" -X
"(objectclass=person)" > test_data.xml

sample result:
<attr name="title">
<value encoding="base64">
IE5ldHdvcmsgQW5hbHlzdCBJSQ==
</value>

->ldapsearch -u -h HSCNW7 -p 389 -s "subtree" -b "o=mybase"
"(objectclass=person)" > test_data.ldif

sample result:
title= Network Analyst II
I just need to get the XML into a readable format, any ideas?

thanks
woody