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+/**
+ * @author: Jeff Thompson
+ * See COPYING for copyright and distribution information.
+ */
+
+#ifndef NDN_BINARYXMLDECODER_HPP
+#define	NDN_BINARYXMLDECODER_HPP
+
+#include <stdexcept>
+#include "../c/errors.h"
+#include "../c/encoding/binary-xml-decoder.h"
+
+namespace ndn {
+
+  
+/**
+ * A BinaryXmlDecoder extends a C ndn_BinaryXmlDecoder struct and wraps related functions.
+ */
+class BinaryXmlDecoder : public ndn_BinaryXmlDecoder {
+public:
+  /**
+   * Initialize the base ndn_BinaryXmlDecoder struct with the input.
+   */
+  BinaryXmlDecoder(const unsigned char *input, unsigned int inputLength) 
+  {
+    ndn_BinaryXmlDecoder_init(this, (unsigned char *)input, inputLength);
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Decode the header from the input starting at offset, and if it is a DTAG where the value is the expectedTag,
+   * then return true, else false.  Do not update offset, including if throwing an exception.
+   * @param expectedTag the expected value for DTAG
+   * @return true if got the expected tag, else false
+   */
+  bool peekDTag(unsigned int expectedTag) 
+  {
+    int gotExpectedTag;
+    ndn_Error error;
+    if (error = ndn_BinaryXmlDecoder_peekDTag(this, expectedTag, &gotExpectedTag))
+      throw std::runtime_error(ndn_getErrorString(error));
+    
+    return gotExpectedTag;
+  }
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif