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+/**
+ * @author: Jeff Thompson
+ * See COPYING for copyright and distribution information.
+ */
+
+#ifndef NDN_BINARYXMLENCODER_HPP
+#define	NDN_BINARYXMLENCODER_HPP
+
+#include <vector>
+#include "../common.hpp"
+#include "../c/util/ndn_realloc.h"
+#include "../c/encoding/binary-xml-encoder.h"
+
+namespace ndn {
+  
+/**
+ * A BinaryXmlEncoder extends a C ndn_BinaryXmlEncoder struct and wraps related functions.
+ */
+class BinaryXmlEncoder : public ndn_BinaryXmlEncoder {
+public:
+  /**
+   * Initialize the base ndn_BinaryXmlEncoder struct with an initial array of 16 bytes.  Use simpleRealloc.
+   */
+  BinaryXmlEncoder() 
+  {
+    const unsigned int initialLength = 16;
+    ndn_BinaryXmlEncoder_init(this, (unsigned char *)malloc(initialLength), initialLength, ndn_realloc);
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Return the output as a shared_ptr.
+   */
+  ptr_lib::shared_ptr<std::vector<unsigned char> > getOutput() 
+  {
+    return ptr_lib::shared_ptr<std::vector<unsigned char> >(new std::vector<unsigned char>(output.array, output.array + offset));
+  }
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif