diff --git a/ndn-cpp/encoding/BinaryXMLEncoder.h b/ndn-cpp/encoding/BinaryXMLEncoder.h
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+/* 
+ * Author: Jeff Thompson
+ *
+ * BSD license, See the LICENSE file for more information.
+ */
+
+#ifndef NDN_BINARYXMLENCODER_H
+#define	NDN_BINARYXMLENCODER_H
+
+#include "../util/DynamicUCharArray.h"
+
+#ifdef	__cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+struct ndn_BinaryXMLEncoder {
+  struct ndn_DynamicUCharArray output; /**< receives the encoded output */
+  unsigned int offset;             /**< the offset into output.array for the next encoding */
+};
+
+/**
+ * Initialize an ndn_BinaryXMLEncoder_init struct with the arguments for initializing the ndn_DynamicUCharArray.
+ * @param self pointer to the ndn_BinaryXMLEncoder struct
+ * @param outputArray the allocated array buffer to receive the encoding
+ * @param outputArrayLength the length of outputArray
+ * @param reallocFunction the realloc function used by ndn_DynamicUCharArray_ensureLength.  If outputArrayLength
+ * is large enough to receive the entire encoding, this can be 0.
+ */
+static inline void ndn_BinaryXMLEncoder_init
+  (struct ndn_BinaryXMLEncoder *self, unsigned char *outputArray, unsigned int outputArrayLength, 
+   unsigned char (*reallocFunction)(unsigned char *, unsigned int)) 
+{
+  ndn_DynamicUCharArray_init(&self->output, outputArray, outputArrayLength, reallocFunction);
+  self->offset = 0;
+}
+
+#ifdef	__cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif
+