diff --git a/latest/encoding/TextXMLCodec.js b/latest/encoding/TextXMLCodec.js
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+//todo parse this
+/*
+ * 
+ * 
+ * 	static {
+		canonicalWriteDateFormat = 
+			new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
+		new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S'Z'"); // writing ns doesn't format leading 0's correctly 
+		canonicalWriteDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
+		canonicalReadDateFormat = 
+			new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
+			// new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S'Z'");
+		canonicalReadDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
+	}
+ * 
+ */
+	
+var DataUtils = require('./DataUtils').DataUtils;
+	
+ 	var /*DateFormat*/ canonicalWriteDateFormat = null;
+	var /* DateFormat*/ canonicalReadDateFormat = null;
+    var /*String*/ PAD_STRING = "000000000";
+	var /*int*/ NANO_LENGTH = 9;
+
+var TextXMLCodec =  function TextXMLCodec(){
+
+	this.CCN_NAMESPACE = "http://www.parc.com/ccn"; // String
+	this.CCN_PREFIX = "ccn";	// String
+	this.CODEC_NAME = "Text";// String
+	this.BINARY_ATTRIBUTE = "ccnbencoding";// String
+	this.BINARY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE = "base64Binary";// String
+
+
+};
+
+//returns a string
+
+TextXMLCodec.protpotype.codecName = function() { return this.CODEC_NAME; }	;
+
+//returns a string
+TextXMLCodec.protottype.encodeBinaryElement = function(/*byte []*/ element) {
+		if ((null == element) || (0 == element.length)) 
+			return new String("");
+		return new String(DataUtils.base64Encode(element));
+	};
+	
+/* returns a string */
+TextXMLCodec.prototype.encodeBinaryElement = function(/*byte []*/ element, /*int*/ offset, /*int*/ length) {
+		if ((null == element) || (0 == element.length)) 
+			return new String("");
+		ByteBuffer bbuf = ByteBuffer.wrap(element, offset, length);
+		return new String(DataUtils.base64Encode(bbuf.array()));
+	};
+
+/*returns a byte array*/
+TextXMLCodec.prototype.decodeBinaryElement = function(/*String*/ element) {
+		if ((null == element) || (0 == element.length()))
+			return new byte[0];
+		return DataUtils.base64Decode(element.getBytes());
+	}; 
+
+	
+/*
+	Decode Data
+*/
+	
+
+/*
+	Encode Date
+*/ 
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