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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml
index 7b82d7dd3d..cfa1ecc006 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/base64.xml
@@ -27,50 +27,57 @@
<docno></docno>
<date>2007-02-22</date>
<rev></rev>
- <file>base64.sgml</file>
+ <file>base64.xml</file>
</header>
<module>base64</module>
- <modulesummary>Implements base 64 encode and decode, see RFC2045.</modulesummary>
+ <modulesummary>Provides base64 encode and decode, see
+ RFC 2045.</modulesummary>
<description>
- <p>Implements base 64 encode and decode, see RFC2045. </p>
+ <p>Provides base64 encode and decode, see
+ <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt">RFC 2045</url>.</p>
</description>
+
<datatypes>
<datatype>
<name name="ascii_string"/>
</datatype>
<datatype>
<name name="ascii_binary"/>
- <desc><p>A <c>binary()</c> with ASCII characters in the range 1 to 255.</p>
+ <desc><p>A <c>binary()</c> with ASCII characters in the range 1 to
+ 255.</p>
</desc>
</datatype>
</datatypes>
+
<funcs>
<func>
- <name name="encode" arity="1"/>
- <name name="encode_to_string" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Encodes data into base64. </fsummary>
- <type variable="Data"/>
- <type variable="Base64" name_i="1"/>
- <type variable="Base64String"/>
- <desc>
- <p>Encodes a plain ASCII string into base64. The result will
- be 33% larger than the data.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
<name name="decode" arity="1"/>
<name name="decode_to_string" arity="1"/>
<name name="mime_decode" arity="1"/>
<name name="mime_decode_to_string" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Decodes a base64 encoded string to data. </fsummary>
+ <fsummary>Decode a base64 encoded string to data.</fsummary>
<type variable="Base64" name_i="1"/>
<type variable="Data" name_i="1"/>
<type variable="DataString" name_i="2"/>
<desc>
- <p>Decodes a base64 encoded string to plain ASCII. See RFC4648.
- <c>mime_decode/1</c> and <c>mime_decode_to_string/1</c>
- strips away illegal characters, while <c>decode/1</c> and
- <c>decode_to_string/1</c> only strips away whitespace characters.</p>
+ <p>Decodes a base64-encoded string to plain ASCII. See
+ <url href="https://www.ietf.org/html/rfc4648">RFC 4648</url>.</p>
+ <p><c>mime_decode/1</c> and <c>mime_decode_to_string/1</c> strip away
+ illegal characters, while <c>decode/1</c> and
+ <c>decode_to_string/1</c> only strip away whitespace characters.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name name="encode" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="encode_to_string" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Encode data into base64.</fsummary>
+ <type variable="Data"/>
+ <type variable="Base64" name_i="1"/>
+ <type variable="Base64String"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Encodes a plain ASCII string into base64. The result is 33% larger
+ than the data.</p>
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>