How do you open an XML picture file?

Question

I have a digital elgph camera and accidently pressed something that turned all my pictures into XML files, they all show up on my computer but i cannot open them. Is there any way i am able to open them?

Answer 1

This XML should have Base64 -encoded image data. You can try decoding this section of XML and write all bytes to disk. From there, you can more or less guess what is the format of the file by looking at first several bytes of the file (for instance PNG files have %PNG in the header, JPEGs have JFIF somewhere near the beginning, etc.)