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The following C# code will transform an XFDL file (see sample content below) to XML.

Sample Input

application/vnd.xfdl;content-encoding="base64-gzip"
H4sIAAAAAAAAC+y9aZOiyrYw/N1fwdMn4vbeYXfJqLBP776BgooDoOL4xhMdCKgoAjI4xfPj3wS0
RkWtkqoePHHv7hKSHFauOVeu9e1/13MDWmqOq1vmv5+QO/gTpJmKperm+N9PXEv4SpIE9RX59L/f
...

Source Code

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

. . .

/*--- Inits ---*/
const string INPUT_FILE = @"MyFile.xfdl";
string outputFile = Path.ChangeExtension(INPUT_FILE, ".xml");

/*--- Load file contents ---*/
var fileContent = File.ReadAllText(INPUT_FILE);

/*--- Strip out first line ---*/
var pos = fileContent.IndexOf('\n') + 1;
var s = fileContent.Substring(pos);

/*--- Decode Base64 to Binary ---*/
var bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(s);
var inputStream = new MemoryStream(bytes);

/*--- Ungzip ---*/
using (FileStream outputStream = File.Create(outputFile))
{
    using (GZipStream gZip = new GZipStream(inputStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
    {
        gZip.CopyTo(outputStream);
    }
}