public static class BinaryFormatXXReader implements SmooksXMLReader, StreamReader 
{
    @ConfigParam
    private String xProtocolVersion;

    @ConfigParam
    private int someOtherXProtocolConfig;

    // etc...

    public void parse(InputSource inputSource) throws IOException, SAXException {
        // Use the InputStream (binary) on the InputSource...
        InputStream binStream = inputSource.getByteStream();

        // Create and configure the data decoder... 
        BinaryFormatXDecoder xDecoder = new BinaryFormatXDecoder();
        xDecoder.setProtocolVersion(xProtocolVersion);
        xDecoder.setSomeOtherXProtocolConfig(someOtherXProtocolConfig);
        xDecoder.setXSource(binStream);

        // Generate the XML Events on the contentHandler...
        contentHandler.startDocument();

        // Use xDecoder to fire startElement, endElement etc events on the contentHandler (see previous section)...

        contentHandler.endDocument();
    }

    // etc....
}

<smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd">

    <reader class="com.acme.BinaryFormatXXReader">
        <params>
         <param name="xProtocolVersion">2.5.7</param>
         <param name="someOtherXProtocolConfig">1</param>
            ... etc... 
        </params>
    </reader>

    ... Other Smooks configurations e.g. <jb:bean> configs for binding the binary data into Java objects... 

</smooks-resource-list>

StreamResult xmlResult = new StreamResult(xmlOutWriter);
JavaResult javaResult = new JavaResult();

InputStream xBinaryInputStream = getXByteStream();

smooks.filterSource(new StreamSource(xBinaryInputStream), xmlResult, javaResult);

// etc... Use the beans in the javaResult...