GtkTextView and libxml2 questions...

[Fabricio Rocha <rocha_fabricio yahoo com br>]

Dear friends,

      In a given dialog, I would like to have a GtkTextView showing a 
brief text extracted from an XML node. This text, in other turn, should 
have been created in another GtkTextView (and, sure, saved as content of 
an appropriate XML node).

      Question 1: I would like to have in this text some formatting, at 
least some line breaks. I have read the docs about 
gtk_text_buffer_get_text returning a big string (gchar*), but the docs 
(and Google) are not clear about *whether* and *how* the line breaks, 
tab spaces and such are represented in this big string. Are they set as 
C escape sequences, such as '\n', '\t', and such? Or RTF, or Pango, or 
something else alike?

      Question 2: The xmlsoft.org and Google finds are also/ /*not* 
clear about the use of "printf" escaping sequences as content in libxml 
nodes. From your experience, do you know if there is any problem in 
using them? I normally use libxml functions like xmlNewTextChild and 
xmlNodeGetContent, which automatically convert the XML escape/special 
characters, with enough precision for my needs; but do you know if 
libxml can deal with such things internally?

      Question 3: related to the questions above, also from your 
experience, how do you read a text from XML and place it on a 
GtkTextBuffer, and how do you get text from a GtkTextBuffer and save it 
to XML?

      Question 4: how do you all deal with this gchar/xmlChar issue 
from using libxml with GLib/GTK? This looks weird to me: both GTK and 
libxml clearly state that they use UTF-8 encoding internally; but 
xmlChar is a "unsigned char" and gchar is just like a normal, signed 
"char". I have been placidly ignoring the difference, though I know that 
this may cause problems when I start working on the internationalization 
of RADiola. What should be The Right Way?

Thank you all and best regards!

Fabricio Rocha
Brasilia, Brasil
http://radiola.sourceforge.net

                
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