Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] newbie question: libxml++ vs. xerces-C++

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 18:49, darco wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 12:17 AM, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> >>   2) Xerces-C++ seems to use Unicode while libxml doesn't.  Should I
> >>      care?  Or am I missing something?
> >
> > libxml does use Unicode (UTF8) in its API, but libxml++ currently uses
> > std::string, which is not meant for UTF8. In future we will use
> > Glib::ustring from glibmm, currently part of gtkmm:
> > http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/reference/html/
> > classGlib_1_1ustring.html
> 
> Would there be any way to do this without creating a dependency on  
> Gtkmm?
> 
> Glib::ustring is a very useful class... I would be using it in alot  
> more of my programs if I could remove the dependency on GtkMM. Any  
> chances of it being spun off into a different package so that other  
> tools could use it without needing Gtkmm, or Glib?

Yes, it will be spun off for gtkmm 2.4, which will target GTK+ 2.4.

> It would be nice if it could be added to STLPort... But I suppose  
> that's a long shot.

It is not part of the Standard C++ library.

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