Re: [xml] Small Problem with libxml2 & MSVC++

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

On 06.05.2004 20:27, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm using libxml under win32 with the libs from 
> ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/. But I needed to change two small 
> things to get it working - dunno know if you maybe fixed this yet. in 
> valid.h you are using a variable named "list" (line 366, 370). Don't 
> know why, but when I included the stl <list> before, then the compiler 
> complains that 'list' is something like a reserved word (or whatever, I 
> normally don't use win32, but this time I must... ). When I change the 
> parameter to something other (e.g. clist), then all works fine. Maybe 
> you can change this also in your version so I don't need to patch your 
> include-files everytime I use a newer version.

'list' is one of the standard container templates in STL. By the time 
the compiler parses valid.h, the 'list' is allready a C++ template and 
what you see is the result of using a name of the template as a 
function parameter name.

By that, I want to say that I expect every C++ compiler to report an 
error there, on every platform. Are you saying that you are seeing this 
only on Windows/MSVC?

Lastly, it is always a good practice... no it is even imperative to 
include C headers before C++ headers, if you use C libraries in a C++ 
program. Include libxml, then include STL. That is the only long-term 
solution. Modifying libxml headers will help with libxml, but not with 
any other useful C library you might want to employ in the future.

Ciao,
Igor