Re: [xml] Converting to xmlChar type

[Aron Stansvik <elvstone gmail com>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:55:53 -0600, Thomas Jones <admin buddhalinux org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am having issues trying to convert a character string to the xmlChar data
> type. Admittedly, I am a new programmer so please bear with me --- I am
> trying to figure this out as much as possible on my end. Here is the code
> snippets that apply:
>
> <snip>
>
> static const char* gdsXMLSource;
>
> GenDigSig::GenDigSig(const char* UserXML, const char* UserKey, const char*
> UserCert)
> {
>    assert(UserXML);
>    assert(UserKey);
>    assert(UserCert);
>
>    gdsXMLSource = UserXML;
>    gdsKeySource = UserKey;
>    gdsCertificateSource = UserCert;
> }
>
> doc = xmlParseFile(GenDigSig::getGenDigSigXMLSource());
>    if ((doc == NULL) || (xmlDocGetRootElement(doc) == NULL)){
>        fprintf(stderr, "Error: unable to parse file \"%s\"\n",
> GenDigSig::getGenDigSigXMLSource());
>        goto done;
>    }
> </snip>
>
> Here is the resultant error:
>
> <snip>
> error: invalid conversion from `const char*' to `const  xmlChar*'
> </snip>
>
> I had read in one post that I may need to utilize iconv. But am not sure if it
> applies to my issue(s).

I think you should just be able to do:

doc = xmlParseFile(BAD_CAST GenDigSig::getGenDigSigXMLSource());

But I'm not sure it's a good idea. Could anyone more experienced
comment on this? I'm new to libxml2 myself.

Best regards,
Aron Stansvik