Re: [xml] Converting to xmlChar type

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:31:51PM +0100, Aron Stansvik wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:55:53 -0600, Thomas Jones <admin buddhalinux org> wrote:
> 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.

  a char * in C has no precise meaning. It's a sequence of bytes ended by 0.
You need to know the encoding of that sequence of byte to handle them 
as charecters. an xmlChar * is a 0 terminated sequence of bytes
with an UTF8 encoding. This is documented !
   http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html

Conclusion: you can use taht direct cast if you know the string encoding
    is UTF-8 (or ASCII which is a subset).

Daniel

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