Re: [xml] libxml vs stl

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:17:49PM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> You probably want some unicode library in conjunction with libxml2.

  libxml2 uses UTF-8 which covers the full Unicode range, so this does not
make much sense. The API is already Unicode ready.

> The remaining question then is about how to pass data between that unicode
> library and libxml2.

  Stick to UTF-8 !

> I have been suggesting a new C++ API (wrapper around libxml2) on boost.org
> (http://boost.org/) and a big part of the discussion is precisly about how
> best to do that conversion (see 
> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2005/10/96129.php)

  Don't do conversion and keep UTF-8, converting back and forth all the time
bustring by substring is gonna be quite costly, probably more than the cost
of parsing the data.

Daniel

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