Re: [xml] decimal problem

["Aron Stansvik" <elvstone gmail com>]

2006/12/12, David <lordkain tlen pl>:
> Hello world,
>
> I am having a problem with the decimal symbol. The result of writing a
> floating-point-number to an xml document is
>  <number>10,1234</number>
>
> The result I want is a dot as decimal symbol, like this
> <number>10.1234</number>
>
> If I adjust the county settings of my computer and say the decimal
> symbol must be an dot it works out fine, but this is not a very good solution because I dont want to be dependent of 
> the system settings of a computer. I have tried to use the setlocale function with setlocale(LC_ALL, 
> "English"). This didnt seem to work.

I don't think "English" is a valid locale, I think you should use
"en_US" or similar.

Best regards
Aron Stansvik

> Anybody has an clue?
>
> Cheerz, David
>
> [Source code listing]
> -----------------------------
> xmlTextWriterPtr writer = NULL;
> xmlDocPtr doc = NULL;
> char xmlFilename[100] = "uitvoer.xml";
>
> writer = xmlNewTextWriterDoc(&doc, 0);
> if (NULL != writer)
> {
>  xmlTextWriterStartDocument(writer, NULL, "ISO-8859-1", NULL);
>  xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, BAD_CAST "Main");
>  xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement(writer, BAD_CAST "getal", "%f",10.12345);
>  xmlTextWriterEndElement(writer);
>  xmlFreeTextWriter(writer);
>  xmlSaveFormatFile(xmlFilename, doc, 1);
>  xmlFreeDoc(doc);
> }
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