[xml] xmlChar * <-> char *

[Carlos basura <carlos registro gmail com>]

HI!

im very new to xmllib, utf8 in C. 
im writing a program that will read and write a xml formated config file for other app. 
im my application, i use char * all over the place, except on the functions that read from a xmlreader, since the return value of this functions is xmlChar

now, if the library has this special type, its because is needed. is just that i dont get it.

some people at ##C in freenode told me to read about iconv, but it got me more confused ....

so i ask here. should i use xmlChar all arround my app?
should i use a "convert" function? then how is it called?

if you really want to look at it, im hosting my little project it in github

http://github.com/broli/mkixl

warning, the code is ugly as hell, im not only new to xml, but pretty much to C
any help on the matter will be greatly apreciated