Re: [xml] New user - UTF-16 issue

[James Hart <beeblebrox42 gmail com>]

Can't you load it as a binary resource and pass the binary array cast
to char * to libxml2 instead?

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM,  <Ramsundar_Govindaraj dell com> wrote:
> Hi,
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>  I know this issue might have been asked a thousand times over, but  I am
> not able to resolve the issue. My situation is this.
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> 1.       I have an xml file called b.xml whose encoding attribute is UTF-16.
> (attached along with this email)
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> 2.       I embed this file as a resource into my visual studio project.
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> 3.       When the project starts up, I read this file into a variable and
> need to pass it to Libxml2 to parse. How do I accomplish it?
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> The problems:
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> 1.       I cannot read the file into a char* as this file contains  wide
> characters. So I load them on to a wstring.  After which I realized  Libxml2
> constraints of not allowing wchar strings. So I am trying to convert my
> wchar* to char* .
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> 2.       Again I have 2 options here : either bad cast it or use
> WidetoMultiByte to convert to char*. I did both of them.
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> 3.       After this,  I called XmlReadMemory API in which I understand I can
> specify the encoding. I  gave NULL and UTF-16 in 2 separate attempts.
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> 4.       At the end of it, I cannot correctly parse and I get a NULL
> xmlDocPtr. Any ideas on how should I go about solving this?
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> Thanks,
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> Ram
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