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

[<Ramsundar_Govindaraj Dell com>]

Yes, I did that. I get an XML not well formed error if I do that.

Thanks for replying!


-----Original Message-----
From: xml-bounces gnome org [mailto:xml-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of James Hart
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:17 AM
Cc: xml gnome org
Subject: Re: [xml] New user - UTF-16 issue

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,
>
>
>
>  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)
>
> 2.       I embed this file as a resource into my visual studio project.
>
> 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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>
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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* .
>
> 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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>
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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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>
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> Thanks,
>
> Ram
>
>
>
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