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

[Richard Quadling <rquadling gmail com>]

On 2 June 2010 16:41,  <Ramsundar_Govindaraj dell com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> ÂI know this issue might have been asked a thousand times over, but ÂI am
> not able to resolve the issue. My situation is this.
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> 1.ÂÂÂÂÂÂ I have an xml file called b.xml whose encoding attribute is UTF-16.
> (attached along with this email)
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> 2.ÂÂÂÂÂÂ I embed this file as a resource into my visual studio project.
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> 3.ÂÂÂÂÂÂ 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.ÂÂÂÂÂÂ I cannot read the file into a char* as this file contains Âwide
> characters. So I load them on to a wstring. ÂAfter which I realized ÂLibxml2
> constraints of not allowing wchar strings. So I am trying to convert my
> wchar* to char* .
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> 2.ÂÂÂÂÂÂ 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.ÂÂÂÂÂÂ After this, ÂI called XmlReadMemory API in which I understand I can
> specify the encoding. IÂ gave NULL and UTF-16 in 2 separate attempts.
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> 4.ÂÂÂÂÂÂ 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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Does/will/can the endian make a difference?

My editor says the file is UTF-16 LE (Little Endian).

Is having a BOM normal? Does the file need to be BE for VS?







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