Re: [xslt] best way to get result as a string?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Marc Respass wrote:
> warning if the default is unsigned. Maybe there is a different  
> function I could call to get the transformation result as a const  
> char *? I didn't see anything in the libxml docs.

  It is in the FAQ !

  http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Developer
  "So what is this funky "xmlChar" used all the time?"
  "It is a null terminated sequence of utf-8 characters. And only
   utf-8! You need to convert strings encoded in different ways to utf-8
   before passing them to the API. This can be accomplished with the
   iconv library for instance."

The C language char * has no notion of encoding (or the locale one which
is improper for XML processing), hence the xmlChar *.
If your API takes UTF-8 encoded strings as input a simple cast is fine.

Daniel

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