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

[Marc Respass <marcrespass mac com>]

Daniel,

Thanks for the quick response. That did it. No more warnings :)

Marc

On Sep 6, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> 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