[libxml++] Re: Problems using libxml++

[Christophe de VIENNE <cdevienne alphacent com>]

Hi,

Bastian_Pfennigschmidt/CODESCO/DE codesco com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've tried to read and write an XML file using your great library - 
> but I'm running into some problems,
> it would be very nice, if you could give me some code snippets.

Did you have a look to the examples ? If you think something important 
is missing in it, just tell us.

> Here are my problems:
>
> 1. When I create an XML using write_to_string or write_to_file and 
> there are special characters, like
> German umlauts, they are not converted into entities. The XML file is 
> UTF-8 encoded.
>
> mXMLParser->get_document()->write_to_string("UTF-8");
>
> When I try to parse the output, I got a parsing error, because the 
> special characters are not valid in UTF-8.

Don't forget that in-memory libxml++ encoding is supposed to be UTF-8. 
Any call to a function of the API is waiting for UTF-8 encoded strings. 
So if you gave it ISO-xxx encoded string with special characters this 
probably led to your problem.

> And my second problem:
>
> I'm using write_to_file_formatted to get a formated file. If I use 
> write_to_file I get a document with only to lines.
> But if I parse this formatted file again and write it back to file, 
> the formatting are gone (see my attachment).

The formatting was gone with write_to_file_formatted ? Or did you use 
write_to_file the second time ?

> Many thanks for your help

Your welcome.

BTW please use the mailing list next time you need help.


Cheers,

Christophe