Rackl, Robert G wrote:
Using the DOMCount sample as a guide, I am developing a module with a
bunch of subroutines to parse and validate an XML file, and then to
extract data from it. The subroutines are to be called from Fortran, and
all output to cerr is to be converted to go to status strings in the
calls from Fortran. I can parse/validate the document by a call from
Fortran. I am stuck at converting ordinary plain ASCII null-terminated
C-strings to XMLStrings and vice versa. How is that done, please?
You generally shouldn't convert the XML document data to UTF-16.
Instead, let the parser determine the encoding from the data itself.
For output, you should probably convert all UTF-16 strings to UTF-8, to
preserve data fidelity. This is usually not a problem, because UTF-8 is
compatible with US-ASCII.
You might have some issues displaying some strings to the console if
those strings have characters that aren't supported by the current code
page, but it's the best compromise to maintain data fidelity.
To transcode from UTF-16 to and from UTF-8, you need a UTF-8 transcoder.
You should search the archives of the user and developer list, as you
will find other emails that discuss this topic, along with code snippets.
Dave
