In my experience that is true. We were able to get away with it before moving to Linux. john
-----Original Message----- From: David Webber [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: XMLCh class Am I right in thinking that in a program purely for a Windows XML/Vista/7 platform, which uses all character strings in the native UTF-16 format, I can interchange XMLCh and wchar_t with no worries? For example XMLCh string[] = L"This is a standard unicode string"; And then when a Xerces API function requires an argument of type const XMLCh * , I can just pass it this string? In other words are all the XMLString routines just there to give platform independence (in particular on platforms for which UTF-16 is not native)? The reason I ask is that it would be nice to be able to use the c runtime library for string manipulation and/or MFC and STL string classes. (I have no intention of going beyond the Windows environment.) Dave David Webber Mozart Music Software http://www.mozart.co.uk For discussion and support see http://www.mozart.co.uk/mozartists/mailinglist.htm
