acomms/xml/xerces_strings.h

// copyright 2008, 2009 t. schneider tes@mit.edu
//
// this file is part of goby-acomms, a collection of libraries for acoustic underwater networking
//
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// this xml code based largely on work in C++ Cookbook by D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins, Jonathan Turkanis, and Jeff Cogswell. Copyright 2006 O'Reilly Media, INc., 0-596-00761-2.

// these functions define an easy way to convert from and to the XercesString
// unicode format to the native (ASCII in our case) string format.

#ifndef XERCES_STRINGS20091211H
#define XERCES_STRINGS20091211H

#include <string>

#include <boost/scoped_ptr.hpp>
#include <xercesc/util/XMLString.hpp>

// typedef std::basic_string<XMLCh> XercesString;

/* // Converts from a narrow-character string to a wide-character string. */
 inline const XMLCh* fromNative(const char* str) 
 { 
   return xercesc::XMLString::transcode(str);
 }

/* // Converts from a narrow-character string to a wide-charactr string. */
/* inline XercesString fromNative(const std::string& str) */
/* { */
/*     return fromNative(str.c_str()); */
/* } */

// Converts from a wide-character string to a narrow-character string.
inline std::string toNative(const XMLCh* str)
{
    boost::scoped_ptr<char> ptr(xercesc::XMLString::transcode(str));
    return std::string(ptr.get());
}

/* // Converts from a wide-character string to a narrow-character string. */
/* inline std::string toNative(const XercesString& str) */
/* { */
/*     return toNative(str.c_str()); */
/* } */

#endif // #ifndef XERCES_STRINGS_HPP_INCLUDED