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Tim Bray wrote: > At one point during the discussions about Atom and well-formedness, I > offered to cook up some libraries for safely and efficiently writing > guaranteed-well-formed XML; it seems that the world is well-provided > with these for Java, but several people wrote me saying such a thing > would be really handy at the C level; libxml2 being OK but too big and > complicated for most people's purposes in this particular regard and > also suspected of a memory leak. > > So I sketched out a design, see the write-up at > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/19/HeresGenx and have at > it. -Tim A couple small notes: genx.h uses "//"-style comments, which are new in C99. If you want to be compatible with C89 compilers (there are still a lot of them out there), you might want to change these. The 'codePoint' typedef may be problematic: // Unicode code points (4-byte int on most systems) typedef wchar_t codePoint; The C standard makes no useful guarantees about the size or interpretation of 'wchar_t'. On some systems it's identical to plain 'char', and even on systems where it's big enough to hold all of Unicode, there's no guarantee about what encoding the wcs* and *wcs functions use. wchar_t should not be used in programs that are meant to generate portable data and be portable themselves; you just don't know what you're going to get. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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