0.10/metadata/src/main/cpp/XStr.h

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#ifndef _XSTR_H_
#define _XSTR_H_

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  This is a simple class that lets us do easy (though not terribly efficient)
//  trancoding of char* data to XMLCh data.
//  
//  This class was taken from Apache's xerces-c samples.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class XStr
{
public :
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Constructors and Destructor
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    XStr(const char* const toTranscode)
    {
        // Call the private transcoding method
        fUnicodeForm = XMLString::transcode(toTranscode);
    }
    
    XStr(const string& toTranscode){
        fUnicodeForm = XMLString::transcode(toTranscode.c_str());	
    }

    ~XStr()
    {
        XMLString::release(&fUnicodeForm);
    }


    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Getter methods
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    const XMLCh* unicodeForm() const
    {
        return fUnicodeForm;
    }

private :
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Private data members
    //
    //  fUnicodeForm
    //      This is the Unicode XMLCh format of the string.
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    XMLCh*   fUnicodeForm;
};

#endif //_XSTR_H_