Thankyou gentlemen for you're interesting
ideas.
What I've done today is:
- recompiled the libxml2 code with preparser option CONV(UTF-8) to keep the embedded constants as ascii/utf-8 chars.
- Because this breaks the IO code (file open mode strings like "rb" no longer ebcdic), I frontended the samples with some code to read the xml documents into a char buffer. (I didn't experiment with not using the conv option on the io files because mixing the encodings would have gotten confusing...
- Then I parsed a utf-8 encoded document successfully!
I copied the group so that this info would be
available to the community at large.
thanks again..
wcn
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:44 PM
To: Wendell Nichols
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [xml] libxml2 on zos.
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:06:06AM -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote:
> I see that the configure scripts are set up to recognize zos as a
> platform for this library. I've compiled it on zos 1.4 but it doesn't
> seem to be functional there. Because the parser.c file has embedded
> literals for things like '<' and '>' and the source has been compiled
> on an ebcdic machine it fails to parse a utf8 document.
> The only way I can think of to deal with this is to turn conversion of
> literals off in the compilation ... to see what happens. I'll try
> that today, but in the meantime I'm curious if anyone out there is
> using this library on zos?
> Your feed back would be appreciated.
My recollection is that a similar problem was raised once when compiling on MVS and the solution turned out to update the compiler to get a compiler flag support. But it was a few years ago and I don't remember the exact details.
Daniel
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