/**
 * @file    XercesTranscode.h
 * @brief   Transcodes a Xerces-C++ XMLCh* string to the local code page.
 * @author  Ben Bornstein
 *
 * $Id: XercesTranscode.h 8704 2009-01-04 02:26:05Z mhucka $
 * $HeadURL: https://sbml.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sbml/trunk/libsbml/src/xml/XercesTranscode.h $
 *
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#ifndef XercesTranscode_h
#define XercesTranscode_h

#ifdef __cplusplus

#include <string>
#include <xercesc/util/XMLString.hpp>

#if XERCES_VERSION_MAJOR <= 2
typedef unsigned int XercesSize_t;
typedef XMLSSize_t   XercesFileLoc;
#else
typedef XMLSize_t    XercesSize_t;
typedef XMLFileLoc   XercesFileLoc;
#endif

/** @cond doxygen-libsbml-internal */

/**
 * Transcodes a Xerces-C++ XMLCh* string to the UTF8 string.  This
 * class offers implicit conversion to a C++ string and destroys the
 * transcoded buffer when the XercesTranscode object goes out of scope.
 */
class XercesTranscode
{
public:

  XercesTranscode (const XMLCh* s) :
    mBuffer( transcodeToUTF8(s) ) { }

  ~XercesTranscode     () { delete [] mBuffer; }
  operator std::string () { return std::string(mBuffer); }


private:

  char* mBuffer;

  XercesTranscode  ();
  XercesTranscode  (const XercesTranscode&);
  XercesTranscode& operator= (const XercesTranscode&);

 /**
  * convert the given internal XMLCh* string to the UTF-8 char* string.
  */
  char* transcodeToUTF8(const XMLCh* src_str);

};

/** @endcond doxygen-libsbml-internal */

#endif  /* __cplusplus */
#endif  /* XercesTranscode_h */
