#ifndef _XSTR_HPP
#define _XSTR_HPP

#include <pathan/Pathan.hpp>
#include <xercesc/util/XercesDefs.hpp>

// From Xerces 2.0

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  This is a simple class that lets us do easy (though not terribly efficient)
//  trancoding of char* data to XMLCh data.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

class PATHAN_EXPORT XStr
{
public :
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Constructors and Destructor
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    XStr(const char* const toTranscode);

    ~XStr()
    {
        delete [] 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;
};

#define X(str) XStr(str).unicodeForm()

#endif