Xalan-C: Empty strings

[Jon Smirl <jo...@mediaone.net>]

How can I use XalanDOMString to make an empty string "" instead of NULL.

If I do this:
XalanDOMString foo = "";
char *p = c_wstr(foo);

p is NULL, not a pointer to an empty string.  It doesn't look like
XalanDOMString differentiates between NULL and "".

This breaks in addAttribute() when I'm trying to set the value to an empty
string.

bool
AttributeListImpl::addAttribute(
   const XMLCh* name,
   const XMLCh* type,
   const XMLCh* value)
{
#if !defined(XALAN_NO_NAMESPACES)
 using std::auto_ptr;
#endif

 assert(name != 0);
 assert(type != 0);
 assert(value != 0);




Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@mediaone.net