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<html><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Data Types</title><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2"><linkrel="home"href="index.html"title="Libxml Tutorial"><linkrel="up"href="index.html"title="Libxml Tutorial"><linkrel="previous"href="index.html"title="Libxml Tutorial"><linkrel="next"href="ar01s03.html"title="Parsing the file"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divclass="navheader"><tablewidth="100%"summary="Navigation header"><tr><thcolspan="3"align="center">Data Types</th></tr><tr><tdwidth="20%"align="left"><aaccesskey="p"href="index.html">Prev</a></td><thwidth="60%"align="center"></th><tdwidth="20%"align="right"><aaccesskey="n"href="ar01s03.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><divclass="sect1"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="xmltutorialdatatypes"></a>Data Types</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p><spanclass="application">Libxml</span> declares a number of data types we
will encounter repeatedly, hiding the messy stuff so you do not have to deal
with it unless you have some specific need.</p><p>
<ahref="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLCHAR"target="_top">xmlChar</a></span></dt><dd><p>A basic replacement for char, a byte in a UTF-8 encoded
string. If your data uses another encoding, it must be converted to
UTF-8 for use with <spanclass="application">libxml's</span>
functions. More information on encoding is available on the <ahref="http://www.xmlsoft.org/encoding.html"target="_top"><spanclass="application">libxml</span> encoding support web page</a>.</p></dd><dt><spanclass="term"><aclass="indexterm"name="id2526232"></a>
<ahref="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLDOC"target="_top">xmlDoc</a></span></dt><dd><p>A structure containing the tree created by a parsed doc. <ahref="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLDOCPTR"target="_top">xmlDocPtr</a>
is a pointer to the structure.</p></dd><dt><spanclass="term"><aclass="indexterm"name="id2526266"></a>
and <ahref="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLNODE"target="_top">xmlNode</a></span></dt><dd><p>A structure containing a single node. <ahref="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLNODEPTR"target="_top">xmlNodePtr</a>
is a pointer to the structure, and is used in traversing the document tree.</p></dd></dl></div><p>
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