Re: [xml-dev] NULL in C (was RE: [xml-dev] Why would MS want to makeXML break on UNIX, Perl, Python, etc ?)

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

> >This is going off-topic a bit, but two ways to represent
> > 0C in C strings are:
> 
> Yes, there are certainly reasonable ways to do it.

Only if one is willing to give up the standardized
convention for representing strings in C ... have
a look at "strcpy", "strlen", "snprintf", and so on.

Of course, if you wanted to shift development
away from an open standard platform such as
C+POSIX, and had thought you'd already gotten
past the POSIX issue with a closed OS API ... ;)

- Dave