Thanks for the reply.  But I am still getting stuck.

I have to generate a short xml in UCS-2 format.  The thing is, the app
should work on all the windows OS [98SE and above].  Since its short, I
wanted to write it using a c program.  For the discussion, let me take
the following short xml example.
The functions i have will take care of writing the tags.  though it
says encoding is ucs-2, it still writes contents in normal text.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ucs-2" ?>
<cx>
<session>
<details>
   <os>Win98</os>
</details>
</session>
</cx>

My app currently writes it as it is [no unicode conversion].  If I want
to write the same in UCS-2 format [or atleast on UTF-16], what should I
do? I thought of using MultiByteToWideChar() api, but I am not clear.
But can anybody help me in providing a short snippet of code or
something for me to understand?

Also, is there a tool to validate whether the xml is really written in
UCS-2 or UTF-16?

Thanks
Sathish

Just for the
J Hendrich wrote:
> "satv73@g..." wrote:
>
> > Anthony,
> > Thanks for the response.  But I am not using any standard apis for
> > writing xml and my need is small and I just wanted to write it directly
> > from a c program.
> >
>
> If you're writing it directly from a c program keep in mind you'd need
> everything to be in ucs-2.  By contrast, if you did use an intermediary api
> such as msxml it would handle the encoding for you.
>
> > So, how it should be encode? Is the following ok?
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UCS-2" ?>
> > and every text between the tage, encode it in UCS2 format? [i precisely
> > need ucs2 and not utf16].
> >
>
> If you say encoding="ucs-2", then any xml parsers that read your file will
> try to interpret everything within it as ucs-2.  So you'd have to make sure
> that the tags as well as their values are in ucs-2.