Hopefully someone familiar with SAXContentHandler will answer your question; 
I am not familiar with SAXContentHandler. If you were more specific about 
what you are using (the specific function would help) then I might look at 
the documentation to see what you are talking about. If you were to provide 
a link to the documentation of the function you are using that returns the 
data you are asking about, then you would make it easier for others to help 
and more likely that someone would help.

I assume that the data type is variant. If so, then instead of refering to 
SAXContentHandler, your question can be answered by anyone familiar with 
variant data and does not require knowledge of SAXContentHandler. Also, 
there is so much in the MSDN about variant types that you can find many 
answers there. Also search for articles and samples outside of the MSDN. 
Also search for search for articles about and samples of SAXContentHandler

Also, VC provides the "_variant_t" class to help with variants. That is 
something you will find when you look at the documentation.


"Anthony Wieser" <newsgroups-sansspam@w...> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
>
> I'm using SAX (SAXContentHandler) to parse and validate my documents, and 
> have been able to get everything working, but I'm confused on how I can 
> convert the values returned by ISAXAttributes getValue member to their 
> native types.
>
> I'm programming in C++ on Visual Studio 2005.  Is there an api anywhere 
> that can help?  The xsd file specifies the type, and the SAX parser has 
> clearly validated it somewhere.
>
> Do I need to use VariantChangeType, or is there another better option?
>
> Toiny
>
>