Scylla and Charybdis FAQ

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Q:	hi how r u
A:	Well, fine, thanks. ;)

Q:	could i have some more info? how it came to be, who the parents were (how's related to creation of world and titans and all that). could you describe it for me plz?
A:	Well .. I only used the names to represent data transport. Charybdis sucks in the data and drives it away to Scylla, who eats it with her many heads. For more info about the myth background, perhaps see Wikipedia about Scylla and Charybdis.

Q:	xml2sql-v does not compile/link under CygWin
A:	There is a bug in the Makefile. Replace LDFLAGS with LDLIBS. It then links.

Q:	`./xml2sql-v.exe test < xmlfile.xml` gives #0 # '<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-2\"?>' parse error line=1 column=30: unknown encoding Likewise under Linux ..
A:	Obviously expat does not know XML encoding for ISO-8859-2, sigh ;( This means, my tool must be extended to support the unknown encoding. I currently don't have the time to fix this. But luckily there is a bad trick to still convert it without hacking my C code: ISO-8859-2 is very similar to ISO-8859-1. So the file parses OK if the encoding is changed to ISO-8859-1. This can be accomplished with following line (under CygWin): `sed '1s/ISO-8859-2/ISO-8859-1/' xmlfile.xml \| ./xml2sql-v.exe " 'test' " >xmlfile.sql` Expat then does not complain for wrong characters and still shall output ISO-8859-2 code (as it does not convert the characters). OK, yes, it's quite ugly, but - hopefully - it shall work this way (no guarantees!) ;)

Q:	`make` spits out errors like `Makefile.awk:256: fatal: match() cannot have 3 arguments`
A:	Your AWK is too old to recreate the Makefile. The build is done based on the distributed Makefile. Everything shall compile successfully though. So if the compile succeeds just ignore such errors, please.

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