[libxml++] std::string as a container for UTF-8 data in libxml++

[Tim C. <tco...@gm...>]

I'm one of the (many?) libxml++ 2.0 users who's using std::string in place
of glib::ustring as a container for text. For various reasons outside of my
control, I am not able to link to glib::ustring, but I do occasionally need
to get non-ASCII Unicode data out of XML documents. Am I correct in
believing that libxml++ will correctly store UTF-8 data in a std::string,
such that I can later access the contents of a std::string's character
buffer directly and the UTF-8 data will still be intact, or does std::strin=
g
somehow mangle or reject non-ASCII characters?

Thanks,
Tim