Setting Attribute Values - Using Integers

Hi,

First, I want to apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to be asking this question.

I am currently using the gdome library to write and parse XML data which should follow a predefined schema. The schema specifies that some of the attributes are to be entered as integers, but as I understand the API, I can only set attribute values as strings. I thought that maybe GdomeDOMString would somehow figure out what data type the attribute should be, but I could not find how to point gdome to the schema so it would have no idea that the attribute should be an integer and not a string.

So my question is, can I:

1)       Somehow tell gdome to use my schema so that it will automatically make it an integer

Or

2)       Tell gdome to set an integer value for the attribute?

I hope my question is clear enough, and if it is not, please let me know and I will do my best to phrase it better. Thanks in advance for your help!

Raman Gupta