Re: [xml] Push-parsing Unicode with LibXML2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:56:40AM -0800, Eric Seidel wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2006, at 2:32 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >  To me the most logical would be to do surgery on your input stream
> >you are modifying it by changing its encoding, you should then also
> >change or remove the encoding declaration of the xmlDecl if present.
> >  However to follow appendix F2 the user provided encoding should
> >override the detected one, so that could be considered a libxml2 bug,
> >I'm just really worried about breaking existing code in changing this.
> 
> I've found a (hackish) solution to the problem.  By calling  
> xmlSwitchEncoding before every chunk (and passing the proper utf-16  
> variant), I'm able to make my existing code work:

  Hum, it could make sense before the first and possibly second
chunk, any further call should not modify anything and will just
add some penalty to processing.
  From a library perspective though it's not really a satisfactory 
solution, I will try to find time exploring the externally provided
encoding issue.

Daniel

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