Re: [xml] encoding and htmlCreatingPushParser

[Petr Pajas <pajas ufal mff cuni cz>]

On Friday 10 November 2006 15:37, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:15:40PM +0100, Petr Pajas wrote:
> > Hi Daniel, All,
> >
> > I'm using the xmlCharEncoding argument of htmlCreatePushParserCtxt in
> > order to force the parser to expect a certain input encoding. It works
> > fine but only as long as the HTML document contains no header like
> >
> >    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> > charset=iso-8859-2">
> >
> > where charset differs from the encoding which I'm trying to enforce.
> > Imagine, if you like, that I receive the data from a web server, which
> > already sends all as UTF-8, declares correctly Content-Type charset as
> > UTF-8 in the HTTP header, but somehow the document still contains a
> > (forgotten)
> > <meta ...charset=iso-8859-2>.
> >
> > I should mention that both htmlParseDoc() and htmlParseFile(), under the
> > same scenario, do obey the encoding I specify.
>
>   htmlRead... should be preferred nowadays.

This actually concerned the old dusty XML::LibXML bindings, so my first 
intention was to do just a minimum surgery, leaving the dust safely where 
lied. But switching to htmlReadIO proved to be a way better choice than that. 
It does exactly what I needed with just a few lines of code. 

Cheers,
-- Petr