Re: [xml] xmlSaveToFilename with UTF-8 encoding

[Trappel Martin <martin trappel ksengineers at>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Rottmeier [mailto:michael rottmeier web de] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:53 PM
> To: xml gnome org
> Subject: [xml] xmlSaveToFilename with UTF-8 encoding
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For a current project I'm using your libxml/libxslt libraries 
> which are really great.
> 
> But I have a problem with the following procedure:
> 
> -- parse an xml file with xmlParseFile()
> -- parse an xsl stylesheet with xsltParseStylesheetFile()
> -- create a transformation context with xsltNewTransformContext()
> -- apply the stylesheet to the xml doc with xsltApplyStylesheetUser()
> 
> -- and finally save the transformation result with xmlSaveFileEnc()
> 
> The problem is that the final file is not encoded as UTF-8 as 
> defined in the API call but instead it ends up with simple 
> ANSI encoding. When calling xmlSaveFileEnc() I pass in 
> "UTF-8" as the paramter but without any success.
> The same goes for if I use xmlSaveToFilename() where the 
> encoding can also be defined -- but again the final file is ANSI.
> 
> Any tips on how to make sure the file is saved as UTF-8?
> 

	xmlInitParser();
	xmlDoc *doc = NULL;
	xmlNode *root_element = NULL;
	doc = xmlNewDoc(BAD_CAST XML_DEFAULT_VERSION);
	if(!doc)
		throw -1;
	root_element = xmlNewDocNode(doc, NULL, XMLCHARCAST("TEST_ROOT"),
NULL);
	xmlDocSetRootElement(doc, root_element);
	my_object->AppendNodes(root_element);
	xmlSaveFormatFileEnc("test_file.xml", doc, "UTF-8", 1);
	xmlFreeDoc(doc);
	xmlCleanupParser();

This does work without problem for me.
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<TEST_ROOT>
	...
	</TEST_ROOT>
Does this problem occur always for you, even with the example files?
What encoding is written into the xml header?

best regards / mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Martin Trappel