Re: [xml] Query regardin storing of encoding information

[Nagesh <nageshs huawei com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: 03 April, 2008 17:31
> To: Nagesh
> Cc: xml gnome org; ranjit huawei com
> Subject: Re: [xml] Query regardin storing of encoding information
> 
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:49:20AM +0530, Nagesh wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 	While parsing the xml document, If the encoding is any of UTF-8 or
> > UTF-16, then the function, xmlParseEncodingDecl( ) stores in the
> encoding
> > information in ctxt->encoding parameter, and if the encoding is
> something
> > else other than UTF-8 or UTF-16, then it stores in ctxt->input-
> >encoding,
> > but ctxt->input->encoding is meant for the entities encoding.
> > 	So I guess in this case, the function xmlParseEncodingDecl( )
> should
> > populate ctxt->encoding rather than ctxt->input->encoding.
> > 	Thanks in advance for the reply,
> 
>   I don't think it's proper as you can have encoding declarations in
> parsed
> entities, and you don't want the encoding of the entity to override
> the
> document main one.
> 
Daniel, what in the case when the xml document being parsed is in a
different encoding (apart from UTF-8 and UTF-16) and the document does not
contain any internal or external subset, in this case, 
ctxt->encoding is never set.
	Any thoughts?
Regards,
Nagesh.
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