On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:54:56AM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 19:42 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use the SAX parser from libxml++ to read a simple XML
> > file generated from a third-party program. At the head of the file is
> > an XML declaration specifying the charset encoding:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> >
> > A short distance into the file is the following text:
> >
> > <sub-title lang="en">Highlights of the final of the Grand Slam of Darts, played over the best of 35 legs. The winner will be crowned the inaugural champion and receive a cheque for £80,000. [S]</sub-title>
> >
> > (Just in case that's got mangled in transit, that's the
> > entity/character literal 0xa3, for the UK Pound symbol in ISO-8859-1).
> >
> > When I pass this to libxml++, I get a Glib::Error thrown,
> > complaining about "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input". It
> > seems that libxml++ is reading the &#A3; and converting it to a byte,
> > then trying to interpret that as UTF-8, which it isn't. I've tried
> > converting the input chunk before I pass it to the parser (using
> > Glib::convert), but obviously that isn't working, as it's processing
> > the entity as its component characters, rather than converting it to a
> > byte sequence.
>
> What does xmllint say?
Not much:
hrm vlad:calliope $ xmllint --output tmp.xml whatson.xml
hrm vlad:calliope $ grep 80,000 tmp.xml
<sub-title lang="en">Highlights of the final of the Grand Slam of Darts, played over the best of 35 legs. The winner will be crowned the inaugural champion and receive a cheque for <A3>80,000. [S]</sub-title>
It converts the problem entity correctly into the single byte it
represents (as this is an ISO-8859-1 document). Also:
hrm vlad:calliope $ xmllint --debugent --output tmp.xml whatson.xml
new input from file: whatson.xml
DOCUMENT
No entities in internal subset
No entities in external subset
Hugo.
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