Re: [xml] xmllint --html problem?

[Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz dijkmat nl>]

Hi Daniel,

At 10:37 AM 11/9/01 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Can you send it as an attachment, mail tools cannot be trusted
> to preserve the main part.

Sent it by seperate mail, not to the list...


>   What is the original encoding ? I think the problem might be there
> the initial conversion fails because HTML assumes ISO-8859-1
> and this may not be the case (though it could be Portugese names and hence
> I would expect that encoding ...).

That wouldn't explain the correct conversion of the same character earlier 
on the same line...


> > I looked at the source code, but must admit I'm out of my league 
> there.  ;- it's more complex than that, the sequence of bytes the parser 
> may see
> at that point may already have been translated from ISO-8859-1 to UTF8
> implicitely.

Then, maybe the problem is the error recovery always assuming only a single 
byte to recover, rather than potentially 2 or more bytes in the case of UTF?


Elizabeth Mattijsen