Re: [xml] HTML-parser: encoding?

[Justin Fletcher <justin fletcher ntlworld com>]

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          Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz dijkmat nl> wrote:

> The HTML-parser of libxml2 is very nice.  But I wonder what the real goal
> of that parser is (has there been a discussion about that?: if so, I seemed
> to have missed that).
>
> If it is there to allow you to take _any_ (dirty) HTML-file and turn it
> into a valid XML-dom, then its functionality is still not complete.
>
> Currently, if there is no encoding specification found in an HTML-file,
> ISO-Latin-1 is assumed.  However, no check is performed whether all text
> characters actually fall within ISO-Latin-1!