Re: [xml] HTML-parser: encoding?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:58:01PM +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> At 09:27 PM 11/29/01 +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
> >  As I understand it, you buffer the incoming streams, which allows you to 
> > build an encoding map, which can be as simple as a textfile consisting of 
> > "filename","encoding"\n.
> > If the HTTP headers don't provide information, the meta tags can be read.
>
> That's what the HTML-parser is already doing, isn't it?

  yep

> Changing it to numeric entities would actually be best, as it wouldn't lose 
> any information.  Hmm...  but can you actually do that?  Wouldn't the next 
> time you read this into an xml parser, re-create the encoding error again 
> (having the entity processed)?

  no it would be fine as long as they are in the ranges defined by 
XML as valid Chars.

> Hmmm... availability of iconv is not guaranteed on a lot of platforms, 
> isn't it?  Which would be a reason for me not to use this, as the script 
> should be generally usable.

  Iconv is actually availble in most platform. if needed after a recompile.

Daniel

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