Re: [xml] How do I read German Umlaute - entities from an XML-File using libxml?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:52:46PM +0200, Matthias Peters wrote:
> Hello,
> The XML-Files that I generate contain German Umlaute (äöü  or ä ö 
> ¨).
> I use a Function to convert them into a sequence like this:
> ä ----> ä
> ö ----> ö
> and so on...
> Now the Internet Explorer can read the XML-Files and display all the 
> Umlaute correctly. However libXMLs "characters" call-back function does not 
> convert the Umlaute the right way back. For instance "&#xe4" becomes "ä". 
> Can anyone tell me, how to solve this problem? (Perhaps by a sample program 
> that uses Umlaut-conversion?)

  First, read the documentation !!!
    http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html

  The libxml callback gives UTF8 encoded strings. It seems taht you expect
ISO-8859-1 encoded ones. You need to convert between both. There is a routine
called isolat1ToUTF8, use it or change you program to use UTF8 encoding.

Daniel

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